Retiring Republican Senator from Maine, Olympia Snowe seems to be taking a parting shot at the right wing extremism currently infecting the G.O.P. She recently said that she will not necessarily give her $2.36 million dollar war chest to … [Read more...]
Tea Party Turncoats
What happened to the steadfastness of Tea Party backed Republican Senators? We are all too familiar with how Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) ditched that state's Tea Party shortly after getting elected in 2010 and since then has been pretty … [Read more...]
Have Libertarians Forgotten the Republican Primaries?
Back in September of 2010 I detailed in an article "Where Have all the Libertarian’s Gone?" how for all of the attention paid to Libertarian ideas there was little in the way of Libertarian electoral success to show for it. To wit: "In the … [Read more...]
Senator McCain Condems Citizens United
Arizona Senator John McCain appearing on this morning's "Meet the Press" told commentator David Gregory that the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision was one of the worst decisions that the high court has ever rendered labeling it naive … [Read more...]
The Tea Party’s Empty Dance Card
Well there you have it, another onetime Tea Party favorite has dropped out of the 2012 race to be America’s president thereby shrinking the field of “viable” candidates that a Tea Party true believer could vote for this coming November. In … [Read more...]
For the Radical Right, a Defeat in New Hampshire
Tonight's outcome in New Hampshire represents a significant setback for the fortunes of the Tea Party movement along with the rest of the radical right as Republican moderates have captured the bulk of the votes cast in the contest. When … [Read more...]
The Fading of a Great White Hope
Well there you have it, Republican Governor Chris Christie has decided not to run for president in 2012. This will certainly be a let down for many in the G.O.P. but in reality it probably doesn’t matter all that much anyway. For one thing, … [Read more...]
Conservative Pundits Throwing Perry Under the Bus?
For the second time in the past two days a prominent conservative commentator has thrown Texas Governor Rick Perry under the bus possibly sending this latest Tea Party darling into a downward tailspin along the same trajectory as that of … [Read more...]
Internal Confusion Among Tea Party Factions Over Romney
It seems it may be high time for FreedomWorks to stop carrying on about how much the Tea Party movement is "about education" and to start saying that it's only interested in hearing from those who tout the party line. You see FreedomWorks … [Read more...]