Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m not a San Francisco voter, nor am I familiar with the GOP in that District. (All I know is that stalwart SF GOPers must truly be of hardy stock.) Having received this email, however, I wanted to pass it on to you, for what it’s worth. It’s not an
Continue readingFirst, this is what my background and has shaped my thinking, my starting point. I am a hard line conservative. I have been ever since gaining my maturity. I am well educated, two master’s degrees, one in Strategic Intelligence. I was born on the left coast, I am a practicing
Continue readingDomino’s Pizza has just come had with one of the most brilliant ads I’ve ever seen — and, even better, the ad seems to riff off of an even more brilliant corporate decision. In essence, Domino’s realized its pizza stank, determined to change that fact, and then let the public
Continue readingIn the wake of the 2008 election, Republicans and conservatives were paralyzed. They’d been trounced, not so much by sweeper percentages (that is, the elections were all just over the slightly 50% mark), but by huge numbers of elections in which Democrats edged out Republicans by those few percentage marks.
Continue readingWe knew this, but C. Edmund Wright sums it up as pithily as anything I’ve ever seen. In explaining why Democrats have been winning since 2006, despite the fact that America is a conservative country, Wright points out that Democrats agree with their representatives, while conservatives consistently find Republican politicians
Continue readingI lied a bit when I said I’d taken a break from blogging. At Bookworm’s urging I did write one American Thinker piece with ideas on how to turn around the image of the Republican Party. And, boy does the old GOP need an image make-over. As Bookworm likes to
Continue readingRepublicans are finally figuring out how to push back: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NGEfRBzB0s&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] I like Ed Morrissey’s comment about the video: Today, Barack Obama once again dishonestly claimed that Porkulus opponents wanted to “do nothing” in the face of the economic collapse, but that’s simply not true — which Obama might have learned
Continue readingFive People in a Kitchen By Danny Lemieux Part I: We need focus! We were just five concerned Americans meeting in a middle class Chicagoland suburb on a cold spring day. Our point for this meeting was not to gripe. It was to see if we could identify constructive solutions
Continue readingOkay, so it took me three as many words, and about two thirds less elan, but I think I said here, exactly the same thing Mark Steyn says here about Colin Powell (including the Woodward snipe and the mourning for those poor Kurds Powell betrayed): Is conservatism over? Well, of
Continue readingThe San Francisco Chronicle ran an article today touting the demise of the GOP in California: With their registrations sinking and their political clout withering, California Republicans have come out of the November election in danger of slipping into political irrelevance across much of the state. [snip] Since 2004, Republican
Continue readingI periodically check out Yahoo’s most popular news to see what AP articles are getting the most play according to the Yahoo picks (which, except for including Ann Coulter, skew liberal). It’s fascinating to see the AP headlines, each of which is snarky, dismissive or critical of Palin in some
Continue readingThanks to ex cathedra, I’ve learned that the guy in that fun video in my post yesterday has prepared a tighter video statement of his conservative beliefs: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQluy7nymw[/youtube] In commenting on the video, USMaleSF notes that he agrees with the conservative principles, but not the Republican party affiliation. I understand
Continue readingThere’s a rather excited headline in today’s NY Times: GOP Drops in Voting Rolls in Many States You can just hear the huzzahs all over liberal households in America: “Republicans are vanishing. The Dems are getting stronger.” Well, maybe. There’s something interesting, though, in the very first paragraph of that
Continue readingYou’ve all heard the question that is the title of my post, haven’t you? Is an audience necessary for a sound to have meaning or even existence? And what if, in our world, the intermediary to the audience bugs out? That’s today’s question, as Republicans vigorously debate the new drilling
Continue readingI have to admit that I’ve never liked Yahoo as a search engine. I prefer, and have from day 1, Google. However, the Republican National Committee has something cool that actually makes Yahoo searches worthwile, at least through November. It’s a toolbar. Install it and everytime you do a search
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