Year: 2008

Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine complained that, “There is nothing inherently “conservative” about the war in Iraq, and nothing inherently objectionable to the idea that we should have a more humble, skeptical and cautious foreign policy. The way that Paul, Hagel, et al, have been virtually drummed out of polite Republican circles for […]

On Saturday, Republicans will have their primaries in South Carolina and Nevada and the Democrats will have a primary in Nevada. In South Carolina, McCain and Huckabee appear to be fighting it out for the top slot while Mitt and Fred are battling for third a few points back. Both Huckabee and Fred really need […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Victor Davis Hanson: St. Reagan. Idealizing ideological purity. Hugh Hewitt: Mark Steyn and Hugh on whether the GOP can put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Daily Mail: British anti-whaling protester held on Japanese harpoon ship offered whale meat for dinner Egotastic!: Natalie […]

An email I received yesterday, John, As a Conservative, you have to be questioning why McLame is getting these poll numbers. This doesn’t make sense to me especially what he put us trough with old fat Kennedy this past summer on the immigration nightmare. I just don’t believe these polls. Any real Republican would never […]

This central point of this poorly reasoned column by Steven Stark over at RealClearPolitics caught my eye, “If the surprise results in New Hampshire had an unanticipated benefit, it is this: they exposed the myth, once and for all, that the Internet has made political reporting and analysis far better than it once was. Alas, […]

As you all know, I support Fred Thompson and his policy ideas. Yet, many of you wonder, “What is Frank J.’s vision for America?” Well, off the top of my head, here it is: FRANK J.’S VISION FOR AMERICA A fist in every hippie’s face. Criminals on fire, running around the streets. Every time you […]

10) Tom Tancredo: “Out Tancredo Tancredo” 9) Mike Huckabee: The Gates of Hell 8) Rudy Giuliani: Splattering Ron Paul 7) Mike Huckabee: “We’ve had a Congress that spends money like…” 6) Mike Gravel: “How did I ever get here?” 5) Mike Huckabee: “Jesus was too smart…” 4) Rudy: Lightning 3) John McCain: “Tied up” 2) […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Mitt Romney is manifestly the best candidate. Trump University: Donald Trump’s 20 top success tips Canongate: 9 people who died laughing Cracked: The 6 most unsettling medication side effects Popholic: Rachel Bilson’s sexy GQ photoshoot You can check out all […]

Originally, I was rooting for Barack Obama to beat Hillary in the Democratic primaries because she’s such a corrupt, detestable, dishonest woman who acts as if she’s some kind of feminist icon despite the fact that everything she has achieved in her life has been based on riding her husband’s coattails. However, it is getting […]

Cue the Darth Vader theme as the all-powerful state reaches further and further into people’s lives in California, Next year in California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and […]

Here’s an email I received yesterday, John, I know this is not Q&A Friday but I’m hoping you can address a question I have. Every conservative I know — and everyone I know is a conservative — wants Fred Thompson as our candidate. No one is enthusiastic about the other options. I noticed the current […]

Some argue that blacks should vote for Clinton “because her husband was good to us,” he continued. “That’s not true,” he thundered. “He did the same thing to us that he did to Monica Lewinsky.” — Barack Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Obama and Clinton may have made nice at the debate, but I have […]

“I believe my party has gone astray. I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy.” — John McCain If John McCain is the Republican Party’s nominee, we will essentially have two Democrats running for the presidency.

After his victory in New Hampshire, John McCain was poised to blow the race wide open. He was ahead in SC and virtually tied for the top slot in Nevada and Florida. Had he captured Michigan, the momentum he would have gained would have probably given him enough momentum to win all 3 states and […]

Tomorrow, I’m planning to compile a list of the best moments from the debates. If you have any suggestions for moments that you think make the grade, add them in the comments section.

“Their discussion constituted a repudiation of the old Boss Daley of Chicago, who famously said that politics ain’t beanbag. Apparently politics is beanbag, because that’s all the Democrats threw at each other tonight. I’ve seen more conflict at a pacifists’ stir-fry. …Hillary Clinton and John Edwards disgraced themselves in the minds of debate-watchers everywhere. At […]

It has been a while since I’ve checked out how the most enthusiastic people in politics, Ron Paul’s supporters, are taking the fact that the rest of the world doesn’t share their wild eyed excitement over Ron Paul. So, I headed over to the Daily Paul. The article at the top of the page immediately […]

The Republicans should thank the political gods for showing them favor and turn this into a huge election issue, U.S. federal fuel taxes should be boosted as much as 40 cents a gallon to finance highway, bridge and transit work, a panel created by Congress recommended. The increase, phased in over five years, would help […]

The Big Dog has apparently come to believe that he’s such a good liar that he can make anyone believe anything, no matter how implausible it is, The former president trumpeted New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments while painting Obama as the “establishment” candidate who would bring only the “feeling of change.” “One candidate says […]

It sounds like Bush is going to announce that he will issue an executive order instructing government departments and agencies to ignore all earmarks in the Appropriations omnibus bill that were not specifically entered into the bill signed into law. Typically, lawmakers put most of their earmarks into committee reports that are not officially part […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Flabber: Video: Family Guy’s top 10 most humiliating Meg moments The Atlantic: Video: Fred Thompson’s new South Carolina ad Cracked: 5 kick-*ss sci-fi apocalypses (That could actually happen) The Superficial: Paris Hilton bikini modeling – You can check out all those links […]

If you’re going to be watching the Democratic debate tonight, make sure to head over to RWN and refresh regularly to see the liveblogging. 8:51: Hillariously, I think Dennis Kucinich is going to be allowed to participate in this debate because of a court order. Too bad Mike Gravel won’t be there, because he’s a […]

This time around, I’m going to have to forego making predictions because the polls are essentially a wash between Romney and McCain, BUT Democrats can vote in Michigan and since they don’t have a competitive race, you’d have to think a lot of them would vote in the Republican primary, which would seem to favor […]

Although, as I pointed out earlier today, A John McCain’s head-to-head poll numbers against Clinton and Obama are excellent, the flip side of that is whether those numbers can hold up over the long haul given how strongly he is disliked by conservatives. To give you an idea of the sort of loathing John McCain […]

“Christ didn’t tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with. He told us to do it. The government has its role, but we need to keep firmly in mind the role of the government, and the role of us as individuals and as […]

Although I’m certainly not a fan of John McCain, in the interests of fairness, I do think I should point out that his head-to-head polling numbers vs. Obama and in particular, against Hillary, are really good. From SurveyUSA (Which should have polled Fred Thompson’s numbers as well, but didn’t), First of all, from Missouri, a […]

Someone told me that Neil Boortz read some of my John McCain column on the air yesterday. Can anyone confirm that?

A friend sums it up: “so, in other words, she moronically starts a fight on race with the black guy, it predictably blows up in her face, and now she wants to make nice as if he were the one who started it?” — Kathryn Jean Lopez

“The point of the surge was to quickly move the Iraqi government and Iraqi people. That is only now beginning to happen, and I believe in large measure because the Iraqi government, they watch us, they listen to us. I know very well that they follow everything that I say. And my commitment to begin […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Scott Trask: Ten recurring economic fallacies, 1774-2004 Burt Prelutsky: All kidding aside, Obama for President?!?! Cracked: Rosie O’Donnell to Fred Durst: The 7 most bizarre celebrity blogs The Grumpiest: Tila Tequila goes for the schoolgirl look You can check out all those […]