Author: John Hawkins

Question: “Do you see anything positive that can be accomplished in the next four years legislatively (as opposed to, say, Republican re-branding, etc.)? If so, what?” — jleit83 Answer: Because so many politicians in D.C. love triangulation, some of the biggest accomplishments of the last two Presidents have been in areas most desired by the […]

Question: “I seem to remember you buying into the notion that Obama’s election would dampen the flames of racial victimhood, rather than fan them. Now we find that school officials are being investigated and labeled racist by the NAACP for failing to celebrate Obama’s “historic election” Care to comment?” — RWNReader2 Answer: Ehr…that’s not exactly […]

“Republicans are counting on the natural tides of politics to lift their numbers in Congress in 2010. The Democrats may overreach, or their supporters may get complacent. But to get back in the driver’s seat, to become relevant again, Republicans will have to devise an agenda that speaks to a country where more people feel […]

Question: “What’s your guess for where the bottom is for the DJIA and S&P500? How long will this Obama recession last?” — RWNReader2 Answer: I don’t know the answer to that for sure, but I will tell you this: it could get “Jimmy Carter years” ugly out there. That’s particularly spooky to me since I […]

Question: “John, I can’t leave comments at your site because the registration system seems to be messed up, but when you accuse Bush of “Horrifically screwing up the war in Iraq,” I want to ask you if your split personality is channeling Kos. Your description is complete and utter B.S. When did you start swallow […]

Every time the GOP takes a beating at the ballot box there are calls to get rid of those doggone social conservatives — or as Kathleen Parker refers to them, the “oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP.” This is a fascinating argument — well, fascinating if you like watching people who don’t even realize that they’re […]

“Congratulations to Hillary (and Bill) Clinton – who seem to have won the presidential election, despite the official results on Nov. 4. That’s certainly a reasonable conclusion, anyway, based on the folks President-elect Obama is eyeing for his administration – folks such as former Clinton officials Eric Holder and Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton herself. […]

…because that’s obviously what they’re shooting for, A plan to give troubled U.S. automakers billions of dollars in government-backed loans is on life support, leaving the fate of hundreds of thousands of workers and Detroit’s once-venerable car companies hanging in the balance. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., canceled plans Wednesday for a vote on […]

Let’s see… * Crippling GOP fundraising by signing campaign finance reform. * Massive deficits * Horrifically screwing up the war in Iraq. * The Bailout. * Partially nationalizing the banking industry. * Decimating the Republican Party. & now… * Iran with enough fuel for a nuclear weapon. Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material […]

Theoretically, it’s a good idea for Republicans to embrace the idea of a color blind political pitch. It’s what we believe in, it fits with the vision of the Founding Fathers, and it would be better for the country if people cared nothing about race. However, the reality is that philosophy has proven to be […]

Perhaps because there are a lot of new people hitting CG for the first time because of the election surge, I’ve been getting questions about the bikini pics on CG in my email every few days. Here’s an example, “Hello John, my name is Andrew, and I have a quick question for you. I believe […]

Even after 9/11, liberals didn’t have much of an interest in the war on terrorism, but now Al-Qaeda may have finally gone too far for the left, Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the […]

Over at MojoBlog, David Corn is gettin’ all huffy because Michael Savage is having on a guest who is comparing Obama to Hitler, Anomalos Publishing, a company that puts out conservative and Christian works and describes itself as “created for authors who…have a talent for writing but have not found a publisher,” has announced that […]

I’m not sure exactly why Hillary Clinton would be seriously considered for the Secretary of State post in an Obama Administration, but at first glance, it would appear to be a truly horrible idea. Setting aside the fact that Hillary Clinton doesn’t have any particularly noteworthy foreign policy credentials, she also has a titanic ego, […]

From Roll Call, “After much speculation that his failed presidential bid would be his last campaign, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has decided to run for re-election to his Senate seat in 2010.” In the last 8 years, John McCain has been uniquely destructive to conservatism and the Republican Party. He has undercut Republicans time and […]

Believe it or not, one of the biggest stories of the last couple of days has been pirates — and, no, Johnny Depp didn’t make a new movie, Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the world’s governments and navies pronounced themselves powerless against this new […]

The G-8 protests are always particularly large and particularly pointless — even for left-wing protests. However, I think this was so noteworthy in it’s lunacy that it deserved a special mention, The protesters, dressed as clowns and wielding blow-up dolphins, today “declared victory” against…well, who knows. The “movement” might be back on its feet, but […]

It’s not easy to be a Senate Republican these days. The media is acting like an arm of the Obama campaign, the GOP is distracted by infighting, and Republicans have gone from having a comfortable majority in the Senate to being an endangered minority in the space of just two elections. When everything seems to […]

The New York Times has up a fascinating piece on the negative reaction to the Big 3 bailout. Of course it’s fascinating as much because of what the NYT left out, than what was actually in the piece, but what do you expect from the Times? It begins like so, When the leaders of the […]

“I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous […]

#1) The Republican Party can get back into power without the conservative media. There are two big problems with this. First off, popular members of the conservative media tend to be popular because they do a good job of representing the views of the people who watch, listen, or read them. So if Rush Limbaugh, […]

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“According to the usual suspects, the benchmark in garnering Hispanic votes for Republicans is Bush’s 40 percent showing in 2004. So what would have happened if McCain had matched Bush’s performance, instead of the 31 percent he actually got? Based on CNN’s exit polls, McCain still would have lost Nevada, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Ohio, […]

One of the things I’ve been warning about of late is the economic danger of putting an ever greater share of the tax burden on high producers while large percentages of the American people pay no income tax at all. In New York state, they’ve relied very heavily on the financial sector to shoulder their […]

The gossip mags are all running pics of Sarah Palin by the pool in Miami. I wasn’t entirely sure it was her, though. For example, these first two are la ittle ambiguous. However, this definitely looks like Sarahcuda, doesn’t it? You can see all the pics here.

One of the big questions of the day is whether or not you, me, and the rest of the American taxpayers should be bailing out the Big 3 Automakers. Not only should we not be bailing them out, we shouldn’t even be asking the question. It’s not the job of the government to decide which […]

Right Wing News emailed almost 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of whom they considered to be their “Favorite People On The Right.” Representatives from the following 44 blogs responded… All American Blogger, Atlas Shrugs, Axis of Right, Bad Example, Blonde Sagacity, Bookworm Room, (Matt) Bull Moose Strikes Back, (Laura) […]

Liberals love to claim that conservatives are anti-science, but on manmade global warming, who has been pointing for years to scientific evidence that global warming is a farce while the left has been taken in by silly propaganda flicks about polar bears going extinct because too many people are driving SUVs? In fact, I suspect […]

All the messianic rhetoric and worshipful press coverage of Barack Obama seems to have sunk in because the American people have some extraordinarily high expectations for his first term, Nearly two-thirds of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday said President-elect Obama will change the country for the better. Twenty-five percent said […]

Since the election, the left has alternately gloated, pleaded for conservatives and liberals to pull together to help Barack Obama in the name of unity, or shamelessly carped about “right wing rage.” The gloating is expected and the unity pleas are naive, but let’s talk about “right wing rage.” Among others, the Los Angeles Times […]