A lib’s perspective on how to rebrand the Republican party
With the CPAC conference taking place last week, many great minds of the conservative movement came together to chart the course of their future. After being defeated in the past presidential election, the Republican Party has debated about going back to the “drawing board.” Senator Marco Rubio of Florida spoke at the conference and said, “We don’t [...]
Politics MMSR: Government shutdown in nine days?
In nine days if Republicans and Democrats don’t come to a budget agreement, the Government will face a broad shutdown. That’s the bad news. The good news is, it probably won’t get to that point, despite the parties’ awful recent track record of being unable to come to an agreement. I found it strange. Unless I missed [...]
Monday morning speed read: Politics
The Sunday talk shows yesterday focused as you would expect on the impending “fiscal cliff” which now is just three weeks away. The question remains–will the Republicans cave on letting the Bush tax cuts for the top two income brackets expire? Will they let Barack Obama raise taxes on the rich while keeping them the same for [...]
Has Romney/Ryan seeded their own storm clouds?
With the uneven and lackluster GOP Convention now over, America – or what small percentage of it is actually tuning in to these antiquated debutante balls – now turns its sights to the Democratic Convention next week. But the Romney/Ryan campaign may wind up getting more than they bargained for out of this week. Judging [...]
Strongest GOP National Convention in recent memory concludes
Mitt Romney ended the GOP convention last night with a speech and performance that came in well above expectations. It was laced with emotional moments, such as the story of how his father gave his mother a rose every day until the first day he didn’t, when she knew he had passed away. It was also direct and [...]
Reassessing the Romney VP odds
I told you not to believe The New York Times back in mid-July when they implied a Romney Vice-Presidential selection was imminent. Romney will make his selection public very soon now though, certainly by early next week at the latest. PMandS.com provided the percentage chance of each major candidate being selected back then: 1. Senator [...]
PMandS has your Romney VP odds!
If Mitt Romney doesn’t pick his running mate this week or early next, he’ll have to wait until mid-August for fear of taking a backseat to Michael Phelps, Kobe Bryant, and the other American Olympians. And Olympians not even made in America as well. There has been swirling speculation in recent days that he may [...]