Scott Brown’s Reinforcements
“The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states
and blue states,” Barack Obama said at the 2004 Democratic
National Convention. In the presidential election four years
later, he turned some traditionally red states blue. A little
over a year into his presidency, he is turning [...]
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Sanity Clause
From the Washington Post — which seems to be edging ever so gingerly away from the One They Have Been Pining For:
Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a weak candidate [...]
The Good Old Days
From the New York Times’s obituary of Robert Novak, recalling his role in the 1972 Presidential election:
In April 1972, Mr. Evans and Mr. Novak reported that Senator George S. McGovern, the Democratic presidential candidate, favored abortion rights, legalization of marijuana and amnesty for draft dodgers — positions that crippled his standing with most conservative voters.
1972–how [...]
Video: Democrats Bring Obama-As-Hitler Signs to Town Halls
Last week, Think Progress produced four pictures of protesters linking Obama or his health-care plan to Nazism.
The left-wing blog’s work was dutifully reproduced by The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan to refute my contention that Pelosi had dishonestly and disingenuously said that townhall protesters were “carrying swastikas”. If you look at the pictures, you’ll see that [...]
A Burr in Their Saddle
RALEIGH, N.C. — Facing what could be a tough string of mid-term
elections in 2010, Democrats are ramping up efforts to target
weak Republican incumbents. U.S. Senator Richard Burr of North
Carolina is one of them.
Last year Burr’s state broke for a Democratic presidential
candidate for the [...]
