Exit polling data from Florida; See if you can spot a trend here, folks. Questions “On most political matters, do you consider yourself liberal?” Romney, 24% of his supporters said yes, and 49% of McCain’s voters said they consider themselves liberal. “On most political matters, do you consider yourself moderate?” Twenty-one percent of Romney voters […]

Here’s the headline: “‘Rudy Defeat Marks End of 9/11 Politics’ — Rudy Giuliani’s distant third-place finish in Florida may put an end to his bid for president, and it seems also to mark the beginning of the end of a period in Republican politics that began on Sept. 11, 2001. Giuliani’s national celebrity was based […]

One of the reasons why the conservative vote is split is not because the Reagan coalition has gone away. You have basically three legs of the conservative stool. There’s subsets of this, but you’ve got the economic, the fiscal; you’ve got the social; and you got the foreign policy conservatives. Among these foreign policy conservatives […]

When Huckabee was coming out of nowhere in Iowa, we had numerous pundits on the left, jumping on the Huckabee bandwagon. And then McCain came out of nowhere in New Hampshire, and then they jumped on the McCain bandwagon. Romney wins in Michigan, and they didn’t jump on the Romney bandwagon. They stayed on the […]

The Republican Party matters to me in the sense that it is the vessel — it is the host, if you will — for conservatism. Now, too many Republicans look at themselves as the host, and conservatives as an infection — as a virus that has been spreading throughout the Republican Party and slowly eating […]