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 […]

MATTHEWS: I think the Hillary appeal has always been somewhat about a mix of toughness and sympathy for her. Let’s not forget, and I’ll be brutal, the reason she’s a US senator, the reason she’s a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That’s how she got […]

In 2001, African-American civil rights icon [and] three-term Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson ran for head of the Democrat National Committee. But a Clinton henchman, Terry McAuliffe, wanted the gig. So Maynard Jackson was kicked to the curb and humiliated. Heartbroken, he died two years later. In 2002, New York Comptroller Carl McCall — the first […]

Democrats are making all kinds of election-year economic stimulus programs — which, of course, will not stimulate anything but their own political fortunes. Senator Clinton’s approach is to destroy the housing sector by freezing foreclosures, which would plunge banking and mortgage holders further into debt. Congressional Democrats are calling for tax rebates, extended unemployment benefits, […]

Huckabee said in defining Reaganism, “We need to make sure that we communicate that our party is just as interested in helping the people that are single moms, who are working two jobs, still just barely able to pay the rent as we are the people at the top of the economy.” GOP Debate