Mitt Romney’s victory in the Florida Primary contained some very good news for Republicans, which Obama and his acolytes in the media would like to bury in an avalanche of “he said what about the poor?” news. 
Romney’s Florida victory showed that a Republican can win Hispanic voters with a pro border control and pro legal immigration stand. Read the rest of this entry »
Romney victory shatters Hispanic voter myth
February 3rd, 2012The Case for Romney : A president who owes you is better than one who owns you
February 3rd, 2012Years ago, a friend told me a story from her days living in South America. The movie Wayne’s World had come out, and she went to see it. She spoke English, but it was interesting to read the Spanish subtitles. Read the rest of this entry »
Five Lessons from the Sunshine State : What we learned from the Florida primary
February 1st, 2012Five big lessons from Florida’s primary election results, where Mitt Romney won solidly with nearly half the vote and all 50 delegates at stake: Read the rest of this entry »
Romney looking strong in final hours of Florida primary
January 31st, 2012“Look, I told people at our Republican Club in Palm Beach before our straw poll, if you want to win in November, vote for Romney, but if you want to make a point, by all means, vote for any of the other three [Republican candidates].” Read the rest of this entry »
Florida will be the closest thing to a Mitt-Newt one-on-one
January 30th, 2012The Florida Republican primary on Tuesday will be unique in two important ways. For starters, this is the first battle site for the Republican presidential nomination in which candidates will compete for votes among registered Republicans only, the closed primary differing from those in New Hampshire and South Carolina and the Iowa caucuses (all of which permitted participation by non-Republicans). Read the rest of this entry »
What Obama Didn’t Say : Republicans will face a president uneager to talk about his record in office
January 30th, 2012We got mixed signals from a turbulent political week. Barack Obama seems to be enjoying an uptick in polls — up toward, but not quite at, 50 percent approval. It’s a reminder that he can expect to benefit from Americans’ desire to think well of their presidents and from the reluctance of many voters to be seen as rejecting the first black president. Read the rest of this entry »
Republicans move to revive Keystone XL pipeline
January 26th, 2012Republican lawmakers are working to strip President Barack Obama of his authority to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline in a last ditch effort to bring Canadian oil to the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »
Ballot-Box Zombies : Dead voters prove the need for photo ID at the polls
January 26th, 2012Liberals love to laugh off voter fraud. It’s “a made-up problem invented by GOP operatives,” Robert Koehler snickered in the Huffington Post on January 5. Regarding ballot hijinks, Democratic national chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz chuckled: “There is almost none.” Read the rest of this entry »
Reality Check: No Matter the State of the Union, Reporters Love Obama’s Speeches
January 24th, 2012Tuesday night, President Obama delivers his third State of the Union address, and his sixth speech to a joint session of Congress since taking office in 2009. But there’s no need to spend a lot of time wondering about what the media will say after The Great One speaks, since — like a gaggle of corporate yes-men — journalists have gushed over every one of these major addresses. Read the rest of this entry »
Florida’s Air War : Abandoning the ground game of retail politics, candidates take to television
January 24th, 2012The first three battles of the Republican presidential race — Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina — were frequently waged in crowded restaurants. Read the rest of this entry »
