Surely, you won’t…? ========= Three weeks out from Election Day, the Never Trump argument has been neatly summed up by Bill Maher. Not only is Donald Trump coarse and boorish, anyone who supports the man is as revolting as he is. On his show last month, Mr. Maher put it this way to Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway: “You are enabling pure evil.”... Read more
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The Cheap Moralizing of Never Trump
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Hillary Clinton, Republican(s), TrumpDeport Nikki Haley??
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | Immigration, Party Politics, Republican(s)Interesting indeed. ======= WSJ 1/15/2016 When Nikki Haley offered the Republican response to President Obama’s final State of the Union, the American people heard an articulate conservative who has twice been elected Governor in South Carolina. It’s a sign of the GOP’s distemper that some conservatives denounced her because she didn’t denounce legal immigration. Gov. Haley’s parents came to America from India. Her father... Read more
Gov. Kasich – OK, I live in Ohio
August 22 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, Republican(s)Kimberley A. Strassel WSJ Aug. 20, 2015 7:29 p.m. There’s compassion, and there’s compassion, and then there’s John Kasich. The Ohio governor has long odds at becoming the Republican nominee, at least for now. But he’s forcing conservatives to confront a very old—if shined up—choice about the role of government. As the nation goes about mentally categorizing the crowded Republican field, here’s one... Read more
Obama’s Iran Jam
March 17 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Obama, Republican(s)Republican Party – please, please, show just a little bit of intelligence and backbone. =============== March 15, 2015 6:44 p.m. ET One unfortunate side effect of last week’s letter from 47 GOP Senators to Iran is that it has helped the White House and its media friends obscure the far more important story—the degree to which President Obama is trying to prevent... Read more
Behind the GOP’s Backbench Revolt
March 13 | Posted by mrossol | Republican(s)Interesting, indeed. ============= By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL March 12, 2015 8:14 p.m. ET ‘Our goal is to get to a ‘yes’ vote, not to divide the party. It’s to fight for all those voters who are getting left out of Washington. And to do it in as smart and as aggressive a way as we can that brings our team together.” That’s Ohio Rep. Jim... Read more
GOP Letter Draws Obama Rebuke
March 10 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Obama, Republican(s)Not surprised at all. Anytime the man disagrees with someone, but does not have a good argument, he disparages them; demonizes their character. =============== By Michael R. Crittenden and Byron Tau Updated March 9, 2015 11:28 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—The already heated battle between Congress and the White House over U.S.-led nuclear talks with Iran got nastier Monday as President Barack Obama chastised... Read more
