Category: Election 2012
Black Politicians Vs. Black Voters
On Election Day earlier this month, voters in Georgia approved a ballot initiative that will expand school choice in a state where one in three high school freshmen fails to…
GOP’s Latino Opportunity
In winning re-election, President Obama carried nearly all the same demographic groups as in 2008, but by smaller margins. The major exception: Hispanics, America’s fastest-growing bloc. Having given Mr. Obama…
Unnamed Senator: GOP “In Shambles”
Thoughts from an unnamed U.S. senator:
“We’re sitting here in shambles. We need a strategy and a game plan. The strategy starts with: The conservative movement must be able to…
Obama’s Fake Deal: $1.6 Trillion
President Barack Obama has responded to House Speaker John Boehner’s gesture last week towards reaching a deal to avoid the Jan. 1 “fiscal cliff” of tax hikes and spending cuts,…
Romney: Another Nice Loser By Thomas Sowell
Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential candidates favored by the Republican establishment- nice, moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision, despite how many…
The GOP’s Epic Senate Fail
Republicans had a bad night on Tuesday, though it is worth remembering that there are different gradations of bad. At one level, there is the disappointing failure of Mitt Romney…
Obama’s Permanent Campaign
Yesterday, Abe wrote that “Barack Obama ushered in America’s first large-scale experiment in personality-cult politics. The experiment continues apace.” The experiment really has two parts to it, and only one…
Earth to GOP: Get A Grip By Bret Stephens
In January I was rebuked by some readers for predicting that the GOP would lose, and for saying it deserved to lose, too.
“It doesn’t matter that Americans are generally…
The New GOP: Doubling Down On Conservatism
The election has been over long enough that grieving has given way to autopsy, the search for the electoral disease that killed Romney’s once promising campaign. Amidst all the griping…
A Reformed Republican Party By George Will
Nothing’s impossible I have found,
For when my chin is on the ground,
I pick myself up,
Dust myself off,
Start all over again.
— from the 1936 movie
“Swing…
