September 1

Sixty-three days until a hugely crucial national election and still we're without a unifying Republican national theme. Which means there won't be one.

Regular readers of this site will understand why we say this is yet more evidence of the problem: The GOP is a leaderless clearinghouse for consultants and their mostly safe-district clients, who operate in silos with no view of the bigger picture.

Fortunately God is on our side. When He saw that the twelve Apostles needed help, he sent Paul. Today, He sees that the GOP needs help ...

... so He sends us Newt.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who conceived the brilliant 1994 Contract with America has put together a blockbuster five-podcast series.

Part 1: The Strategy for a Historic Republican Midterm Victory

Part 2: In Their Own Words — The Case Against Big Government Socialism

Part 3: The Republican Answer on Affordability and Iran

Part 4: The American Party — Issues That Poll 70 Percent or Higher

Part 5: A Healthier America — Lower Costs, More Choice, Longer Lives

If you're trying to win an election, you'll do yourself a disservice by not taking the time to listen to Newt.

August 26

There's substance behind the showmanship.

Look at the record and it becomes clear that Donald J. Trump is a results-oriented politician who delivers on his promises.

No one has said it better than Rod Martin today on X. We've formatted the exact words of his post merely to make it a look-up guide for those wishing to push back on the anti-Trump vitriol. The most important section is the last: Now Act like it Matters.

He says "Donald Trump doesn't have an accomplishment problem. Republicans have an information problem. It's on each of us to change that."

Trump's Top 25 Achievements: The List Every Conservative Should Know and Use

August 2

It's August and the Republicans have yet to come up with a unifying national theme. So if you're running for office you need to do it yourself.

But first read Lee Carter's Fox News column from today.

Nowhere will you receive better guidance on the development of a theme.

She makes several important observations about yesterday's primaries. Lessons for all of us:

1. "The real divide was not left versus right. It was memorable versus forgettable."
2. "The winners had a sentence. The losers had a résumé."
3. "A résumé is evidence. It is not a reason."

Voters don't care about your resume or experience. If they did then Obama would still be an unknown lawyer somewhere. The campaign is not a job interview. People want to know that voting for you means a better life for them.

July 30

In his column today.

Our only criticism is the length. Several points, seveal paragraphs. Give us focus-group-tested line that will work for everyone. We're posting our theme-related notes here. Please give it a look.

July 21

Today we're hearing that Senate control is now a coin flip. Alaska, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and maybe even Texas could be lost, given current trends. Loss of the House has long been a foregone conclusion for those in the punditry class.

We don't necessarily agree but ours is the minority view. We're writing this for the benefit of those in a position to help but discouraged by the so-called conventional wisdom.

It doesn't need to be this hard for the Republicans. All they need to do is something that, admittedly, they've never tried before (at least not in the past 30 years): a national campaign to build the Republican brand using the variety of 80-20 issues the Democrats have gifted us (transgenderism, immigration, crime, school choice, inflation reduction). Follow this up with an effective turnout effort and both Houses will be safe.

The alternative?

After the House impeaches President Trump, the only question will be whether or not there are enough Republican votes in a 51-49 Senate to fulfill the Constitutional threshhold of 60 votes to remove him.

Don't bet there won't be. In 1974 the margin was 56-44 and Nixon resigned after being assured there were at least five Republican votes to convict. If the Republicans lose the midterms this year, many of them will declare an open season on Trump. If history is any guide, the votes will be there.

If you're sitting on the fence, please jump off and help. Now.

July 18

As much as they dismiss and deny it, every Democrat on the ballot is in league with the Democrat Socialists. Whose aim, and by extension the aim of every Democrat, is to destroy our culture and overthrow our republican form of government.

Steven Miller nails it. (at 22:40) Rightly calls them "enemies of civilization."

"Oh no", says your average Democrat. "All we want to do is make the Supreme Court more 'representative' by adding members and establishing terms. "

That's merely where it starts.

Every left-wing revolution results in misery after the so-called "moderates" lose control. And they will. Just ask the residents of New York, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis. And now, increasingly, Columbus and Cincinnati.

Remember those brave American doctors who dared dispute the "settled science" of Covid orthodoxy. They were ridiculed, de-funded and ostracized by they so-called "fellows" in the medical establishment.

In England the leftist takeover is about two decades farther along. They're jailing people whose social posts are deemed offensive to the protected classes.

Think it can't happen here? Our D opponents will say it won't. That's because they're either stupid, treacherous or happy with the turnout bonus of having D-socialists active in their district. No matter the reason, they're unfit to serve.

June 29

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.

June 9

Intimidation.

Here's how vote-harvesting works in California: You're a registered voter, so you receive a ballot in the mail. A few days later someone knocks at you door offering to deliver your ballot.

We have no first-hand knowlege of what happens during these interactions (strangely we've seen no bodycam or social-media accounts) but judging by the impressive results, the visitor who arrives to collect your ballot isn't some kindly church volunteer who easily accepts No for an answer. Vote-harvesting efforts are largely funded by unions and the far left (which would explain why leftist candidates are the chief beneficiaries), where dissent isn't tolerated.

The rules say that collectors may retrieve only ballots already signed and sealed but no serious person could actually think this is true in every case, or even in a majority of cases. It's more likely that many voters simply sign the ballot and hand it back to the collector who ... completes the process. For the person targeted, there's no trouble and no consequence for voting the wrong way. (Yes, many think their ballot isn't secret.) That would explain why batches of harvested ballots are cast for one candidate.

The Trump-deranged media are quick to say there's "no evidence" of misconduct. Exactly. That's because, as we can see, the system is designed to obscure the evidence. Anything that does emerge can always be dismissed as a one-off. Nearly impossible to demonstrate a pattern.

Millions of California voters don't view this alarming loss of liberty as anything to fret about. Either they arrived from the Third World or are sustained by a monthly government check, so this is just part of life for them. Which is why immigrant and low-income neighborhoods are where the "voter assistance" occurs.

This didn't start in California. If you lived in Chicago during the reign of Mayor Richard Daley everyone knew there were consequences if one's election-day absence was noted by the local Democrat precinct captain, usually a city employee whose job depended on maximizing the neighborhood turnout. On the next collection day your trash can could be skipped. Your service could be resumed usually by donating to a candidate or cause recommended by the precinct captain, who also had fund-raising responsibilties.

It's legal. So what are we going to do about it?

Here's some old political advice: If you know something's going to happen, predict it.

In advance of (or perhaps as part of) the slate card mailing, the Republicans can inform each voter that
a) voter intimidation is illegal
b) your ballot is secret
c) no one but you can fill out your ballot
d) by the way here's a number you can call to report a violation.
That should dampen the other side's effort. They'll be less brazen about abusing the law if they know someone is watching.

Expensive? Yes. But when you consider the tens of millions spent on ineffective ads supporting hapless Republican candidates, one can easily argue the money is out there for something cheaper that actually delivers votes.

Had the Republicans tried something like this in Los Angeles, it's likely Spencer Pratt would have made it into the November election.

Before Mr. Pratt is forgotten, it bears mentioning that he performed a great service for the Republicans everywhere. He demonstrated that a smart common-sense campaign will move the needle but surrender will only move it back.

Note to Republicans: Surrender is not a strategy.

June 3

And so there you have it: Highlight Democrat misgovernance and the misgoverned will favorably respond.

As of this morning, Republican Steve Hilton is leading the "jungle primary" for California governor and reformer Spencer Pratt remains in second place in the race for Los Angeles mayor. If they hold their positions they'll advance to the November general election.

Unfortunately that's a big If. Only 58 percent of the vote has been counted as of 9:40 am Eastern, and counties in the massively-Democratic state have 30 days to certify their results. So stay tuned.

Nonetheless, it's good news for those of us trying to move the needle in D strongholds throughout the nation. Only 20 percent of LA voters identify as Republican yet Pratt is at 30 percent. Twenty five percent of California voters are registered R yet Hilton and Chad Blanco, the two main Republicans, are tallying 39 percent. This despite the presence of several other candidates on the ballot.

Regardless of the final outcome, Pratt and Hilton have demonstrated that if you show up and fight, the voters will notice and approve.

May 19

If you've watched TV in Ohio recently, you've seen the ads where challenger Sherrod Brown accuses Senator Jon Husted of a connection to Jeffrey Epstein through billionaire Leslie Wexner, a client of Epstein and political benefactor to Husted. The connection is tenuous and contrived but that doesn't matter to Brown and the Democrats.

By initiating this campaign nearly six months before the general election, they're demonstrating a commitment to reiterate this ruse to the one demographic where the Ds see opportunity: college-educated women, the so-called "Zionsville moms". (Zionsville is a trendy, well-off Indianapolis suburb, once solidly Republican that is now trending left.)

At the same time the Democrats will do what they're best at doing: turn out the vote in the metropolitan counties. The Republicans with their palace of consultants will come up with a strategy to counteract the negative ads. But they have no strategy (other than surrender) in the metro areas.

The D strategy is apparent. The R strategy should be obvious to anyone who cares about preserving the Congressional majority: Stop the surrender in the cities!

Shouldn't be difficult. The Democrats have nothing to sell except Trump derangement and the occasional personal attack. They're on the wrong side of several 80-20 issues that will play anywhere: immigration, school choice, crime, mismanagement and transgenderism. Republicans take note: this is a gift. Deploy some of the millions that will be spent, and move the needle!

May 11

We've said before that if the Republicans could just win the competitive races, the House majority wouldn't be in danger. Here's what we mean:

In 2024 there were 54 races in districts rated R+3 down through D+3 on the Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI). The Republicans lost nearly 60 percent of them.

If the GOP could have prevailed in half of these, that would have been a +5 for the Republicans. A extra ten-vote margin.

It could have been worse. Over three cycles (2020, 22 and 24) and 163 races in this same subsection, the Republicans lost two thirds.

The common feature of all these districts is a large swath of heavily-D precincts where the Democrats have long experience in getting out their vote, and where the Republicans have a long experience of ... complete surrender. Which allows the unchallenged Democrats to rack up huge margins that the Republicans cannot overcome in the suburbs and counties. This is the same story in each defeat.

Either fight back and move the needle in those precincts, or say goodbye to the House majority. Can't make it any simpler.

March 25

Jim Jordan couldn't have said it any better on CNBC this morning.

This would work well as the main Republican talking point in this year's elections. Plenty of supporting arguments. (Use them one at a time, always accompanied with "he's crazy" (or "she's crazy") and the message will sink in.

"(Democrat candidate) wants boys in girls bathrooms."

"________ wants to you to miss your flight and wreck your vacation suffering for hours in the airport TSA line so he (she) can protect criminal illegals."

"________ wants to destroy our culture by creating Muslim enclaves, terrorist breeding grounds, everywhere."

"________ wants to overrule local zoning laws to create public housing in your neighborhood."

"She's crazy. I'm not."

If the Republicans could unite on a single message like this, then every Democrat up and down the ballot would be back on their heels having to demonstrate that he or she is somehow not crazy for supporting all these insane policies.

No Democrat should be left off the hook. Doesn't matter if they're running for US Senate or township trustee. They're all political hoodlums in the same gang. Unless they've spoken against any of these ideas, their inaction makes them complicit. Let 'em have it.

March 24

From the speaker's X post today:

They are refusing to fund TSA and FEMA for the American people... unless Republicans agree to also reopen the borders for illegal aliens. We CANNOT and we WILL NOT.

That explains the impasse. What's amazing is that Democrats think this helps them politically.

In our view it's because of the Republicans' inability to coalesce into a single, unified national voice on the subject. Every Republican at every level on every platform should be repeating Mr. Johnson's words. That's the only way to affect public opinion.

Democrats do it. Which is why they always seem to win the public argument.

When will we learn?

A word about Mr. Johnson: He's a giant. Holding together a five-seat majority on the most contentious issues of our time is the greatest political performance since Lincoln and the passage of the 13th Amendment.

The Republicans have a real leader in Congress. Follow him.

February 12

Today we're reading that the Republicans will have no one on the ballot to challenge for the US Senate because their candidate failed to qualify with enough signatures.

Another US Senate seat down the dumper. It looks like the Republicans didn't even try to find a quality candidate.

We did the research. If the GOP can somehow raise slightly the Republican average in Bernalillo County (Albuquerque), and polls say they can, then New Mexico is a Republican state!

When will they learn?

January 29

A former elected official and metropolitan-county GOP chairman just called us "one of the all-time greats in GOP strategy."

Thanks, Mike, for the plug. We prefer to think our advice on this site has more to do with common sense.

If you're a candidate, you've already heard from dozens of geniuses offering their own strategic vision. For a price (usually a monthly retainer) that you cannot afford.

Here's our free advice: Recruit, Target, Prioritize. That's how you Win.

Works every time.

January 6

We tend to applaud President Trump's "revenge tour" because it's important for everyone to see that enemies cannot operate with impunity. Otherwise they'll keep shooting.

But Trump's public criticism of Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie has only empowered the guy.

Massie is not the enemy, merely an annoyance. A booger you can't shake. He's a virtue-signaling Libertarian who's taken advantage of a safe Republican district to selfishly platform his perhaps laudable but altogether unrealistic goals. He should be a talking head on CNN, not the deciding vote in a tiny GOP majority. The Republican voters of northern Kentucky should find someone else.

And they might, if Trump would just stay out of it.

Instead, by anointing a primary opponent, the President has crystallized Massie's support and alienated former opponents who will respond by siding with Massie because they resent either Trump's involvement or the newcomer he endorsed.

Stay out of it, Mr. President. If you want to get involved, here's our suggestion:

We're building a list of candidates who could prevail in each of the 40 or so winnable D-held districts. One phone call from you to each of these candidates will convince them to run.

You defeat Massie by building the Republican majority. Because then he'll be nothing but a fart in the wind. He won't count. The cameras will turn elsewhere.

December 16

In all the finger-pointing and threats over the Indiana Senate's failure to approve a new Congressional district map lies one unspoken truth:

The White House has lost all confidence in the GOP to produce victories in competitive districts. So Mr. Trump is looking to stack the deck in states where he can.

Another wake-up call for Republicans.

By our count there are at least 40 winnable D-held congressional districts out there. The solution is to join our coalition, find the best candidates ...

... and get to work.

December 3

Here's some level-headed analysis about yesterday's election in Middle Tennessee:

From the post: "One factor here is that Dem money does a better job turning their voters out than Republican money does turning our voters out ."

Early reports indicate the Republican outspent the Democrat 3-2. Yet managed to get only 53 percent against an unrepentant leftist who said she hates both Nashville and country music.

More Republican underperformance, brought to you by the campaign-industrial complex.

November 24

This article says it all. A blueprint for the Republicans, if they're willing to read and heed.

Replace "Cincinnati" with the name of any other large city and you have the primary reason for Republican underperformance.

(Thanks to Adam in Price Hill)

November 16

Now President Trump wants to "primary" those Rs in the Indiana legislature who refuse to go along with a do-over of Congressional redistricting.

Why?

Republicans already have a 7-2 majority in the state. The two D districts are centered on the Democrat cores in Gary and Indianapolis. A redrawing of the map will at best create two new still-difficult districts that the GOP will probably lose anyway, based on past electoral performance.

Here's a better idea: Spare the turmoil and focus on District 1 in NW Indiana. It can be won with the right candidate.

November 13

Here's what the six House Democrats who voted last night to reopen the government have in common: They're from competitive districts.

The Democrats clearly understand that the 43-day government shutdown was exposed for what it always was: a childish act of petty selfishness. A political loser.

But only if the Republicans can take advantage of this monstrous blunder.

Every Democrat running for Congress is on the wrong side of several 80-20 issues: illegal immigration, crime, school choice, transgenderism. And now unconcern. People are dismayed, scared and suffering, and their frivolous Congressman isn't even serious about it. His only initiative is to shut down the government so maybe we'll blame it on Trump.

If the Republicans cannot win with this, then it's time to forge a coalition that can.

November 5

Told you so!

To be fair, the Republicans in New Jersey and Virginia were battling on the Democrat homecourt. Yet still underperformed.

Walter Curt says it all.

It was painfully familiar: poorly run campaigns, candidates left to twist in the wind, and a Republican establishment that either couldn’t connect with its own base or wouldn’t lift a finger for those who did.

The Republican Party cannot be fixed in the year we have left. Best option will be to support those candidates and GOP clubs in the metro areas who will work together on messaging and turnout.

November 3

Looking at the new maps in Ohio and elsewhere. Haven't run the precinct and ward numbers but it looks like they took slightly Democrat seats and made them nominally Republican.

For example, in Ohio 1 they removed a few of the worst Cincinnati wards, added some west-side wards and a rural county of 42,000. Certainly an improvement. But now this:

All it means is that a bevy of Republican challengers will file and then spend the primary kow-towing to President Trump for his endorsement. Trump will then, as he has so many times in the past, choose the wrong candidate ... who will blow it in November. This is the main reason why Democrats win 70 percent of the competitive districts.

Here's our solution: Crowded primaries are a specialty of ours. Find the best candidate who fits the district -- the one who can win in November and not just in May -- and get to work!

September 4

We were asked about the idea of the R-controlled Indiana legislature following the Texas example and creating a new congressional-district map that yields one, perhaps two additional Republican districts.

Think about this one: The two D seats in Indiana are centered where the Democrats are: Indianapolis and Gary. Look at the map. The only way to make these districts more competitive is to make the surrounding Republican districts less competitive. And how will that work out, considering the GOP's poor performance in competitive elections? What about those Indiana legislators who fancy themselves as Congressmen and will have the power to draw a district for themselves? And do you think the incumbent Republican Congress members will give up their safe seats without a fight?

It will be a mess.

Here's our idea: Get to work. The Indy seat is a lost cause. Too many Democrats. But the Gary seat (Indiana 1) is an opportunity. Recruit a quality candidate. Then organize and fund a GOP turnout operation in the 300 or so Lake County precincts and the seat turns red. Lots of good people in NW Indiana who want to make it happen. All they need is a push. And a few bucks.

August 29

If there's a culprit for the Republican under-performance of recent years it is the confederacy of Washington-based consultants foisted upon candidates who are led to believe that hiring from the GOP union hall is the price of gaining national support. This system works well for those consultants while candidates, their supporters and ultimately the public are left holding the bag.

Read our rant.

July 30

As we mentioned in yesterday's post, the Ds first move is always to look for a reason to disqualify the opponent from the ballot. And if they don't succeed they hope to at least emerge with an issue that will hamstring the Republican throughout the campaign.

This is why we always rejected the assertion that Barack Obama was foreign-born.

Who was his opponent in the 2008 primary? Correct. Hillary Clinton.

If Obama was born outside the US, it is a metaphysical certainty the Clintons would have figured it out.

July 29

Article in today's Cincinnati paper about a Republican candidate for Congress who registered his candidacy at an address outside the district. This is legal, of course. The Constitution only requires residency in the same state. The candidate apparently has since changed his address to one inside the district. But an embarrassment nonetheless. Which was compounded by the Washington DC consultant's refusal, according to the article, to provide the candidate's contact info to the reporter who called.

Are you kidding?

The district is Ohio 1, perhaps the most difficult of the so-called "winnable" seats. And the candidate apparently thought the proper first move was to hire a consultant rather than properly file his candidacy.

Where did the reporter get this information? Probably wasn't on her radar. It was almost certainly the Democrats, whose first move in any race is to challenge the Republican's ballot status. (Remember that, everyone.)

And now they'll keep digging. The candidate is a local boy who recently moved back to the district and his vote-turnout record is spotty. Has he actually moved to the apartment inside the district or does he still own the other property? Does the date of his move match what he filed publicly?

Hopefully this is the end of the story.

But then the article also had one of his supporters saying his voting record was spotty because he worked for the CIA. His website says he was a case officer, which to many would suggest he was operating undercover, recruiting spies in a foreign land. Highly commendable and highly dangerous. But if it turns out he was managing cases from a PC in Langley, the Ds will gleefully exploit this as another case of stolen valor.

Oh boy. Stay tuned.

July 21, 2025

From Kevin O'Leary (aka "Mr. Wonderful"):

Consultants don’t make real decisions. They make slides. They scrape data, present it to CEOs, and never feel the weight of being right or wrong. Stay in that world too long, and you become a single-cell amoeba in an ocean of mediocrity. I use AI more than consultants now

October 11, 2024

Always admired Donald Trump's statement about his personal faith. He's Presbyterian but not a very good one. How refreshing to hear the truth that most politicians are unwilling to admit about themselves.

Father Raymond de Souza of Kemptville, Ontario, writing in today's Wall Street Journal, reminds of us of Mr. Trump's recent social-media post:

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen

Catholic schoolchildren of a certain age remember this as St. Michael's prayer. Father de Souza concludes:

Mr. Trump’s post provoked criticism from the easily agitated, who suggested he was likening his political rivals to the devil. But the prayer, which is as ancient as the Scriptures and as new as the 19th century, is about something much older than American politics. Evil abounds, and the battle against it needs joining. St. Michael leads the charge.

October 10, 2024

It's been a good week for Donald Trump. The polls seem to be trending his way. The Senate Republican candidates seem to be sharing the same momentum everywhere except in Nevada and Arizona.

Donald Trump can pull you over the top if you're a Republican in a close race. But if you're reading this you're probably not. Which means that now is the time put the pedal to the metal. If a Trump wave is forming, riding it will take some work.

Are you ready for early voting? Is there an absentee program in place? Has your local GOP printed the slate cards, and is there a fund-raising effort underway to pay the postage?

If the answer to any of these is no, then exactly how the hell do you expect to win this?

Call the number at the bottom of this page. We want to help.

Sept 27, 2024

Someone posted on Facebook a graphic showing the electoral map of US counties. (Haven't checked for sure but it appears to reflect the results of the last Presidental election). Most of the country is red, save for the blue regions on the coasts and in the major cities. The caption reads: "There are zero blue states. Only blue cities."

Google that phrase and it will point to a Facebook post that is blocked with the following message: "False information. Reviewed by third-party fact checkers." Click on the "see why" button and it says the post has no basis in fact. "The viral image misrepresents the electoral process," say the self-appointed holy guardians of the truth at USA Today, which is named as the "independent" source.

In fact, the AP ran a story saying this claim is false. Or intended to mislead.

There are about 3,000 counties in the US and Trump won about 2,500 of them. So any county electoral map of the US will be mostly red.

Debunking the essential facts as myth. This is Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Here's our take: the censorship apparatchiks at Meta and the AP understand what we've been saying all along: Trump and the Republicans need only to move the needle in a few cities, and Comrade Kamala and her confederates are toast.

Sept 20, 2024

Once upon a time the Columbus mayor and most Franklin County officeholders were Republican. The numbers began to diminish in the late 90s because, in the words of the former county Republican chairman, "our voters moved to Delaware County." (Well then, they're not your voters anymore!)

The Franklin County Republican Party is typical of those large-county organizations who blame electoral failure on changing demographics, rather than acting to meet the challenge.

You'd at least expect them to offer up a slate of sacrificial-lamb candidates this year. Not even that. The one GOP officeholder, the county engineer, resigned when he found out a Democrat had filed to run against him. No Republican has filed to run for the offices of commissioner, sheriff, clerk, treasurer, recorder and coroner. No Republican filed for any of nine judicial seats and six legislative seats. Oh, there is a Republican candidate for prosecutor. But he is left off the party endorsement page. (Must not be a member of their club.)

What about the party's responsibility to the public? How many undistinguished Democrat officials will gain office by default?

This is a sorry example of GOP surrender in the metro counties.

Here's the really sad part: by leaving the field to the Democrats, the GOP is helping to lay the groundwork for a crushing defeat of Donald Trump and US Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio's second-largest county. Which could sink both candidates statewide.

If Trump loses and the Republicans fail to retake the Senate, here's your reason.

Sept 18, 2024

Since last week's Trump-Harris debate the Dems and the pro-Harris news media have focused on the veracity of Trump's claim of pet cats being eaten by the Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio.

Democrats are smart. They're using the lack of concrete proof of this story to convince the public that everything else we hear about Springfield is fake. But they cannot deny the crime, traffic accidents and strain on public services.

A Springfield aquaintance says he's noticed three changes since the Haitans arrived: the motels and laundromats are full, driving to the store is a stressful adventure ... and the ducks have disappeared from the park where he walks his dog.

Which stands to reason when the population of your town of 55,000 has been invaded by 20,000 with so-called special immigrant status from a third-world voodoo culture.

This is the Democrats' America.

If the Republicans can't win on this issue alone, then we deserve to go out of business.

Don't think "it can't happen here." Smaller towns around Springfield are dealing with the overflow. If your community has cheap housing and businesses in need of unskilled labor, rest assured the Biden/Harris migration machine is looking at you now.

Sept 14, 2024

Turns out a Fox News op-ed explains the lack of movement in the polls. To the Beltway cabal and some of Trump's supporters, Tuesday's debate wasn't a good look. For everyone else? Meh. Just Trump being Trump.

Here's a few lines from the brilliant Newt Gingrich:

President Trump’s great attraction to the supporters who have been with him through thick and thin is precisely that he is not an effete, fawning, dishonest, and manipulative cretin from the governing class. Remember, they’ve stuck with him through the Russia hoax, a multiyear investigation, two impeachments, multiple lawsuits and slanderous attacks by the leftwing propaganda media.

You can like him or dislike him, admire him or disdain him, but what you get is the authentic Trump.

So, we had a debate between the privileged, protected elitist Princess of the Left and a down-to-earth guy who people understand. It isn’t that President Trump can’t function in high society and country clubs. He owns country clubs ... But he is a regular guy who never hides who he really is.

The fact is, authenticity beats wearing a mask. Being yourself beats trying to be the person your consultants have trained you to be. This has always been true in American politics.

We encourage everyone to read Newt's column because he leaves us with many good talking points. If we don't use them, we're as dumb as the Ds.

Sept 11, 2024

Answer: Nothing.

Everyone understands it was three against one. ABC moderators clearly in the tank for Kamala. So what's new about that?

Don't obsess over things you can't control. Such as the fact that, after everything the Democrat/deep state/media alliance has done to sideline Trump, he's still neck-and-neck in the polls.

So take that as good news. And get to work! Are you ready for early voting? Is there an absentee program in place? Has your local GOP printed the slate cards, and is there a fund-raising effort underway to pay the postage?

Seems there are some remaining uncompleted tasks with far more impact than a lackluster (but still early!) debate performance.

Sept 6, 2024

Today they're mailing out absentee ballots in North Carolina. (In Ohio and presumably elsewhere they've already mailed absentee-ballot applications.) Which means that in Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, the Democrats are hard at work "banking" their votes.

Oh. Wait a minute. Now we're hearing the mailing has been delayed because of RFK Jr.'s lawsuit to have himself removed from the ballot. Which just underscores the absurdity. And here's another absurdity: this deadline was established by a Republican-dominated legislature.

Which underscores our general gripe: the Republican election system is broken largely because it's dominated by frivolous incumbents in safe districts who haven't a clue of what it's like to campaign in majority-D precincts.

September 3, 2024

Once again the WSJ's Gerard Baker hits it out of the park. Main take-away:

They are the teachers, equipped with the knowledge and authority to direct their hapless charges. We are the students, naive and ill-informed, sometimes attentive but too often insubordinate, with minds that need to be shaped and disciplined.

This self-image of Democrats and their role in government as benevolent, omniscient educators emerges from a mindset that represents a greater challenge to our freedoms than any attempts at interference in the lives of law-abiding Americans the Republicans are accused of planning. The didactic ethic, in which our leaders treat us as people who can’t make good decisions for ourselves, has been vividly on display in the last decade

We aren’t well-informed enough to understand the damage fossil fuel-energy production is doing to the environment. So we need to be told what kind of car we can drive and what kind of stove we can cook on. We can’t be trusted with information from unreliable sources. Like schoolchildren reading naughty books and listening to schoolyard gossip, we must be protected from “misinformation.” We aren’t sufficiently developed to comprehend the dangers of firearms. So our leaders must determine who can have access to them. We didn’t have their deep grasp of the science behind pandemics. So we had to be instructed to stay home, wear masks and submit ourselves to vaccination on pain of losing our livelihoods. Lacking their sophisticated biological knowledge and understanding of geopolitics, we weren’t permitted to speculate about what caused Covid-19 either. We must accept the teacher’s word on the subject.

Not content with ensuring our compliance with their social studies and science curricula, our governor-didacts insist on teaching us ethics. We need to be educated in how sinful we are as white people, as Americans, guilty inheritors of Western civilization. We must learn the new catechism of critical theory and expiate our sin.

August 30, 2024

Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”

From “Those Who Remain” by G. Michael Hopf

August 28, 2024

from RFK Jr.'s social-media post after endorsing Trump:

"Make America Great Again' recalls a nation brimming with vitality, with a can-do spirit, with hope and a belief in itself. It was an America that was beginning to confront its darker shadows, could acknowledge the injustice in its past and present, yet at the same time could celebrate its successes.
It was a nation of broad prosperity, the world's most vibrant middle class, and an idealistic belief (though not consistently applied) in freedom, justice, and democracy. It was a nation that led the world in innovation, productivity, and technology. And it was the healthiest country in the world. I have talked to many Trump supporters. I have talked with his inner circle. I have talked to the man himself. This is the America they want to restore."

As we repeat elsewhere on this site, indeed the political sands are shifting.