Published: PolicyMic (September 23, 2012)
Conventional political wisdom states that, to become president, you must first acquire your party’s nomination by pandering to its radical base. After that, you win the general election by moving back to the ideological center. Keep that axiom in mind as you’re reading this editorial.
Back in February, Mitt Romney earned the derision of political observers when he tried to woo attendees at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference by referring to himself as “severely conservative.”
Published: PolicyMic (September 18, 2012)
Secret video recordings of comments made by Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser are so appalling that it’s hard to figure out where to even begin analyzing them. I guess the best way is to look at the three main parts.
First there is the Republican presidential nominee’s declaration that 47% of the American people will vote for Barack Obama no matter what because they are “dependent on government” and believe, “that they are victims … that government has the responsibility to care for them … that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing.”
Published: The Morning Call (September 6, 2012), PolicyMic (September 6, 2012)
More than a month ago, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center revealed that Mitt Romney’s proposed tax cuts for the affluent will require him to increase taxes on middle-class families by an average of $2,000 a year.
Since then, President Obama has put a calculator on his campaign website to help ordinary citizens calculate exactly how much their taxes will go up under a Romney administration.... Read Original Article
Published: PolicyMic (October 3, 2012)
Editor’s Note: This represents instant analysis of the presidential debate on Wednesday night. For the author’s thoughts in the hour immediately before the debate began, see here.
[To see who won the third and final presidential debate, see here]
Here are my first impressions about the first debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on Wednesday evening:
1) The Big Points
– Twitter monitors have found that Romney’s Big Bird comment is trending.
Published: PolicyMic (August 29, 2012)
If you want to refute the widely-disseminated myth of the media having an anti-Republican bias in this election, one need not look any further than this recent incident at the Republican National Convention:
The controversy should have been over the type of partisan parliamentary maneuvers that normally define such major political gatherings, as Ron Paul supporters were in the process of contesting the decision of the Romney-run Republican National Committee not to seat several of the delegates that the quixotic libertarian had won during the Maine caucuses.... Read Original Article
Published: PolicyMic (August 24, 2012)
It is true that a nation which practices censorship cannot remain free. To this axiom, though, I would add that a society which doesn’t respond to inflammatory stupidity with universal contempt cannot remain safe for reasoned discussion, as recent political discussion clearly demonstrates.
Over the last week, the Republican Party has provided us with two test cases for that principle.