2012 Election

The odds might be better than you think. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie embodies everything that is right, and wrong, about New Jersey. He's brash. He takes no prisoners. He's a conservative in a state that practically invented Democrats. And he just might be rethinking whether or not to run...

Unless they intend to get wiped out in a Goldwater-style electoral beatdown, Republicans need to get a handle on the insanity currently expressing itself in the crowds of GOP debates. The storylines coming out of Thursday night's debate should have been that Mitt Romney won, Rick Perry beclowned...

Former presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty announced today he is supporting Mitt Romney in the race for president. Pawlenty will serve as a national co-chairman of Romney's campaign. “The next president is going to need to lead on the economy in a new way, and that is Mitt Romney,” Pawlenty said...

Ron Paul put on his alligator shoes, orange suit, and rings and straight-up backhanded Texas Governor Rick Perry this weekend. Recalling the fact that Rick Perry was a Democrat as recently as the Reagan era, Ron Paul's campaign released an advertisement this weekend highlighting Rick Perry's...

Ignored by the media and dismissed by the Republican Party in general, liberty-minded Congressman Ron Paul leaped into third place today in the Gallup Presidential Nomination preference poll. Paul jumped over Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party darling/lunatic, relegating her to fourth-place in the...

By winning the Iowa Straw Poll event, did Michele Bachmann doom her candidacy? History suggests so. The Republican Party in Iowa has been doing the Ames, Iowa Straw Poll since 1979. In the 30+ years of taking the poll, only once (George Bush, 2000) has the winner of the straw poll gone on to win...

It's not often that eight candidates can get into a room, answer questions about everything from economics to Iran, and walk away without changing a damn thing. Yet, that's exactly what the Republican Party candidates did Thursday night. Of course, that's not how the media is spinning it. As...

Forget Mitt "The Stormin' Mormon" Romney and Michelle "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann. If Ron Paul pulls off a win in Saturday's Ames, Iowa Straw Poll, all bets are off. Current Iowa polling suggests Ron Paul just might pull off a surprise win, first at the Straw Poll and then second in the Iowa caucuses....

What the heck is going on in Washington? In the aftermath of the US debt ceiling deal, this is a key question being asked. What is going on? Where do we stand? Where are we headed? Going against his initial rhetoric, President Obama seems to have given in to the Tea Party with no new tax hikes....

2012 Election: Debt, Dollar, or Jobs? Even with the debt ceiling and a risky dollar plaguing the nation, the largest factor weighing on voters minds for the 2012 election is employment. Fifty-six percent of the participants say creating jobs in the U.S. is the most important item on the list for...