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Here’s the first of two Issues posts for today — and it’ll be cross-tagged in “Dispatches” because the topic is outreach. Here’s a batch of articles on the subject — several make my point…
Read MoreThose who adhere to the values of the nation’s Founders as outlined in the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution face a mismatch of resources. We must work hard and smart to overcome the…
Read MoreConservatives cannot delegate to others the responsibility of reaching the uninformed with the policy solutions offered by our side. If they’re going to wait for the elected officials or campaign consultants or think tanks…
Read MoreRepublicans and conservatives are supposed to be the folks who love the Founding Fathers, but I fear too often they ignore what those men said when it comes to (what I call) job number…
Read MoreHere’s Thomas Jefferson: Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Note — “the whole mass of the people.” We certainly aren’t….
Read MoreThomas Jefferson told us what’s needed: I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their…
Read MoreThere’s a lot to say on this topic of the political right’s decades-in-the-making communications failure. In a sentence, we need to take the Republican Party and the conservative movement to communications school. While there…
Read MoreOn list of things that astound me are the difficult tasks that man can accomplish, such as building a skyscraper, putting satellites in orbit, and sending a probe to mars. Those things are difficult…
Read MoreIf today the Republican Party and conservatives everywhere were to learn what Abraham Lincoln knew in 1858 we’d be on the road to fixing the bi-partisan governmental mess this country faces. Here’s what Abe…
Read MoreThis is so true! Here’s an American Thinker post: In the old Soviet Union, the oppressed subjects of regime had a phrase used to describe the news media: “There’s no pravda in Izvestia and…
Read MoreWhy a “Counterinsurgency”? If you’re of the opinion that our nation has drifted from its founding principles, you’re not alone. There is an enlightenment underway – a growing number of Americans are realizing that a liberal/progressive…
Read MoreIt’s abundantly clear that most local GOP organizations have little or no direction, no real leadership, and little inner motivation to change. They need a jolt – and that jolt can come from you – the citizen who wants “change you can believe in.”
Rank and file GOP voters are never going to see most of those already-elected Republicans doing what they’re supposed to do – if they can continue to get away with not doing anything. And we’re never going to get the kind of Party leadership that’s needed unless more people from the outside of the political process step inside.
Read MoreIf our national political discussion is going to be about “hope,” skin color and gender, instead of about economic and foreign policy realities, then the Democrats will win. If Republicans aren’t going to learn…
Read MoreBy Jim Burns: They’re still ‘nattering nabobs of negativism.’
Read More“I’m thinking about trying to make sure Peter has an opponent…I think we can do better than him.” — Illinois Republican Congressman Ray LaHood as quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times, November 25, 2002 referring…
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