Category: NCGOP

TWO majority leaders? (NC’s “conservative revolution” marches on)

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The “honorables” on Jones Street are giving us quite an eye-opening preview of where things might be headed: House Republican leaders are considering creating two

Attention, Wal-Mart Shoppers: Atlas HAS SHRUGGED!

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Ayn Rand and George Orwell are starting to look like real prophets. We’ve got record unemployment, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and business closings. We’ve been humiliated overseas. Our embassies have been overrun

McCrory coattails ????

Posted on November 4, 2012November 5, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I don’t think there is anybody — outside of Walter Dalton’s immediate family — who hasn’t conceded that we will be spending the next four years talking about GOVERNOR McCrory.

Endorsements 2012: Mitt & Pat

Posted on November 1, 2012November 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The GOP nominees for the top two posts we’ll be voting for on November 6 can really vouch for the old theorem about “right place, right time.”

Corruption, dishonesty are bi-partisan ailments

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I heard through the grapevine that John Hood thinks I don’t like him very much. (For the record, all I know of him is what I read in his

Memo to Governor McCrory: Heed Gary’s advice, remember Jim Martin

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The political establishment — and the state political media — are coming around to the realization that, barring the discovery of a dead girl or a live boy in the

NCGOP vice chair King: “Goldman? Malone? I see nothing! I know nothing!”

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

What’s been bouncing around the political gossip network for a few years has FINALLY made it to the pages of The N&O. The NCGOP establishment bent over backwards to force

Lumbee Tribe political machine splitting its ticket this year?

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Robeson County is about as yellow-dog Democrat as you can get. In 1972, while George McGovern was getting destroyed nationwide by Richard Nixon – he was winning comfortably in Robeson

Union Thugs Trying to Rough Up Dan Forest

Posted on October 17, 2012October 17, 2012 by Brant Clifton

You can get a really good sense of where things stand during the last month of an election cycle. In a close race, the candidate feeling the most endangered tends

Democrat NC SPIN-ster behind stealth attack on GOP judges?

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

For months, voters in this area have been bombarded with propaganda from a group called Citizens For A Competent Judiciary blasting District Court Judges Skipper Creed and Rob