Category: Republicans

SC primary: Can you HEAR us NOW?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Two South Carolina Republican officials with strong conservative and Tea Party credentials appear to be sending the GOP establishment and the party’s presidential candidates a

Welcome To The Carolinas

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Now that the smoke has cleared in Iowa and New Hampshire, the nation’s eyes are turning just south of me to The Palmetto State. (We, in North Carolina, will get

While the economy crashes and burns, Little George is worried about his condoms

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

We’ve got record unemployment and national debt. We’re in the midst of a presidential election, with a lot

Waiting on Howard

Posted on December 31, 2011December 31, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Howard Coble, the Republican congressman representing North Carolina’s Sixth District, appears to be playing the part of Hamlet here at the end of 2011. Fresh off of hospital stays

Merry Christmas! BarryO wants another $1.2 TRILLION.

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Brant Clifton

That debt ceiling deal Republicans sold us on a few months back is going from bad to worse. We were told the country would go into

GOP in DC waves the white flag on limited government and fiscal sanity

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Well — looking back at the developments in DC this past week — we learned that we cannot count on John Boehner, Richard Burr, Howard Coble, or Renee Ellmers to

DeMint: Big-spending business-as-usual in Congress

Posted on December 21, 2011December 21, 2011 by Brant Clifton

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), writing in The Hill over the weekend, says The Tea Party needs to finish what it started in 2010 if real change

The Grinch is trying to steal Boss Bev’s Christmas

Posted on December 19, 2011December 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Her friends at The N&O are STILL talking about those pesky private airplane flights from 2008 that SOMEHOW never made it onto her

Ron Paul’s lesson for the GOP

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Brant Clifton

New polling shows Texas congressman Ron Paul pulling ahead in the GOP presidential horse race. The Ruling Class is perplexed. ( How could you NOT see the Mittster as

SC : Nikki LOVES Mitt ( Tea Party falling OUT of love with Nikki?)

Posted on December 17, 2011December 17, 2011 by Brant Clifton

In North Carolina, Republican Renee Ellmers was unexpectedly propelled past Democrat Bob Etheridge in the 2010 race for the state’s 2nd congressional district seat in Washington.