The Daily Haymaker

Bonner Bridge is falling down (And what’s up with Lyons Gray?)

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Brant Clifton

We’ve come to realize there is A LOT of “theatre” in politics. Both sides holler about the other doing the little people wrong. Both sides claim to have the best

Are our political parties still relevant?

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The mainstream media is full of stories about how broke the state Democrat Party is. Word is out that they may have to sell their headquarters building just to make

Republican? Misspell? Misspeak? You’re Dumb. Democrat? Not so much. Probably TIRED.

Posted on March 10, 2014March 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Dan Quayle has been out of office for 22 years now. But he will never live down that fateful day he spent officiating a spelling bee at a New Jersey

Blueprinting McCrory, NCGOP on coal ash?

Posted on March 10, 2014March 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Early in the McCrory era in Raleigh, we learned about a nefarious plot by lefty groups and their media allies to slime and slander and “eviscerate” our new governor and his

Yes! We have NO Bananas …

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Once again, the people of North Carolina are getting stuck with the check by a corporate welfare recipient. In 2011, the state of North Carolina crowed about luring Chiquita Bananas

#NCSEN: The Thom Tillis Show, force-fed to you by the NCGOP establishment

Posted on March 7, 2014March 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The Lincoln County GOP is holding their annual Lincoln / Reagan dinner this weekend. Whatpiques my interest about the event is the web page promoting it. The page features a

#NCSEN: Scheduling an ad buy vs. PAYING for it

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

I had a rather enlightening phone call with a friend who pulls down a hefty paycheck for his behind-the-scenes work in federal-level election campaigns. (To my knowledge, he is not

#NCSEN: A theory about that Tillis ad buy

Posted on March 7, 2014March 7, 2014 by Brant Clifton

The NC House speaker’s fan club is beside itself over the Tillis for Senate campaign’s $1 million ad buy. Mainstream media are touting the fact that the ad is biographical,

#NCSEN: The fat man is singing! (Richard Morgan thells on Thom.)

Posted on March 6, 2014March 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

Moore County’s Richard Morgan has evolved into one of the most polarizing figures ever in North Carolina politics. Amazingly, during his time in the NC General Assembly, he was able

#NCSEN: Utah’s Mike Lee ALL IN for Greg Brannon

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Brant Clifton

In 2010, Utah’s Mike Lee made his first bid for elected office — waging an underdog campaign taking on a well-funded, well-known GOP establishment figure in the state’s US Senate