Tag: campaign 2012

Holding taking heat over decisions re: John Edwards

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

George Holding, former US attorney and current GOP nominee for the 13th congressional district, is facing questions from Edwards case jurors, legal experts, and the mainstream

The declining value of the “Republican” and “conservative” political labels

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Brant Clifton

In this nightmarish economy, we’re seeing a lot of things lose their value. In recent years, we’ve also begun to see the decline in value of

The Pilot: pushing far-left talking points, telling half of the story, and mocking the few readers it has left

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Brant Clifton

You have to just LOVE Yankees who move down here and chastise us for not being more like the morally and fiscally-bankrupt blue states they fled. Steve Bouser, The Pilot’s

Duke Energy, The Democrats & KARMA

Posted on June 9, 2012June 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Duke Energy has dumped a lot of money into the Democrat National Convention effort in Charlotte. Duke boss Jim Rogers has been a very good friend

Walter Dalton & Barry Obama: bureaucratic parasites, economic gurus

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

I find it absolutely amazing that someone who has spent their WHOLE adult life on the government payroll could have the gall to portray themselves as an expert on what’s

Beaufort County Commissioner sounds off on Thom Tillis, Arthur Williams

Posted on June 8, 2012June 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Republican activists in Eastern North Carolina are continuing to fume over allegations that GOP leaders in Raleigh are meddling in local primaries. Earlier this week, a GOP activist

NCGOP convention delegate says Speaker Tillis, party vice-chair King ‘bullied’ her

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Carteret County Republican activist Jessica Hult had an eye-opening experience as a delegate to the recent NCGOP convention in Greensboro: “I’ve been a delegate to the state

NCGOP lawyering up against party activists?

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Brant Clifton

2012 is really turning out to be the Year of The Lawyer in North Carolina politics. First, we have the Pat McCrory campaign lawyering up to sue a Democrat PAC

Our very own Senator Sock Puppet keeps marching along to Chuck Schumer’s orders

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

U.S. Senator Kay Hagan — also affectionately known in these parts as “Chuck Schumer’s sock puppet” — was in The Charlotte Observer groaning and moaning about “The War on

Dalton v. McCrory: The ETHICS election?

Posted on June 6, 2012June 6, 2012 by Brant Clifton

The Democrat campaign machine has been utilizing Joseph Goebbels’ ‘Big lie’ strategy — repeating something over and over until people accept it as fact — against Republican Pat