Trump & ‘F-You Politics’
In 1988, as a wide-eyed, bushy-tailed College Republican, I was marching along with the Bush For President bandwagon. He had been my hero’s right-hand man for eight years. Surely, he’d
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#NCSEN: Moore County GOPe ALL IN for Richard Burr
We’ve got a four-candidate primary race coming up on March 15th for the GOP nomination for US Senate. But, in some quarters, we’re being led to believe all we have
Continue reading#ncpol: CYA, DC-style.
Folks in flyover country are ANGRY. Raleigh knows it. And, apparently, DC has figured it out, too. The GOP-controlled House pushed through a bill they claimed repealed ObamaCare and defunded
Continue readingThe REAL Mitch McConnell?
This Bloomberg piece offers a peek at the profesional bio of majority leader Mitch McConnell that probably explains an awful lot: […] The Senate majority leader didn’t begin his career
Continue reading#ncpol: Primaries, primaries, and primaries
On this site, and elsewhere, we spend a lot of time griping about Washington. You can’t fix the Democrats. We’ve wiped out all of them we possibly can in our
Continue readingThe Speaker Spat: Change the position, then hold a free-for-all
It’s pretty disturbing to hear that Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, and the rest of The Freedom Caucus are saying they would ‘look favorably’‘ upon the idea of speaker Paul Ryan. Let’s see
Continue readingThe New “McCarthy”-ism (As the establishment spins)
If you believe the drive-bys, it’s Walter Jones’s fault. It’s THAT GOP donor’s fault. It’s the Tea Party’s fault. Washington is all abuzz and in turmoil over a story that
Continue readingA Civil War, or an EVICTION?
Conservatives of the Tea Party ilk are being portrayed as unreasonable, petty children who turn over the gameboard and throw a fit when they don’t get their way. The establishmentarians
Continue reading‘Them confounded Tea Partiers CAN’T be satisfied!’
THAT is the spin being circulated by the establishment in the wake of John Boehner’s resignation from Congress. *These people are just unreasonable. They can’t be pleased!* Oh, yeah? Well,
Continue readingLady Parts 2016: Playing the left’s identity politics game
Apparently, the GOPe has anointed our very own Renee Ellmers with the responsibility of getting more girls elected. Not necessarily conservatives, mind you. Just folks with lady parts: The effort
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