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J.D. Hayworth – Birther?

February 18, 2010

A lot of Conservatives were excited to see J. D. Hayworth enter the primaries against Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) due to McCain’s constant thumbing his nose at Conservatives for the past eight years.  True, McCain has been seemingly more conservative since his electoral defeat to the chosen one, but one obviously has to question his [...]

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What’s the Big Deal about Sarah Stumping for McCain?

January 22, 2010

No one can ever accuse me of being a fan of Arizona Sen. John McCain.  True, I’ve always admired his service in the war, and also some of his views on spending and his consistent refusal to take earmarks.  Yet at the same time, his constant focus on bi-partisanship and coddling up to the media [...]

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Obama: Climategate Be Damned — Copenhagen is On!

December 5, 2009

Well, the forecast wintry mix totaling “a dusting to an inch” is already near three inches deep in my part of Central Jersey, so I couldn’t resist a global warming/Climategate post!  Especially when in the face of all the uncertainty behind much of the climate science underlying the upcoming Copenhagen initiatives, President Obama is going [...]

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I’m Not Listening to Another Bush

May 4, 2009

Some Republican leaders have been busy going on a “listening tour.”  I get it.  Our leaders need direction.  So, Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney are among those trying to get their face out there between now and the 2012 election cycle, while those like elected representative Eric Cantor are trying to find real consensus to counter [...]

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Republicans Supporting Earmarks Are Republicans Why?

March 3, 2009

The Senate rejected an amendment offered by John McCain earlier today that would have enacted a spending freeze for the rest of the fiscal year and eliminated over eight thousand earmarks from the President’s most recent Spend Other People’s Money That We Don’t Have Act.  The outrage is not that the Amendment was defeated, though [...]

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Genuine Bi-Partisanship

February 17, 2009

Genuine bipartisanship assumes an honest process of give-and-take, and that the quality of the compromise is measured by how well it serves some agreed-upon goal, whether better schools or lower deficits. This in turn assumes that the majority will be constrained — by an exacting press corps and ultimately an informed electorate — to negotiate [...]

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244-188: Stimulus Passes House sans Republicans

January 28, 2009

Sweetness.  Not a single Republican broke ranks to vote for the $819 billion “stimulus” package (not including the extra 300 million or so in interest we’ll eventually have to pay on the deficit because of this bill), and 11 Blue Dogs decided they wanted to be reelected in 2010 without the stench of this monstrosity.
I anticipate [...]

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This Time, I Can Support McCain-Feingold

January 9, 2009

The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform was a complete disaster.  We have spoken with disdain regarding it on many occasions here at AOR.  The Hill reports that McCain and Feingold are partnering up again to push another reform-based regulation.  This time, it’s the complete banning of earmarks. John McCain (D-AZ) and Russ Feingold (D-WI), along with [...]

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Goodbye 2008!

December 31, 2008

I’m kind of glad to see this year go.  While fun was had, disappointments and external events put a particular funk on this year as I look back on it.
The biggest story of the year happened on my birthday when America chose to embrace our new status as an Obama Nation.  We deserve what we [...]

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The Real McCain

November 17, 2008

The picture demonstrates everything one needs to know. 
This is a Republican “maverick” — willing to work with the very Democrat who was actively trying to ruin him just two weeks ago, to whom McCain is politically and philosophically opposed on many issues.  McCain is the embodiment of the derangement “new tone” bipartisan nonsense has caused on our side of [...]

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Three Reasons McCain Lost

November 6, 2008

McCain’s defeat by President-Elect Barack Obama can be attributed to many factors, such as the media, Obama’s smoothness, Obama’s ground organization, etc.  Here, however, I am going to focus on three areas in the McCain campaign strategy that, had they done things differently, may have yielded a different result this past Tuesday. 
Response to the Financial [...]

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Election Night Open Thread

November 4, 2008

We’ll be checking in throughout the night to leave our comments, we encourage readers to stop by and do the same.

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No Exit Polls, Please

November 4, 2008

While some on the Internet are tempted to put up exit poll numbers, we will not be doing so here on Axis of Right due to their inherent unreliability.  We ask that no comments regarding exit poll data be left.  We welcome your comments on voting trends, patterns, and your own experiences today, but please, [...]

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Get Out and Vote!

November 4, 2008

Today is election day, andarack  it is important to everyone to get out and vote.  Today’s vote is the only poll that matters, so don’t let any polls, predictions, or pundits get you down. 
Just to boost confidence a bit, the polls have been wrong before, and can be wrong again.  In 1980 (hat tip to [...]

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Mike’s 2008 Election Predictions

November 3, 2008

As much as it pains me, I predict that Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States.    That’s not to say tomorrow’s outcome is a foregone conclusion.  Many of the battleground states will be close.  It’s just that McCain has to take most of them and that will be a tall [...]

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Sal’s 2008 Election Predictions

November 3, 2008

Mike, Ryan, and I will be posting our election-day predictions between now and tomorrow morning.  This first installment covers my predictions for Election Day 2008. 
President: 
Looking at the polls, I think that the punditry is at minimum overestimating Democrat strength and discounting the current large number of undecideds found in several polls.  While I think [...]

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An Obama Presidency Will Bankrupt Coal

November 3, 2008

To all readers in the coal states of Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.  Obama wants to bankrupt your industry through his proposed cap-and-trade system.  Obama made these statements in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, proving once again that he says one thing in San Francisco, and another thing in Scranton. 

The buzz on this is quite high, but [...]

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Is Minnesota in Play?

November 3, 2008

Some recent polling data from SurveyUSA has McCain within the margin of error in Minnesota, with Obama only leading by 3 points, 49-43.  Could this state be in-play?  Are we all going to be surprised by the final election map on Tuesday night? 
This is going to be interesting.

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The Ground Game is On!

November 2, 2008

One of the big reasons Bush won in both 2000 and 2008 was a successful Get-out-the-vote ground game.  Jim Geraghty at National Review Online’s campaign spot posted some notes from his mentor, known as “Obi-Wan Kenobi”, who has some insights into how the ground game is going in the battleground states.  The notes should help [...]

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McCain Does SNL and Olbermann’s Best Episode Ever

November 2, 2008

After losing to Bill Clinton in 1996, Bob Dole appeared on Saturday Night Live and won rave reviews for making fun of himself and the process.  Conventional wisdom at the time was that if Dole had displayed that kind of humor before the election, the race would have been much closer.  Even Bill Clinton admitted [...]

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Reasons for Optimism

October 30, 2008

One can only judge future elections based on trends that have been determined in previous elections.  With five days to go until lection day, I am becoming increasingly optimistic.  There is still a good chance that Barack Obama will win and be our next President (ugh), but there is also reason to be optimistic and [...]

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Preemptive Strike From MSDNC

October 28, 2008

I had a feeling this was coming if McCain gained momentum in the polls during the last few weeks of the election:  with McCain surging, MSDNC is invoking memories of 2000, when Gore got more popular votes but Bush won the election through the Electoral College.  It’s a preemptive strike to delegitimize a potential McCain [...]

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Israeli PM Livni Calls For An Election

October 26, 2008

Barack Obama isn’t the only politician with an unusually strong sense of entitlement.  Tzipi Livni, leader of Israel’s Kadima Party, could probably give Obama a run for his money.  After months of trying to become Israel’s Prime Minister without an election, Livni acknowledged the inevitable and called for the general election she so desperately tried [...]

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McCain’s Last Chance

October 26, 2008

There are 9 days until Election Day and John McCain has to make his final pitch to the people, unload all his cash, unleash the 527s, and unfortunately hope for something unexpected to help.  Dick Morris wrote an oped which lays out how three times since World War II, the underdog made up the difference in [...]

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I Too Hope We Never Find Out

October 25, 2008

Let Freedom Ring is now running a series of campaign ads as part of their Never Find Out campaign.  The following ad is what I see as the most effective because it succinctly explains why higher taxes on those with higher incomes negatively affects those in the middle class.

The ad is right.  What liberals never [...]

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Krauthammer Casts His Early Ballot

October 24, 2008

In his latest column, the syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer endorses John McCain for President.  I love his column partially because he picks on the lily-livered, weak-kneed RINOs who are prematurely giving up or even jumping ship. 
Then he makes a few simple points:  the economy will return to normal like it always eventually does, Obama was dead wrong on the Surge and [...]

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A Lot of Talk About Reagan Today

October 22, 2008

What to do with Ronald Wilson Reagan? 
Some nowadays call the Reagan Revolution dead.  The Forbes piece I linked too has so many holes in it that it’s hardly worth addressing each point, and obviously was not written by anyone who made it passed PoliSci 202.  Republicans have acted stupid, whiny, impressionable and lately want to be liked so [...]

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Palin Talks to the Press; Obama/Biden Do Not

October 20, 2008

One of the early criticisms of Gov. Sarah Palin was her lack of availability to the press.  She was criticized for not going on the Sunday shows or to Drive-By Media interviews, for not holding press conferences, and for generally not being available to the press. 
While this may have been true in the early days [...]

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There’s Hope in the Wind

October 18, 2008

Everywhere you lck Oook in the Drive-By Media, they are already celebrating the Obama victory. It will be a landslide many say, akin to Reagan’s 1980 sweepto defeat incumbent President Jimmy Carter. Yet, if you look between the lines, there are reasons for hope and optimism pointing to a possible McCain victory.
Over the last two [...]

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What Happened to Peggy?

October 17, 2008

During this particular campaign, there has been a steady rise of Conservative elitism and defection to support a candidate who is the antithesis of what Conservatism is supposed to stand for.  While there is much good debate within the Conservative movement, the trend lately is to thumb down noses at those who do not agree [...]

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