The fall out from the purity wars launched by the far right in the GOP continues to rack up successes – for the Democrats. In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday. Prentiss County Chancery Clerk [...]

Hyper partisanship is out. The American people, who largely do not obsess about politics, is fed up with those who do obsess to the point there is no answer they will accept on any issue – except the answer of the extremes. The liberals tasted this in 2006 with the Ned Lamont (far left) and [...]

As a conservative independent I of course like to view the world through my only lens of preferences, but I think it is safe to say I have my biases fairly well checked when I claim this year Americans are heading away from the hyper-partisan fringes, weary of nearly 3 decades of hyper-partisan rancor and [...]

It is rare when I take on the far right. It is usually a waste of time since they refuse to listen and then I get a bunch of blow back for daring to point out their mistakes. But I am a glutton for punishment, and I have to point out things that are just [...]

I had my suspicions that Tancredo left Congress because he was too much of an immigration hypochondriac for even his own district. Seems I was right: Colorado’s 6th Congressional District is the pulsing heart of state Republicans’ anger over illegal immigration. This is the political home from which Rep. Tom Tancredo launched a presidential run [...]

I am laughing and crying with the apoplexy raging the hyper-right today. The most hilarious is Anne Coulter would rather campaign for Hillary over McCain. Is she now a greater RINO-Traitor than McCain because she is not just working on compromise bills with Dems but supporting them in the Presidential election? And isn’t sitting out [...]

How is it John McCain is now best positioned to win the GOP nomination? If he wins FL (and recent endorsements by Gov Crist and Sen Martinez shows he has some gathering strength there) he will have supposedly turned the GOP on its head. Rush Limbaugh predicts the end of the party as we all [...]

I hate to say this but no politician is going to go near the immigration issue for at least a couple of years. The problem isn’t the there are no solutions – there are tons of good ideas out there. The problem is a small minority cannot stomach long term illegal workers, who have integrated [...]

Boy, what has happened to the conservative movement? Today it reminded me more of the last bastion of racism in the 1960′s and 1970′s than a modern party ready to lead a diverse nation. I listened to Laura Ingram, Mark Levin and Michael Savage and it was really ugly. You could almost see the spittle [...]

Boy, Romney really is self-destructing. It seems is latest ad attack is to go after McCain for his support of the comprehensive immigration reform bill last year. The evil “amnesty” has arisen again to tear the party apart. Romney again criticized McCain over his including “amnesty” for illegal immigrants in his legislation. McCain replied, “I [...]

It is Christmas and many people rethink their lives and plans around this time of year. And many people switch paths all year long. And so some Reuters reporters have a story out today creating a myth for the gullible that there is massive self deportation of illegal aliens: The couple are among a growing [...]

GOP Minority Leader Boehner has admitted publicly what was clear for months now – the immigration debacle from last spring is killing the GOP fundraising efforts for 2008. Polls show the public holds congressional Republicans in low esteem. Boehner’s effort to craft a new agenda for Republicans remains under wraps. And in the minority leader’s [...]

Tom Tancredo helped spearhead the effort to stop legislation that was going to pass Congress this year which would have secured the borders, created a guest worker program that would not provide a path to citizenship, would make it easy to deport criminal elements, and one thing he did not want – fines and milestones [...]

Addendum: After listening to this dumb ad again I realize one more thing that really bothers me about it. Not only does it reference “20 million illegals taking our jobs” (which is a crock, no illegal is after his job or my job and I don’t go after theirs), but it equates immigrants to terrorists. [...]

Update: Another indication that the far right is alienating (of course, insulting moderates, er.. RINOS, clearly alienates) the voters and costing elections: Republican losses yesterday, even in solidly GOP districts, he said, were more often the result of a candidate being too conservative for the moderate direction most voters want Virginia to take. “If you [...]