Liberals do not grasp the distinction between Ronald Reagan and (either) George Bush. This blind spot creates a massive confusion and hazard to their ambitions. Obama defeated neither the Reagan Narrative nor Team Reagan. Team Bush appropriated, and then marginalized, both. Obama beat Team Bush, not Team Reagan. The implications are huge. There was a […]
A few years back the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority put its handsomely paid brain trust to work and crafted the genius slogan “Charlotte’s got a lot” to market the Queen City as a tourist destination. Cute, no? A Lot in ChArLOTte? And the marketing wizards who gin up this stuff are pulling down insanely high […]
Cutting through all the head scratching, number crunching, moaning, groaning and gnashing of teeth coming from the GOP trying to figure out what went wrong at the polls this week, Ron Paul cuts to the chase and puts it in stark perspective. This from his interview with Bloomberg TV: “If you look at the numbers […]
Less than 24 hours after voters with a conservative bent help the GOP not only retain but expand its sway in both houses of the N.C. General Assembly, and put a Republican in the governor’s mansion to boot, we’re treated to this for the effort: Republicans bent on lower taxes and smaller government might be […]
As the electoral dust settles and Republicans discuss what went wrong and how to improve their appeal, the analysis on the Left has been focusing on how the American electorate is changing – to the benefit of Democrats. It’s a narrative that the Obama campaign has capitalized on through its target marketing efforts, if not explicitly […]
Well, here we are. The initial shock has worn off, leaving many of us are asking ourselves, “What went wrong,” and “What now?” From a numbers perspective it’s easy: The Democrats – playing their same old game of giving away other people’s property – got the Blacks, Latinos, the 18 – 30 crowd, rich liberal […]
No shocker here, as former Queen City boy mayor Pat McCrory had amassed a huge campaign war chest and was running against an opponent tied at the hip to the most unpopular governor in the nation. Still, give McCrory credit for not fumbling what nearly every pundit predicted would be a cakewalk into the end […]
Official unofficial results: Obama snags 303 electoral votes; Romney tallies 206. The popular vote shows Obama at 50% (59,631,659) and Romney at 48% (57,001,726) ~ a spread of just over two million votes. Meanwhile, we will still have House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and a looming fiscal cliff. This from the […]
There were two, um, high notes from last night; maybe it’s time to move to Colorado or Washington. This from CNN: Voters in Washington and Colorado passed ballot initiatives Tuesday to legalize marijuana for recreational use, the biggest victory ever for the legalization movement. “The significance of these events cannot be understated,” said NORML, a […]
