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Talk radio was paramount in building the conservative movement's role in presidential elections. This can be found with Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee and one of the intellectual leaders of the conservative movement. Political minds are wondering if it can help push Romney into the White House. for Romney. The Right Frequency by Fred V. Lucas chronicles talk radio's impact on presidential elections and politics from the days of Walter Winchell to modern day hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. The book is published by History Publishing Company. The author is available for interviews. It was...

“Deadly assault weapons … are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.” - Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney --IMAGE HERE-- As the Republican National Convention comes to a close, it is time for me to live up to the promise I made when I wrote about Why gun owners should fear a second term for President Obama. That promise was to give the Republican nominee the same skeptical scrutiny that I gave to President Obama. And just as in that previous article, I am limiting my discussion...

“It’s easy to get caught up in the distractions and the silliness and the tit for tat that consumes our politics.” – Senator Barack Obama, Democratic presidential primary campaign speech following a Pennsylvania loss against Senator Hillary Clinton, April 22nd, 2008. For political junkies, it seems like we’ve always been in the general election season. With Rick Perry imploding, Newt Gingrich dreaming of moon bases, and Rick Santorum failing to create a solid campaign infrastructure, it appeared inevitable that Mitt Romney would eventually win the Republican presidential nomination. In reality, however, the general election didn’t really start until April 10th,...

A couple of days ago, I posted a blog criticizing President Obama over remarks that I perceived to be insulting toward entrepreneurs. In particular, I quoted the following excerpt from his speech: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Since that time, I’ve witnessed a backlash against my post and those of other conservatives who have made similar arguments. While I don’t intend to respond to every backlash like this, I believe that the arguments being made are credible enough to merit a response in this instance. The people castigating myself and...

Last night, President Barack Obama delivered some telling remarks to a fire station full of people in Roanoke, Virgina. I’ll save you the trouble of reading the (long and uninspired) speech and provide you with the most interesting part: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” – President Barack Obama, July 13th, 2012. It would be easy to respond with something along the lines of, “Somebody else made that happen? Who? Who magically imagined the product or service, started the business, built it up, and created the jobs? Who was it? The...

One of the most frustrating statements for a politically involved person to hear is: “I don’t care about politics, I never vote. They’re all liars/crooks.” This may be partially true, but it’s certainly not universally true. Most politicians have good intentions and are good people in their own right, even in Washington. Nearly all of them believe that they’re striving for the common good. For a democratic republic, the United States federal government isn’t actually very corrupt. Still, this raises an important question. How should you decide whom to vote for? Do you vote for the morally-dubious person that you...

On January 26, 2012, a state court in Georgia is scheduled to conduct an impartial hearing on a case filed against Obama’s natural-born-citizen eligibility for President according to Georgia state law. …This after the judge rejected a motion for dismissal put forth by attorneys for the White House. As a result, the incumbent President running for reelection MIGHT NOT APPEAR ON THE BALLON in the Georgia primary. AND GEORGIA IS A BIG STATE WITH LOTS OF ELECTORAL DELEGATES! How can this happen? Could this be the first of other states to hear similar cases before their primaries? If court decisions...

Yes, Ron Paul has a bead on revamping or dissolving the Federal Reserve (I did read The Creature From Jekyll Island). Lots of corruption, secret undertakings, and opacity dominate the Federal Reserve, but what would be the alternative? A presidential, or congressional commission that oversees the U.S. banking system? No. Elected representatives overseeing the quasi government agency Fed? Not likely. Governments, for eons of time, have been in charge of the coinage, and it cannot be any other way. The Buck does Stop there.Ron Paul has no alternative to the Fed that would guarantee fairness and honesty. Ron Paul...

As all political junkies, we are all following what's going on in the Republican Party. Also the left's attempt to do what the Tea Party did in 2010, with the Occupied Wall Street hypocrisy.

Sorry about the trick title - the bible says to pray for those in authority over us. I pray for our president, that God would touch his heart, open his eyes, and that Obama will change his ways, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. So please, even if you don't support Herman as a candidate, keep him in your prayers - let's pray for all our leader's, politicians, and candidates. I posted on another thread that Herman Cain just had an AWESOME interview on Chris Wallace. I hope it gets a separate thread today - I’m technologically...

Talk about demonizing your political opponents, Chris Matthews has literally done it to Newt Gingrich. . . On his MSNBC show this evening, Matthews said that Gingrich "looks like the devil," reminds him of the warlock in Rosemary's Baby, and "is evil." View video here.

The fix is in: the choice will be between Obama and someone as different as George Bush was, if the Mighty have their way. And you may have noticed by now that Bush and Obama haven’t beens so different. It’s the two parties versus the tea party; the Dems and Repubs are lined up together with Obama, Romney and now Pawlenty as respectable (meaning members of the club) candidates. The happy couple and their media are working hard to make that happen whether anybody else wants it that way or not. Any promising candidate who isn’t obligated to the party...

Shortly after Republicans swept last November to a historic victory in which Sarah Palin was credited with playing a central role, the former Alaska governor pulled aside her close aide, Rebecca Mansour, to discuss a hush-hush assignment: Reach out to conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon with a request. Ask him if he would make a series of videos extolling Palin's governorship and laying to rest lingering questions about her controversial decision to resign from office with a year-and-a-half left in her first term. It was this abdication, Palin knew, that had made her damaged goods in the eyes of...

Who benefited from the exits of Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump from the Republican presidential nomination race? Gallup’s latest poll suggests that no one has, at least at the moment. The poll only asked about name recognition and approval, not nomination selection; Gallup used its April poll to reallocate nomination support based on second choices from Huckabee and Trump voters. However, the “positive intensity score” for both are lower than Huckabee’s was before he pulled out, and the race still has no breakout candidate: With Mike Huckabee out of the race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, three well-known politicians,...

Trust me, when it comes to the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination, I am going to be fair in assessing the candidates. Already I have polled for NewsMax, and my early polls placed former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich in fourth place among announced or potential candidates. But before I go into my harsh analyst mode -- which once in a while leads to an "I'm hurt" email from Newt -- let me share my personal feelings about the man who has just announced that he will seek the presidency. Other than the man most call my "other...

As the nation begins to approach the 2012 presidential race, I continue to be stunned by the names that are being thrown around as potential contenders. The 2010 election saw a new crop of conservative, young, idealistic, uncorrupted, and diverse, candidates propelled into office all over the nation. A record amount of Republicans were elected in blue states and we saw a surge in the amount of African Americans, women, and Hispanics running and winning on a GOP ticket. There is a deep and diverse pool of potential Republican nominees. Florida propelled Allen West to the House. In New Mexico,...

INTRODUCING: Immigration Grades For 2012 Presidential Hopefuls Here they are -- brand new: http://www.numbersusa.com/content/action/2012-presidential-hopefuls-immigration-stances.html?jid=830874&lid=9&rid=16026&tid=156552 WHO GETS THE BEST GRADE? It is difficult to label any of the Hopefuls as "best" when the highest grade for the whole lot is "C." Click here to see who gets that mediocre grade, and the seven who do even worse. The choices are pretty bad thus far. Of the 8 Hopefuls, we give: • an F-minus to one • a D-minus to four • a C-minus to two • a C to one • better than C to nobody STANCES ON 12 IMMIGRATION ISSUES...

I was unexpectedly given the opportunity to meet with Herman Cain, former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, conservative radio show host, an associate pastor at Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta, and now a prospective GOP presidential candidate in 2012. Cain is one of the first, if not the first, to launch a presidential exploratory committee. I was able to have a sit down with him in his hotel room in downtown Des Moines. He had come to Iowa for various meetings. I stopped by before he was scheduled to be on the radio with Steve Deace on WHO Radio, and...

Pundits have been speculating regarding the plans of my favorite Congressman, Mike Pence, after he won the straw poll for President at the Values Voter conference a few months ago and when he resigned as the Chairman of the Republican Conference late last year -citing plans that would detract from his being able to fulfill the duties of that leadership position. Late last year, he told inquiring minds that he would be making his decision regarding his plans early this year. But now the signs are indicating that he intends to run for the governor's office opening up in Indiana...

PULL THE HAIR PLUG ON THIS GUY October 8, 2008 If Sarah Palin had made just one of the wildly inaccurate statements smugly uttered by Sen. Joe Biden in last week's vice presidential debate, there would have been 3-inch headlines in newspapers across America. (I can almost hear Katie Couric asking me, "Which newspapers?") These weren't insignificant errors, such as when Biden said, "Look, all you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time, and you ask...