“We’re just tired of supporting the Republican establishment candidates and getting nothing but lip service in return. Those days are over with,” said Richard Viguerie, whose views typify the feeling among conservative leaders.
Mitt Romney's rise to the top of Iowa presidential polls, aided by his GOP rivals' in-fighting, masks vulnerabilities he will have to confront eventually. He has yet to excite his party's restless conservative base.
Timothy Carney says Rick Santorum’s turn as the GOP “non-Romney conservative” comes just at the right time. But even if he wins in Iowa, Santorum’s momentum may not last, Carney adds.
For all the hype about new digital-era campaign tactics, old-fashioned paper mail remains a potent campaign tool. Direct mail has a longer shelf life than television ads, and for candidates, it’s relatively cheap to produce.
Just days before the Iowa caucuses. Then he has to leave to take a call from Goldman Sachs. The latest from one of the hardest-hitting ad campaigns in modern political history.
Simon Conway rails against taxes, Congress, and occupiers, and he has lots of warnings about the British healthcare system. He’s Iowa’s newest radio phenom.
While other candidates were speaking at coffeehouses and diners on the day before the Iowa caucuses, Ron Paul was greeted by a crowd of 500 and scores of national media who packed a downtown hotel ballroom.
Establishment Republicans have neither the stomach nor the genius to confront abuses by the ruling class. They are comfortable having surrendered to progressive big government, unmanageable debt--and tyranny, writes Mark Fitzgibbons at The Washington Examiner.
The admitted former liberal has made a career of pushing conservative writers and controversial issues to the forefront of American publishing – and now he wants to hear from Tea Partiers, specifically.
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