The Political Inquirer

We can all make mistakes and misspeak except we aren’t running for President. I play this for Mike O. just to show that they all misspeak at one time or another. We didn’t have recording devices then but I bet even Lincoln misspoke: occasionally. I think we judged a bit too harshly on some of [...]

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In his press release on Cinco De Mayo, which also announced a web site for his campaign launching in Spanish, a quick note was left at the bottom regarding an upcoming event that McCain will attend:
Finally, as part of his commitment to talking with all Americans during this presidential campaign, the McCain presidential campaign announced [...]

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(Photo: Larry Downing / Reuters / MSNBC)
A picture is worth a thousand words.

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If Bob Barr gets the Libertarian Party nomination there will be more mainstream conservative interest in the LP race this year–Barr is more of a Republican than a Libertarian on most issues. The Philadelphia Inquirer looks into Barr being a spoiler:
Republicans may have good cause to worry.
A run by Barr could be to John McCain [...]

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Ron Paul’s book, The Revolution: A Manifesto is officially out today. Pick up a copy if you’re interested in seeing the reasoning behind his (and my) belief in peace, prosperity, capitalism, and small government.

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I doubt this will show up again. Either Rove is as dirty as some make him out to be and he will “silence” the whistleblowers, or it will amount to nothing and Newsweek and other media outlets reporting this story will hope we forget that they brought it up.
The trial of Chicago developer and political [...]

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This time of year is usually “down-time” for politics. Things get boring as people prepare for the ‘good news’ that starts during May and June. Right now is a really bad time, and I’ve gotten tired of it. The Hillary-Barack race has gone on far too long, leading to hatred on both sides. Republicans are [...]

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About half of the 1300 delegates to the Nevada Republican Convention were Ron Paul supporters (Paul made 2nd place in the state to Mitt Romney during January), embarrassing the McCain campaign, according to the Las Vegas Sun.
Rep. Ron Paul, a Republican with a libertarian’s heart, followed his second-place finish in Nevada’s January presidential caucus by [...]

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Has anyone noticed that since we brought in political parties during the 1800s no one has stood above the fray? We constantly get lesser and lesser candidates.
There was no party vote for Washington, Adams, or Jefferson. They really weren’t even elected by the people–the delegates people elected on the state level went and debated and [...]

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From Andrew Sullivan:
Hats off to the rEVOLution: Ron Paul will come out of his home state with around 127,000 votes, giving him around 974,000 votes total for the caucuses and primaries that have wrapped thus far. He’ll undoubtedly hit one million for the whole primary season: More than Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, or John Edwards.:
One [...]

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Governor Daniels of Indiana is surely right on one thing: Republicans need to get over the Reagan era. The Reagan era was a time of deficits, military operations in other countries, and deficits. Our national debt began to skyrocket because of the idiotic belief that you could cut taxes yet continue to spend at the [...]

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Things are boring in the political world right now. The election has been droning on for so long that I really find little interest in the Hillary vs. Barack ordeal. Here’s to hoping that will all change on Tuesday. I’m not really sure who I’d rather win. Obama may be the “lesser of the two [...]

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