GOP on Townhall

• Rallying the Right Sat Jan 12
  Steve Deace
  Following the defeat of 2012, it seems as if everyone – yours truly included – has an opinion about where the conservative movement goes from here. But right now presents an excellent opportunity to rally the Right again. ... more
• Hey La, Hey La, Supply Side's Back: The New A-Team Arrives Wed Jan 9
  Ralph Benko
  Washington, quietly, is re-orientating. To be sure it still is sorting out what caused the financial crisis, the Great Recession, and the disorders that have ensued (from the application of bad medicine like bailouts and stimulus). But there’s just occurred a dramatic changing of the guard in the GOP and in the leadership of its intelligentsia. ... more
• It’s Not “Game Over”— It’s Time for the GOP to Counterattack Wed Jan 9
  Kurt Schlichter
  The current state of the GOP brings to mind the surviving Marines in Aliens, with no shortage of demoralized hacks lamenting their inability to resist by channeling Private Hudson: “Maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events but we just got our a**** kicked, pal!” ... more
• What's Wrong with the GOP? Sat Jan 5
  John C. Goodman
  Here is the biggest problem with the news coverage of the Fiscal Cliff. The only message coming through was President Obama's message: that he was trying to save the middle class from a tax increase by raising taxes on the rich. On the Republican side, the message was…well…it was a muddled mess. ... more
• Does the GOP Need a Makeover? Fri Jan 4
  America
  Republican strategist Frank Luntz weighs in. ... more
• The GOP and Round Two Wed Jan 2
  Hugh Hewitt
  President Obama won the first round of his second term, but thanks to Mitch McConnell the beating wasn’t as severe as it could have been. ... more
• How to Resolve the Fiscal Cliff? Elementary, My Dear Watson! Wed Jan 2
  Ralph Benko
  As this column is being written America is preparing to head down the, theatrically styled, “Fiscal Cliff.” That “cliff” really is the chicken roost of 40 years of mostly disappointing — and more than a decade of catastrophic — economic growth. Lousy growth leads to a diminished tax base, capable of producing only anemic tax revenues. ... more
• Happy New Year? Tue Jan 1
  Thomas Sowell
  The beginning of a new year is often a time to look forward and look back. The way the future looks, I prefer to look back -- and depend on my advanced age to spare me from having to deal with too much of the future. ... more
• Why God Created the GOP Fri Dec 21
  Pat Buchanan
  "God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function." ... more
• Townhall Magazine: Why Being Pro-Life Is Right ... And the Pundits Are Wrong Wed Dec 19
  Elisabeth Meinecke
• How to Run Ahead of the Ticket Wed Dec 19
  Michael Medved
  If Republicans hope to break their wretched streak of disappointing presidential campaigns – losing the popular vote in five of the last six White House contests – they should learn crucial lessons from the only candidate in that dismal span who proved notably more popular than his party’s national brand: John McCain. ... more
• Time for GOP to Push Obama off the Fiscal Cliff Fri Dec 14
  Crystal Wright
  Republicans need to stand for something and start defending conservatism not apologizing for it. ... more
• Obama Ups Bid as GOP Looks For Way Out of Crisis Mon Dec 10
  Byron York
  It's possible to have a strong hand and still overplay it. As Republicans see things, that's what President Obama is doing in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. ... more
• MSNBC Host: “Republicans Will Stand on Your Neck and Then Stab You in the Eye” Mon Dec 10
  America
  This is the ‘one thing we’ve’ learned in the last four years, Alex Wagner said on her show. ... more
• Secret to Obama's Success: A Great Ground Game Sun Dec 9
  Debra J. Saunders
  President Obama won re-election in part because his crack campaign team understood 2012 voters and put together an impressive ground operation. ... more
• GOP Strategic Retreat? Sat Dec 8
  Larry Kudlow
  Republicans are divided. President Obama won't budge. And more and more, it looks like the fiscal-cliff deadline of Dec. 31 will be missed. ... more
• Is the GOP in Danger of Becoming the Party of the Rich? Fri Dec 7
  America
  Katie Pavlich debates Howard Dean on The Kudlow Report. ... more
• Amnesty Isn’t the GOP Gift to Unlock the Hispanic Vote Thu Dec 6
  Crystal Wright
  With President Obama corralling a stunning 71% of the Hispanic vote in his successful 2012 re-election bid, “establishment Republicans” are running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to figure out how to get a piece of America’s fastest growing demographic. (I’ve opined about how the GOP has written off the black vote as unattainable. I guess when the Hispanic vote approaches 90% for Democrats, Republicans will reconsider ignoring blacks like the heels of their shoes.) ... more
• GOP and Big Government - Friends Not Foes? Thu Dec 6
  Jack Kerwick
  “The Republican Party is no longer the party of limited government, with limited spending and limited taxes. It is now officially exactly right behind the Democrats—on everything. It is time for conservatives to start looking for a new home. There’s precious little left for us here.” Thus spoke Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center and long-time movement conservative. ... more
• A Lawyer’s Tips on Negotiating for Dummies and Congressional Republicans Thu Dec 6
  Kurt Schlichter
  Somewhere, there’s a whiplash lawyer who runs his law office out of a van down by the river who watches the congressional Republicans attempt to negotiate the fiscal cliff crisis and has to turn his head away. John Boehner and his inept coterie of GOP establishment cronies have made every mistake in the book. It’s professionally embarrassing. Frankly, if these hacks were my associates, they’d be on a street corner with signs reading “Will litigate for food.” ... more
• Senate GOP fails to bring up immigration bill Wed Dec 5
  AP News
• Defending Defense: How the GOP Can Escape the Budget Box Canyon Wed Dec 5
  Hugh Hewitt
  Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio wowed the Beltway conservatives last night, which is a little bit like the British cheering a successful evacuation from Dunkirk. The GOP indeed lives to fight another day, and that day will be here quickly as 2014’s candidates are already declaring –Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito for the United States Senate in West Virginia and former Governor Michael Rounds for the same in South Dakota. ... more
• Benson Says Fiscal Negotiation is 'Alive, But on Life Support' Wed Dec 5
  America
  TH's Guy Benson discusses the GOP's fiscal cliff counteroffer with Larry Kudlow. ... more
• Geithner: 'There's No Prospect to an Agreement' Without Rates Going up on Top Two Percent Wed Dec 5
  America
  The Treasury Secretary says the WH is prepared to go over the fiscal cliff if Republicans do not cooperate. ... more
• It's Time for the GOP to Sacrifice the Billionaires Tue Dec 4
  Wayne Allyn Root
  I’m a small businessman who believes we are all over-taxed. I would not raise anyone’s taxes. But since Obama’s pet billionaires like Warren Buffett are so quick to sell out the upper middle class…two can play at that game! Obama has the GOP Congress between a rock and a hard place. Here's a compromise that turns the tables on Obama. I say it’s time to sacrifice the billionaires to save small business...and the GOP. ... more
• TH's Kevin Glass Explains How Republicans Can Keep Norquist's Pledge Mon Dec 3
  America
  Glass discusses solutions to the coming fiscal cliff on CNN's Your Money. ... more

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