Republican Establishment on Townhall

  • Washington, D.C.
    Ahead of a report coming out on Monday, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus says that part of the reason his party lost the White House was because it failed to connect with voters. Sharyl Attkisson reports. ... more
  • Rachel Alexander
    Republicans are losing elections in part because they are losing key demographic groups. Some of those groups, like Hispanics, are growing, making them impossible to ignore. 37 percent of the country is nonwhite. Hispanics comprise 16 percent of the population, accounting for half the population growth within the past decade. 51 percent of children born in California are Hispanic, and 46 percent of the population in New Mexico is Hispanic. ... more
  • Michael Barone
    One of the interesting things about recent elections is that Republicans have tended to do better the farther you go down the ballot. ... more
  • Matt Towery
    For most in the political commentary business, labels come and go. I've read reactions to columns throwing about labels like "RINO" (Republican in Name Only) and "Establishment," coupled with others using terms like "radical," "ultraconservative" and "Neanderthal." ... 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
  • Thomas Sowell
    Some media pundits see in the growing proportion of non-white groups in the population a growing opposition to the Republican Party that will sooner or later make it virtually impossible for Republicans to win presidential elections or even to control either house of Congress. But is demography destiny? ... more
  • Daniel Doherty
  • Scott Rasmussen
    Mitt Romney's comments about 47 percent of Americans being dependent on government and locked in to vote for President Obama highlight a fundamental reality in American politics today: The gap between the American people and the political class is bigger than the gap between Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C. ... more
  • Scott Rasmussen
    When relationships go bad, an early warning sign is that one side doesn't really hear what the other is saying. That's certainly the case today in the relationship between voters and America's political class. ... more
  • Townhall.com Staff
  • Ann Coulter
    The actual Republican Establishment –- political consultants, The Wall Street Journal, corporate America, former Bush advisers and television pundits -- are exhorting Mitt Romney to flip-flop on his very non-Establishment position on illegal immigration. ... more
  • Townhall.com Staff
  • Guy Benson