Republican Field on Townhall

• It's Now Or Never For Ron Paul Sat Apr 14
  Steve Deace
  All along Ron Paul supporters have been claiming their guy was the only consistently principled candidate, and the only candidate who truly represented a challenge to the corrupt established order in Washington, D.C. ... more
• Romney Is Coming On Strong Thu Apr 5
  Emmett Tyrrell
  There are some campaign advisers who would counsel former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to jog on the campaign trail tirelessly, probably in short pants and with a catchy T-shirt emblazoned with some memorable phrase, say, "Fred Fna Ate Here," a la Al Gore and Bill Clinton. ... more
• Notes from Newt on Earning GOP Nomination Tue Apr 3
  Crystal Wright
  Over the past week, I’ve been receiving lots of hate mail from fellow Newt supporters about my comments on CNN that if Newt doesn’t win more than two contests, he needs to consider dropping out. Staff are jumping ship like fleas running from repellent applied to a dog. ... more
• Primary Contest May End Before Pennsylvania Thu Mar 29
  Salena Zito
  Less than a month before the Republican presidential primary in Pennsylvania, some experts warn that Rick Santorum faces a second humiliating defeat in a state he represented for sixteen years in Washington D.C. ... more
• Modern Culture Mon Mar 26
  Rich Galen
  The Hunger Games. The film did about $155 million in its opening weekend. I had never heard of it, or the trilogy of novels by Suzanne Collins of which the first formed the basis of this film. ... more
• Primary Battle Is Winding Down -- And Romney Is The Winner Fri Mar 23
  Donald Lambro
  One gets the sense that voters are increasingly impatient with the GOP's seemingly interminable primary battles to choose a nominee who can beat President Obama. ... more
• Gop Will Lose the Future by Dissing College Grads Wed Mar 21
  Michael Medved
  The angry, populist tone of the seemingly endless battle for the GOP presidential nomination may cripple the Republican Party in building a long-term connection with the fastest growing group of swing voters in the overall electorate: college graduates. ... more
• First World Problems Tue Mar 20
  Rachel Marsden
  After being bombarded with news of Third World problems for so long, I figured it was time to give a bit of equal time to First World suffering. ... more
• Republican Race Just Getting Started Mon Mar 19
  Star Parker
  Mitt Romney told Fox News after Rick Santorum’s victories in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, “We’re not going to go to a brokered convention.” ... more
• The 'Inevitability' Vote Mon Mar 19
  Thomas Sowell
  Many people may be voting for Mitt Romney because of the view in some quarters that he is the inevitable Republican candidate for President of the United States and the candidate with the best chance of beating Barack Obama, rather than because they actually prefer Romney to the other candidates. ... more
• It's Official! We Need Another Debate Thu Mar 15
  Tony Katz
  Mitt Romney missed a chance to wrap up the GOP nomination last night, placing a disappointing third in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries. The delegate count is still in his favor, but the bigger story here is that the "front runner" lost to both Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. This means only one thing - we need another debate. ... more
• Why the MSM Doesn't Want To Do the Romney Math Thu Mar 15
  Hugh Hewitt
  Mitt Romney’s nomination as the GOP standard bearer is the fall is as inevitable as Barack Obama’s renomination. ... more
• If I Had a Rich Man: Wealthy Super PAC Donors Make Politics More Competitive Wed Mar 14
  Jacob Sullum
  In the two weeks before this month's Super Tuesday primaries, The Wall Street Journal reports, "outside political action committees supporting the Republican presidential hopefuls spent three times as much as the candidates themselves." ... more
• Newt, Santorum: Avengers Assemble Sat Mar 10
  Steve Deace
  There is a window of opportunity to avert another four years of the Obama Regime, as well as a devastating down ballot disaster that would threaten many of the substantial gains conservatives just made in 2010. ... more
• Is the GOP Becoming a War Party? Fri Mar 9
  Pat Buchanan
  Denouncing Republican "bluster" about war with Iran, President Obama went on the offensive Tuesday: "Those who are ... beating the drums of war should explain clearly to the American people what they think the costs and benefits would be." ... more
• Semi-Super Tuesday Mon Mar 5
  Rich Galen
  Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, 2012. As in real life, some Supers are more super than others. There have been dreadful, for instance, Superbowls and, for that matter Superbowl ads. ... more
• The Future of Jewish Republicanism Mon Mar 5
  Bruce Bialosky
  Most of my non-Jewish Republican friends are baffled by the fact that Jews would even think of voting for Democrats. They tell me that Jews have all the essential characteristics of Republicans – strong family values, religious beliefs, and a commitment to education. Unfortunately, I’ve spent the better part of the last 25 years providing explanations and excuses, one of which is that there typically have been few Jewish Republican candidates with whom to identify. That is changing dramatically, and the person creating this new wave is Josh Mandel from Ohio. ... more
• The High Cost of Partisan Politics Fri Mar 2
  Rich Galen
  Super Tuesday. Ten states this year (21 on the GOP side four years ago). In most cases only registered Republicans can actually vote, but Democrats and Independents, citizens and non-citizens, likely voters and people who have never darkened the door of a precinct polling place all get to participate. ... more
• The Pause That Refreshes Fri Mar 2
  Paul Greenberg
  It was a last minute save. Mitt Romney managed to finish a couple of percentage points ahead of the latest non-Romney -- Rick Santorum -- in his native state's Republican primary Tuesday. In addition to carrying Michigan in a squeaker, he scored a decisive win in Arizona. ... more
• Who's the True Conservative? Fri Mar 2
  Mona Charen
  The theme for this year's primary season was set back in May 2011. Recall that the Republican-dominated House of Representatives had just done something that cynics said would not and could not be done. They voted for a budget -- the Ryan budget -- that actually began to tackle the problem of limitless entitlement spending. ... more
• 'Super Tuesday' Thu Mar 1
  Thomas Sowell
  President Obama is such a genial man that many people, across the ideological space, cannot see him as a danger. For every hundred people who can see his geniality, probably only a handful see the grave danger his warped policies and ruthless tactics pose to a whole way of life that has given generation after generation of Americans unprecedented freedom and prosperity. ... more
• Pettiness and Mud Tue Feb 28
  Thomas Sowell
  The only good news for the Republicans coming out of the seemingly endless presidential candidate "debates" is that some Republican leaders are now belatedly thinking about how they can avoid a repetition of this debacle in future elections. ... more
• Lack of Enthusiasm Isn't Just a GOP Problem Fri Feb 24
  Jonah Goldberg
  There's no disputing that Republicans are surly these days. ... more
• The End of the Debates and the Romney Campaign Ahead Thu Feb 23
  Hugh Hewitt
  Like most pundits, I dragged myself along through most of the death march of the 20+ debates. Last night's was an exception. After seeing excerpts of the first our of the debate through the last hour of my radio show, I was obliged to dash to another event and thus could only judge the result through the anlayses offered by others. ... more
• For GOP Contenders, Out of Office Means Out of Touch Wed Feb 22
  Michael Medved
  Recent history shows that none of the three Republican frontrunners—not Mitt Romney, not Rick Santorum, and certainly not Newt Gingrich—can possibly win the GOP nomination, let alone defeat Barack Obama in November. ... more

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