Hugh Hewitt's Townhall.com Column

Brokered Conventions and Unicorns

2012-02-20T11:28:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
It is the season for silly predictions about the presidential campaign, and the most absurd of all is that the GOP is headed towards the emergence of a new candidate or a “brokered convention.”

The President's Anti-Catholic Duck

2012-02-09T00:01:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
The president and his team had thought they were dividing women from Republicans when in fact they were uniting Catholics of all political persuasions in a single front.

Memo to the Catholic Bishops

2012-02-02T09:47:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
It may have taken a few days to sink in, but by now you should all have realized that President Obama has opened a massive assault on the Roman Catholic Church in America the likes of which none of you have ever experienced and for which few of you have prepared.

40 Years After The 1972 Campaign, "Dirty Tricks" No Longer Matter To MSM

2012-01-26T00:01:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
The president and the Chicago Gang as well as their allies in Big Labor want the GOP nominee to be Newt Gingrich.

MSM and the 13 State Election

2012-01-19T10:24:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
Will ABC's interview of Marianne Ginrich matter in the South Carolina primary? Will Mitt Romney's wealth and "effective tax rate of 15%" hurt him in the Palmetto State? Will the endorsement of Rick Santorum by key Evangelical leaders over the past weekend in Texas swing him crucial support on Saturday?

Rick Perry's Long March

2012-01-12T08:44:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
Rick Perry is giving up and isn't going home, and some folks in South Carolina have noticed.

Romney v. Santorum: 1976 All Over Again

2012-01-05T11:06:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
Either Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee by early February, or we have a replay of the 1976 GOP primaries on our hands.

Game Change, Again

2011-12-29T09:24:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
Mike Allen and Evan Thomas have written a wildly interesting, very compact eBook that perhaps got lost in the run-up to Christmas. If you like politics, you will love The Right Fights Back.

Ron Paul's Truther Squad Includes Everyone Who Votes For Him in Iowa

2011-12-23T12:15:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
That is the way it works and has to work. When you vote for a candidate, you vote for all of his or her positions. You accept the moral responsibility for the working out of their platform in practice.

Appeasement Journalism

2011-12-15T12:28:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
Will the Manhattan-Beltway media elite cover for President Obama throughout 2012? Of course they will.

Newt as Terminator or Joey Garza?

2011-12-08T11:16:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
Can Newt take the country when all of his one-time Beltway allies are pounding him with arrow, cannon and missiles from their permanent encampment on the Potomac?

Hot Newt vs. Cool Mitt

2011-12-02T10:21:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
I began Thursday's radio show by playing the clip of Newt Gingrich telling ABC's Jake Tapper that he would be the GOP nominee --not once but five times in various ways in less than 60 seconds.

In Thanksgiving for the Guardians on the Wall

2011-11-24T00:01:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
On Veteran’s Day my radio show featured interviews with more than a dozen seriously wounded Marines and Navy personnel who are beneficiaries of the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund

Breaking the Back of the GOP Base

2011-11-18T09:27:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
There are three "keystone deductions" in the IRS code that matter more than all others to Americans who itemize deductions.

The Debate Circus

2011-11-11T09:56:00-05:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
In case you were thinking that the GOP would-be nominees had pretty much been obliged to exchange pleasantries with every single talking head on every cable network, think again.

The Debates Ahead: Time for the National Security Questions

2011-11-04T10:03:00-04:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
There are at least five debates scheduled for the entire GOP field in the balance of November, and one “Lincoln-Douglas” style debate between Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain as well, set for tomorrow in Texas.

"The Decline and Despair President"

2011-10-27T11:08:00-04:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
"We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge..."

The President's Debatable Abilities

2011-10-14T12:09:00-04:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
Presidential debate nights have been nerve wracking for the GOP since the first of two Reagan-Mondale debates of 1984.

Counting to 270

2011-10-06T11:14:00-04:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
Finally there is clarity about the GOP field in the race to take on President Obama in the fall of 2012. The field is fixed. There are no more "possibles" out there.

A Stimulus We All Could (Or Should) Support

2011-09-29T00:01:00-04:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
There's a stimulus plan that President Obama could put forward that would attract strong bipartisan support and which would also produce great jobs at great wages while strengthening the nation's defenses.