Category Archives: Conservativism

You Know The Video Where The TEA Partier Was Sucker Punched? It Gets Worse

Y’all remember this big story from Wednesday and Thursday? A man slugged Nathan Tabor, the chairman of the Forsyth County Republican Party, in the face during a protest Tuesday in Greensboro. You can hear the smack on the video and watch the man’s fist make contact with Tabor’s face. And lots of people have. That […]

Connie Mack Thinks Conservatives Should Oppose Arizona Illegal’s Law

It’s a shame, really, since Mack has a lifetime rating of 92.8 from the ACU. Quite frankly, he pretty much shows he failed to read the bill, nor does he make more than a feelings based point, based on falsehoods America is at a crossroads on a number of issues. And as we tackle national […]

AP Notices Black TEA Partiers Called Racist Names, But, It’s Not Racism, Cause They’re Conservatives

Finally, the MSM is waking up to the fact that not all TEA Partiers are whites and right wing extremists. In fact, there are actually Black TEA Partiers They’ve been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement […]

Sheesh. Now We Have To Take The TEA Party Movement Back, Too

Hey, uh, folks out at the TEA Party in Nashville? You. Are. Not. Helping. They will proudly boast of how they have galvanised ordinary Americans against runaway government spending, but a dark underbelly of xenophobia has been exposed at the first national gathering of the Tea Party movement. Here in the vast Gaylord resort in […]

Defending GOProud At CPAC

Apparently, there was a little kerfuffle yesterday regarding GOProud, a new Conservative homosexual group, being a sponsor of CPAC. Some social Conservatives, led by anti-gay Matt Barber and the Liberty Counsel, want them excluded, or they will boycott CPAC. As Gabriel Malor writes, let them! CPAC responded CPAC is a coalition of nearly 100 conservative […]

Where Jeff Jacoby Has It All Wrong Regarding Conservatives And Illegals

Sorry, Jeff, but, you have gone of the deep end of the Rio Grande on this one: Where conservatives have it all wrong YOU’RE A sensible, principled conservative. You want America to be a land of boundless opportunity and freedom, where people are treated as individuals and judged on their merits. You reject the divisive […]

What Was The Attendence At The D.C. TEA Party?

There are lots of figures being thrown around. The Daily Mail estimates around two million Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending. The line of protesters […]

Jim DeMint Fires Up The Base, And Annoys NY Times Liberals

If the NY Times keeps up these kinds of stories about Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), they will turn him into a star in the Republican Party: Fighting Health Care Overhaul, and Proud of It Senator Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Republican who predicted that President Obama’s effort to overhaul the health care system would become […]

Progressives (Re)acting Without Response

You’ll remember from July 4th, I had a post up in response to one at the HuffPo by Mike Lux called “All Of  A Sudden, The Left Likes July 4th.” Today, Mike has a post up in response to RS McCain, Mike Gibson, and myself at the Huffington Post and Open Left entitled Conservatives (Re)acting […]

Cheney More Progressive Then Obama On Gay Marriage?

So says the Huffington Post Dick Cheney rarely takes a position that places him at a more progressive tilt than President Obama. But on Monday, the former vice president did just that, saying that he supports gay marriage as long as it is deemed legal by state and not federal government. Don’t forget, Liberals/progressives, the […]

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