Mark McKinnon says that despite former Senator Rick Santorum’s actions and extreme ideology, he and his foray into Iowa should be taken seriously.
Source: TheDailyBeast
August 18, 2009
Ensign, Get Your Sorry Ass Out of the Senate
Mark McKinnon says Sen. John Ensign’s hypocrisy makes his misdemeanor of adultery a felony—and he should resign.
Source: TheDailyBeast
Palin vs. Biden 2016
Former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon says Palin is getting stronger by the day—and will be ready to take on the Obama agenda (or his vice president) in three years or seven.
Source: TheDailyBeast
Bachmann for President?
Only divine intervention could get Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann to run for president. Talking Points Memo reports that during an interview with World Net Daily, Bachmann was asked if she’d run for president. “If I felt that’s what the Lord was calling me to do, I would do it,” she said, adding, “but I would not seek a higher office if God is not calling me to do it. That’s really my standard.” Apparently, she’s not speaking metaphorically. During her 2006 campaign for an open house seat she told a right-wing mega-church that after God called her to run she fasted and prayed for three days with her husband and asked God, “Lord, is this what You want? Is this Your will?” noting that “along about the afternoon of day two, He made that calling sure.”
Source: Talking Points Memo
Huckabee: No Palestinian State
Diplomacy, Mike Huckabee-style: “Former U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Tuesday there should be no Palestinian state in the West Bank and endorsed Israeli settlements there, sharply disagreeing with Washington and much of the world,” according to the Associated Press.
Source: AP http://bit.ly/Floz
Palin’s Red Menace
Try this on for size: Palinism. What is it? It is an updated version of McCarthyism, which takes its name from the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin liar, demagogue and drunk, and means, according to Wikipedia, “reckless, unsubstantiated accusations, as well as demagogic attacks on the character or patriotism of political adversaries.” As far as we know, Sarah Palin is not a drunk.
Source: WapPo http://bit.ly/NQcDF
August 15, 2009
Republicans of the Future
In the second in a series of posts on the 2012 landscape, former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon and Jon Henke, cofounder of TheNextRight.com, name six GOP up-and-comers who could fill the party’s leadership vacuum—and make it likable again.
http://bit.ly/2HljCK
Source: TheDailyBeast
The Next Republican President
The Next Republican President
by Mark McKinnon
In the first in a series of posts on the 2012 landscape, former Bush and McCain strategist Mark McKinnon handicaps 11 Republicans—and explains why Obama might not be a lock for two terms.
http://bit.ly/3RcP0G
Source: TheDailyBeast
In Vote Fraud Case, Acorn Challenges a Law as Unconstitutional
The community organizing and voter registration group Acorn filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday claiming that a state statute that is being used to prosecute some of its former employees is unconstitutional.
Source: NYT