GOP Establishment

Fergus Cullen and The Other “Smartest Guys In The Room”

February 15, 2013

“Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.”    —Will Rogers  As I sit and read the paper over morning coffee, I read yet another hit piece on Bill O’Brien.   [ Read more ]

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Vote For My Girl, Or I’ll Turn Ugly

November 28, 2012

Just when you thought the skullduggery in the NHGOP couldn’t get any worse, the establishment tipped its hand spectacularly. First the history: When Jack Kimball surprised the establishment and won the chairmanship in 2011, and scored a small victory for conservatism, they couldn’t stop him getting the job, but they could certainly make it impossible [ Read more ]

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What Happened at the Reagan Revolution?

January 27, 2012

Mitt Romney has gone to great lengths to belittle Gingrich’s role in the Reagan revolution, even having an aide check the index of Reagan’s diary to find “just one reference” to Newt. Problem is, that speed reading to find what you want to believe, leads you to overlook everything else. In fact, the people who [ Read more ]

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More Fun with Mittens: A Dole-ful Endorsement

December 27, 2011

H/T American Spectator Bob Dole has been described as “The Tax Collector for the Welfare State”, or as the man who “Never met a tax he didn’t like!”. He’s also famous for delivering speeches that bore you stiff and selling pills to make you stiff(!). An endorsement by Bob Dole has been derided by Mittens [ Read more ]

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