Tag: Erick Erickson
Tea Party king Erickson grits teeth, concedes Occupy movement basically right
First came the broke unemployed drummers and poets, then the debt-ridden students, then the retired couples whose pensions and real estate holdings have withered, then the tourists, then, slowly, the journalists. on Friday, the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has been thrumming along gathering force and supporters across the country and around the world for more than a month now, won a reluctant endorsement from a chief critic, Tea Party blog king Erick Erickson at Red State.
GOP presidential debate mini roundup: Herman Cain won
The first GOP presidential primary debate is behind us. Fox News hosted the event in South Carolina last night. It featured five second-tier candidates and the news is that former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty didn't lose and that Herman Cain, the Georgia political figure, motivational speaker and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, may have won. Rightwing RedState blog founder Erick Erickson celebrated Cain as the new Mike Huckabee!
Taking a beating on budget compromise, Boehner turns up heat on...
Conservative celebrity Sarah Palin and right-wing blogger Erick Erickson are just two of the high profile far-right leaders disparaging Speaker of the House John Boehner for the budget deal he hammered out with President Obama and Democratic Senate leaders last week. Colorado "liberty movement" talk radio hosts are unhappy. Colorado Tea Party freshmen Congressmen Scott Tipton and Cory Gardner as well as Colorado Springs conservative Doug Lamborn broke with the Speaker and voted against the budget. But Boehner can't go back on the deal and he won't likely win over the Tiptons and Palins and Ericksons with a lecture on the delayed gratification of budget cutting and the difference between outlays and spending. On the contrary, it would just make him seem more establishment. So instead, Boehner followed the lead of GOP presidential hopefuls and took a provocative and distracting stand against gay rights.
New Order: McConnell faces off with DeMint on earmarks
From the perspective of many conservatives, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is doing himself and Republicans a lot of harm by fighting Sen. Jim DeMint’s...
Right leaders driven to extremes in Ground Zero mosque debate
The Cordoba Initiative community center and Mosque proposed for Ground Zero is continuing to inflame the passions of right-wing leaders and to set them...
RedState’s Erickson blasts Norton for embracing Murkowski
Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton is drawing heat today for casting her lot with Lisa Murkowski, Alaska's embattled Republican Senator. Murkowski is under...
Palin tips her hand, may endorse Norton over Buck
Tea party favorite Sarah Palin hinted she might endorse Jane Norton in the heated Colorado U.S. Senate GOP primary. It's a question that has...
RedState’s Erickson posts another shout out for Buck
Founder of popular conservative blog RedState Erick Erickson has posted another shout out for Weld County D.A. Ken Buck in the U.S. Senate GOP...
Buck campaign: ‘He’s the underdog and proud of it’
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck got creamed on the numbers this week. He drew $40,000 in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared to GOP frontrunner Jane Norton's $550,000 haul. Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet pulled in a cool $1.1 million.
"That's today's story," said Buck campaign manager Walt Klein.
Ken Buck campaign ad stirs up supporters and speculation
The U.S. Senate campaign for Weld County D.A. Ken Buck reportedly knew nothing of the ad before it aired and even now isn't sure...