Tag: tea party
Tancredo as Tea Party weather vane
Tom Tancredo is a firebrand. He is a darling of the grassroots Colorado right. He also may be a 2010 national politics weather vane....
GOP Senate candidate Norton goes on the record: ‘I’ve not been...
In an interview with a Colorado Springs radio talk show host Tuesday, former lieutenant governor and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Jane Norton said she has never worked as a lobbyist. She was responding to callers looking to feel out her conservative credentials.
"On the lobbyist thing, I've not been a lobbyist," she said.
Wednesday State of the Union tea party response events!
Conservative responses planned for the State of the Union will have a new flavor this year. Take this run-up event, where Florida U.S. Rep....
Fox News Poll: Obama would still trounce rivals. Damn!
Fox News commissioned a poll last week to test voters feelings about the President and members of Congress. The national telephone poll was conducted...
Co-sponsor bails on Tea Party Convention, cites financing ‘controversy’
Dave Weigel at the Washington Independent is reporting that the conservative / libertarian-leaning American Liberty Alliance has pulled out of the Tea Party...
Schools out: David Brooks laments Tea Party anti-intellectualism
New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks notes a trend in politics over the last year: The voting public is moving not just to...
Flyboy McCain still campaigning for conservatives in Colorado
Lang Sias is a Republican candidate running for U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter's 7th District seat. Today Sen. John McCain sent out an email...
Rasmussen: In three-way race, Tea Party tops Republican Party
Monday, national polling agency Rasmussen released findings that suggested GOP candidates for Congress may be better off running as Tea Party candidates. Unaffiliated voters...
Colo. GOP ‘Platform’ covered by Wall Street Journal, panned by readers
The conservative national paper of record, the Wall Street Journal, reported on the Colorado Republican Party "Platform for Prosperity" today, describing it as a...
Anti-tax movement ponders two big defeats
Election night was bittersweet for Andrew Moylan. The young government affairs manager of the conservative National Taxpayers Union was watching returns in Asheville, N.C., with fellow attendees of the conservative State Policy Network’s annual meeting. Early in the night, the gubernatorial races in Virginia and then New Jersey went to the Republicans. Moylan, however, was watching the returns on two anti-tax, anti-spending ballot measures in Maine and Washington. Those weren’t turning out so well.
“I care a lot less about Republicans than I do about policy,” Moylan said. “So it was depressing to watch those numbers come in.”