From Wikimedia Commons This week, the president will finally know who he will be running against in the general election… officially, at least. It has been months since Mitt Romney safely clinched the GOP nomination by winning more than half of the allotted Republican National Convention delegates in the primaries, but now the Party gets to sign on the dotted line. While there were initially fears that Ron Paul supporters would stage a libertar...
...centrist candidates (by overall measures of ideology and past record of governance) out of the entire nomination field, Romney was unable to maintain his center-right status because of the rigors of the primary campaigns. The GOP base is still very conservative, both fiscally and socially, and it made it very clear that no candidate who did not hold solidly conservative positions on every issue would receive its approval. Often times, the quest o...
...fered a necessary alternative and an outlet for expression. This burgeoning conservative movement has held a clear importance in the current political climate, but its exact significance for the long-term remains unclear. The GOP suffered heavy losses across the board in the most recent election, lacks leaders who can truly unite the party, and is in want of a cohesive set of ideological beliefs. With the party in such a weak position, the outpou...
...lon made his announcement in front of the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan Monday morning. His campaign is to represent a fusion of the two parties, combining fiscally conservative values with liberal social policy. The GOP primary will be considerably less competitive than that of the Democratic Party, which includes City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Comptroller John Liu, and Manhattan Borough President...
from Wikimedia Commons The New York Marriage Equality Act, signed into law on June 25, 2011, was a central issue in several GOP primary elections for state legislature last Thursday. Four Republican Senators broke ranks in 2011 and supported the bill, making it possible for the legislature to enact legislation legalizing same sex marriage in New York. Three faced challenges from the far right last week, and in each the challenger’s campaign cent...
photo from Wikimedia Commons The 2012 Presidential Election just got real: GOP nominee Mitt Romney has selected Wisconsin representative and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan as his running mate. Ryan, the author of the Republican-approved Path to Prosperity budget proposal (often simply referred to as the “Ryan Plan”) that sought to rein in long-term deficit spending by reforming Medicare, is a dedicated fiscal conservative and is cons...
...g less than $200, a whopping 63 percent of Romney’s contributions come in amounts greater than $2,500. I certainly would not be surprised if those large-sum contributions arrive in even greater numbers now that Romney has the GOP’s confidence. One also cannot count out the impact that “Super PACs” will have in the upcoming election. Although the election is still far away, pundits and analysts predict it will be a close race involving derisive at...
...has. Every policy proposal his campaign makes is couched within the rubric of what he calls the “New American Patriotism.” Clearly the concept is meant, in part, to affirm the patriotism of democratic dissent, in the face of GOP imputations over the past two years. But it means something else as well—a recognition of new demands for citizenship in a new era. The sterling military background that so many Democrats swoon over is crucial for Clark’...
...to the oratorical occasion. Speeches alone will not be enough, of course. The Republicans will benefit from the continuing fallout from the sluggish economy and the government’s bailouts of big business. And increasingly the GOP has countered its label as the “Party of No” by moving a set of young, articulate intellectuals like Eric Cantor of Virginia and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to center stage. The latter’s budget plan, while debated in policy c...
...o address the deficit and debt with revenue increases as part of the deal, and specifically tax increases for only the wealthiest Americans. That is not to say that the Republicans’ fiscal conservatism was fully rebuked – the GOP retained control of the House of Representatives. However, in this specific situation, to avoid the fiscal cliff (and by all means, the federal government as a whole is certainly expected to take action to ward off what...
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