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Congress passed Obamacare, and the president signed it. But in spite of then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s promise, we still don’t know exactly what’s in it. We’re finding out, slowly, but it’s rarely good news. Obamacare was sold as the “fix” for our “broken health care system.” We were told the impact on those happy with their then current situation would barely notice a change, and those without insurance would get it. A win-win for everyone, right? Those promises went out the window right behind the $2,500 average savings on premiums per family President Barack Obama said would...

When are we going to realize...

LOS ANGELES—Amid rumors of staff infighting and a slide in the polls, Mitt Romney is looking to reset his campaign starting with a speech here Monday before Hispanic voters. He's shaking up his relentless focus on the economy and offering more specifics about a broader range of policies and a clearer argument about why he would be a better president than Barack Obama. Two senior aides privately dismissed reports of discord over the strategy implemented by Stuart Stevens, the Republican presidential nominee's chief strategist—insisting his job is not in danger and that internal staff grumbling cited in a Politico report...

Since the summer of 2008, it can be argued that Barak Obama's political strategy has been behind many of the major events that have shaped the economic and socialist dialectic in the USA. Obama's most recent political manipulation was staged in the aftermath of the shootings in Tucson, AZ. It is well known that democratic insiders had previously written that Obama needed an "Oklahoma" like tragedy to permit him to seamlessly shift from the "enemies" approach that defined his labeling and relationship with republican and independent opponents. And now suddenly, he's just an "american", while he has preached his entire...

Without an effective strategy against modern leftist political terrorism, America is doomed to a fate called France. Please, let's stop debating small issues. These are merely distractions. The question of torture, for instance, is no more than a tool, a tactic by the left, deployed as part of a larger strategy to keep conservatives off balance and out of power. By launching a daily salvo of small but critical attacks on capitalism, on the prior administration, on the structure of our republic, and other elements of the "new foundation" promised by Obama, they manage to keep us, the opposition, in...

My Dear Feepers, It’s not just on Free Republic alone, the rift within the GOP perhaps more properly described as the rift between the GOP and one its constituents---Conservatives---has caught the attention of virtually all the major political prognosticators. It’s a painful thing to endure, and likely it will not enhance our effectiveness as a party, as a political movement or in winning elections. And, at it’s current rate of development and the sometime nastiness of the invective on FR, I think it’s going to get worse long before it’s going to get better. Think about this as a possible...

Having worked on several political campaigns, it is my strong opinion that the following strategies should be implemented in the '06 election. These consist of three strategies: a) On a local level - A strategy employed by a Conservative Canadian politician who won every polling station in his district b) On a national level - Explaining our reasoning, why our programs and solutions are right; putting the Democrats on offense, exposing their record of cowardice, complacency and ineptitude on security and their disastrous record on economic issues (including their 50 cent/gal gas tax proposal) and exposing their hypocrisy, their politicizing...

Some Democrats say they began the filibusters to force Bush to consult with them and to select nominees with more moderate views. Yet both conservative and liberal senators and activists say that the 10 successful filibusters waged by Democrats have not swayed Bush, and may even have stiffened his resolve, raising the question of whether Democrats overplayed their hand.[. . .]Replacing Rehnquist with a conservative would not change the balance of a court that has voted 5-4 on many hot-button issues. But replacing a moderate or liberal would tilt the court to the right.[. . .]The fight over rules for...

When Ronald Reagan emerged on the California political scene in the mid-1960s, the conservative movement was a collection of ineffective, naysaying right-wingers huddling in Orange County and San Gabriel Valley backyards, feverishly parsing school books for signs of communist or pornographic influence and flirting with the oddball extremists of the John Birch Society. Reagan taught manners to these misfits and, in the process, gave them respectability. He shared their intense patriotism, their economic and social conservatism and their militant anti-communism, but he was likable, more genial than fierce. Most important, Reagan understood that a successful political movement had to be...