The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Electability, Bernie Sanders Edition

Electability. How I hate that concept. Unless you are talking about constitutional requisites for holding office, that is. Otherwise, electability is a stupid manipulation. Electability is a self-fulfilling prophecy built entirely on the commoditization of ideas. And vanity. Let’s not forget vanity. The world didn’t used to look at itself so much. Now that’s all […]

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The GOP Presidential Candidate the DNC Hates the Most is …

It might surprise you to know that the Democrats have a favorite Republican presidential candidate—to hate: The Hill tallied the DNC’s social media mentions of Republican presidential contenders, scanning press releases, tweets and Facebook posts from July 2014 through June 2015, to see whom the group has been hitting the most over the past year. […]

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Fox News Doing to Rand Paul Exactly What They Did to His Father

Back in 2008 and 2012, people talked about how Ron Paul could never win. He wasn’t “electable,” people thought he was extreme, nobody knew who he was, etc. Most people didn’t realize that the only reason they thought any of that was because Fox News and the rest of the main stream media waged war […]

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Rand Paul Says GOP Hawks Have Helped ISIS Grow Stronger

With words closely echoing his father’s foreign policy concerns, Rand Paul has said that the GOP penchant for making war has actually created the current ISIS crisis: In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Paul was asked about the criticism he’s received from GOP hawks like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Arizona Sen. John […]

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Is the US the Biggest Threat to Middle East Stability?

An opinion piece in Forbes by Doug Bandow claims that the biggest threat to Middle East stability is actually the intrusive involvement of the US military: The situation is serious, but Washington policy is almost beyond parody. Announced Secretary of State John Kerry, the U.S. was “not going to stand by while the region is […]

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Can Rand Paul Win in 2016? Does it Matter?

Political analyst Dick Morris thinks Rand Paul doesn’t have what it takes to win in 2016. Morris points out three ideological layers of conservative voter values, and he thinks Rand Paul wins in only one of those: The Republican Party is a three-layer cake consisting of economic libertarians, evangelical believers and national security advocates. Huckabee […]

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Rand Paul Suffering from the Catch-22 of Idealist Politics

It turns out that the most die-hard Ron Paul fans are already jumping off the Rand Paul 2016 bandwagon. Rand Paul is apparently a little too mainstream for most of them—too willing to take moderate positions where his father never compromised: “He’s moderating on most of them, not taking a real clear stance on a […]

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Word of the Day: Repudiation

After the decisive victory for Republicans in the midterm elections, Rand Paul declared: “Make no mistake, tonight is a repudiation of Barack Obama’s policies and leadership.” That word, repudiation, seemed to being make the rounds in the wake of last night’s results which left Republicans in control of both the Senate and the House in […]

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What’s Eating the Republican Party?

According to some social conservatives, the Republican Party is going libertarian. According to libertarians, the Republican Party is centrist. According to centrists, the Republican party is polarizing. What exactly is going on in the Republican Party? No one is giving a straight answer on that. After two failed candidates for the office of president, the […]

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