Many continue to ask how the GOP can remain a party that can win elections and govern nationally. They already have an answer.
3:07 PM 08/01/2012
In my early 20s, I was pro-choice and opposed to gay marriage. Now that I’m in my 30s, I’m pro-life and more supportive of gay marriage. Sometimes our views change. It happens all the time. The important thing is that we are free to have views and voice them.
6:14 PM 07/18/2012
On Friday, President Obama said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
2:00 PM 07/12/2012
“We need more conservative Texans in Washington, D.C., including my friend David Dewhurst,” Texas Governor Rick Perry said during his state’s Republican convention last week. Perry’s comments were met with loud boos from the mostly conservative audience.
9:59 AM 06/15/2012
I have been at war with the Republican Party my entire adult life. Not as a liberal, but as a conservative. The obvious conservative things I always wanted the GOP to do — cut spending, shrink government, follow the Constitution — it never did. The things the GOP did instead, which seemed to satisfy many conservatives — unnecessary wars, empowering the executive branch, spying on citizens — were not only reckless and damaging, but a tragic diversion for the American right. I hope that four years removed from suffering through the most big-government Republican administration in history, conservatives have learned some lessons. And anyone who still entertains the notion that the Bush/Cheney Republican model represents any type of conservatism needs to go pay President Obama the right-wing respect he deserves. The only “change” Obama’s given us is even more debt and drone strikes.
5:42 PM 05/31/2012
In 2004, I didn’t vote for John Kerry or George W. Bush because I wanted a conservative leader who stood for the Constitution, less government and individual liberty. Wanting these same things in 2008, I did not vote for John McCain or Barack Obama. Wanting these same things today, it looks like I might have the same dilemma in this year’s presidential election.
3:57 PM 05/23/2012
From 2000 to 2008, I was politically homeless. As a conservative I would’ve liked to have been a part of the Republican Party, but there was simply no conservatism in the GOP at the time. It was the Republican Party of Bush, Cheney, war, torture and executive orders, and it was anti-Constitution and anti-civil liberties. Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were nowhere to be found. No Child Left Behind and Medicare Plan D were front and center. The traditional conservatism of the Founding Fathers, Robert Taft and Russell Kirk didn’t exist beyond my bookshelf. The world-police and nation-building policies of Woodrow Wilson and the New Deal socialism of Franklin Roosevelt had become “conservative.” For constitutionalists and limited-government advocates, it sucked. Bad.
2:28 PM 05/04/2012
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, is another example of outrageous and unconstitutional government intrusion.
11:40 PM 04/25/2012
During what was advertised as a “major foreign policy speech” at the Brookings Institution on Wednesday, Sen. Marco Rubio said: “I am always cautious about generalizations but until very recently, the general perception was that American conservatism believed in a robust and muscular foreign policy.”
7:45 PM 04/17/2012
The Texas congressman is still drawing massive crowds and building a transformative movement.
3:55 PM 04/12/2012
Ron Paul and Rick Santorum supporters haven’t always agreed on everything. Paul supporters have criticized Santorum for his support for legislation like Medicare Plan D and No Child Left Behind. Santorum supporters have criticized Paul for his foreign policy views and some of his other positions. But Paul’s supporters and Santorum’s supporters have always agreed that conservatives must be represented — and strongly — within the Republican Party, and that supporting Mitt Romney isn’t the way to ensure that happens. With Santorum out of the race, his supporters should consider supporting Paul’s candidacy.
5:34 PM 04/09/2012
Sensing that there’s a good chance the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — commonly known as “Obamacare” — will be overturned by the Supreme Court, President Obama said recently:
8:26 AM 04/06/2012
Sorry, Rick Santorum, but being a conservative has always meant making government smaller and following the Constitution.
10:58 AM 03/27/2012
Government gets bigger no matter which party controls the White House.
1:33 PM 03/23/2012
Paul Ryan's GOP House budget plan offers too little too late.
12:11 PM 03/16/2012
Rand Paul's "Plan to Revitalize America" would balance the budget in five years. So why aren't Republicans talking about it?
11:05 AM 03/08/2012
In this installment of Jack Hunter's Daily Caller video commentary series "The Deal with Jack Hunter," Jack argues that there's essentially no difference between Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich: "Right now, each candidate is fighting over whether they might be marginally better than the others because they might not have supported one or two parts of this big-government recipe, which is kind of like arguing over whether Franco-American or Chef Boyardee makes better spaghetti." He concludes: "So where does small government conservatism fit into the 2012 election? It doesn't. The tea party apparently does not demand it at the top of the GOP ticket, and Super Tuesday proves it."
10:21 AM 03/06/2012
In this installment of Jack Hunter's Daily Caller video commentary series "The Deal with Jack Hunter," Jack argues that Rush Limbaugh was right to question why we're in Afghanistan 10 years after 9/11.
10:56 AM 03/02/2012
In this installment of Jack Hunter's Daily Caller video commentary series "The Deal with Jack Hunter," Jack says that "most tea partiers would agree that balancing the budget and reducing the debt is their top priority. The question today is, for which presidential candidate is this a top priority." He argues that Ron Paul is that candidate. "When it comes to real fiscal conservatism," he says, "Ron Paul remains the sexiest candidate in this race."
2:35 PM 02/28/2012
This is the third installment in Jack Hunter's new Daily Caller video commentary series, "The Deal with Jack Hunter." In this week's installment, Jack argues that Rick Santorum's insistence that the federal government should set national social policies threatens both our constitutional and moral values.
