The reversal last week by NBC News of its decision to hire former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst took Republicans by surprise. However, in the wake of McDaniel’s firing, MSNBC host and Director of Diversity,…
Thank you, Chuck Todd. And all those MSNBCers. With the backlash from all of these NBC employees to the hiring of former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, they have illustrated vividly what is wrong with the so-called mainstream media. In a…
It’s the end of another week, one in which the Republican Party was presented with oodles of opportunities to miss opportunities … and took full advantage. One day, some day, the GOP will be led by people who are competent,…
I’ll admit it, and regular readers of this column have already seen dribs and drabs of this, but I simply can’t stand Nikki Haley. She represents so many awful and insufficient things about the pre-Trump Republican Party that they might…
This column is a sequel to one I had a week ago, which was picked up and bandied about a bit, but as I said then the first installment was not a complete list of the things Republicans need to…
Donald Trump is usually a repository of common sense. But on matters related to “gay rights,” he is hopelessly unmoored from common sense. Trump’s support for that appalling movement, which is so destructive to the country, at a recent Log…
The accounts I have read about the race for Republican National Committee chair make it sound as if Ronna McDaniel is sure to win another term as leader of the GOP. These articles imply that her flunkies at the RNC…
It is one of the most bitter and tragic ironies of our contemporary politics that the leadership of one of America’s two major political parties, the Republican Party, utterly despises that party’s very own voting base. The GOP elite’s scorn…
We haven’t done a 5QT in this space in a while. It seems like I’m always saying that. Maybe it’s the fact that things are always so demonstrative or instructive as of late that they deserve full columns instead of…
Illustrating that they won’t take their own side in a dispute, Republicans typically choose as their party chieftains hacks who betray little evidence of having read the GOP platform and even less evidence of supporting it. Current Republican National Committee…