Recent content by DeMintConservative

I think any attempt to apply a broad ideology to foreign policy, especially with regards to war and peace, is doomed to fail. Be it isolationism, non-interventionism, interventionism. They're just different sides of the same coin. In this realm, circumstances ought to trump principle. I've very...

What mad cow said about some weapons being the private property of manufacturers and the necessity of very narrowly tailored restrictions - on stuff like nuclear bombs, for example or to states/groups that have implicitly or explicitly declared their intention to attack America or her allies...

What happened is that those guys were grossly incompetent at the job they wanted and got everyone else mad at them. I always thought this "GOP takeover" was one of the silliest things ever (and wrote several posts here stating that). These party management structures aren't the place for...

Of course, I said he had a shot. His minimum threshold should be the 20% his father got in 2012. How much of a shot it depends on how divided the field is and how strong the leading social conservative candidate is. Even a very weak politician like Santorum (who isn't even an evangelical) got...

"Chamber of Commerce candidate" and "real conservative" are just empty buzzwords. The CoC endorsed Ernst because she's going to win the primary; if Jacobs was ahead in the polls, they'd have endorsed him. Was Ernst a better candidate to you 12 days ago, before the Chamber's endorsement? Clovis...

Absolutely not. Perhaps he should endorse Ernst, she's going to win the nomination and she might be good enough of a candidate to pull the upset in the general. Although he might come across as a bandwagoner and upset some of his Iowan supporters who are getting behind Whitaker. I also don't...

Answers that might please Axelrod signal to the moderate/centrist voters that Paul is an acceptable candidate. It makes him look bipartisan-esque and pragmatic as opposed to a rigid ideologue. That's half of the ticket for the GOP nomination because the majority of the Republican primary voters...

Sure. I'm struggling to draw an analogy here though. Previous point: I understand what you mean by classifying your parents as "regular Republicans". However, from one perspective, those who vote in mid-term primaries aren't really "regular Republicans". There were 480k Republicans voting in...

Didn't watch the video, but if that's what they said, I agree with them 100%. At least that's most of it.

Because it's, and I'll put this crudely, properly executed doublespeak and I think conservatives/libertarians need more politicians capable of doing this (not that all politicians need to engage in this, there's a place for those who primarily fight for the popularization of ideas and are...

Smart. So true. Whoever is supported by the majority (or perhaps the very vocal minority) of HotAir commentators is probably DOA in a national primary.

I've already explained why. Most people don't have time or disposition to follow politics closely. To many, their first serious contact with politics every 4 years are the primary debates. It's bad for ALL Republicans if what is being discussed at that critical time is if Republicans believe...

I guess you can call it dictatorial, but how else would they be able to enforce the rules? They don't want unprepared fringe candidates being the target of gotcha questions by liberal moderators and sticking their proverbial foot in the mouth. Some of the stuff two years ago was bizarre - I know...

I never vote on them because they're too much of a hassle. More labor intensive than the typical one-click online poll. They're only up for a few hours as well. And HotAir has more traffic than commentators, they only have a couple of registration periods per year and each only lasts a few...

I like it. About time. We don't need hundreds of debates with amateur fringe candidates being tricked by leftist moderators, allowing the MSM to make their coverage about some outlandish statement on a completely marginal and irrelevant issue. All those debates two years ago with more than 10...