Quirky but true: A few Texas House Democrats could lift Republican Tom Craddick - pasted by foes for everything secretive, bullheaded and wrong at the Texas Capitol - to a fourth two-year stint as speaker of the House.
Republican Party officials are threatening to file a complaint with the Dallas County district attorney over allegations that a Democratic election judge used white correction fluid to improperly change rulings about accepting and rejecting provisional ballots.
Let the autopsy begin! Despite John McCain's history of independence, the case for a third term for the GOP was very hard to make. The political environment could not have been worse: an unpopular incumbent; an unpopular, costly war; and an economic calamity. Also, the campaign that has the most money, that makes the fewest mistakes and that has the candidate who makes the best presentation often wins.
Intense and gripping, the 2008 election was also historic. The son of a Kenyan immigrant and an American mother has risen to the presidency of history's most powerful nation. Who was not moved by the sight of Jesse Jackson standing silently among strangers with tears streaming down his face as he thought of a long journey towards equality and acceptance?
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the spotlight-grabbing star at the gathering of Republican governors, Thursday said carefree spending cost Republicans at the polls, but the party has been loyal to core issues that will win back voters.
At the conclusion of my series In Defense of Marriage this past August, I wrote that the outcome of California's Proposition 8 would figure prominently in the future of marriage in America. If the proposed amendment establishing that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized" was defeated, I predicted it would be nearly impossible to halt the radical homosexual movement and their efforts to redefine marriage and the natural family.
The blame game has begun after the GOP defeat in the Presidential race and loss of congress. While some anonymous (read cowardly) McCain campaign workers with the help of liberal media continue to try to hang the blame around Palin's neck, the real reason is that the Republicans governed like Democrats in many ways. Federal spending was extreme over the last eight years and not until Democrats took control in 2006 did Republicans move back to that as a talking point but they could never bring themselves to get rid of earmarks and other extravagant spending.
John McCain made a big deal of "suspending" his campaign to fix the financial meltdown only to vote for the Wallstreet Bailout thus showing himself to be no different. Voter turnout was not a record percentage after all. With more registered voters than four years ago we had a higher number but the percentage of almost 62% was about the same as 2004. In fact it appears that conservatives in significant numbers simply stayed home.
