The Competent Conservative

BWAHAHAHAHA! A wee slip of the tongue! Seriously, I believe that this is nothing more than a tongue slip but it does bring back memories of one of the funniest political slip ups ever. In Mitt’s first run for public office, his 1994 run for the Senate against Ted Kennedy, his opponent, John Lakian had [...]

Gotta wonder what this is all about.  Does he want to distract people from his second electoral drubbing in one week or is he taking his ball and going home?  We shall see. Instead of the traditional election night party, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will hold a press conference after the Nevada Caucus on [...]

    I couldn’t agree more with this analysis from Dick Morris: For students of American politics, following the way the Romney campaign played Newt Gingrich in Florida is a lesson to learn and to keep. Romney’s people must have realized that Newt does best when he is positive. His bold ideas, clear vision, revolutionary [...]

  Ouch!  This one’s going to leave a mark… Lest you think that Ron Paul is the only Republican Presidential candidate with newsletter problems, Brody Mullins and Janet Adamy of the Wall Street Journal have unearthed one by Newt Gingrich, also flagged by Andrew Kaczynski. The since-redacted April 2006 newsletter from Newt Gingrich’s Center for [...]

It’s come to this… Romney’s little joke suggests that he understands that his most glaring weakness may be his lack of a poetic flaw, a useful element in a politician’s essential task of connecting with other human beings. Romney’s perfect hair and perfect family, his abstinence from petty vices (alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine), and his [...]

No, its not exactly the same thing as we are experiencing now between Newt and Mitt but, it does remind us that Ronald Reagan never took himself too seriously (unlike a certain former Speaker of the House) as evidenced by his invitation to Mr. Rickles to perform at his inaugural.  Besides, its good to lighten [...]

  Well, the whining from the Gingrich campaign is reaching “can’t look away” embarrassing .  We first heard today that Mr. Gingrich’s less than stellar performance at last night’s debate was due to the Romney campaign “stacking the deck” with their supporters.  Well, even if this were the case, if the Gingrich campaign couldn’t muster [...]

It has been argued that Newt Gingrich’s win in South Carolina was at least in part due to his “fiery” performance in the debate just prior to the primary.  I will grant that Mr. Gingrich can be quite passionate, at times, and this can be a good thing when he stands for correct principles.  However, [...]

So, after demanding Mitt Romney’s tax returns in an effort to make him look like he’s just another greedy, rich Republican , the returns show that Mr. Romney donates 15 times more to charity than the President of the United States.  I guess all those multi-million dollar vacations to Hawaii, Spain and other swanky, super [...]

I, along with other Conservatives, have been quite dismayed over the last few weeks by the tactics of some Republican candidates in their quest to achieve the nomination of their party to run against Barak Obama. I was taken aback by Newt Gingrich’s assault on Mitt Romney’s business record which came straight out of Ted [...]