The Competent Conservative

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 5:49 PM Mitt Romney joined Hugh Hewitt on the program today.  Full transcript of the interview below: HH: The President of the United States is driving around Los Angeles, tying up traffic and raising lots and lots of money for campaign 2012, millions from the big buck, hyper-liberals in Hollywood. [...]

Thanks Bosman! Americans are more pessimistic about the nation’s economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obama’s first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Amid rising gas prices, stubborn unemployment [...]

Here’s an interesting article about Huntsman’s White House ambitions.  Senator Bennet suggested that Huntsman should wait till 2016: “He clearly would like to run at some point, But he doesn’t have a natural constituency, so forming a political action committee and spreading money around in the 2012 election could be a very smart thing for [...]

Boy is Obama going to have a VERY tough fight on his hands!  I have the feeling that Mitt Romney is not going to let Obama wiggle away from his record.  Watching Romney debate Obama would be the difference between knowledge and ignorance.  One knows a lot, and the other know very little.  One has [...]

For those Republicans out there who have criticized Governor Romney for being too soft need to take another look.  Romney has been very wise in not coming off as an opportunist, which might have been the case had he been overly aggressive in his criticism of The President just before making a Presidential run.  In [...]

1. DO NOT take the name Chris Matthew’s Lord God in vain.  He will not hold him guiltless, who taketh Obama’s name in vain, or maketh ANY unworthy case against him!  Beware, oh ye hypocrites, of the wrath that shall be poured out upon you for questioning the anointed one… -Matthews 1: 1   Visit [...]

I think they will come to an agreement before GOV shuts down, but this is a scary scenario for those who have placed themselves in a state of Government dependency. Perhaps the administration is trying to paint a not too pretty picture, but they are saying that even Military employees of the Government will only [...]

by Jake Gibson | April 05, 2011 With the news that President Obama is officially running for re-election in 2012, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at where some of candidate Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign trail promises stand today. The president has said he keeps a check list of promises he [...]

By Paul Kengor As someone who has studied, taught, and written about the Middle East for years, I’m the first to concede that President Obama has a tough task. What would I doabout Libya if I were president? How about Egypt? I’m not exactly sure. The situations are complex, with too many daunting unknowns. Chief [...]

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday defended a much-discussed remark recently made by President Obama that the U.S. “can absorb a terrorist attack,” saying the U.S. has taken a number of actions to enhance security but “we can’t seal the United States under a glass dome.” “I think what he meant is [...]