I’m going to catch some slack from my conservative brethren for writing this, but I don’t believe that Sarah Palin can win the 270 electoral votes required to win the presidency. If you’re trying to analyze objectively a candidate’s presidential prospects, you need to think in terms of electoral votes. More specifically, ask yourself, “Which states does the candidate need to win in order to get to the magic number of 270?” But Sarah Palin isn’t the only potential candidate who would have trouble getting to 270. Like Palin, conservative favorites Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul don’t seem to have a viable path to 270, either. To beat Obama we will need to win a number of independent voters and both Palin and Gingrich…
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Ron Paul Rocks CPAC, Again
Once again Texas Congressman Ron Paul has stolen the show at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Big government and establishment Republicans can’t stand him. This is only because he’s true to his principles and calls them out when they misrepresent conservatism or, worse yet, vote to increase the scale and scope of the federal government. Others, I think, choose to marginalize him because they simply don’t seem him as electable at the presidential level.
But Ron Paul is the father of the Tea Party movement; many politicians have capitalized off of the movement but it was Ron Paul’s limited government message during the 2008 Republican primaries that kick-started the grassroots juggernaut. Over the last year, as part of my fellowship…
What is a Conservative Foreign Policy?
Since the Democratic Party’s decisive electoral victories in 2006 and 2008, the Tea Party movement has helped to re-energize conservatism. The movement has focused largely on domestic politics, promoting limited government, fiscal responsibility, and individual liberty. The reality is, however, that when it comes to foreign policy the conservative movement is being pulled in multiple, and often mutually exclusive, directions. Some believe that democracy promotion should be the cornerstone of American foreign policy while others do not. Quite simply, the conservative movement does not have a coherent foreign policy platform. Going forward, it will be important for conservatives to articulate a clear foreign policy platform. What is at stake is not the success of the conservative movement or a political party…