North Carolina Republicans have an asset this year Democrats don’t have: Tom Fetzer. Fetzer is travelling around the state like a heat-seeking missile. His attacks on Governor Perdue make headlines week after week. Democratic Chair David Young is a stark contrast. He’s clearly not comfortable playing the role of political hit man. …
Read MoreYesterday I wrote about how one of my Republican friend’s is convinced to pay for Obamacare the Democrats are going to slash Medicare $500 billion – by kicking old people off their respirators; then, the next morning, I opened the newspaper and right there on page one was a Democrat who had a pretty odd…
Read MoreThe other day a friend sent me an article saying Obamacare cut Medicare $500 billion. I wrote back and asked, Exactly what Medicare treatments for patients did Obama cut? Back came another email with an article attached written by a lady, the former Lt. Governor of New York, who said Obama has set up…
Read MoreThere’s a lot of free-floating anger in America today. We saw it throughout the health-care debate. And Republicans are counting on it to fuel big election wins in November. It’s mostly on the right side of the spectrum. I see it in comments on this blog. Frank Rich wrote recently in The New…
Read MoreBack on Election Night in the euphoria of just being elected North Carolina’s first woman Governor Beverly Perdue told reporters a new day was dawning in state government and the one thing she wasn’t going to tolerate was even a ‘whiff’ of corruption. Since then the Governor has had a tough year. She…
Read MoreA couple of months ago the Supreme Court decided corporations – like people who talk and breathe and walk around on two legs – have an inalienable right to free speech, including the right to criticize politicians they don’t like all they want. Now, back when the court ruled that banks and insurance companies…
Read MoreThe Democratic primary for U.S. Senate here demonstrates why TV ads are important and valuable in politics, despite all the criticism they get. Outside of the campaigns and the insiders, there is little energy and interest in the campaign. Polls show undecided – or clueless – leading everybody. The problem is money.…
Read MoreAside from death-penalty cases, it’s the toughest decision governors make. And that’s so regardless of whether they are Republican or Democrat, named Holshouser, Hunt, Martin or Perdue. The dilemma: A gubernatorial appointee is accused of an ethical – or even criminal – violation. Immediately, the media demands that heads roll. Political opponents…
Read MoreGovernor Perdue waltzed over to Rex Hospital the other day and held a good old-fashioned photo-op (to boost her once again sagging poll numbers) and standing right there in front of the operating room in front of the cameras she morphed into Jesse Helms – announcing that one way or the other, come heck or…
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