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‘Real’ Christians
“Republicans being against sex is not good. Sex is popular.” – Republican strategist Alex Castellanos A long, hard-fought presidential nominating race doesn’t hurt Republicans by leaving them divided. They’ll unite against President Obama. No, it hurts with voters in the middle. First there’s this obsession about whether President Obama is “real” Christian. Franklin…
Read MoreSantorum’s Contraception Obsession
Rick Santorum, who wants to take America back to 1900, takes me back to 1984. That was the year of the Hunt-Helms race. In the dying days, we were behind in the polls – and desperate. With the help of (believe it or not) Dick Morris, we came up with a bomb to blow…
Read MoreDemocrats and 2012
There’s good news for Democrats looking ahead to the fall elections. But then there is really, really bad news. The good news is that Obama can carry the state again. He will play hard – and spend heavy – here. That will turn out votes for the entire ticket. Also good: the bitter…
Read MoreReading Ayn Rand
Champions of academic freedom are scandalized, but I think this is a wonderful idea: making college students read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” The Guilfordian, Guilford College’s campus paper, reports on a grant to the college by one of Art (“I Am Not an Heir”) Pope’s groups: “The ten-year grant for $500,000 that Guilford…
Read MoreTata Tantrum
Tony Tata is the Karl Hess of school superintendents: a click too sensitive to criticism. (Memo to all – and self: The next time you get mad at somebody, feel free to compose a blistering e-mail to them. Then immediately hit “Delete.” You won’t regret it.) Tata had won over a lot of…
Read MoreGOP Mini-Me’s
The GOP 13th Congressional District race looks like a mini-version of the Republican presidential race. George Holding is playing the part of Mitt Romney: establishment conservative focusing on cutting spending and deficits (and ignoring the reality that Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush gave us the biggest deficits ever). Paul Coble…
Read MoreCross Your Fingers
Can Democrats get so lucky? Will the Republicans really nominate Rick Santorum? I had high hopes for Newt Gingrich. But, once again, he has proven to be the Hindenburg of American politics: a huge vessel of hot air doomed to go down in flames. Clearly, Mitt Romney would be the toughest Republican in…
Read MorePR 101 – for Refs, Too
Listen up, ACC execs and refs: Any Big Shot today has to be open, honest and accountable. No comment and not answering questions won’t cut it. Full disclosure: I was at the State game Saturday, and I’m a big fan of the Pack. But I pride myself on never getting after the refs (they’re…
Read MoreA Jobs Plan
A Democratic TAPster offers these thoughts “Re – Caterpillar and others over the past several months: “If I were running for governor (and I’m not but have to admit I think I could beat the current group of contenders) I would come out in favor of corporate incentives. I would state I will not…
Read MoreClick Button, File Form
A Republican filed to run for State House and no sooner had he filed than he was told he had to fill out a second form called a Financial Disclosure Report – so he went to the State Ethics Commission’s website and found the form then ran head on into a bureaucratic maze. When…
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