“There’s no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.”
-Jack Kemp
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.”
-Ronald Reagan
Peace is At Hand: As Putin and his brutal dictatorial allies are quickly learning, freedom works.
From Aleppo to Georgia, to Kiev, and over to Crimea, people just want to be free.
Putin can literally make world peace a reality…it is simple, just not easy.
Peace With Russia: Simple, but not necessarily easy.
All Ukrainian strikes on Russia are retaliatory or defensive.
All Russian strikes on Ukraine are unprovoked and designed to terrorize civilian populations.
Russia, peacefully live and prosper within your borders. Stop harassing your neighbors.
We ALL then have peace and prosperity.
Peace With China: Simple, but not necessarily easy.
China, memorialize the “One China” policy of peaceful and mutually consenting reunification someday. Just leave Taiwan alone. Continue your mutually beneficial relationships. Be a good neighbor and “big brother.” Stop trying to expand your territorial water rights while infringing on neighbors like the Philippines or Vietnam.
President Trump is giving hope to millions around the world that peace is at hand. The “Trump Effect” is real and has the potential to make the world a great place again…if we only seize the opportunity.
IF we do… we ALL then have peace and prosperity.
Kemp – Trump: Former Congressman Thaddeus McCotter pens a great article entitled “Remembering the First Republican-Populist.” A great read.
I remember working on the Kemp campaign. It was the start of the Opportunity Society, where I was exposed to some of the great movement conservatives of our time…the likes of Newt Gingrich, Vin Weber and so many more who were willing to fight the fight.
Worth the read.
A Little More Common Sense: Picked this up from X:
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Remembering the First Republican-Populist
Jack Kemp was a maverick and, in many ways, the first Republican-Populist—a one-man movement who loved people from all walks of life. He would doubtless be pleased by the 2024 Trump coalition.
It was 1988. My friend from high school, Dave, asked me if I would join him in running for Republican precinct delegate. I asked why I would ever want to do something like that. He explained that he was supporting a candidate for president. At that time—and for the only time—the Michigan GOP was employing a caucus system to determine the nomination. Consequently, if his candidate garnered more precinct delegates, they would then have the numbers to elect state convention delegates. There, these GOP state convention delegates would nominate his candidate for president.
I asked my friend who got him to run for this lowliest of (then) partisan elected positions. He said it was being organized by a young cat not much older than us, Andy, who had unsuccessfully run for state representative in a heavily Democrat district. I vaguely remembered the dude, and, having nothing better to do, I went door to door, collected my petition signatures, and during the primary, was elected.
Ultimately, Dave became my best man at my wedding, and Andy became a chief of staff in my congressional office. The candidate they supported for president, a U.S. Representative from New York, lost the Michigan caucus and the 1988 nomination and, alas, was never elected president.
I thought of the late Jack Kemp as the 2024 presidential election’s results became apparent. Donald Trump’s winning coalition included blue-collar voters, many of the Democrats, and made significant inroads with Hispanics and African-Americans, particularly young men. It was the very type of coalition Jack Kemp’s “progressive conservative” movement sought to create.
Americans’ opinion of Republican Party on the rise
Americans’ opinion of the Republican Party is on the rise, according to a new poll from The Economist/YouGov.
In the poll, 45 percent of Americans said they feel “favorable” toward the Republican Party, up 6 points from an Economist/YouGov poll in late October, when 39 percent said they felt favorable toward GOP.
The number of Americans in the newer Economist/YouGov poll who said they felt “unfavorable” toward the GOP also went down from late October, falling from 53 percent to 47 percent.
In contrast, Americans’ feelings about the Democratic Party in the new poll were worse than the previous month. Thirty-nine percent said they felt “favorable” toward the Democrats in late November, versus 44 percent the month before.
Also in late October, 50 percent of Americans said they felt “unfavorable” toward the Democrats versus 53 percent in late November.
President-elect Trump’s election victory and impending return to the White House has rattled Democrats, who also lost both the House and Senate to their Republican counterparts.
There have been ongoing conversations in the party about what led to Democrats’ struggles at the polls this year, with some centrists saying the party went too left and liberals saying it didn’t go left enough. Americans’ opinion of the Republican Party is on the rise, according to a new poll from The Economist/YouGov.
In the poll, 45 percent of Americans said they feel “favorable” toward the Republican Party, up 6 points from an Economist/YouGov poll in late October, when 39 percent said they felt favorable toward GOP.
The number of Americans in the newer Economist/YouGov poll who said they felt “unfavorable” toward the GOP also went down from late October, falling from 53 percent to 47 percent.
In contrast, Americans’ feelings about the Democratic Party in the new poll were worse than the previous month. Thirty-nine percent said they felt “favorable” toward the Democrats in late November, versus 44 percent the month before.
Dems finally admit Biden botched border after 2024 election loss: ‘We destroyed ourselves’
Democrats spent Thanksgiving eating crow — privately confessing that President Biden’s handling of the border crisis fueled voter outrage and the Republican sweep of the White House and both chambers of Congress.
Lawmakers, aides and sources close to powerful Dems finally admitted after President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Biden’s successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, that the party’s permissive lurch on the border helped doom them in 2024.
“We destroyed ourselves on the immigration issue in ways that were entirely predictable and entirely manageable,” a Democratic senator confided to The Hill under the condition of anonymity.
“We utterly mismanaged that issue, including our Democratic caucus here. That’s political malpractice. That’s not someone else’s fault. That’s not the groups pushing us around.”
A source close to New York City Mayor Eric Adams also told The Post that fellow Democrats should have listened to him after he “warned for two years” that a porous “border would overburden cities and alienate working class people — and they did not listen.”
Ranking the Democrats: Here’s who the party could nominate next as president
Democrats are licking their wounds after Vice President Harris’s defeat to President-elect Trump, but already are looking toward who might lead their party in a 2028 presidential contest.
It’s a fight that looks wide open.
The certainty is that Trump himself will not be on the ballot, since the Constitution limits him to two terms. Vice President-elect JD Vance is the likely GOP front-runner as the party’s next presidential nominee.
Democrats could have a flood of potential candidates, and there are disagreements within the party over what to prioritize.
Some Democrats say the party needs to start over, injecting itself with new blood for the next presidential contest.
Others say Harris deserves another shot at the presidency, pointing to the 74 million votes cast for her earlier this month.
“Just like in 2016, we’re a little lost and rudderless, and not quite sure what we want going forward,” one Democratic strategist acknowledged. Democrats are licking their wounds after Vice President Harris’s defeat to President-elect Trump, but already are looking toward who might lead their party in a 2028 presidential contest.
It’s a fight that looks wide open.
The certainty is that Trump himself will not be on the ballot, since the Constitution limits him to two terms. Vice President-elect JD Vance is the likely GOP front-runner as the party’s next presidential nominee.
Democrats could have a flood of potential candidates, and there are disagreements within the party over what to prioritize.
Some Democrats say the party needs to start over, injecting itself with new blood for the next presidential contest.
Others say Harris deserves another shot at the presidency, pointing to the 74 million votes cast for her earlier this month.
“Just like in 2016, we’re a little lost and rudderless, and not quite sure what we want going forward,” one Democratic strategist acknowledged.
7 charts and maps show where Harris underperformed and lost the election
Turnout for the presidential election is not yet final, but it’s clear that fewer people voted in 2024 compared with 2020.
Comparing the two elections, Donald Trump added about 2.8 million votes to his total in his 2024 victory. Vice President Kamala Harris, on the other hand, underperformed by about 6.8 million votes compared with Joe Biden in 2020, according to CNN election results as of November 25.
Here are seven charts and maps that explain how the US popular vote, turnout in individual states and ultimately turnout in the seven key battleground states – where electoral votes were up for grabs – tell the story of Harris’ loss.
