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Mollie Hemingway Commentary: Taking on the Establishment

October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 Virginia Star Staff

Before the 2018 midterm elections, Trump’s political advisors were thinking about the president’s re-election bid and noticed a curious commonality among incumbent presidents who didn’t get re-elected: they all faced challengers from within their own party.

Five U.S. presidents since 1900 have lost their bids for a second term. William Taft lost to Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter lost to Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush lost to Bill Clinton. While each election is determined by unique factors, all five of these failed incumbents dealt with internal party fights or serious primary challenges.

Infamous NeoCon Bill Kristol Endorses McAuliffe over Youngkin for Virginia Governor

August 25, 2021August 24, 2021 Peter D'Abrosca

Terence Richard McAuliffe and Bill Kristol

An infamous anti-Trump Republican has endorsed a Democrat running for another high-profile office.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Bill Kristol, Editor-at-Large of The Bulwark said he will endorse Terry McAuliffe instead of Glenn Youngkin in Virginia’s gubernatorial race.

Victor Davis Hanson Commentary: A Time of Chaos Upon Chaos Atop Chaos

November 24, 2020November 23, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

America will weather its current hysterias.

But the tensions and furor are reminiscent of the last generations of the Roman Republic. In its last century, Romans began to adjudicate politics by obsequious partisan town criers (their version of our media), mass demonstrations, and freelance street gangs. Looters, arsonists, and demonstrators did pretty much as they pleased in the streets of Rome without fear of legal consequences.

In our time, the media has now vanished – kaput, no more, ended.

Commentary: The Pale Pastel Republicans for Socialism

August 25, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

The man was a walking political disaster.

He was “a minority of a minority” who “has been taking some extreme positions.” His positions were “so extreme that they would alter our country’s very economic and social structure and our place in the world to such a degree as to make our country’s place at home and abroad, as we know it, a thing of the past.” He was horrifyingly “foolhardy,” and a Republican Party in his hands was headed for a certain “crushing defeat … that could signal the beginning of the end of our party as an effective force in American political life.” The man was putting the GOP in “an impossible situation” because he was a “sure-loser in November” who held “extreme and too simple views.”

Commentary: The Rise of the Republican #WalkAways – And Why No One Cares

October 19, 2018October 19, 2018 Admin

by Troy Worden You might have heard about the #WalkAway Movement, in which disaffected Democrats say farewell to their party due to its hard-left turn. But you might not have heard much about an identical movement of disaffected Republicans leaving their party, though it’s not because it isn’t happening.…

Commentary: The White House Is No Place for Resistance

September 7, 2018September 7, 2018 Admin

by Robert Romano White House Chief of Staff John Kelly needs to serve up whoever wrote the Sept. 5 anonymous New York Times oped, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” or he needs to go and President Donald Trump needs to find a new chief of staff who…

Roger Kimball Commentary: Burying the Dead With Bile-Filled Histrionics

September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Admin

by Roger Kimball The big news last week revolved around the funerals of a 1960s pop singer and an unreliable Republican senator with a cult following among masochistic conservatives and cynical leftists eager to capitalize on his capacity to spread dissension among his nominal allies. I suppose the exploitation…

Trump Derangement Syndrome Case #47563: Bill Kristol Considering Run For President In 2020

August 1, 2018July 31, 2018 Admin

by Peter Hasson Bill Kristol, the former editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard, is considering challenging President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. Kristol, consistently one of the most vocal anti-Trump Republicans during the 2016 campaign, has been considering a run for months, a source familiar with Kristol’s thinking…

Commentary: #NeverTrumpers Make It Plain They Enjoy Being Lonely Outside the Party

July 16, 2018July 15, 2018 Admin

by Jeffery Rendall Are #NeverTrumpers loners or are they really just lonely? The question came to mind recently as the nebulous allegedly “conservative” anti-Trump group appears to be losing adherents and friends at an alarming rate. It’s not that President Donald Trump has suddenly become so popular that it’s no longer…

Commentary: The Perfidious Mitt Romney

July 5, 2018July 4, 2018 Admin

by George Rasley That didn’t take long. As soon as President Trump endorsed Mitt Romney’s candidacy to succeed Utah’s retiring Senator Orin Hatch and voters in the Beehive State handed the nomination to Romney (even though he actually lost the GOP State Convention vote) Mitt showed his true colors…

Commentary: Who Better Understands the Concerns and Frustrations of Conservatives, George Will or Donald Trump?

July 3, 2018July 3, 2018 Admin

by Jeffery Rendall It should come as no surprise to observers of American politics that nearly two years after Donald Trump was formally nominated as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate – and a year and a half after he assumed the office – his “conservative” #NeverTrump adversaries are still…

Lame Duck Republican Senator Jeff Flake Blocks Trump Judicial Nominees Over Tariffs

June 22, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

by Kevin Daley Outgoing GOP Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona is blocking votes on all of President Donald Trump’s appeals court nominees to secure concessions from Republican leaders on tariffs and Cuban travel restrictions. Flake, a Trump antagonist who is not seeking reelection amid floundering popularity with Arizona Republicans,…