5 October 2012 Folks, We Have a Brand New Ballgame

Folks, We Have a Brand New Ballgame

Friday - October 5, 2012 at 12:54 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Mitt Romney on Wednesday night turned in the finest debate performance of any candidate of either party in the 52 years since Richard Nixon faced John F. Kennedy, with the possible exception of Ronald Reagan's demolition of Jimmy Carter in 1980. But where Reagan won with style and quips -- "There you go again" -- and his closing line, "Are you better off now than you Continue reading...

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Mitt’s ‘Damn-the-Torpedoes!’ Decision

Tuesday - August 14, 2012 at 12:36 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Mitt Romney's decision to select Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate speaks well of the man who made it. Indeed, it seemed less like the moderate man we have come to know than Adm. David Farragut in Mobile Bay: "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" Facing sinking polls, endless attack ads on his tax returns and Bain Capital record, and venomous lies that he was Continue reading...

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The Cost of Winning Ugly

Friday - August 10, 2012 at 1:44 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan This week, the friends of Barack Obama introduced into the political battle of 2012 the moral equivalent of poison gas. In an ad produced by the super PAC Priorities USA, Mitt Romney is charged with moral, if not material, complicity in the cancer death of the wife of a Missouri steelworker. Speaking straight into the camera, Joe Soptic, 62, charges Romney with Continue reading...

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The Chickens of Globalization Come Home to Roost

Friday - July 20, 2012 at 1:02 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Mitt Romney is today the beneficiary of some desperate counsel from alarmed Republicans on how to escape the snare in which he has found himself. Democrats are charging that Mitt was still chairman and CEO of Bain Capital between 1999 and 2002, when the company was advising some of America's premier outsourcers. The facts are in dispute. But the evidence seems on Continue reading...

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Is Mitt Serious About Condi?

Tuesday - July 17, 2012 at 12:06 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan The first criterion in choosing a vice president, it is said, is that he or she must be qualified to be president. Yet there is another yardstick by which candidates measure running mates. Do they bring something to the table? Can they help with a critical voting bloc? Can they bring a crucial state? Lyndon Johnson is regarded as a brilliant choice by JFK, though Continue reading...

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Is Obama’s America God’s Country?

Tuesday - February 21, 2012 at 12:13 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan The political beliefs of Barack Obama, said Rick Santorum last week, come out of "some phony theology. ... Not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology." Given the opportunity on "Face the Nation" to amend his remarks, Santorum declined the offer and plunged on: "I don't question the president's faith. I've repeatedly said that I Continue reading...

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Vulture Capitalism or Populist Demagoguery?

Tuesday - January 17, 2012 at 12:52 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "They're vultures that are sitting out there on the tree limb, waiting for a company to get sick, and then they swoop in ... eat the carcass ... and ... leave the skeleton." So Rick Perry colorfully characterized the private equity firm Bain Capital, once run by Mitt Romney. How did Bain prosper? Says Perry: "These companies ... come in and loot the people's Continue reading...

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