By Patrick J. BuchananThe Republican National Committee has produced an "autopsy" on what went wrong in 2012, when the party failed to win the White House and lost seats in Congress.Yet, the crisis of the Grand Old Party goes back much further.First, some history. The Frank Lloyd Wright of the New Majority was Richard Nixon, who picked up the pieces of the party after Goldwater's Continue reading...
1 February 2013 
The GOP’s Amnesty Caucus Raises the White Flag
Friday - February 1, 2013 at 3:33 am
By Patrick J. BuchananOn Monday, Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio emerged with an offer of a Republican surrender to Barack Obama.We will accept amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, said the four, but you must get serious about securing the border against yet another invasion. Only after an independent commission agrees the border has been secured will the 11 Continue reading...
21 December 2012 
Why God Created the GOP
Friday - December 21, 2012 at 3:55 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan"God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function."Columnist Robert Novak was speaking of the party that embraced the revolution of Ronald Reagan, who had hung a portrait of Calvin Coolidge in his Cabinet Room and set about cutting income tax rates to 28 percent.But, to be historically precise, the GOP was not Continue reading...
7 December 2012 
A Republican Retreat — or Rout?
Friday - December 7, 2012 at 12:53 am
By Patrick J. BuchananGiven the expectations raised by the Republican punditocracy -- that Mitt was headed for a big victory -- the jolt of defeat hit especially hard.Now, what had seemed an orderly retreat has taken on the aspect of a rout, with Beltway Republicans calling for abandonment of fixed positions all along the line.After Senate candidates Richard Mourdock in Indiana and Continue reading...
9 November 2012 
Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard?
Friday - November 9, 2012 at 12:30 am
By Patrick J. BuchananAfter its second defeat at the hands of Barack Obama, under whom unemployment has never been lower than the day George W. Bush left office, the Republican Party has at last awakened to its existential crisis.Eighteen states have voted Democratic in six straight elections. Among the six are four of our most populous: New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. And Continue reading...
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