No Apologies Needed, Mitt

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Mitt Romney has conceded that his thoughts, expressed at that Boca Raton, Fla., fundraiser, were “not elegantly” stated. Those mocking him might concede he has tabled one of the mega-issues of our time. Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

The Irreconcilable Conflict

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, “Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.” Thus did Kipling, the Poet of Empire, caution the British about the Eastern world the Victorians and Edwardians believed to be theirs. And with that …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Is It Time to Come Home?

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Is it not long past time to do a cost-benefit analysis of our involvement in the Middle and Near East? In this brief century alone, we have fought the two longest wars in our history there, put our full moral authority behind an “Arab Spring” that brought down allies in …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Has Obama Called Bibi’s Bluff?

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

What is Bibi Netanyahu up to? With all his warnings of Iran‘s “nuclear capability,” of red lines being crossed, of “breakout,” of the international community failing in its duty, of an “existential threat” to Israel, what is the prime minister’s game? The answer is apparent. Bibi wants Iran‘s nuclear program …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

The ‘Large Purpose’ of Romney-Ryan

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

“The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose,” said Woodrow Wilson in his first inaugural, 100 years ago. The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Last Hurrah of Nixon’s ‘New Majority’?

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Looking back all the way to America’s Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions. The first was Abraham Lincoln’s. With his war to restore the Union and his martyrdom, Lincoln inaugurated an era of Republican dominance that lasted more than seven decades and saw only two Democratic presidents: …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

Mitt’s ‘Damn-the-Torpedoes!’ Decision

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

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 …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

The Cost of Winning Ugly

Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...

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 …

Read more…


Make America Think Again! - Share Pat's Columns...