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Club for Growth Flexes Its Muscles in Support of Jeff Flake
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWithin 24 hours of Rep. Jeff Flake announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), the Club for Growth had raised more than $100,000 for his nascent campaign. Very few groups (if any) come close to matching The Club's ability to swiftly reward friends of liberty and punish enemies of the free market. (I've been saying that for a long time now.) But Flake's ascendancy as the clear front-runner to replace Kyl also reinforces some other theories of mine, too. I've taken some heat for arguing that social-conservative groups lack the kind of organizational ...
Jeff Flake's Problem With Social Conservatives
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIt's still early, but Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake appears poised to win the GOP nomination to replace retiring Sen. John Kyl. He has already been endorsed by The Club for Growth and RedState's Erick Erickson, and the most likely conservative competitor -- former Rep. John Shadegg -- has declined to run. But while many conservatives are excited about Flake, some social conservatives are less enthusiastic. For example, Mike Mears, who runs the Concerned Women for America PAC, posted this on his blog: So what's my problem with Flake? 1. He's bad on Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He obviously ...
Will Tea Party Target Veteran Sens. Orrin Hatch and Dick Lugar in 2012?
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDoes the tea party movement have senior Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch and Dick Lugar in its crosshairs? A conservative-leaning Washington tabloid says Hatch and Lugar -- both veterans of 3½ decades on Capitol Hill -- should be worried heading into the 2012 election cycle. Possible threats to the two senior Republicans are taken seriously enough that the moderate GOP Ripon Society distributed a recent article about their respective situations to reporters. The tea party brought down Utah's junior senator, Bob Bennett, earlier this year, Washington Examiner political columnist Timothy P. Carney ...
The Real Reason Conservatives Should Fear the Tax Compromise
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyCharles Krauthammer's recent column arguing that "Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010" has gotten a lot of attention. As Krauthammer noted, there are many philosophical reasons for conservatives to oppose this compromise. But in my estimation, nobody has really hit on the fundamental reason conservatives ought to be very leery of the deal and how it is being presented to the public. It is axiomatic in politics that if you're going to get blamed for something anyway, you ought to at least have the enjoyment of actually doing it. For this reason, many liberals -- who always ...
Are Social Conservatives Losing Clout -- or Just the Gay Debate?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailySocial conservative groups (which I would distinguish from rank-and-file social conservatives) don't have the juice they used to. Nobody on the right wants to admit this publicly, but they've lost clout in recent years. The most recent example occurred when social conservatives couldn't keep GOProud -- a gay conservative group -- from continuing its affiliation with the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Whether you think this is a good or bad thing is not the point here.) As National Journal's Reid Wilson wrote: Social conservatives, including the National Organization for ...
2010 Election: Vindication for the Club for Growth
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyRegular readers of this blog will know that I am a fan of the fiscally conservative Club for Growth, and have even spoken for them in the past. As such, it's probably no surprise to learn that I think their impact has been greatly underrated this year (this is no doubt because they have been around for a while, and their impact predated the rise of the tea party). Let's start with the fact that former Club for Growth President Pat Toomey is now a U.S. senator-elect in Pennsylvania. This alone is a big deal. How many organizations have their president go on to become a United States ...
Tea Partiers Sharron Angle, Rand Paul to Get Embrace of National GOP Leaders
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe two most prominent Tea Party Republicans to emerge from this year's primaries -- Nevada's Sharron Angle and Kentucky's Rand Paul -- may have upset establishment GOP candidates in their bids for Senate nominations, but they will soon be heading to the nation's capitol to receive the embrace of national Republican leaders and key conservative groups. While some Nevada Republicans harbor misgivings about whether Angle, given some of of the positions she has previously staked out, is the strongest candidate to face Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in November, the National Republican ...
Election Scorecard: Women and Big Money Win; Labor Takes Huge Hit
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe primary nicknamed Super Duper Tuesday, with elections in 12 states, produced some unexpected winners and losers. Biggest Winners: Women under siege. The night was a triumph for Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Nikki Haley, the South Carolina lawmaker of Indian descent who fell just short of avoiding a runoff for the Republican governor's nomination. Lincoln was practically written off after she failed to win 50 percent of the vote in a May 18 primary and was forced into a runoff with Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. "We sure surprised a lot of ...
Primary Election Results: 3 Biggest Shockers-in-the-Making
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAs voters in 12 states await the results of Tuesday's primary elections -- the biggest yet in this electoral season of American discontent -- a handful of races promise to give pundits plenty to talk about come Wednesday. Surge Desk previews the potential headlines most primed to shake up the current political order. 1. Tea Party Favorite (and Scientologist?) Sharron Angle Wins in Nevada One of the stranger narratives of the 2010 campaign came when one of Angle's two opponents, Sue Lowden, cut an ad that questioned Angle's ties to the Church of Scientology. Angle, who has been endorsed by ...
Brian Sandoval, Sharron Angle Lead for GOP Governor, Senate Nods in Nevada
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe frontrunners in Nevada's GOP primary races for the gubernatorial and senate nominations are former federal judge Brian Sandoval, who is seeking to oust incumbent Gov. Jim Gibbons, and Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle, who has forged ahead of onetime frontrunner Sue Lowden, according to two new polls. One of the polls conducted May 31 - June 2 by Daily Kos/Research 2000 shows neither of the Reids running for office this year -- Harry, seeking re-election to the Senate, and son Rory, bidding for governor -- looking particularly strong heading into the general elections in most of the ...
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