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(And Why It Isn’t Good News for Democrats) Those who predicted a close election in 2016 are starting to retreat. It’s early to get reliable polling, but even at this stage you can draw some ...

https://goplifer.com/2016/08/13/how-clinton-could-win-texas/

John Boehner admitted, “I’ve never worked with a more miserable son of bitch in my life” and went on to describe Ted Cruz as “Lucifer in the flesh.” In the Senate, Cruz suggested that f...

https://goplifer.com/2016/05/07/why-trump-is-worse-than-cruz/

Last night’s results in the Republican primaries demonstrated the challenge the party faces in stopping Trump. Even with the loss in Ohio he gained significant ground. At this point it seems th...

https://goplifer.com/2016/03/16/has-cruz-started-his-2020-campaign/

While Republicans celebrated their victory in the 2014 midterm elections, a nasty surprise was hiding in the numbers. That election marked a tipping point in a disastrous demographic transition i...

https://goplifer.com/2016/01/15/only-democrats-can-send-trump-the-white-house/

Remember when Rand Paul was a “libertarian?” Sure, it was always a stretch, but he tried to carry that banner for a while. Paul’s great mission was to somehow meld traditional libertarianis...

https://goplifer.com/2015/03/29/rand-paul-shows-why-cruz-is-winning/

People have learned to assume that a Republican candidate is winking when he speaks on certain subjects. No, Jeb Bush is not actually going to repeal the minimum wage. He is not going to roll bac...

https://goplifer.com/2015/03/24/when-whacko-birds-come-home-to-roost/

Journalists are starting to recognize the overall weakness of the GOP field and the potential of a Cruz candidacy. From the Washington Post this morning, Chris Cillizza, quoting a friend: He sai...

https://goplifer.com/2015/02/16/the-washington-post-on-cruzs-chances/

Jeb Bush is being treated as though he is the presumptive frontrunner for the GOP Presidential nomination, a semi-official title that all GOP nominees take on about two years out from the electio...

https://goplifer.com/2015/01/13/why-jeb-will-probably-lose/

Ted Cruz is officially the most hated man in Washington. His effort to hijack the budget deal was doomed from the start, but that didn’t deter him from engineering a high-profile political stun...

https://goplifer.com/2014/12/14/did-ted-cruz-just-lock-up-the-nomination/

Democrats are starting to have powerful success painting the GOP as the party of bigots, with good reason. When Ted Nugent channels Bull Conner, delivering a Jim Crow-era rant about our “mongre...

https://goplifer.com/2014/02/26/ted-nugent-and-our-culture-of-cowardice/