Smart trumps guarded
Mr. Trump, Republicans tried guarded in the last election, and that did not lead to victory.
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Cadillac's lesson for Republicans' old-white-guy brand
The Republicans brand on Hispanic immigration could take years to rebuild How long? Let the Cadillac brand tell you a story.
Drug tests for welfare recipients: A solution in search of a problem
Michigan Republicans are playing the culture war card again with the idea of drug-testing welfare recipients.
The soft bigotry of condemning Dave Agema
If Republicans want to make headlines on marriage equality, all they need do is condemn other GOPers anti-gay discrimination.
Sen. Whitmer's distortion of Michigan tax reform
To say the reduction of business taxes and the broadening of the individual income tax is a tax on individuals may make for good headlines – but it is not good economics.
Sen. Portman comes out of the closet on gay marriage
Portman told CNN that he won’t ‘take a leadership role’ on marriage equality in the GOP. That’s not courageous.
The Wisecracker: Obama’s first big PR blunder
The sequester was first real PR blunder of his presidency — a blunder of arrogance and taking the American people for granted.
What Republicans could learn from Ronald Reagan
While Republicans claim to idolize the former president they seem to forget his greatest accomplishment wasn’t his policy but his accessibility.
Republicans casting stones over union extensions
While the objections of both Mr. McNeilly and Representative Rogers are understandable the furor they are exhibiting seems unjust given their past actions.