Cruz Promises to Fight for Conservatives at GOP Convention
Last month, I wrote that the real battle to watch at the Republican National Convention in July would not be nomination-related but rather over the content of the Party’s platform,…
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Is This Prominent Conservative Columnist Running for President?
The stranger-than-fiction 2016 presidential race took another wild turn on Tuesday. From NBC News: After a feverish few days of speculation over who conservative “Never Trump” activist Bill Kristol was…
Four Reasons Why Republicans Will Vote for Trump
Victor Davis Hanson has a piece at the Hoover Institution’s Defining Ideas journal making a case for why most GOP voters will ultimately pull the lever for Donald Trump this November.…
The Best Case Yet Against #NeverTrump: The Left Is at War with Conservatives
Dennis Prager has a thought provoking piece up at Townhall titled, “A Response to My Conservative #NeverTrump Friends”. Seriously, go read it. Prager criticized Donald Trump frequently during the primary, but…
Why This Conservative Is Voting for Donald Trump
I have come to a conclusion: I am going to vote for Donald Trump. And I think you should, too. For months, I have been weighing this decision. I wanted…
The Politics of Shaming
I am often asked by fellow conservatives about my experience with Governor Chris Christie as the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2014. When I reply…
Rush Limbaugh: Trump Will Beat Hillary “In a Landslide”
Conventional wisdom says that Donald Trump will be a huge underdog against Hillary Clinton in November. But yesterday on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said that conventional wisdom is wrong: Let…
ThePulse2016.com Chat: What Happened to Ted Cruz?
We held a chat this morning with several The Pulse 2016 contributors to discuss the end of Ted Cruz’s campaign. Where does the conservative movement go from here? Can Donald…
Silencing Conservatives on Campus
Last week, students at Emory University found messages written in chalk at various places on the campus. Some students were traumatized and complained to the administration that they were afraid and…
Republicans for Hillary?
There was a meeting in Washington yesterday of some evangelical conservatives, which I declined to attend. The purpose of the meeting, as it was pitched to me, was to form…
Is the GOP Worth Saving?
Last night’s debate underscores this truth: The GOP is disintegrating. When the front-runner for your party uses the national debate stage to discuss the size of his Anthony Weiner, you…
Senator Sasse Says He Cannot Vote for Trump
Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska became the first elected Republican to say that he will not support Donald Trump if he is the nominee, in a lengthy Facebook post. Sasse…
The Five Stages of Grief: Coming to Terms with “President Trump”
DENIAL Donald Trump won the Nevada caucus last night. Big deal. Everyone expected that. The real story is who finished second. And Marco Rubio came through BIG — winning second place with 24…
Trump Says He Invented Common Sense Conservatism
Donald Trump, in defending his record as a conservative, told Sean Hannity, “[Y]ou mentioned the word conservative. I like to say I’m a conservative with common sense or I’m a common sense…
Could I Vote for Trump? Ever?
The great Erick Erickson has now recanted his earlier statement that if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee he would vote for him, even as he rallied all good Christian…
Why I Wept for Justice Scalia
I did not expect it to happen, watching the flag-draped casket carrying the husk of Justice Antonin Scalia up the long marble steps of the Supreme Court this morning, but I…
Rush Limbaugh: “There’s Nobody Closer” to Reagan than Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz won high praise yesterday from Rush Limbaugh. Here’s what Rush said: If conservatism is the dominating factor in how you vote, there is no other choice for you…
Fellow Republicans: Stop Copying the Left’s Attacks on Trump and Cruz
In the boisterous competition for the Republican presidential nomination, I am noticing a disturbing trend — the tendency by some to attack the supporters of the two leading candidates, Ted…
Tucker Carlson: Here’s What Republicans Can Learn from Trump
This piece by Tucker Carlson in Politico today is an absolute must-read: About 15 years ago, I said something nasty on CNN about Donald Trump’s hair. I can’t now remember the…
Good-bye, Reagan Revolution
Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Trump’s decision to remove himself from the final debate was tactically brilliant. He doesn’t do well in the debate format anyway. And…
