Outside the Beltway

The strength of the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party manifests itself in a poll out of Maine showing the Olympia Snowe is vulnerable to a primary challenge in 2012.

Newt Gingrich is drawing fire for his comments about that the President has a “Kenyan world view.” But, will Newt every pay the price for his inflammatory rhetoric ? Don’t count on it.

It is impossible to read Dirty, Sexy Politics and come away with the impression that you have read anything other than the completely unedited ramblings of an idiot.

In addition to Delaware, the Tea Party movement appears to have a shot to upset an establishment candidate in New York.

Some thoughts on the Delware Senate race and the state of the GOP.

A Public Policy Survey poll taken over the weekend — apparently the only survey taken thus far — has eccentric Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell leading Mike Castle 47-43 in the race for the Republican nomination for Delaware Senate contest that will be decided Tuesday.

The Delaware GOP primary continues to get more intertesting.

The nation’s 2nd smallest state is becoming the biggest battleground between the Establishment GOP and Tea Party insurgents.

Last night’s primaries continued the anti-establishment narrative we’ve seen so far this year, and put both of the statewide offices in Florida in play.

The Obama’s are vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard again this year so, of course, it’s time for people to say stupid things about Presidential leisure activities again.

Sarah Palin’s decision to jump to the defense of “Doctor” Laura Schlessinger has many Republicans confused as to what her plans for the future are.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is superbly qualified for the presidency. But our system virtually assures that he won’t be a serious contender for the job.

The webmaster of a local Republican chapter linked a YouTube video that implies Democratic women are ugly.

Strippers didn’t attack us on 9/11. Then again, neither did American Muslims.

Some Republicans are start to wonder if it’s such a good idea for their party to be so closely associated with the heated rhetoric surrounding the future of this former Burlington Coat Factory.

Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column demonstrates an appalling misunderstanding of history in the context of immigration.

On January 3, 2008 Mike Huckabee celebrated a victory in the Iowa Caucuses, will be able to repeat that in 2012 ?

The GOP is playing a dangerous game with the anti-Islamic rhetoric that it seems to be courting these days.

There’s not as much conservative unity on the gay marriage issue as there used to be.

Shockingly, the Tea Party as a generic movement is more popular than congressional leadership. Interestingly, the Democrats are still slightly more popular than the Tea Party and the Reps are in third.

According to a new MSNBC/Wall Street Journal poll, the public that will head to the polls in November is increasingly gloomy and pessimistic.

Another round of primaries last night made the playing field for November just a little bit clearer to see.

There isn’t as much GOP unity over the idea of changing America’s citizenship rules as you might think.

The Republican Party is keeping relatively quiet on the Proposition 8 ruling. That’s a good idea.

What impact will Judge Walker’s decision on Proposition 8 have on politics in 2010 and beyond ?

A growing number of conservatives are in dismay about the state of their movement.

Twenty-five years after retiring as President Reagan’s Budget Director, David Stockman is back with a scathing indictment of Republican fiscal policies over the past four decades.

Marco Rubio doesn’t want to see the proliferation of SB1070s to other states.

Republicans are much closer to America’s political center than Democrats.

Conservatives aren’t as united over the “outrage” of the New Black Panther Case as you might think.

Democratic Governor Joe Manchin appears to have no serious challengers for the late Robert Byrd’s Senate seat.

Some Republicans in Congress are worried they won’t be able to control the future Congressmen and Senators that the Tea Party might be sending to Washington.

Some Republicans seem to think they don’t need to put forward any actual ideas in order to win November.

Will a debate over foreign policy tear apart the GOP ? Probably not.

When it comes to opinions about Sarah Palin, there is a striking difference between Republicans and Americans in general.

It’s time for the Gingrich For President speculation to begin again.

Will Democrats use a lame-duck session of Congress to pass legislation they can’t get through otherwise ? They might try, but I doubt they’ll succeed.

Is Ann Coulter’s defense of Michael Steele’s Afghan War skepticism the beginning of conservative split, or just an attempt to pile on President Obama ?

Republicans are looking at making some major, and interesting, changes to the primary calendar for 2012.