It would appear that our president’s staff failed to brief the president on the magnitude of Tuesday’s carnage. The White House has been hit with the equivalent of a category five hurricane, not the tropical storm that Mr. Obama appeared to be reviewing in his address to the nation. The New York Times recently wrote […]
Archives for November 2010
Quotes from Election 2010: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good: Marco Rubio’s victory speech: “We make a great mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican party…What they are is a second chance, a second chance for Republicans to be what they said they were going to be not so long ago.” Rand Paul: “Tonight, there’s a […]
The Wave Crashes
Back on March 8th of 2009, Richardcyoung.com made its first endorsement of a candidate. Frustrated with outrageous behavior of the left-wing government, it seemed necessary to add a voice to the growing call for saner, smaller government. On that day Richardcyoung.com endorsed a young former state senator from Florida, Marco Rubio, and a former congressman […]
Yo Veto!
You don’t want “that much government” in your life is one resounding message you sent Washington yesterday. There isn’t any doubt it was a historic 2010 mid-term election: a referendum on President Obama’s agenda. A huge win for the Tea Party. The question now is where does Obama go from here? And how does the […]
Close the Deal
Today is the day when Americans must be the “guardians at the gate,” as Chris Christie says. All across the nation there are elections happening where a conservative candidate was never considered a possibility. Massachusetts, that saw the upset victory of Scott Brown is again home to some of these very races. Sean Bielat could […]
A Conservative Awakening
“I have been much concerned that so many people today with Conservative instincts feel compelled to apologize for them,” begins Barry Goldwater in The Conscience of a Conservative. He continues, “Or if not to apologize directly, to qualify their commitment in a way that amounts to breast-beating.” He quotes vice president Richard Nixon, for example, […]
The Reason to Keep the Pressure On
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Then-presidential candidate Barack Obama This election, “is as important as anything we did two years ago. The labor […]
The Most Important Person in America
The Most Important Person in America is, of course, a designation that might apply to a number of significant Americans. In this instance I am centered on the November 2 Election Day and its aftermath. I write to you with the bias of an independent conservative. I most certainly have a horse in the race […]