Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

Republican Brand Still Sucks…

November 6, 2014 By Debbie Young

….as Rand Paul indelicately put it, writes Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute. Here is a short, top-down look at Mr. Tanner’s take away from the midterm elections.

  • Republicans were not so much the winners as Democrats were the losers. Voters held their collective nose as they pulled the lever repudiating Obama’s agenda.
  • Opposition to Obamacare was a major advantage to every winning Republican candidate. But as Mr. Tanner wrote several weeks ago, although substantial changes can now happen, Obamacare is not going to be repealed and will remain an albatross for Democrats.
  • Rand Paul, with “his brand of libertarian-tinged Republicanism,” was in high demand among candidates as well as voters.
  • It’s important, of course, that Republicans block some of Obama’s worst initiatives. But Republicans cannot be the party of do-nothing. It needs to show that it can “accomplish something, anything.” Mitch McConnell, as majority leader, will face a tough balancing act between Ted Cruz & Co. wanting to confront the president versus the priorities of half of Mr. McConnell’s caucus “either running for president or thinking of a vice-presidential nod.”

As Mr. Tanner points out, “virtually the entire Republican party is at least considering running.” That means all eyes and ears are going to be on the Iowa caucuses, just 440 days away, which makes for a narrow window to accomplish anything.

Related video:

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • The Republican Party, the Party of Protection
  • Breaking Bad, Breaking Good
  • A Republican Alternative to Obamacare
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • Don’t Believe ’em. They’re Coming for Your Gas Stove - January 27, 2023
  • The Power of Words - January 26, 2023
  • US Debt Now Exceeds Annual GDP? - January 25, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Why Black Lives Matter Needs to Be Shut Down
  • Can Ginger Combat Heart Disease and Improve Circulation?
  • You Want the Limo, Not the Public Bus
  • What a Way to Make a Living: New Hampshire #1
  • Tucker Carlson Interviews My Favorite Florida Farmer
  • Progressive Liberalism Has Dragged America near Ruination
  • “The Goal”: Strong Families, Resilient Faith, Thriving Middle Class.
  • Are You Prepared to Run Out of Water?
  • We’ll Burn the Place Down!
  • DIGITAL DOLLAR DOOMSDAY: The Wall Street Journal Is NOT Going to Tell You This

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • CATO: Global Freedom Is in Sharp Decline
  • Biden Administration Destroying Retiree Fiduciary Protections
  • 4 Life Changing Words for Your Survival Guy: “You Should Try This”
  • Suddenly, Holding Cash Looks Good Again to Many
  • Anti-Carbon Crusaders in Davos Talk ESG and OPM
  • Is Passive Investing Already Passé?
  • Welcome to Hotel California, Where You Can Never Leave
  • What You’re Telling Me Matters
  • Can Banks Compete with Apple Pay and PayPal?
  • America’s Super States and Stocks that Respect YOU

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • CATO: Global Freedom Is in Sharp Decline
  • TIME FOR A GONDOLA? Little Cottonwood Canyon Jammed with Traffic
  • Biden Administration Destroying Retiree Fiduciary Protections
  • 4 Life Changing Words for Your Survival Guy: “You Should Try This”
  • Anti-Carbon Crusaders in Davos Talk ESG and OPM
  • Welcome to Hotel California, Where You Can Never Leave
  • What You’re Telling Me Matters
  • The Rich Seek More from Bank Accounts
  • California’s Wealth Tax Will Drive Out Remaining Rich Residents
  • Political Establishment Irate over Conservative Challenges to ESG

Don’t Believe ’em. They’re Coming for Your Gas Stove

NH Republicans Favor DeSantis Over Trump By a Big Margin

CATO: Global Freedom Is in Sharp Decline

The Telling Depth of Media Propaganda and Censorship

MEDIA BLACKOUT: No One Will Cover Pharma Exec’s Virus Confession

TIME FOR A GONDOLA? Little Cottonwood Canyon Jammed with Traffic

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives