The Tory Anarchist

I predict the Republicans will lose an additional Senate seat for every 500 points the Dow loses below 9500. How long before Mitch McConnell is toast?

Jack Hunter, the Southern Avenger, was going to post this response to my blog item below on Facebook. But Facebook decided this was too long as a comment, so I’m posting it here in full:

I’ve been thinking a lot about this myself, Dan, since Paul’s endorsement of Baldwin.
Your statement here: “The rightist elements of the [...]

Earlier this week, Ron Paul endorsed Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin for president. Great news for Baldwin, of course, and terrible news for Bob Barr. But there are several implications that might not be immediately obvious; to wit:
1.) The “paleo” coalition lives. From the late ’80s until the mid-’90s, there was a great deal [...]

Up now at TAC, my article on Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic — and what the Revolution might look forward to in 2012.

I met Johnson briefly while in Minneapolis for the Rally for the Republic and was impressed by what an unassuming pol he is. I occasionally criticized him back when he was governor of New Mexico, figuring he couldn’t be as libertarian as he seemed. And indeed, he’s not perfect (who is?), but he’s pretty darn [...]

No, she isn’t. See my LRC article today. Since I wrote it on Saturday, what more I’ve learned about Palin has all been negative. She’s on film telling a church congregation that our war on Iraq is a mission from God, for one thing. I’m sure there’ll be a lot more of that sort of [...]

Two “Predator” actors — Ahnold and Jesse “The Body” Ventura — have already become U.S. governors. Now Sonny Lanham is running as a Libertarian for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat in Kentucky. Slate has produced this so-so video about “Predator’s” political legacy. (Hat tip to Lew Rockwell.)

Maybe. I don’t agree with Bob Conley on trade, but he’s antiwar, pro-life, anti-neocon, anti-Patriot Act, and to the right of just about any Democrat you can think of since Larry McDonald. The South Carolina Senate nominee is having a fundraiser in the D.C. area on Saturday — 12:30-3:30 pm in McLean, Virginia. ($50 suggested [...]

Vitter for VP — Putting the “Vice” Back in Vice-President.

Amit K. Singh, the foreign-policy realist and limited-government conservative I’d been covering for TAC, lost his primary race against one-time “compassionate conservative” Mark Ellmore for the Republican congressional nomination in Virginia’s 8th district yesterday. Dave Weigel, Richard Spencer, and I attended the Singh victory party, which unfortunately wasn’t a victory — technically, anyway. Singh [...]