Executive Summary: A Republican Nomination Process
The Republican Party’s presidential-nomination process was never designed with conservative goals in mind. To the contrary, in a peculiar historical turn some four decades ago, the Republican Party...
View ArticleFor GOP in 2016, Some Medicine
“If Reince Priebus from Kenosha, Wisconsin, is the Republican ‘establishment,’ God help us,” says the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus. His physical presence is almost as...
View ArticleAvoiding Another 2012
What was the worst moment of the 2012 presidential race? Was it Donald Trump’s slow-motion striptease about entering the contest? Michele Bachmann’s invocation of “government needles” being “pushed...
View ArticleLet’s Change How We Pick Presidential Candidates
You can get agreement from almost all points on the political spectrum that the worst aspect of our political system is the presidential-nomination process. It is perhaps no coincidence that it is the...
View ArticleA Republican Nomination Process
For an executive summary of this piece, click here. In the wake of the 2012 election, one point on which practically all Republicans seemed to agree was that their party’s presidential-nomination...
View ArticleA Proposal for Presidential-Selection Reform
It’s time for the Republican Party to institute a presidential-selection process of its own design, rather than continuing to use the one it adopted from the left wing of the Democratic Party. Click...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Low Identification Rate—and What to Do About It
Even in the wake of the disaster that is Obamacare, and the wider disaster that is the Obama administration, Gallup’s polling indicates that the percentage of Americans who identify themselves as...
View ArticleThe NFL Draft and the GOP 2016 Nominating Rules
My Monday Washington Examiner column continues my look at what the Republican National Committee is doing to reform the presidential nominating process. My first take on the subject from last week is...
View ArticleInaugural Podcast: The Crazy Ones
Jeff Anderson talks with Owen Brennan and Patrick Jones about college football, a plan for overhauling the Republican presidential nomination process, and the importance of repealing and replacing...
View ArticleWhy Would Any Sane Republican Run for President?
Did we learn anything about the Republican primary battle in Wednesday night’s debate? Basically, there are two contests going on at once. Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina are competing to...
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