Are you convinced that all candidates running for political office are the same?

Do you see “politics” as just another career choice, where candidates work their way up the ladder and — once elected to the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate — use their power, influence and our tax dollars to keep their jobs for life?

Are you annoyed that the party establishment hand-picks the candidates to fill the important posts, then lays out the bread crumbs for the rest of us to dutifully follow to the polls?

Just when you thought there was no way that an honest, selfless citizen could hack his way into the political hierarchy, along comes a man who breaks all those unwritten rules and comes out on top. Continue reading “The Good Guy Won!” →

He’s got the charisma and moral clarity of Ronald Reagan, the honesty of Abe Lincoln and the mental toughness of Jesse Helms.  In Oklahoma, the polls show he is the only man who can beat Democrat Brad Carson for the Senate seat being vacated by Don Nickles, but the party establishment wants him to lose.

Tom Coburn is not a household word, despite the fact that this family physician from Muskogee was one of the most effective and feared men to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives in recent years.  That’s because Dr. Coburn’s leadership was behind the scenes.

Modern-day Washington is set up to reward career politicians with leadership posts and committee chairmanships and Coburn was no modern-day legislator.  He was a throwback to an earlier time when men went to Washington to serve, not to be served.
Continue reading “The Race the Republican Establishment Is willing to Lose” →

The liberal press dubbed him “Senator No.” However, the gentleman, who represented the people of North Carolina in the Upper Chamber of the United States Congress longer than anyone in history, was much too polite to use that simple two-letter word all by itself. Southern tradition demands the addition of a simple title of respect. Jesse Helms was much more likely to say, “No, sir.” Continue reading “A fond farewell to Senator “No Sir”” →

George W. Bush will be our 43rd president, having squeaked by on the thinnest of margins: a handful of undimpled votes in the state of Florida, two votes in the Electoral College and one vote in the United States Supreme Court.   Now, he is getting a lot of advice on how to reach out to the left and compromise his way through the next four years.

In the comic strip “Peanuts,” time and time again, Lucy would offer to hold the football for Charlie Brown to kick, only to pull that ball right out from under him just before his toe made contact, leaving poor Charlie flat on his back.  He never learned. Continue reading “Mr. Bush, Consider Roscoe Bartlett” →