“If you are the moderator of a big debate, I think you want to open quizzing the biggest candidate on what is the topic that most people are talking about – the most incendiary topic there is.” – Ellis Henican “You should not do what (John) King did when Newt attacked him. It made King look…
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“I am sick and tired of politicians moaning about the questions they are asked by the media. That is the last refuge of of the weakling politician.” – Ellis Henican “Nobody performs the complaining with any more vigor than Sarah Palin. Her entire time on the national political stage has been one…
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“Isn’t there something contradictory about saying: government get out of my pocket, government get out of my morality, government get out of my life but please pass a bunch of laws telling people what they can look at on the internet.” – Ellis Henican It’s been called the year of the Constitutionalist. The Republican field…
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“The stream of deportations under the Obama administration is considerably higher than in the Bush years – and that makes no sense at all.” – Ellis Henican The case of Jakadrien Turner – a fourteen year old Texas teenage runaway deported to Colombia in May of last year after giving a false name to Dallas police –…
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“I don’t think Newt handled this right. When you announce you’re gonna slime the other guy and then you go ahead and slime the other guy -he’s ready for it.” – Ellis Henican Newt Gingrich has been telling anyone and everyone that he’s out for revenge and plans to begin negative attacks against Mitt Romney. Gingrich blames Romney…
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“It’s dumb, politically, that Republicans have not been able to rally around a single candidate. 75% of the vote chopped up 5 different ways is never going to be a very big number.” – Ellis Henican There’s a Mitt and Anti-Mitt campaign going on – it’s time the Republicans think about consolidating. Listen to Ellis…
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“Republicans want the most conservative, but the most conservative who can win.” – Joe Luchi on the Ellis Henican Radio Show With the first in the nation Iowa Republican Caucus just hours away, Mitt Romney is leading in most polls – having positioned himself as possibly the best “anti-Obama” candidate. Republican Political Activist Joe Luchi gives…
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“Let’s be clear about one thing – it’s Obama-Clinton not Clinton-Obama.” – Ellis Henican The rumors have started – Hillary Clinton replacing Vice-President Joe Biden on the Obama ticket for 2012. Advancing the idea as “a natural” this time around is former Labor Secretary with the Bill Clinton administration, Robert Reich. “Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of…
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“There was no one, not Lech Walesa – not even Ronald Reagan, who inspired so many from beneath the boot of Soviet domination as did the brave Václav Havel.” – Ellis Henican Václav Havel – playwright, essayist, poet, dissident, human rights activist, politician, former president of the Czech Republic. He changed the world – shining a beacon…
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