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The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.
Mark McKinnon
Debate
Gun
Point
Massacre
America
Tipping
Created
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers.
Mark McKinnon
Today
History
Conservative
Thought
Long
Background
He
Supported
Checks
Most
Reagan
Brady
Undocumented
Ban
Times
Modern
Any
Established
Modern History
Which
Republican
Ronald Reagan
Republicans
Taxes
Workers
Bill
Standard
Assault
Popular
Amnesty
Rifles
Million
Raised
The world is still changing. Faster than ever. And so should the Republican Party. Or condemn itself to a smaller and smaller base of core supporters and permanent minority status.
Mark McKinnon
World
Minority
Party
Faster
Changing
Status
Smaller
Supporters
Permanent
Still
Condemn
Itself
Than
Republican
Republican Party
Should
Base
Ever
Core
I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.
Mark McKinnon
Gay
Marriage
Care
Right Place
Gay Marriage
Obama
Glad
He
Got
How
Just
Place
Really
Why
Right
A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.
Mark McKinnon
Home
Failure
Leader
President
Worse
States
Dared
Obama
Point
Selection
Driven
Lead
Stunning
Terrible
Legacy
Did
Any
Romney
Far
Act
Who
United
United States
In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
Mark McKinnon
Politics
Complete
Lies
Truths
Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.
Mark McKinnon
Great
Son
Example
Bend
Tools
Great Example
Powerful
Also
Opinion
George
His
Quite
Convention
Curve
Public
Bush
Public Opinion
Speech
Speeches
Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.
Mark McKinnon
People
Disagree
Policy
Reasonable
Reasonably
Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.
Mark McKinnon
Physics
Political
Election
President
Someone
Wins
Candidate
Vice
Vice President
Ridiculous
The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.
Mark McKinnon
Presidential
Top
Press
Arbitrary
About
Merits
Making
Cover
Coverage
Campaigns
Just
Influence
Decisions
Them
Who
Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans.
Mark McKinnon
Home
Values
Three
Economic
Investments
Most
Wages
American
Stool
Legs
Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
Mark McKinnon
Confidence
Jobs
Temporary
Permanent
Nor
Tax
Tax Cuts
Cuts
Create
Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed.
Mark McKinnon
Will
Half
Pool
Spending
Immediate
Those
Jobs
More
Employed
Does
Than
Infrastructure
Create
Pull
Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.
Mark McKinnon
Political
Important
Become
Control
Complete
Our
Everything
Presidential
Circus
Part
Primary
Over
Qualifications
Parties
Important Part
Debates
Political Process
Candidates
Format
Process
Including
Media
Number
A troubled economy is always the sitting president's fault. It was when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter, when Bill Clinton defeated George H.W. Bush, and when Barack Obama defeated John McCain by running against George W. Bush.
Mark McKinnon
Fault
President
Jimmy
Jimmy Carter
Obama
Running
Carter
John
John McCain
Troubled
Economy
Always
Reagan
George
Clinton
George W
George W. Bush
Sitting
McCain
Against
Barack
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
Bush
Bill
Bill Clinton
Defeated
America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.
Mark McKinnon
Will
Unless
Know
End
America
Medicare
Voters crave authenticity.
Mark McKinnon
Voters
Authenticity
Crave
Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have 'cut the budget.'
Mark McKinnon
Politicians
Increase
Spending
Claim
About
Budget
Talk
Reducing
Up
Normally
Goes
While
Mean
Cut
Cutting
Really
Actual
Amount
Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
Mark McKinnon
Future
Win
Will
Past
Focused
About
GOP
Campaign
Elections
Public unions are big money.
Mark McKinnon
Money
Big
Unions
Big Money
Public
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
Mark McKinnon
Politics
Leadership
Nature
Strong
Party
Tea
Abhors
More
Voice
Without
Moderate
Tea Party
Filling
Vacuum
Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.
Mark McKinnon
Gay
Constitution
Rights
Party
Defends
Gay Rights
Claim
Constantly
Until
Get
Legitimate
Republicans
Right
Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.
Mark McKinnon
Future
Freedom
Will
Too
Gays
Distant
Corrupt
Marry
Sometime
Historically
Denying
Viewed
Right
Slaves
When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.
Mark McKinnon
You
Money
Unions
Spent
Adjusted
Look
Exempt
Democrats
Disclosure
Surprise
Labor
Crafted
Bill
As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.
Mark McKinnon
Service
Family
Woman
Reward
Father
Girl
Husband
Sacrifice
Run
Cost
Limited
Making
Office
Any
Blunt
Cannot
Public
Required
Sanity
Public Service
Imagine
Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.
Mark McKinnon
Great
Challenges
Matter
Big
Difficult
Assumed
Meet
Presidents
Those
About
Never
Dealt
How
Opposite
Were
Hands
Just
Even
Chair
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