Category Archives: Mona Charen

I agree with Mona Charen that our primary process has become much too long.  It requires candidates to raise a huge war chest over a long period of time and unfortunately I think some voters lose interest with the process being so long!! It also puts stress not only on the candidates but especially on…

No. It causes the candidate with the most money to come out on top.

I am not sure of the reason, but it seems we have wound up with candidates that are certainly not conservative enough for me.  This happened with both McCain and with Romney.  The primary seems to have become more of an endurance test, and a liberal media does its part to weed out the conservatives…

I agree that the long season of fundraising and primaries has some impact but it's not our biggest problem. The Republicans keep getting weaker conservative candidates because we allow other than Republicans to choose our candidates. In 2008, only 25% of Republicans chose John McCain, and yet he became the nominee. If only Republicans were…

Unless you are embraced and supported by the party chances are slim you will be able to raise enough money to maintain the advertising and exposure necessary to get through the primary process against an opponent who does have the party’s support.  Either that, or you have to have your own deep pockets, which as…

It is very difficult to evaluate any new candidate who has no record in public service. Many organizations send out questionnaires which candidates are to fill out.  It is hard for a new candidate to fill out many of the questions as they do not have previous information and need to learn. Hence it is difficult…

Outsiders and newcomers will be disadvantaged by such an abbreviated process.

She obviously has not looked at South Carolina.  We have top notch Republicans elected to office.

Politics as usual, Mona.  Politics as usual.