by Tracy Munsil | Jul 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Failed GOP candidate Jeb Bush mused yesterday, “Conservatism is temporarily dead. I mean, if you look at it, we have two candidates. Donald Trump is barely a Republican. He’s certainly not a conservative.” Not so fast. Although Trump’s deeper...
by Tracy Munsil | Jul 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
My husband, Arizona delegate Len Munsil, was asked to open the GOP Platform Committee session this morning with prayer: “Almighty God, we thank you and praise you this morning for the opportunity we have in America to live in freedom and to freely worship you....
by Tracy Munsil | Jul 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Today was a marathon day in the world of GOP politics. The Platform Committee arrived before dawn and finally adjourned just shy of 8 tonight. It was all platform all day long – thirteen-plus hours of ideas and amendments, discussion, disagreement and debate, and...
by Tracy Munsil | Jul 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
The GOP Platform Committee was waiting at the doors of the convention center as the sun was rising in Cleveland. The hard work on the platform begins this morning. My husband, Len Munsil, is on the Subcommittee for Foreign Policy and Defense. The room is already...
by Tracy Munsil | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog, free-market economics, Tax/Fiscal, Uncategorized
So, what does the Republican Party stand for? The first line of the GOP 2012 Platform (after the Preamble) states: “We are the party of maximum economic freedom and the prosperity freedom makes possible …” The 2012 GOP Platform clearly reflects our...
by Tracy Munsil | Jul 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
I have one guiding maxim in my understanding and evaluation of politics – ideas matter. Politics in its simplest form is ideas applied. In political science this is called “praxis” – defined as “the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is...
by Len Munsil | Jul 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
I may be the only delegate to the GOP convention in Cleveland who has round-the-clock immediate access to a brilliant Ph.D. political science professor. In fact, she’s staying in my room. You can follow Dr. Tracy Munsil’s blog the next two weeks on my website as she...
by Tracy Munsil | Jul 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m spending the next two weeks in Cleveland, Ohio – literally, in the room where American presidential politics will be happening during the Republican National Convention. What a treat for a political junkie like me! But I’m also a political science...
by Len Munsil | Jul 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’ve been all over America during my life, but this is my first stay in Cleveland. Here’s what I learned on day one: Apparently Cleveland has a professional basketball team, and apparently this team recently won its first-ever NBA championship in a huge upset, and as...
by Len Munsil | Jul 4, 2016 | Blog
Today is Independence Day. I write today as a direct descendant of five signers of the Mayflower Compact and a dozen men who fought in the American Revolution, and as an incurably, relentlessly optimistic believer in the future of these United States. But the...
