Peter Lawler

So here’s another excerpt from the talk I gave at BYU. “Gave,” of course, doesn’t mean I really read the whole darn thing. We are, as persons, whole beings. There’s no true distinction between being a person and being a human being. We free persons have bodies, and our . . . . Continue Reading »

So when you read about the alleged wisdom of this “dream team” it’s all fairly obvious. It’s marketing—techniques well known to corporations and such. The difference between the two campaigns is that the president’s men and women really used that knowledge to . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . with some Tocquevillian spin . . . . . Continue Reading »

BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s the account of the total failure of Project ORCA . The conclusion: So, the end result was that 30,000+ of the most active and fired-up volunteers were wandering around confused and frustrated when they could have been doing anything else to help. Like driving people to the polls, . . . . Continue Reading »

As step four of my twelve-step program to stop obsessing about the election, I’m working on part of my introduction to my study on THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF THE FAMILY, first unveiled at BYU. For the Christians, the law of nature is love, personal love. Our hardwiring for personal logos, so to . . . . Continue Reading »

For the record–here’s the best argument I’ve gotten against overhyping the Obama science of voter control: OH was much closer than either his or Romney’s “internals” showed. Plus there was a strangely low turnout of rural, white, mainly evangelical voters in that . . . . Continue Reading »

Obama and the Democrats, all the experts are bragging today, had a much more “metric-driven” campaign. They had a much better handle on who would vote and why, and they were much better organized with paid guns who knew what they were doing to get their guys out. On election morning, . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s a very provocative analysis drawn off a RICOCHET thread: The debates became the Republican’s Achilles heel this cycle. We let them consume us during the primaries and we let them dupe us in the general. Obama gave Romney a freebie in the first debate, and suddenly everyone on our . . . . Continue Reading »