Elliot Gaiser

Elliot a student of economics, rhetoric, politics, journalism, and history at Hillsdale College. He is also the host of CPR Podcasts and the editor of www.conservativeprivateradio.com. He is a contributer for Ricochet.com and is the Opinions Editor of the HIllsdale Collegian. He hopes to seek and defend truth wherever it may be found, and enjoy vigorous debate, open water swimming and playing the cello. He tweets as @ElliotGaiser

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Breitbart’s Advice to Young Culture Warriors

Andrew Breitbart once told me that the most important experience in his life was walking in front of a million-person audience, getting hammered for his beliefs and ridiculed on national television, and then getting up the next day with a smile on his face.

He said liberalism in our culture makes you think the fate worse than death is getting attacked, belittled, and mocked on TV. But the bullets they shoot at you, he said, are like those in the Matrix: You can hold up your hand like Neo, and they will stop and fall because the bullets of the left aren’t based on reality.

Going out to face what he saw as the agents of the subversive progressive machine and absorbing and deflecting their attacks is precisely what he did, day after day.

By /// March 4, 2012

Three Reasons the Michigan Primary Matters

By the end of February, the GOP nomination could take a decisive turn. Michigan and Arizona voters will cast their ballots on Feb. 28, which could be the Gettysburg of the long battle for the Republican nomination. Here’s why:

1) Michigan could swing for Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum. The state’s Republican electorate is currently trending toward the former Pennsylvania senator, according to recent polling data, but Romney has the natural advantages of name recognition and roots in the state (his father was the governor). Because the state is volatile, it could show a bellwether indication of whether or not the GOP has decided to pick a new frontrunner in Santorum, or if Romney will continue to steady climb toward facing President Obama.

By /// February 19, 2012

Huckabee: “We’re all Catholics now”

Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke to a packed CPAC, criticizing Obama’s religious rhetoric regarding taxes and his decision to defend the contraception mandate from Health and Human services.

“We’re all Catholics now,” he said of the response by the Catholic Church. A significant portion of the audience stood. He said the decision was about more than religion and cut to the core of American values.

By /// February 12, 2012