Tea Party Movement Celebrates One Year Anniversary!

By: Julianne Thompson

February 27, 2009 was a very cold and rainy day in Atlanta as nearly one thousand gathered at the Georgia State Capitol to protest government bailouts and spending spiraling out of control.  Americans from all walks of life, socio-economic levels, races, and political backgrounds gathered together that day all around the country, inspired [...]

CPAC: Observations From A Smart Girl Mom

This Smart Girl mom is truly a rookie when it comes to political conventions. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve engaged in political activism, and most of those occurred in 2008/2009. Thank you, President Obama.
When I decided to take the leap and attend this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, [...]

SGP Joins RedState, American Majority on Activist Training Initiative

Smart Girl Politics is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with American Majority, RedState.com, and the John Hancock Committee to provide intensive, high-quality training for conservative activists who are interested in equipping themselves with the tools necessary to defend freedom. Taking place in several locations during April and May, the training sessions will [...]

Lovely Ideas from Pretty People

It’s not as if humans are only allowed to be smart or physically striking.  We can separate the portion of that sentence from “smart” forward, steer it into Conjunction Junction, and swap out the “or” for an “and” without fear of creating incongruity, as there’s no reason why people can’t be both.  For proof, inform [...]

Health Care is Only Well to a Point

Imagine if California’s health consumers were allowed to buy insurance from whatever company they wanted.  Picture if they could assume the risks of their choosing, too, or a scenario under which they were actually made aware of how much an appointment or procedure costs and accordingly used resources judiciously.  Then dream about eating a jar [...]

Obama Inspires Us to Ensure He Won’t Win Again

The one good result of the 2008 election is how people are already paying more attention to future elections.  It was easy for casual political followers to get swept with the tide during the last presidential race and applaud while grinning about hope blah change blah.  But numerous people are now choosing to wear defiant [...]

A Sequel Worse than Weekend at Bernie’s II

The best thing about creating jobs is that it costs taxpayers nothing.  The worst thing about creating jobs is that the current administration doesn’t know the best thing about creating jobs.  Employers and consumers used to hash out financial exchanges among themselves to the benefit of the economy.  But President Obama prefers the alternately strange [...]

Palin Trying Trial and Error

Sarah Palin is like family to many conservatives, and not just because she would gladly bring a caribou casserole to your cousin’s graduation party.  More significantly, only those who sympathize with her are offering worthwhile criticism.  It’s like how you’d yell at your own sibling or child for misbehaving but would rightfully detonate if someone [...]

The Conservative Voice of the National Tea Party Convention (Day Two)

By Bridget Geegan Blanton
Michelle Moore, SGP Director of Technology engaged a packed room at the National Tea Party Convention as she detailed the short yet amazing history of Smart Girl Politics of which she was an integral part.  The story of SGP along with its mission as told by Michelle inspired numerous conservative women to [...]

First National Tea Party Convention Kicks off in Nashville

Tom Tancredo, former Congressman from Colorado kicked off the First National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee with a rousing address to Tea Partiers from across the nation.  “I’ve never seen anything like this,” Tancredo announced.  “There’s something happening here,” Tancredo went on to say as he referenced year one of the modern Tea Party [...]

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