After Francesca Hong lost despite a big polling lead, my new @townhallcom VIP column is more on-poinththan ever!
“Here’s why I don’t trust the polls, besides my decades of experience watching politics. It’s because when a weird phone number comes up on my phone, even one that doesn’t say “Spam Risk,” I give it some major side-eye. Now, I usually have to answer unknown numbers without a spam risk alert because I get lots of calls from people not already in my contact list — the booker for Geebo and the Boner’s Morning Zoo on KDUM radio in Bumtouch, Idaho, and that sort of thing. After all, that’s my business. And I always answer with a grunt because I don’t want AI taking my voice and using it to tell Irina that I’m trapped in Nigeria and she has to send $700 to get me freed from captivity. But if there’s a slight pause, or I hear a lot of voices in the background from the boiler room in Bangladesh, I hang up. Yet, occasionally, a normal voice comes on, and if they say, “I’m from Something Something Polling,” I am out of there.
I don’t know about you, but if you’re statistically like every single one of my conservative friends, you never ever ever ever talk to pollsters.”
Ignore the Poll Dancers https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/08/12/ignore-the-poll-dancers-n2681021
There’s no argument that that this is a great @townhallcom VIP column…
“The foundation of a democratic republic — where the people allegedly have the final say in their own governance — is the ability to argue. That is how you make public-policy decisions. You present evidence, apply it to the rules and norms, consider precedent, and try to persuade a majority. You cannot have anything like a democracy — I know we are not technically a democracy; go with me — unless people in your society can argue. The alternative to argument is force, and force rather undermines the whole democracy thing.
Here is the problem. We don't have arguments anymore, at least not often enough or in the right way. ”
Never Argue With Idiots https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/09/23/never-argue-with-idiots-n2683335
I’m so tired of these freaking losers, and my @townhallcom column is not kind to them…
“Twenty years ago, people would’ve thought you were crazy if you told them that Karl Rove would be welcomed onto the pages of the regime media to announce that his powerful principles require him to vote for a Democrat who believes you should carve up little boys and girls to conform to the trendy gender delusions of their Munchausen mommies. But in 2026, when he did that, nobody was surprised. Nobody was shocked. After all, betrayal is the old Republican establishment’s brand.”
The Last Stand of Rove, Cornyn, and the Establishment Frauds https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/09/21/the-last-stand-of-rove-cornyn-and-the-establishment-frauds-n2683249
