Showing posts with label conservative ideals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conservative ideals. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The end of Liz Cheney, a morality tale.

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 (Originally May 7) Liz Cheney is soon to be removed from her leadership position in the GOP hierarch in the House. Her unforgivable error w...
Saturday, December 22, 2018

December links

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Many developments in the Russia investigation. Confirmation of Trump's involvement in paying off women before the election, but no sho...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Is it a hate group?

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Conservatives like to claim that the Southern Poverty Law Center, the long-time watchdog on hate groups, is now a hate group itself. They wa...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Anti-Trump conservatives

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I've been neglecting this story for too long. Some conservatives, and not the usual suspects, have been clearly against Trump. Eric Eric...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Brilliant or crazy: Was Moynihan a neocon?

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I have to repeat the headline: is it a brilliant insight or insanity to list Daniel Patrick Moynihan as a neocon? You may be wondering whe...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Mixed feelings about Reagan

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I realized earlier this year that I can't imagine what this country would be like without Ronald Reagan having been president. Not havin...
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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Limbaugh explains his party

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Prologue. I'm adding this section based on a comment that the material is dated. The reason I delve into this topic is 1) to gauge Limb...
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Friday, May 3, 2013

Short: Open Letter to Conservatives

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First, two disclaimers: The open letter is NOT short. It's long, but pithy and readable. It was written by Russell King, whoever th...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Sincerely against same-sex marriage

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I've been lucky to have had diversity in friends during my life. And by 'friends,' I don't mean casual acquaintances of a fe...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Grand promise of "Get out the vote"

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Getting your voters to the polls is the bane of many campaigns. The numbers (and wishful thinking) say you can win if you can turn out many ...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Short: Newt Gingrich rescues the GOP

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OK, only in his own fantasies. I was researching CPAC (particularly who controls the conference schedule), and I found this gem of incomp...
Friday, February 22, 2013

What not to say, conservatives

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The conservatives are trying to have a constructive discussion about how to improve their campaign message. They've mostly decided that ...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Seeking new conservative voices

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With the failure of the conservative message in the 2012 election, I wondered who was going to rise in the GOP/conservative circles. Of cour...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Good news from the GOP, Part 2

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I didn't get to say this in the previous post , but the GOP's offer to delay the debt ceiling vote for three months seems very signi...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Breaking: Major fissures in the conservative world

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Is the US conservative universe collapsing? There are certainly a lot of odd tremors: A major leak from Fox News--a high-level Fox contri...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Lying his way to the White House

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I'm amazed that Romney is so close to winning the election in 3.5 weeks. The turning point was the first debate , and the change was mor...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Romney shuns the right flank of his party?

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Romney was sounding like a level-headed moderate in the debate last week. His conservative supporters , far from panicking, rejoiced, though...