Showing posts with label moderation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moderation. Show all posts
Sunday, January 4, 2015

Will we see a battle for the GOP's soul?

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Is the GOP the party of the white working class traditionalists, or a modern business-friendly party? Is it for crony capitalism where every...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Moderating forces and their opposite, Part 2

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Democrats moderated after their losing streak in the 60's through the 80's, which included their very wild 60's. The motivating ...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Moderating forces and their opposites

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I'm a moderate and I want a moderate political party. Why isn't there one I can join, goddammit? I asked this question on a recent...
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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Short: Moderates aren't just roadkill

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One commenter told me a few years ago that I'd have to pick a side. He used a metaphor of a hapless person trying to walk the center lin...
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Friday, February 15, 2013

Short: Why I'm writing more about the GOP

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I struggle to write about the Democratic side of the political equation lately. Their positions and proposals are so stale that I just roll ...
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Friday, February 1, 2013

The absence of coherent Obama criticism

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I spend way too much time reading politics on the internet, but it certainly has broadened my thinking. I especially like the comments since...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Obama's budget dilemma

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Obama has a constitutional requirement to submit a budget. It makes sense, but I didn't realize this was a constitutional requirement. [...
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

The silver lining of the continued stalemate

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...in three words: NO SOCIAL ENGINEERING. No Democratic social engineering. No Republican social engineering. No big tax cuts blowing hole...
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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Lessons learned from the fiscal cliff

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Prepare for a surprise. I'm not going say again how blind the GOP was to the situation, and they should wake up. I'm not going t...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

The coming GOP narrative

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The election is finally close, so I will get an answer to two burning questions. (The obvious one) Who will be the next president? What w...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

A sensible endorsement of Romney

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The Des Moines Register has the best rationale for voting for Romney that I've read. Some of their arguments: Romney has made rebuild...
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Monday, October 15, 2012

What's good about the new Romney

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As Romney surged in the polls, I focused on the problems with him. That's unbalanced and unfair, so this post is a corrective. (I have n...
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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...
Friday, October 5, 2012

Short: Conservatives love the new Romney

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This reaction piece to the Wednesday night debate struck me as the most perceptive critique: Conservatives Will Love Moderate Mitt as Lon...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

The end of candidate moderation

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Is this the first  presidential campaign where we don't see any candidate moderating his position for the general election? It appears t...
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