Jun
28
The neoCon Delusion
June 28, 2010 | 11 Comments
With the title, some of you may have no doubt rolled your eyes, while several others may have uttered, “Finally!” It’s not what you think. The neoCons I speak of are not those nefarious (joooooooooish) conservatives who seek to take over the world through military might and by their ability to dupe Americans with their mind control [...]
Jun
25
But he’s a nice guy
June 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
I’ve blogged about David Weigel before here and here. He wrote a blog for the Washington Post tracking the right-wing blogopshere. I say wrote because he has resigned, and I’ll link to Don McClarey for an explanation as to why. Long story short, he was exposed for who he was. The worst part of all [...]
Jun
23
History Lessons
June 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
Even in an otherwise positive story about the GOP, the Washington Post feels it necessary to get a historically dubious dig in: The Republican Party stepped away from its long and uncomfortable history of racial and ethnic politics in South Carolina on Tuesday, nominating an Indian American woman for governor and an African American man [...]
Jun
22
The Doctor is in
June 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Doctor Zero has an excellent takedown of David Frum’s latest inanity. Amazingly Frum continues to peddle the idea that the only way forward for Republicans is to steer towards the middle. Doc Zero is having none of it. My crystal ball doesn’t work better than anyone else’s, and we’ve still got a long way to [...]
May
14
Chris Christie is my hero
May 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen: Governor Christie has proven to be a true one of a kind politician – a guy who has unapologetically done everything he promised to do during his campaign. He truly doesn’t give a fig about poll numbers (and indeed his numbers are down), but [...]
Apr
15
The link between fiscal and social conservatism
April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
Regular Guy Paul Mitchell delivered a speech last week where he said the following: …anyone who knows me knows that I am a social conservative. I am also a fiscal conservative. I am also a foreign policy hawk. I see no conflict between these positions; indeed, it seems to me that each without the others [...]
Apr
7
Rubio riding high
April 7, 2010 | Comments Off
I never considered myself to be on the vanguard of political activism, but R.S. McCain’s post on Hot Air regarding Marco Rubio’s rise and the helpful influence of grassroots activism (including a link to yours truly) did put a smile on my face. It’s almost a year later, and it’s remarkable to witness the complete [...]
Mar
24
The political perils of campaigning on repeal
March 24, 2010 | 1 Comment
While I think it would be absolute folly for the Republicans not to run on a platform of repealing the health care reform legislation, it does carry with it some risks should the GOP attain a majority in either House. Obviously there is no chance that this bill will be repealed while Obama is still [...]
Mar
9
Daniel Foster reports on the Corner about the latest poll showing Republican US Senate Candidate Marco Rubio leading Governor Crist by more than a 2:1 margin, 60-28. What’s worse for Crist is that dropping out of the Senate race to run for governor is not much of a viable option: GOP voters say they’d prefer [...]
Feb
24
Ron Paul claims the Fed involved in Watergate, funding Saddam
February 24, 2010 | 9 Comments
No, this guy is not nuts at all. H/t: Hot Air, which also links to another takedown of Mr. Paul here. I also love this quote from one of Ron Paul’s GOP primary challengers. “Ron Paul is literally the most ineffective member of Congress,” said Graney, who owns a consulting business in Katy. “He talks [...]
Feb
22
Beck, Paul, CPAC and the future of conservatism
February 22, 2010 | 6 Comments
It is rare that I disagree with Jonah Goldberg, but when it comes to Glenn Beck’s CPAC keynote address, I side with Bill Bennett and Mark Levin (and if I am hearing him correctly today, Rush Limbaugh). It is popular, and not altogether wrong, to bash the Republican Party. There are reasons to do so, [...]
Feb
20
The death of conservatism
February 20, 2010 | 10 Comments
This is the kid of crap that makes me weep for the future of conservatism, and thus the the future of our country. Ron Paul is a nutjob. Conservatives follow him at their peril.
Feb
16
The only good conservative is a dead conservative
February 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
I almost missed this post from RS McCain from yesterday. One of the more amusing tendencies of certain “conservative intellectuals” — the scare-quotes are necessaary, if you know the type of people I have in mind — is their habit of name-checking famous (dead) conservatives in pursuit of arguments about the unworthiness of famous (living) [...]
Feb
1
But we need to factor in electability
February 1, 2010 | Comments Off
That’s the argument made for nominating moderate squishes. You see, if we nominate a more conservative guy, he’s gonna get killed in the general election. That argument may make sense in certain cases, but is usually just a smokescreen employed to justify nominating inferior candidates. Case in point: Florida. The numbers I suspect most of [...]
Jan
26
Not quite
January 26, 2010 | 3 Comments
David Brooks is back, writing about his favorite topic. He actually makes some fair points, especially this: It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by a complex web of factors, including global imbalances caused by the rise of [...]
Jan
20
Scott Brown – RINO
January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
Well, I figured I’d get that out of the way early. Scott Brown’s victory is, in all seriousness, a momentous one. It would have been important even if he hailed from a purple state like Colorado or New Mexico. After all, it would have denied the Democrats a 60th vote in the Senate. But that [...]
Jan
14
More Palin
January 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Erick Erickson, Quin Hilyer, and Dan Riehl all make pretty much the same point I did last week on the unhinged nature of Sarah Palin’s supporters and detractors. All four of us I think would label ourselves as Palin supporters, but we’re disquieted by the intense reaction she and her supporters demonstrate at the slightest [...]
Jan
8
Fascinating
January 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
That’s my Spockian reaction to the comments section of Quin Hilyer’s blog post regarding Sarah Palin’s decision not to attend CPAC this year. Though Quin’s title might have been provocative, it was a reasonable (I felt) post expressing why Palin made the wrong decision. Unfortunately, any criticism of Sarah Palin is deemed heresy to a [...]
Jan
7
This is surely devastating
January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
Dan Riehl links to a Hotline poll that must surely have Sarah Palin weeping. A poll of GOP insiders suggests that ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has little support among the party’s professional class — and maybe that’s just how she wants it. In a survey of 109 party leaders, political professionals and pundits, Palin [...]
Dec
16
Give that man a gold star
December 16, 2009 | Comments Off
Just when it looked like Sarah Palin was a lock for the “Make the CrankyCon pump his fist in the air” award, Ramesh Ponnuru writes this post on the Corner. It’s all very good, but this is the clincher: At the risk of being thought quixotic, let me suggest that we need to revive a [...]