Posted on October 6th, 2008 by Daniel McCarthy
Before “compassionate conservatism,” “heroic conservatism,” and “Georgia first,” neocons had another slogan: “national greatness conservatism.” The underlying ideology wasn’t much different, but the national-greatness variant could be identified by its adulation of Teddy Roosevelt. The Rough Rider was a role model: he had no Grover Cleveland-like scruples about the constitutionality of using government to do [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by Kelley Vlahos
Need any more proof that newspapers are finished? Now Washington Post columnists are compelled to report on their “twitters.” If you are one of those people who continue to spend their time reading and sending old fashioned email, “twitter” is a “social networking and micro-blogging service” through which readers and writers of blogs and [...]
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Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Clark Stooksbury
Quin Hillyer on the American Spectator Blog today:
I hate to say it, but I think conservative activists have become like hometown sports fans who so desperately want their team to win that they see EVERYthing through the lens that shows their team as being the best — and that therefore sees ANY loss or setback [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2008 by John Schwenkler
Watching Conor Friedersdorf wade calmly into battle with hordes of angry RedStaters has been terribly amusing, though along the way it’s also given me some painful flashbacks. That said, I find it immensely difficult to believe that having Sarah Palin withdrawn from the ticket could actually give a boost to John McCain’s chances for victory: not [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election
Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Freddy Gray
How many times are we going to read this Bush as Truman analogy? The President has himself repeatedly made the comparison, so has Andrew Roberts–of course–as well as countless other neocon scribes. Today was Krauthammer’s turn,
Filed under: Conservatism, media
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Clark Stooksbury
Tim Graham of the media/whiner organization NewsBusters complains that Robert Kaiser of The Washington Post positively reviewed Andrew Bacevich’s Limits of Power and referred to the author as “conservative.” Graham writes, “Kaiser’s rave review touted Bacevich as a ’self-described conservative,’ but that description stretches credulity when an author is the darling of the radical-left media, as [...]
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Posted on September 13th, 2008 by Clark Stooksbury
Ross Douthat (via James Poulos):
I think Palin really does have the potential to embody the kind of change the GOP desperately needs: In a party that’s dominated by entrenched interests, she demonstrated that it’s possible to take on the establishment and win; in a party increasingly riven by ideological feuds, she’s demonstrated that it’s possible [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Clark Stooksbury
You won’t catch Michelle Malkin setting aside partisan differences the way that candidates McCain and Obama did for yesterday’s 9/11 tribute. Malkin churlishly whined about the way that Obama placed his rose on a pile and cited a reader saying, “The first 30 seconds showed that Obama could not take the time to shake hands [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Clark Stooksbury
Richard Spencer is disappointed that Ron Paul not only isn’t running for president this fall, but he also appeared with leftist third party candidates urging a vote against the two major parties:
It’s also worth pointing out that in all these Left-Right, “strange-bedfellows” coalitions, the Left always ends up on top. Does anyone actually believe that [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election
Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Freddy Gray
Last Friday, we were joking in TAC’s offices that Sarah Palin was “America’s Maggie Thatcher”. We should have known that we wouldn’t have to wait long before this ridiculous comparison made it into print.
One doesn’t have to be Thatcherite - I’m fairly sure I am not - to see that the Palin-Thatcher analogy is absurd. [...]
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