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A Summer Place is a film about a time in America when families felt a sense of shame if their teenage daughter got pregnant — and one that many conservatives recall with a sense of nostalgia, blaming the Sixties, the liberals, etc. for the decline in that kind of family values in our own era [...]
Yes, Senator Lindsey Graham just said that on the stage of the RNC, along with shouting:
“Let there be no doubt about it - -we are on the road to victory! We are winning!”
And what do we get?
“A model of a nation in the heart of the Arab world that rejected al Qaeda.”
St. Paul, we’ve achieved [...]
Filed under: Politics
The Washington Times reports:
ST. PAUL, Minn. | Sarah Palin displays an Israeli flag in her governor’s office in Juneau, even though she has never been to the country, and attends Protestant evangelical churches that consider the preservation of the state of Israel a biblical imperative.
Her faith makes her a favorite with the staunchly pro-Israel neoconservative [...]
Filed under: Politics
I’m not saying that Rod is wrong, I don’t follow these things closely enough to know; but does he have any specific evidence for this?:
What I’m trying to get across here is that events of the past few days have revealed that the left — not everyone on the left, but some on the left [...]
Sarah Palin achieved tonight what John McCain couldn’t, she turned an “experience vs. change” race into an “us vs. them” race. Franklin Foer and Andrew Sullivan are decrying this strategy on moral grounds, which is cute in a weepy sort of way. This is good strategy. If you are in politics for “uplift” you are [...]
Having already thrice denied denied any connection with Pat Buchanan, it was perhaps inevitable that Sarah Palin’s walk to Canossa would now entail passing through the gauntlet of The Lobby. On Tuesday she was accompanied by Joe Lieberman when she met with a group from AIPAC . She described her “deep, personal and lifelong commitment to [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Politics
Dr. Hadar speculates the assertion that Alaska’s proximity to Russia gives its governor foreign policy experience is now a talking point. We all know it isn’t officially a Republican talking point until it emanates from Fox News; those for immediate release we see on Fox and Friends. Soon they’ll start interrupting Red Eye to broadcast them. Maybe they already [...]
Leon, her Buchananite deprogramming has begun. Re-education lesson #1: We are all Georgians now.
Filed under: Election, Foreign policy, Politics
What could be more helpful in the midst of a hurricane than a politician? If there is flooding in New Orleans, I’m sure the victims will say, “Don’t send food, water, money, medical supplies–send us candidates!”
While Bush and other great samaritan-statesmen are skipping out on the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, so they can [...]
Richard Spencer asks, “how can we not get behind” Sarah Palin and my answer is: Very easily. He writes that “this is a woman who loves guns, has lots of kids, is a rugged individualist in the Western mold, lowered property taxes, and not too long ago supported Pat Buchanan!”
Ho hum. I counter that she [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Politics