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Bloggers have had a name for political writing that defines a person’s moderation and reasonableness by his embrace of the most vacuous establishment truisms as his highest political truths. We have called it High Broderism, in honour of one of the masters of the art. Some of these truisms might include ”America is a nation of immigrants” or [...]
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Benazir Bhutto’s assassination yesterday in Rawalpindi deserves some comment, and actually deserves much more than I will be able to give in the short time I have today. Djerejian has interrupted his hiatus and said much that needs to be said. In short, I am still convinced that Musharraf is a liability to the stability [...]
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Filed under: foreign policy, politics
This may be my last post in 2007. As always with Eunomia, you can never be sure that a blogging hiatus will, in fact, be a hiatus, but I do intend to keep it to a minimum. Tomorrow I begin my trek home for Christmas, and I probably won’t be checking in while on break. This is what [...]
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On countless levels, however, 2008 is aeons away from 1996, let alone 1992. In each of his races, Buchanan was trying to topple a genuine, formidable front-runner: a sitting president, a Senate majority leader. But today it’s evident that, after a year of frantic campaigning, no such creature exists; indeed, Huckabee’s leap into the top [...]
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Filed under: economics, politics, populism
As of early this morning (around 5:00 a.m.), the Tea Party “moneybomb” had already raised over $1 million. Go here to see the fundraising total for today, and go here to support the campaign.
Update: As of 2:45 p.m., the Tea Party has raised just under $3.5 million and the quarterly total now stands at $14.9 [...]
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For the Republicans, I’m going to say that the obvious leader, Huckabee, wins the caucuses. The GOP side will be, in order, Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani, Thompson and Paul. For the Democrats, I will be a bit more daring and say that Edwards wins, Clinton comes in second and Obama finishes third. That will probably prove to [...]
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He will lead our country in a way that will make us proud, not ashamed, to be Republicans. ~Sarah Huckabee
Via Michael Crowley
Right there Ms. Huckabee may have summed up why Huckabee is doing surprisingly well, and how many voters could resist identification with Bush (preferring instead Reagan) while at the same time rallying behind someone [...]
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Democratic and Republican sources say that Sen. Joe Lieberman, the independent Democrat from Connecticut and fierce supporter of the war in Iraq, will formally endorse Sen. John McCain tomorrow in New Hampshire.
A McCain spokesperson declined to comment.
A source familiar with the endorsement said that the two will appear of NBC’s Today Show tomorrow morning and [...]
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Globalization is the closest thing the money-cons have to a religion. In addition to thinking that it’s good for them, they genuinely believe that it’s good for the world. Huckabee, by contrast, seriously believes that the U.S. should be economically autarchic, with high trade barriers. That’s what really sticks in the money-cons’ craw; the outpouring [...]
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Filed under: politics, populism
Though Huckabee’s star is still rising, his southern populism on trade and economic questions — and the blatancy of his appeals as a ‘Christian leader’ to Iowa’s religious voters — are so irritating to most Republicans that he is uniting the party nationally against himself. ~John O’Sullivan
It is far from obvious that this is true. [...]
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