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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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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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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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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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“Bush Hawks,” the second-largest group, are the president’s most ardent supporters, as Fabrizio found, the only voter segment that says the country is moving in the right direction. They believe in a militarily muscular foreign policy that spreads democracy.
Criticizing Bush’s foreign policy, as Huckabee has done, would definitely rub this group the wrong way. Which […]
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There is something rather timid and unhopeful about all this. Mr Obama is not prepared to break ranks with his party in the same way that John McCain divides Republicans over immigration or Rudy Giuliani does over abortion. ~The Economist
Which is why he still has any chance of winning his party’s nomination, while McCain and, […]
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Ron Paul appeared on Jim Kramer’s CNBC show Mad Money. They make for a very unusual pair, but just watch them as they bash the Fed!
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The next Ron Paul “moneybomb” event begins tomorrow on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. If you haven’t given to Ron Paul’s campaign yet, I urge you to do so now. The fourth quarter fundraising is already over $11.5, so there is a reasonable chance of a $16 or 17 million quarter. Let’s make that […]
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Ghettoizing himself as a Christian warrior may win him Iowa, but it will only help Giuliani in Florida and on Feb 5. ~National Journal
This is the sort of thinking that propels the “Huckabee helps Giuliani” idea onward, despite its increasing implausibility. Supposing that the Rasmussen result is a fluke, Giuliani is still in a lot of […]
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who has surged in support in other early-voting states, is tied with Rudy Giuliani for the lead among U.S. Republican presidential candidates in Illinois, a poll showed on Saturday. ~Reuters
Huckabee is strongest, the Tribune reports, in the suburbs and Downstate, which makes some sense. What makes less sense is how Huckabee […]
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The Des Moines Register’s editorial board has endorsed Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Iowa caucuses. ~The Des Moines Register
This doesn’t matter much for the Republicans, but for Clinton it is a significant boost, and the rumours were that it might go to Obama. The endorsement was a bit grudging, but […]
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The war remains enormously unpopular and major political liability for the Republican Party. The new ABC-Washington Post Poll finds Democrats favored over Republicans on the war by a 16 point margin, slightly higher than the Democratic margin earlier this year and last year.
The claim that public opinion has shifted on the war appears to be […]
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I’m the last person to say that this administration is subject to an arrogant, bunker mentality that is counterproductive here and abroad. ~Mitt Romney
Where was it again, James, that Romney was “offering a greater departure from Bush’s foreign policy than any Republican save Ron Paul”? This is someone who wants to try Ahmadinejad under the […]
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The news story covering Huckabee’s FA essay has taken his opening lines about the administration’s ”arrogant bunker mentality” and made them half of the entire story. The blog right is, predictably, throwing a fit, with more than a few declaring that they cannot support Huckabee. It probably cannot help Huckabee in the early voting that the only person I have […]
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My guess is that Hillary Clinton would have preferred it had her husband not said the phrase “one of my impeachment managers” more than once in the course of a conversation about her campaign. Then there was this:
That’s got nothing to do with the ’90s. That’s sort of a superficial, you know, bigotry. That’s like saying ageism […]
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“If people are looking for somebody who’s a good talker, I’m not your man,” Romney said, knocking his chief rival but also alluding to his challenge. “If they’re looking for somebody who has demonstrated a record of solving difficult problems and making difficult situations into successful outcomes then I am your man.” ~Politico
In recent presidential […]
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Huckabee’s Foreign Affairs essay appears to be a rehash of the speech he gave at CSIS several months ago. The people who hated that speech because it talked about containing Iran (one of Huckabee’s better ideas) will probably also hate this essay. As I said about that speech, there are a few things that interventionists will reject (but they will […]
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And I’m convinced the world will remember as well because you’re going to do something which people don’t expect, which is give me a victory. And then I’m going to New Hampshire where I’m pretty solidly in the lead in New Hampshire, and I’m gonna be in Nevada, and I’m gonna win Nevada, and I’m […]
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The false meme lives on:
No one thought to raise objections to Mormonism when Mo Udall ran for president, nor even when Mitt’s father, George, made a bid.
In fact, some raised objections in both cases, and opposition to a Mormon candidate was approximately as strong then as it is now. If it was never as central to […]
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