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Sullivan reminds us of something Ross said in his June Atlantic piece that had not caught my attention the first time:
The Bush administration has often seemed bent on vindicating, in the short run and by force of arms, Francis Fukuyama’s famous long-term prediction that liberal democracy will ultimately triumph. Now Bush’s hopes for vindication depend [...]
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I suppose this will make James happy:
Political donors report Sen. John McCain complains he is under pressure from President Bush and his former political adviser Karl Rove to select former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as his vice presidential running mate.
If someone were telling me I had to associate myself with Mitt Romney, I would complain, [...]
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Less impressed with it than Ross seems to have been, I was not persuaded by much of Mark Schmitt’s article, and the two sentences that sum up why are these:
The politics of American-ness needs to be cloaked in policy, simply because it’s unpalatable otherwise.
This year the Republican argument is reduced to its barest essence: Americans versus “pluribus,” [...]
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A shockingly large group of people, that’s who. On the economy, McCain is trusted more than Obama (47-41%), and likewise on Iraq (49-37) and national security (53-31). Concerning the economy, McCain leads Obama 55-33 among men, wins every age group except 18-29, gets 31% black support, 25% of Democrats and wins every income group above [...]
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But compassionate conservatism has come under criticism for a variety of reasons. For some, it is fundamentally at odds with fiscal conservatism — no social priority is deemed more urgent than balancing the budget. For others, it is a violation of their vision of limited government — the state’s only valid purpose is to uphold [...]
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Filed under: Christianity, politics
My posts this week at Taki’s Magazine continue the discussion of Lukacs and Buchanan that started with the review from the 6/2 issue. One expands on my earlier critique of the review, and the other addresses Lukacs’ critics.
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This NPR poll (via Krieger) has an interesting feature that measures agreement with a series of statements with and without partisan labels. On the whole, the overall difference in support or opposition for a given position between the “partisan” and “non-partisan” respondents is not that great (the GOP’s position loses approximately 60-40 regardless of labeling), but there was one [...]
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Yglesias:
But of course we’re not supposed to talk about this, anymore than we’re supposed to talk about why Phil Donohue got fired or why Chris Matthews and Pat Buchanan both had fierce anti-war positions off air that they avoided expressing on camera.
I can’t recall how outspoken Matthews was, but anyone who was actually watching Buchanan [...]
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Republicans need to be Republicans. The greatest threat to classic Republicanism is not liberalism; it’s this new brand of libertarianism, which is social liberalism and economic conservatism, but it’s a heartless, callous, soulless type of economic conservatism because it says “look, we want to cut taxes and eliminate government. If it means that elderly people [...]
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Sullivan points out that some maps projecting the candidates’ electoral votes at this time four years ago were wildly wrong as predictions of the outcome, which ought to send cold shudders through every Obamaite in the country for a couple reasons. First, the electoral maps are only representations of the polling at the time, and most polling [...]
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