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Noel O’Sullivan puts it well:
In the Vindication of the English Constitution he had indeed professed allegiance to the ideal of a balanced constitution, and consequently insisted that the House of Commons alone could not be regarded as the representative of the nation; it was, on the contrary, merely the representative of one estate of the [...]
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I should clarify something from the last two posts. Running candidates who are a good fit for their district does not require that Republicans ditch their social conservative base, even if Democrats have had to run antiabortion candidates in order to win in red and conservative-blue districts. The reason for this is that abortion, and [...]
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Jay Cost of RealClearPolitics thinks that the gold medal for faulty analysis this election cycle should go to pundits who say NY-23 shows the Republican Party deeply divided, since, Cost says, “the GOP’s divisions - whatever they may be - are utterly, totally dwarfed by the continuing divisions in the Democratic Party. Not only in [...]
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I’m in the camp that says Tuesday’s election results don’t tell us much about what to expect next November. A Republican revival? Conservative comeback? That’s not exactly what NY-23 suggests; there Democrat Bill Owens beat Conservative (and virtual Republican) Doug Hoffman by sticking to the common-sense, district-specific playbook that served the Democrats well in 2006 [...]
I have a review of the new book by George H. Nash, dean of conservative historians, up at History News Network here.
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