Well, a lot has happened since the last time I posted here. I joined John McCain’s campaign. I left John McCain’s campaign. I joined my friend Jon Henke at New Media Strategies, a great New Media PR firm.
Jon and I will be joining Patrick Ruffini on a new project, The Next Right. I think that […]
December 20, 2007 – 9:27 am
Bob Novak, no friend of Mike Huckabee, wrote about Huckabee and the conservative movement (aka "conservative resurgence") in the Southern Baptist Convention. We focused on interviews with two of the leaders without that movement, Richard Land and Judge Paul Pressler:
The warmth in Texas and hostility in California reflects the dual personality of the pastor-politician who […]
December 12, 2007 – 10:16 am
Yesterday, National Review endorsed Mitt Romney. This came as a surprise to no one, and it’s significance is unclear. It seems that the operative parts of the endorsement are:
Our guiding principle has always been to select the most conservative viable candidate. In our judgment, that candidate is Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. Unlike […]
December 4, 2007 – 12:09 pm
So much happened yesterday, and I was away from a computer for most of the day, that I was left nearly speechless.
Perhaps the most interesting was Grover Norquist’s comments on Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee. Grover’s whole schtick for over a decade has been his tax pledge. You sign the pledge to not raise taxes. […]
November 29, 2007 – 9:59 pm
On November 19th, Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry published a very interesting cover-story in National Review. They argued that the situation that the party is in is much more dire. First, the diagnosis:
So while Republicans are depressed these days, their condition is actually worse than they think it is. The deepest cause of the party’s […]
November 12, 2007 – 4:00 pm
This is a shocker to me. Apparently tomorrow the National Right to Life Committee will endorse Fred Thompson. I have confirmation from a member of the committee. And, apparently, they are moving quickly to try to stop Rudy Giuliani.
There are several frames to look at this through:
What this means for the pro-life movement in the […]
October 23, 2007 – 11:07 am
An important discussion is emerging on the role of social conservatives in the righty-blogosphere. Joe Carter, who organized the blogger row at FRC’s Values Voters summit, had this to say about the experience:
Anyone who wonders why the audience for the right-side of the blogosphere is stagnant at an estimated 200,000 readers should look at the […]
October 22, 2007 – 2:36 pm
Justin Hart of Race42008 wrote a post that is 95% correct. He said:
You don’t try to win straw polls as proof of your national success among a group of voters. You don’t try to win straw polls as proof of momentum. You don’t try to win straw polls as solid proof of your […]
October 20, 2007 – 11:49 am
Mike Huckabee has a great crowd here. Certainly a much stronger reception at the beginning than either Romney or Giuliani. Way bigger.
Starts with jokes about the baby boomers collecting social security. "If you that’s bad economic news, just wait until you hear about all the old graying hippies getting free drugs."
The meat of this is […]
October 20, 2007 – 10:08 am
The entrance had more standing, but less cheers than Mitt Romney. But Romney had a lot of astroturf, as Phil Klein pointed out, so it is hard to tell.
Rudy starts with an attack on Washington.
Unlike Romney’s speech, there was more of a narrative structure. He wanted the people in the room to know […]
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