October 18, 2007 – 9:37 am
Alan Fram AP’s story about Rudy Giuliani and conservatives fundamentally misses the point. He says, "Giuliani’s Conservative Vote Tenuous." That would be true, if it turned out that his lead in polls was based on the vote of conservatives who don’t know what he thinks on issues. It seems that the important analysis of his […]
October 13, 2007 – 9:54 am
A number of people have asked me why I think that the religious right hasn’t found a candidate. The supposition is that if the religious right came around and supported someone like Mike Huckabee or Sam Brownback, they could be the nominee. Here is my attempt to answer that question.
First, the process starts with natural […]
October 11, 2007 – 7:32 pm
I’m going to get in big trouble for this.
My friend David Freddoso tried to define conservatism in relation to the Rudy Giuliani phenomenon with:
There is a long philosophical debate to be had over what makes a conservative, but conservatives in Washington have a rule of thumb for awarding the label to actual politicians: It’s the […]
October 11, 2007 – 1:15 pm
This morning, I got an email from a family group leader. He was incredulous. He said:
Our "leaders" testify to the sincere conversion of a guy who today believes the Boy Scouts are wrong to prohibit homosexual Scoutmasters…
That was in response to Ralph Z Hallow’s article about Romney in today’s Washington Times:
Two social conservatives leaders — […]
October 8, 2007 – 1:37 pm
I spent Friday morning at the Americans for Prosperity Conference, Defending the American Dream. (blog here) I was struck by several things about it.
First, there were a lot of people. 1,600, and they said that they turned away more people. A lot of these are Republican activists. Some of them are the standard crowd that […]
October 1, 2007 – 4:37 pm
The Economist’s Democracy in America blog gets the Rudy Giuliani versus social conservative politics right:
That last scenario sounds bad for all Republicans, because it would be a help to the dread Hillary Clinton. But at this point it looks like a Democrat, Hillary or otherwise, is going to win this election regardless. If Christian conservatives […]
October 1, 2007 – 9:24 am
Yesterday Salon reported about a meeting that occurred concurrently with the quarterly meeting of the Council on National Policy, a conservative organization that tries to coordinate the actions of various components of the conservative movement. The top-level story that people are taking from this is that the conservative movement organizations will walk away and try […]
September 25, 2007 – 8:42 am
Last week, I criticized my friend Robert Bluey’s reading of Michael Gerson’s position on immigration. My criticism was, on a broader level, that the conservative movement has very little capacity to understand conservatives who disagree with it on principal. More specifically, when deeply held beliefs begin to come into conflict with the increasingly interest group […]
September 13, 2007 – 10:03 am
Ralph Hallow’s Washington Times article from yesterday talked about the possibility of a Newt Gingrich candidacy. There was an interesting paragraph:
"If this election is about money and structure, then we already know who our nominee is," said Mr. Evans, alluding to the well-organized and financed Giuliani and Romney campaigns. "If it’s about ideas and a […]
September 8, 2007 – 11:16 am
It seems that every couple of months, there is a discussion about the state of disarray of the righty blogosphere. This time it is mostly a different crowd moving it. Dean Barnett of HughHewitt.com writes, ironically, in the Weekly Standard. But then, in response, we get both Dave Wiegel at Reason and Sh+Sh from Newsbusters. […]
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