Category Archives: Republican


The environment among conservatives?

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 […]

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Time for Doolittle to retire

September 5, 2007 – 4:45 am

Jon Fleischman has some polling data on John Doolittle re-election. They are bad:

In a one-on-one match up, if the election were held today, Democrat Charlie Brown gets 51% of the vote to Congressman Doolittle’s 31%.
Those surveyed were also asked if they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Doolittle.  Respondents came back with 28% favorable […]

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