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Jennifer Rubin, over at Race42008, wrote a summary of the 2008 candidate responses to yesterday’s SCOTUS decision. At one point, she said: Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani issued statements applauding the decision. Romney made no mention of prior support of campaign finance reform but his ringing endorsement of the Court’s decision was clearly welcome news [...]
The Influence Peddler says: For some years, it’s been difficult for conservatives to figure out when to stand with President Bush and when to draw distinctions. On judicial appointments, executive privilege, the War on Terror, and most social and ‘values’ issues, conservatives have seen Bush as an ally. On Iraq, entitlement programs, spending (until recently, [...]
I’ve been at a family reunion, so I missed this Washington Times article, but I think it is very important. The basic problem is that yesterday’s conservative movement is having trouble revitalizing itself with new leaders: "Younger across-the-board conservatives are harder to find because younger folks often do not like the war in Iraq, but [...]
I started out skeptical of the whole Fred Thompson thing. He could still explode in the primary. And I wonder what his general election campaign would look like. What would the themes and policies be? But the fact that we are even discussing him as we are is truly extraordinary. And I have some thoughts [...]
The whole thing about whether Fred Thompson is pro-life or not is kind of bizarre, especially when it is pushed by Mitt Romney’s campaign. David Brody has a good rundown of the current critique. In the end, he has the right analysis: I think at the end of the day these abortion incidents from the [...]
Patrick Ruffini (here, here, and here) and I (here and here) have been discussing the lefty blogosphere movement and what the right can learn from it. But it appears that we landed in the place that the right needs to reinvent itself. The question is how. Now Patrick makes a detailed argument, but let me [...]
This would be interesting. Chuck Todd and co. at NBC suggest that Grover Norquist may be signing on with Rudy Giuliani: Also in the article, it looks like Grover is about to come aboard. “Grover Norquist, the tax cut crusader and conservative strategist, said news reports about Giuliani’s personal life, including stories about his estranged [...]
The Club for Growth‘s Pat Toomey was interviewed on Fox and Friends and had some explosive things to say about Presidential candidates: Quotes: Nobody walked away with it either. But there’s an opening…. What disappointed me a little bit is that no one came out with a really bold platform … Sam Brownback was the [...]
For a long time, people have been talking about an "anti-McCain" candidate emerging to stop John McCain from taking the nomination. Both Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney have been benefiting from this. From where I sit in Washington, this is most clear in the way that the pay-to-play lobbyists are signing up to Mitt Romney. [...]
Dick Morris in The Hill (good upgrade…. BTW, the unpublished RSS feeds have all the articles) argues that Romney and Gingrich, both "politically dead", are blocking the rise of a conservative: Right-wingers who would pass the litmus test … face the need to climb over the political corpses of former Speaker New Gingrich (Ga.) and [...]
