Update: Since writing this, Glen Johnson at the AP has written on the whole Romney/porn story. He quoted Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council. At the very least, this puts an exclamation point on my second point below. Clearly the Focus/FRC operation has engaged for Thompson and Read more…
Patrick Ruffini makes an articulate defense of flip-flopping: It’s easy to turn a blind eye if someone’s flip-flopping in my direction, but that’s not it. Rather, it’s that at some point, you’ve gotta dance with the ones that brung ya. Said another way, the positions Romney et al. are taking Read more…
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 Read more…
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, Read more…
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 Read more…
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. Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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, Read more…
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 Read more…