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…
Marc Ambinder is right about this: Andrew Sullivan is in one sense correct: traditionally, the youngest cohort of voters dont’ show up at the polls. But the past two election cycles seem to be the start of a new trend: in ’04, the percentage of 18 to 24 year olds Read more…
Last week, after the seeming pause in the fight over the immigration bill, a number of people wrote that the delay in the immigration bill was either good or bad for John McCain. Now it seems likely that the immigration bill will pass the Senate, as Rep. Tom Cole indicated 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…
At the conservative blogger lunch sponsored by Heritage and Rob Bluey, I asked Rep. Tom Cole, the NRCC Chair, if he had seen GOP candidates for the House backing away from Iraq the way that Senate incumbents have. He said no. Very interesting.
Phil Klein at the American Spectator writes: In my view the best case you can make for Thomson is that he’s the only Republican candidate capable of unifying the party. We know the Democrats will be unified. Whatever happens during the primary, they will rally around their nominee, because they Read more…
This is good stuff from Dan Henniger at the Journal: Indeed the proprietor of this column was released from the burn ward just days ago after arguing last week in this space that some 12 million illegal workers employed by seven or eight U.S. industries across numerous states was an Read more…
This morning, after Rudy Giuliani dropped out of the straw poll, a Romney staffer told Marc Ambinder: "We shouldn’t be disqualified or criticized for their campaign strategy and tactics," a Romney adviser insisted to me this morning. But after John McCain drops out because it will be meaningless, Romney declares Read more…