The More Things Change…

I was re-reading Craig Shirley’s excellent book Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story Of The Campaign That Started It All, and this passage from the introduction caught my eye. Keep in mind, Shirley is describing the political landscape circa 1976, the time of Reagan’s first attempt to gain the GOP nomination:
Most national elections in the twentieth [...]

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Good Advice From Across The Pond

Short, simple, and to the point: Friendly Fire Only Helps The Enemy

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Vacation and Politics

Here I am on vacation in Southern California visiting family and friends.  My father is sitting near me watching CBS news here in my 60’s era Aunt’s condo (the Aunt is 60s, not the condo ).  My Aunt marched with another of my Aunts on Selma with MLK.  This being MLK day seems to [...]

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Conservatives Should Embrace Conservatism

That’s the simple message of Quin Hillyer’s amusingly titled article “Embracing the Oogedy-Boogedy“
All around Washington, and perhaps all around the country, groups of politically inclined people are having conversations about how to revitalize the conservative movement, or how to rebuild the Republican Party (a different thing entirely), or both. [...]

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VDH: Advice to Conservatives

The ever-readable Victor Davis Hanson has some very good advice for the GOP, and specifically the conservatives in the GOP, about how to bring home a victory in future elections. His summary gives a good hint of how the rest of the article goes:
The key is not to abandon conservative positions, but to explain them [...]

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Rob Portman: What Republicans Must Do

Here’s more good advice:
Today’s Republican leaders need to develop innovative solutions to the challenges of our time, especially domestic issues, including: rising health care costs, dependence on foreign oil, stagnant middle-class wages and job loss, environmental concerns, the federal debt and unsustainable growth of entitlements. Instead of bigger government and more bureaucracy, Republicans must offer [...]

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Ted Nugent: RINO Season is Open

The one and only conservative rocker Ted Nugent declares open season.
Like any entity that abandons basic quality control, political parties rot from within. It happened to the Democrats long ago, and now has become the case with the Republican Party, which has strayed from its conservative underpinnings.
There are really only four things I have a [...]

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Palin-Bashing Isn’t Over Yet

At least that’s what Jeffrey Bell thinks:
The reason elite opinion makers are set on destroying her is fear. They sense that like Ronald Reagan, and unlike, say, Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty, she really, genuinely doesn’t care what they think, and for that reason is willing and able to go over their heads and make [...]

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Hopeful Signs in GOP Congressional Leadership Races

At least one Republican in Congress gets it (emphasis mine):
Conservative representative Mike Pence (R., Ind.) threw his hat in the ring for the position of Republican conference chairman after receiving the blessing of Republican study committee chairman Jeb Hensarling (R., Tex.) and minority leader John Boehner (R., Ohio). That such a conservative critic of President [...]

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The Conservative Guide to the Next Two (or Four) Years

Okay, troops… enough wallowing in self-pity and navel-gazing… Professor John J. Pitney Jr. has your assignments.
To conservatives in general: lighten up. The Obama administration will give many occasions for outrage. Sometimes it will be important to voice that outrage, but yelling should not be standard operating procedure. As the 2008 campaign showed, President-Elect Obama and [...]

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Wisdom From the Past

I don ‘t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, “We must broaden the base of our party”—when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.
It was a feeling that there was not [...]

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