Category: Conservatism
It’s Official. I’m Official!
Tomorrow morning I’ll be at CPAC, as one of the credentialed bloggers rampaging around covering the goings on with decorum and impeccable manners. As long-time readers will remember from last year’s venture into the Conservative Woodstock, I probably won’t hit many of the speeches and panel discussions. However, I will be meeting quite a few [...]
The Rookie’s Rough Guide to CPAC
If you’re a conservative, and haven’t been living in a dank cave far from a WiFi signal, you know that the Conservative Political Action Conference, also known as CPAC, is the biggest and baddest gathering of political conservatives in the country. CPAC is a mix of Woodstock, Mardi Gras, and ComicCon and features an All-Star [...]
Even Dead, Ronald Reagan Eats the Progressives’ Lunch
So, you say conservatism is dead? Sure, pal. Keep right on holding that security blanket. I make no secret of the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan to be the greatest president in U.S. history. But imagine my surprise this morning when I saw a new poll saying that a majority of New Jersey residents [...]
Mike Pence, Not Your Next Senator from Indiana
If conservatives were superheroes, Mike Pence, the Congressman from Indiana and head of the House Republican Conference, would be one of the core members of the Justice League of America (Jim DeMint gets to be Superman. Maybe Pence would be Batman or the Martian Manhunter). His name has been tossed around by hopeful conservatives as [...]
A Modest Proposal for the GOP: The Roundtable Rebuttal
The Republicans have announced that they will send one of their new “young guns”, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, to give the rebuttal to the President’s State of the Union address on Wednesday night. I suppose I should be excited about this, since I’m told McDonnell is one of the new breed of super-powered conservatives who [...]
Massachusetts Smackdown
Ronald Reagan was once asked how he’d define victory in the Cold War. His answer pretty much matches how I feel about the special election in Massachusetts tonight. “We win. They lose.” Republican State Sen. Scott Brown scored an immense political upset Tuesday in the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat occupied for [...]
Sorry Mushy Moderates, Scott Brown Really Is a Mainstream Conservative
As the special election in Massachusetts grows nigh, the Mushy Moderates of the commentariat have sallied forth to claim that Scott Brown, today’s conservative darling, is really no conservative at all. Clutching this Boris Shor, PhD piece to their breasts, David Frum and Rick Moran are claiming a certain large measure of triumph in their [...]
Glenn Beck to Headline CPAC 2010. Heads to Explode Around Dowdy Republicanville
Surely, the news that Glenn Beck will give the keystone address at CPAC in February is going to send David Frum, David Brooks, Conor Freidersdorf and the other self-appointed guardians of Republican Party purity into paroxysms of despair. For that reason alone, I like CPAC’s decision. Beck is everything the dowdy crowd of the Right [...]
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