It has now been 135 days since Barack Obama was elected President of the United States. Since that time, the talk in the Republican Party has generally revolved around the notion of “catching up” — be it catching up in fundraising, in our use of technology, or as I’ve argued, the way that we take [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
Discuss: Collectivism and Conservatism
Recent posts here and elsewhere address issues pertaining to conservatism, the GOP, and identity politics. While each of these opinion pieces discusses different topics, all of them touch on a common theme; the dilemma of collective identity and political allignment. In a post entitled “Kids These Days” here at NextGenGOP, Abby Alger discusses the youth [...]
Kids These Days
The question I am asked most often is why I am a Republican. It’s a query accompanied with a smirk by liberals, particularly Baby Boomers. (They hope my answer will contain overtly racist, sexist, classist, ageist, heterosupremacist, insertcategoryhereist opinions or—better yet!—upbringing of the same type so that I can be made to recognize my sins, [...]
President Obama Should Invoke the Monroe Doctrine.
While not as popular with the Democratic Party as it once may have been, the Monroe Doctrine has been a pillar of American foreign policy since the Era of Good Feeling following James Madison’s departure from the presidency. Devised by then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams during the presidency of James Monroe, this doctrine of U.S. [...]
The Remarkable Turnaround: The Penguins Did It, Can Republicans?
Not too long ago, it seemed all had been lost. Despite displaying incredible success and promise in years past, they were losing. They had some of the greatest talent in the world, but nonetheless they couldn’t find a winning groove. Worse still, it seemed that even when pitted against the worst opponents, they still couldn’t [...]
Obama’s desire to delegate should be viewed with caution.
Amidst continuing economic uncertainty at home, and growing frustration among the more rightward Obama supporters, the President finds himself confounded with a deteriorating foreign policy situation. It is perhaps for this reason that Secretary of State Clinton seems to have such a free hand in conducting foreign policy on behalf of the administration so far. The [...]
Learning from the Limbaugh & Steele mess
It was going almost too well for us Republicans for a few weeks. Although the Democrats did convince enough Republicans in the Senate to jump ship and pass their idea of a “stimulus” bill, House Republicans remained unanimously united against it and, more importantly, convinced many Americans that the bill was a move in the [...]
“New Media” Must Become “Media”
Let’s take a glimpse at the evolution of the role of technology and so-called “new media” in politics. In the early years, there were “Web” departments — for example, my colleague Patrick Ruffini served as the “webmaster” for Bush-Cheney ’04. The new jargon for this role has become “new media,” which typically serves as an [...]