Few Republicans doubt that online technology is the key to future success. And, thankfully, those few are highly unlikely to read this post.
Lame jokes aside, the conversation and activity since November within the Republican Party and the conservative movement broadly has been inspiring. In an I-know-that’s-a-cliché-but-it-fits kind of way. But that conversation has been at [...]
Helping the Right Online, One PDF at a Time
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, [...]
In which I browse HR 1105, so you don’t have to.
I have discovered that I am the ultimate political minority. To begin, I am part of a small subset of constituents who actually contact Congress. Then I am in a sliver of that small subset of angry constituents that is composed of voters below age 25.
I hope you are too. It’s good to think and [...]
Re: Attacking Obama
Proving that great minds think alike, Aaron just tackled a topic I was preparing to address: stimulus war 2009.
Now let me be general before I get specific (and answer Aaron’s post). The stimulus is about to get ugly for the left. Politico reports that Obama is “losing the message war.” Karl Rove contends that Obama [...]
What does youth voter outreach look like?
I think we can all agree that the Republican Party needs to do a better job “reaching out” to young voters. I think we’ve all seen the stats, all bemoaned the party’s fate if it continues to hemorrhage under-30s, and all talked about that beautiful–if unclear–future time in which hordes of 18-year-olds will gleefully check [...]
Let’s Fix the System
While I continue to play with my promised post on social conservatism, I’m going to weigh in on Aaron’s question from yesterday (why aren’t more Americans angry about Congress’s pay raise?) because the answer(s) touch on a number of issues Republicans should think about for 2009.
Very broadly, people aren’t angry because people aren’t involved. Check [...]
Pro-Life = Pro-Choice
It is nearly impossible to write anything new or insightful about the debate over social policy. But Aaron’s prompt about social conservatives (more specifically, what part they should “play in the party’s message and ideals”) forces my hand–or pen, as it were. So bear with me. These issues are important, if difficult, to dissect.
For the [...]
We don’t need no education.
Republican message, mission, and principles have been the focus of some posts–and sharp reader comments–on this blog already. I like all of it. I agree with all it. But I think before we get there, we have to start with what we have; namely, most Americans have no idea what the hell their government is [...]
Facere quam dicere: a new motto for the GOP?
Facere quam dicere: to do rather than to say. A knock-off of the North Carolina motto—and an attempt to use my Classical Languages degree for something—but instructive for the GOP nonetheless.
For example, my (albeit limited) role in the conservative blogosphere means that I spend 92% of my time talking about problems and 8% of my [...]
