Over at left-of-center Mother Jones magazine, Jonathan Stein and Nick Baumann argue that “the far right handed Dems a 60-vote majority.” Stein and Baumann continue: The Republican Party has moved dramatically rightward in the age of Obama, and allowed people like Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin to become its [...]
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Should Republicans Support Toomey Against Specter?
I must admit that I still haven’t decided where I stand on the PA Senate race. In 2004, I backed Specter for various reasons, but my patience with Specter has thinned considerably, particularly considering his vote on Obama’s stimulus package. I’ve always doubted Pat Toomey’s capacity to carry Pennsylvania, which I believe is today a [...]
Conservatives Care More
A few days ago, liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote of a supposedly surprising fact that anyone who works with charitable organizations has long known – political conservatives give much more of their money and time to charitable causes than their liberal counterparts. While “bleeding heart liberals” are all for big [...]
A Center-Right Country? The Data Speaks for Itself
The Daily Kos chimes in on the discussion about this nation’s overall political ideology, quoting MyDD about what the results of the Georgia run-off and this year’s Congressional elections as a whole say about the makeup of the electorate. MyDD’s conclusion, based on the number of Republican and Democratic Senators in each state, is as [...]
Winning Back the Youth Vote (Part 2)
We simply cannot afford to lose a generation of young voters to the Democrats. As a follow-up to my first post from a few days back, I’d like to propose some specific changes that would better serve the Republican Party in recapturing the youth vote. Establish a Young Voter Outreach arm of the Republican National [...]
Five Reasons for Optimism in 2010 and Beyond
Many folks on the Right are, to put it mildly, disheartened by the results of the 2008 elections. However, after initially being quite disappointed by the returns, I am incredibly optimistic about what’s to come in 2010 and beyond. The bottom line is that this year’s elections were by no means a mandate for liberalism. [...]
Why We Can’t “Wait for Them to Fail”
I have had a number of people e-mail or Facebook message me something along the lines of, “Well, the Dems may won, but they’re going to fail. All we need to do is sit back and wait.” James touched on this extremely well in his post earlier today, but I wanted to elaborate a bit [...]