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The Audacity of Ideological Blindness

Imagine being so arrogant, so ignorant and such an ideologue that you ignore the expert advice of both Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the architect of Iraq’s current fragile stability, General David Petraeus.  The terrorists are rubbing their hands together in glee today after reading this report about the infighting that has ensued in [...]

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Buchanan and Paul

I couldn’t analyze politics like this when I was a university sophomore. I probably still can’t now. You can bicker over the fine points but his thesis is quite thought-provoking:
Well, then who is out there fighting [for the future of the GOP]? A good indicator is whether a person has been labeled an [...]

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Laundry List of GOP Shortcomings

Mike Huckabee said that the reason the GOP has lost its way is that it hasn’t delivered on conservatism. There’s more to it than that. Truth be told, we’ve fallen short in a multitude of areas that have nothing to do with tax cuts and the overturning of Roe v. Wade: new technology, charisma (Palin [...]

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The other side of the coin

(And by “coin,” I mean the kind that Tobias or I wouldn’t spend on a car.)
When Haircutgate v1.0 erupted, the left responded this way:

And the left was right (that came out wrong). Regardless of my opinion of Gov. Palin — as of this moment, Heaven help me, I’d lean toward [...]

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Straight talk

I love it:
While many other state governors are asking the federal government for financial help, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wants none of it for his state. In a letter to president-elect Barack Obama, Gov. Sanford wrote, “We don’t believe economic problems that were in large measure created by too much debt will be solved [...]

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