ChrisB on Nov 14 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
If you care any about the future of the Republican party and conservatism in general, you need to be reading The Next Right.
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Lee on Nov 07 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics
Rasmussen reports today that Sarah Palin is the choice of 64% of Republicans for the 2012 Republican nomination, and that a staggering 91% of Republicans have a favorable impression of her (equally remarkable, 65% rate their view as ‘highly favorable’).
It’s perhaps unnecessary to mention that there is no figure of comparable popular prestige left standing [...]
Lee on Nov 06 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
This is good. This is great. This is not. John Boehner has presided over nothing but Republican defeats, why not keep him around eh? If you’ve had enough House GOP, you might notice someone of quality was reelected.
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Lee on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Had the radio on driving to get coffee. Rush Limbaugh was denouncing sexism and patriarchal privilege. McCain ad comes on pitching expanding embryonic stem cell research. Boy, haven’t things changed in the Republican party? For the better, says me.
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Lee on Aug 29 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Way back in February 2007, when I was still writing for postpolitical, an obscure little blog popped up pitching Sarah Palin for the Vice Presidency. At the time few were that familiar with Sarah’s record or wise enough to predict its national electoral implications. Yet despite the novelty of the idea, I thought then and [...]
Lee on Aug 07 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Lee's Page
Approval ratings for recent presidents at the end of their final terms. Bush will presumably end somewhere in Carter’s 1980 territory.
(About.com)
Lest that depress McCain supporters, such measures can of course be highly misleading in predicting general election outcomes for their successors. Nixon’s 1968 victory was a damned near run thing, and despite the lingering unpopularity [...]
Lee on Aug 07 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
(photo: WBEZ Chicago Public Radio | site)
Obama’s newish McSame style attack ad mocking McCain’s “original maverick” slogan is fairly good. As Ken Wheaton notes, all the time McCain had to spend trying to convince the GOP he was a loyal Republican, unfortunately produced a lot of pro-Bush statements on videotape. Also, I like the Rovian [...]
Lee on Aug 05 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, Notes on the war
Rumors have it that Bobby Jindal will deliver the keynote address at the RNCC. Shlok Vaidya thinks the GOP intends to position Jindal for 2012, the way the Democrats managed Obama in 2004. Interesting and possible, although such things are rarely that well-planned. The Democratic view in 2004 wasn’t to position Obama for a White [...]
Keith_Indy on Feb 21 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Keith's Page
Every good smear deserves a plea to stop the smearer and the dirty apes who support them…
One does have to wonder why the New Yawk Times would first endorse a candidate, and then publish what I would assume was to them, a scandalous article about that very candidate. One hand not knowing what the [...]
Lee on Feb 06 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Michael Goldfarb denounced Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives as “disgraceful” today, for their open criticism of John McCain’s record and views. He labels it the result of a psychological condition he and other McCain apologists call “McCain Derangement Syndrome”:
I understand that some conservatives are uneasy about a McCain nomination, that he isn’t their first choice [...]
Lee on Feb 05 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
I’m disappointed with the emerging results in the GOP primaries too (the Nightmare Ticket is near), but I’m actually starting to worry about Mr. Hewitt: “McCain can’t be considered a frontrunner by any conventional standard.” Except in polls, wins, and delegates of course.
H/T: Cadillac Tight
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Lee on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Further conservative consolidation behind Mr. Slick. My friend the Huckabeeist has given in with an endorsement of Mitt Romney.
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Lee on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
Social conservatives and particularly crypto-socialist social conservatives (or “populists” if you prefer), are inevitably going to be a minority faction within the GOP. But to their great credit they themselves recognize this. The implications of that self-awareness are dire for Huckabee however.
Because their interests and perspectives are in many ways peculiar to themselves within the [...]
Lee on Jan 20 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page
The Huckabee campaign staff is bitter and suspicious (as usual). They’re blaming Fred Thompson’s 16% showing in South Carolina for ruining their efforts to flood the vote with a social-conservative surge.
The surge was nevertheless impressive when it came, in both its quantity and in its fantastically unrepresentative uniformity. Fully 83 percent of Huckabee’s voters [...]
Lee on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Huckabee the liberation theologist is now tied with McCain in Rasmussen’s latest poll at 24%. One would hope for South Carolinians to regain their senses prior to the vote, but it doesn’t look good.
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Lee on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Some people are very happy about the Michigan results: media firms. As Ken Wheaton points out in Advertising Age, with there still being no clear frontrunner for the GOP nom, spending on advertising is about to go through the roof.
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Lee on Jan 15 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page, Uncategorized
Here’s some splendid news for those of us not delighted by the prospect of a liberation theologist takeover of the Republican Party. Rasmussen is reporting their new South Carolina numbers and Mike Huckabee has lost five points and Fred Thompson gained four since last week. Thompson now stands at 16%, Huckabee at 19%, with [...]
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