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Obama Poised to Take Advantage of Status Quo in 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook May 31, 2011 Comment (12)Talk to Republicans lately about the upcoming presidential campaign, and inevitably you’ll hear reassuring things like, “He can’t run on ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ this time around. He’s gonna have to defend an actual record.”
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Republicans Will Have Some Advantages in 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook May 25, 2011 Comment (7)Rich Lowry surveys the congealing gravy that is the field of GOP presidential contenders and asks, “Is this it?” Each for-sure candidate is flawed in some way, some more severely than others, and the most plausible-seeming possibilities have chosen to take a pass.
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'Draft Daniels' Movement for 2012 Reminiscent of 'Draft Goldwater'
Tweet Share on Facebook May 18, 2011 Comment (4)In the 1950s, the conservative movement was an intellectual backwater for various eccentric ex-communists and antistatists of both the libertarian and cranky reactionary stripes.
By the early ’60s, it had become a muscular, if still nascent, popular force. Tired of the Republican Party’s acceptance of the post-New Deal status quo, it felt bold enough to entice firebrand Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater into a race against President Kennedy, and subsequently President Johnson.
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With Newt Gingrich, 2012 GOP Race Isn't Just About the Governors
Tweet Share on Facebook May 11, 2011 Comment (10)That state governors, businessmen, or others with “executive” experience make better presidential candidates than Washington lawmakers is almost a truism in Republican politics.
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Obama Was Right About Going Into Pakistan After Bin Laden
Tweet Share on Facebook May 3, 2011 Comment (5)This exchange from the first 2008 presidential debate is worth revisiting, in light of the spectacular bin Laden kill.
On one level, it’s a rare example of a high-level hypothetical scenario—the kind of shooting-the-breeze-about-world-historical-events conversation you might have with a friend at a bar—actually coming to pass.
