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Obama 2012 Support Slips; Now Any Generic Republican Ties Him

President Obama’s done a lot of talking recently about Winning the Future. Trouble is, he’s not. Politically. At this moment — 57% of the way through a first term with only 628 days left until the 2012 presidential election — the Democrat can only tie any conceivable Republican candidate. The GOP doesn’t even need a [...]

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Sarah Palin speaks to electability issue

By JONATHAN MARTIN | POLITICO Speaking to a group of well-connected Republicans at a private dinner in Florida this week, Sarah Palin implicitly addressed questions about her own electability by noting that critics also said Ronald Reagan couldn’t win in 1980, three attendees told POLITICO. Palin, at an event organized by the conservative magazine Newsmax, [...]

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Mitt Romney Keynotes Conservative Dinner

By MAGGIE HABERMAN      POLITICO SYRACUSE, NY — Mitt Romney promoted the importance of values but tread lightly on social issues in a keynote address here to an annual Conservative Party dinner, in an effort to avoid the pitfalls of pandering at a moment when the party has been tacking hard right in its 2010 primaries. [...]

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A Monumental Contest

With the primary season complete, the terms of battle are set — for the general election and for the next era in American politics. Barack Obama’s election in 2008 was said to constitute the next great wave of progressivism after FDR and LBJ. But a massive electoral backlash is brewing against his policies, all his [...]

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Republican strategist: Michael Steele has ‘obviously been a disaster’

THE WASHINGTON POST By: Felicia Sonmez A top Republican Party strategist had some harsh words for beleaguered Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Sunday. Ed Rollins, who served as national campaign director for Ronald Reagan‘s 1984 bid and as a former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said that Steele has “obviously been [...]

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The Lost Promise of Barack Obama

By Michael Gerson The most destructive gap for President Obama is not the Republican lead on the generic congressional ballot or even a job disapproval that has surpassed approval — it is the gap between aspiration and reality. The Manhattan mosque controversy showed the problem in compressed form. First came the Obama of high-toned principle [...]

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Pat Buchanan’s “Culture War Speech” at the 1992 GOP Convention

Although this great speech by Republican firebrand Pat Buchanan was delivered 18 years ago, the major themes of the speech are as relevant as tommorrow’s newspaper. Experience, competence, judgement….truth.  These qualities are so lacking today.  Almost non-existent on the national level.  We need another Ronald Reagan to emerge, to inspire us to greater things, to [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

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VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY ENDORSES MEG WHITMAN FOR GOVERNOR

For Immediate Release Sunday, May 16, 2010 CUPERTINO — Today, former Vice President of the United States Richard Cheney wrote an op-ed that was published in the Orange County Register discussing why he believes Meg Whitman is the right choice for California’s next governor given her “conservative values, leadership skills and vision to reform state [...]

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If the Dust Settles

During my recent interview with Ari David, he mentioned that he perceived his generation as ‘Reagan / South Park Conservatives’.  It is with this reference in mind, that I make this point. During South Park Episode 1205, a sub-plot saw the character ‘Cartman’ poses as a Latino high school teacher named “Mr. Cartmenez” at a under-preforming urban high school. [...]

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