Month: October 2013

Recognizing Victory in the Chaos

It appears to me like the Religious Right is trying to conduct an orderly retreat from the political realm and the culture wars. The new chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention, Russell Moore, has a much different attitude...

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Mike Lee: Too Conservative for Utah

I am not going to pretend to understand Utah, Mormons, or the Church of Latter Day Saints, but I got an inkling from looking at the presidential campaign of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman that business comes before ideology...

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Time To Get Bullish on the U.S. Senate

Since even some Republican senators admit that their party is not ready to lead the Senate, maybe we need to figure out how to rout these bastards in next year’s midterm elections. Sure, the odds are stacked against us,...

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Fratricide Is Bad for Fundraising

It appears to me that the Republicans’ government shutdown failed even in the rather modest goal of ramping up base enthusiasm. The fundraising boon did not materialize for them, but it did materialize for the Democrats....

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Serious Question

If, as the polls seem to indicate, Chris Christie wins his election by about twenty points and Ken Cuccinelli loses his election by about twenty points, what will Congressional Republicans conclude about the way forward?

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