The Republicans never seem to hit bottom. Latest in the hit parade of Republican folly is the “theory,” earnestly advanced by Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute and promoted in a fury by Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, that the 2012 election was stolen from the Republicans by those light-fingered liberals at…
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It’s Whiter than White: It’s Republican White!
Sam Tannenhaus has a very good read at the New Republic about how the Republican Party, and Sen. Barry Goldwater in particular, traveled from being the champions of racial integration to being the defenders, not of segregation, but of the “right to segregate’—“neither a segregated society nor an integrated society, but a free society,” as…
Honest Newt Gingrich and Idiot Bob Woodward
Newt Gingrich has been getting a lot of good press for his recent statements faulting Mitt Romney for staking out such an extreme position on immigration during the Republican primary, berating both Texas Gov. Rick Perry and poor Newt himself for being soft on foreigners. According to Newt, Mitt painted himself into such a far-right…
Whither Republicans?
Republicans have been doing a lot of soul-searching on their future these days. Ralph Douthat searchs here, and links to RedState Editor Erick Erickson, searching here. Commentary has a pretty massive symposium on the future of conservatism, rather than the Party proper, but I’m not going to link to it because you have to subscribe…
The Coming Year
OK, it is a little early for New Year predictions, but nothing soothes an eggnog hangover like a little uninformed prognostication, so here goes: President Obama’s unexpectedly big win over hapless Mitt Romney continues to be a win/win/win/win. I have no idea of what’s going to happen regarding the “fiscal cliff,” and I really don’t…
The Politics of Dead Children
I wish I had a better headline, but the truth this week is not pretty. I don’t know how many children die by accident every day—I’m sure it’s more than twenty—but when death is heaped on us like this it’s impossible not to stagger under the load. I’m one of those liberals who regard gun…
Uniquely bad, though better than all the rest
“Mitt Romney was a uniquely bad candidate for 2012. The best of a very weak field. … Obama could hardly have had a better opponent if he had ordered him from central casting”—Megan McArdle, explaining why Obama shouldn’t have won, even though he did.
There is no question
I have resolved not to start off this post with a question, such as “Can Obama Come Back?” or “Is Romney For Real?”, with the post concluding “maybe so, maybe no.” At this point, in one night Mitt Romney has energized the Republicans in a way that he very notably hadn’t done in the past…
President Obama: Bumbling murderer
You’d think that a man who spends each Tuesday wondering who he’s going to kill next wouldn’t have much patience with the man who wants to take his job. But President Obama apparently had too much on his plate to bother showing up for the debate last night. Or maybe he had so much fun…
Jeffrey to Bibi: Nice Jeffrey, Bibi!
On Sunday, Jeffrey Goldberg took Israeli Prime Minister Bib Netanyahu to task for “three mistakes and one achievement”: In re: Prime Minister Netanyahu’s handling of the Iran crisis: 1) Netanyahu shouldn’t have waved around that cartoonish drawing on the podium of the United Nations. It made him look unserious, and a man in his position…