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  • David Limbaugh: Sometimes Caution Can Backfire (The GOP ruling class better wake up!)

    12/26/2011 1:10:12 PM PST · by neverdem · 64 replies
    Human Events ^ | 12/25/2011 | David Limbaugh
    There seems to be a common line of demarcation separating two basic factions on the political right in the various skirmishes we have fought against Barack Obama, from their markedly different approaches to the budget battles to their differences in sizing up the GOP presidential candidates. On one side we have the more moderate group, which is more cautious, less risk averse, less excitable, self-consciously pragmatic and more tolerant toward an establishment ruling class, even if not per se establishment itself. On the other side are those who perceive more urgency in our current national condition, are more adamant about...
  • Does Anyone Have a Grip on the G.O.P.?

    10/13/2011 10:37:09 AM PDT · by neverdem · 15 replies
    NY Times Magazine ^ | October 12, 2011 | MATT BAI
    It wasn’t that long ago that Republican moneymen and operatives in Washington were moping around K Street like Eeyore in the Hundred Acre Wood, lamenting their party’s extremist image and casting about for a candidate with a chance of beating Barack Obama in 2012. Citing what he called the “near self-immolation” of House Republicans during the debt-ceiling fiasco, Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, worried in early August that a “large number of Republican primary voters, and even more independent general-election voters, will be wary of supporting a Republican candidate in 2012 if the party looks as if it’s...