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  • Calling Karl Rove

    09/18/2010 8:35:03 PM PDT · by sjneuf · 15 replies
    American Spectator ^ | 9/18/10 | Quinn Hillyer
    Excuse me, sir, Mr. Rove, may I ask a question? When are you going to go on TV and criticize Lisa Murkowski?
  • Thermopylae for Health Care (Outstanding read on how the Pubbies can still kill ObamaCare)

    01/07/2010 4:57:46 AM PST · by Zakeet · 26 replies · 1,581+ views
    American Spectator ^ | January 7, 2010 | Quin Hillyer
    Conservatives want Thermopylae. Congressional Republican leaders instead imitate the Confederate defense of Atlanta -- the one that led a local editor to write that General Joseph E. Johnston's reputation had "grown with every backward step." [Snip] In the battle over health-care policy (and in most other big fights in recent years), Senate Republicans likewise have maintained unity, have arrayed themselves on favorable ground, have performed every technical maneuver with flawless precision -- and have yet to win a single major battle about which conservatives care deeply. And like the local Atlanta editor in 1864 praising Gen. Johnston's retreats, the McClatchy...
  • Listen To Goldwater

    08/01/2007 7:20:33 PM PDT · by Oklahoma · 24 replies · 457+ views
    The American Spectator ^ | August 1, 2007 | Quin Hillyer
    At the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Barry Goldwater famously told conservatives to "grow up." It's time we hear that message again. As in 1960, the conservative movement seems grumbling, disaffected, even downright angry -- and, most importantly, it sometimes seems more interested in complaining and moaning than in uniting, constructively, to achieve political success. What's worse is that we seem to be fighting among ourselves. Every chance we get, we take shots at other conservatives. Nobody, it seems, is good enough. We moan that nobody is another Reagan. Nobody is another Churchill. Nobody is another Washington.