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  • When is Conservative enough, Conservative enough? (vanity)

    10/31/2009 10:34:47 AM PDT · by rbbeachkid · 44 replies · 625+ views
    Karen Dennison
    Although I am very happy with the events so far in New York and I support both Hoffman's run against a liberal GOP Candidate and the conservative statement to the GOP, I have some concerns. I think that Hoffman's campaign will encourage more independents to buck the GOP establishment. While I think that this is necessary in showing the GOP that the conservative grass roots don’t want the establishment’s compromising, weak spined, unprincipled moderates, when will conservative enough be conservative enough? There are few politicians that espouse the (small l) libertarian, small government philosophies that I believe in. I am...
  • Re: Scozzafava Campaign in Damage-Control Mode [Mark Steyn]

    10/20/2009 2:00:10 PM PDT · by xzins · 85 replies · 3,612+ views
    Steyn Online ^ | 20 Oct 09 | Mark Steyn
    Re: Scozzafava Campaign in Damage-Control Mode [Mark Steyn] Well, I'm with The Weekly Standard on this one. When a GOP candidate with an entourage winds up calling the cops over a reporter from a pro-GOP publication, that's one seriously dumb campaign — and the ludicrous post-911 call spin only makes it more pathetic. But here's my bigger thought: After the great summer surge of town halls and tea parties, the Republican Party gets to take the first electoral test of the new public mood and what does it offer the public for a reliable Republican district? A pro-tax pro-card-check liberal...