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Longtime political strategist Karl Rove is warning Republicans not to nominate a presidential candidate that reflects the same "populist anger" that gave birth to the rise of Donald Trump. In his latest op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Rove explained the GOP will have two choices when delegates gather in Cleveland, Ohio, next July to determine which remaining Republican hopeful they wish to see challenge Democrats in the general election. "Will the party choose a nominee with a conservative agenda or one reflecting populist anger?" Rove wrote. "The two are hardly the same," he noted. "Conservative principles provide a winning...

I thought when Ted Cruz was attacking the Supreme Court appoints of Bush Sr. and Bush Jr., he was making a substantive argument about picking genuine conservatives and fighting for them as opposed to picking those easier to get past the Senate’s nomination process. After all, a lot has happened since Roberts was appointed to the court as he’s turned out to be a disaster and this is definitely something worth pointing out. But apparently to Rove that was almost criminal, especially since Cruz didn’t include Reagan’s appointment in his criticism. This was, by the way, his defense of George...