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A Rich Idea vs. Frank Rich -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
I think Rush Limbaugh's point over the weekend on Fox News Sunday is an important one. Contra Frank Rich, the answer for the GOP is not a purging, not a purity test. It's figuring out what the heck it stands for and attracting Americans to that message. WALLACE: Let's talk about the state ...
The GOP elite’s $1 million object lesson — and the message of NY-23
The GOP elite’s $1 million object lesson — and the message of NY-23
michellemalkin.com — Conservatives owe NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman immeasurable gratitude. [...] Read the rest »... (more) The GOP elite’s $1 million object lesson — and the ...
Exclusive: How The NRCC Bungled NY - 23
riehlworldview.com — A special report on NY - 23 -- Questions of bogus polls, large sums of wasted campaign... money to cash in on GOP coffers, insider influence and politics as usual originating out of Washington, DC came my way via sources I trust within the NY GOP who ... (more) Exclusive: How The NRCC Bungled NY - 23
What Did NY-23 Mean?
thenextright.com — [ Disclosure: I worked with the Doug Hoffman campaign . However, the views here are my own.... I have not discussed this at all with the Hoffman campaign. ] The bottom line on NY-23 : Doug Hoffman just won the Republican Primary. The general ... (more) What Did NY-23 Mean?
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WSJ misses the point, and Rush is right
Cold Fury — ... and driving us over the socialist cliff thing and all. To adopt a favorite phrase of we-must-out-Democrat-the-Democrats handwringers, it was political suicide! Um. Not. Joe is an honest, respectable opponent, a man whose singular integrity glittered like a jewel in the rancid Democrat Socialist sewer he hauled himself out of, but his departure quite clearly hasn’t hindered them any more than Zell Miller’s did. And as for the whole “big tent” argument, Limbaugh knows what that really ought to mean : WALLACE: So do you think that the Republican Party — do you see it as a ...

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