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American Conservatism's Assisted Suicide
A reader writes: I had been reluctant to acknowledge how flawed and dead the conservative movement has become; that's over now. No more excuses, no more clinging to old visions of rational discourse and principled debate. I really have witnessed the death of conservatism and its replacement by ...
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Saturday Reading: Digesting Palin
Ben Smith's Blog — The GOP grassroots love her. She's online fundraising gold. Her family aren't Republican, and local GOPers don't like her -- both perhaps good things politically, though the willingness of prominent Alaska Republicans to trash her readiness may not be. VandeHarris say this means McCain is desperate. A Sullivan reader calls it assisted suicide. Charlie Black says she'll spend the first term learning. Wolfson says it's Obama's to lose. Inappropriate Palin boosting has been ...

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