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Hullabaloo — Rejecting The Footsoldiers by digby Sirota catches the today's attempt to frame an impending election of a Democratic government as a victory for Republican philosophy: The Village freakout continues, this time in the form of Peter Wehner's op-ed in the Washington Post today. With most Republican candidates explicitly running on a platform promising a revival of Reagan conservatism and berating the supposed "socialism" of Democrats, this former Bush hack writes that "it is a mistake to assume that significant GOP losses, should ...

Holding Action
Shadow of the Hegemon — ... But it's their bread and butter; both the conservatives and their media sycophants. So they have to defend it. And as Sirota shows, defend it they will: ...

Bill Scher: Conservatives Sowing The Seeds Of Their Own Demise
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder wrote yesterday: ...it might be dangerous for the Republican Party to elevate the stakes for this election to a death match between competing ideologies. If Barack Obama's victory is as decisive as it is shaping up to be, the Democrats can justifiably claim that conservatism itself has been rejected as a political and governing philosophy. In the closing weeks of the campaign, as the Republican ticket continues to run against the very idea of progressive politics, they are sowing the seeds of the post-election realignment narrative. As today's new Op-Ad from the Institute for America's Future depicts, and as David Sirota noted ...

Hullabaloo — ... last 5 Presidential elections, in the wake of reducing the Republican Party to a regional outpost in the South and part of the Great Plains, this is a profoundly conservative nation. Here's a partial list: Ron Brownstein, Jon Meacham, Peggy Noonan, Howard Fineman, David Broder, John Heilemann, John King, Mark Penn, Doug Schoen, Charles Krauthammer, Ruth Marcus, Marc Halperin, Dan Balz, Peter Wehner, William Galston, Bob Kerrey, Fred Barnes, Pat Buchanan and Joe ...

"America Remains a Center-Right Nation"
Shadow of the Hegemon — ... last 5 Presidential elections, in the wake of reducing the Republican Party to a regional outpost in the South and part of the Great Plains, this is a profoundly conservative nation. Here's a partial list: Ron Brownstein, Jon Meacham, Peggy Noonan, Howard Fineman, David Broder, John Heilemann, John King, Mark Penn, Doug Schoen, Charles Krauthammer, Ruth Marcus, Marc Halperin, Dan Balz, Peter Wehner, William Galston, Bob Kerrey, Fred Barnes, Pat Buchanan and Joe ...