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Tom DeLay: Why Republicans Are Getting Whipped
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — I explain in today's Washington Times. When it comes to fundraising, organization and ground game, we Republicans got whipped. Now, Republicans may criticize Sen. Barack Obama for breaking his promise to accept public funding and play by the established rules, but that doesn't take us too far. We shouldn't kid ourselves: Democrats breaking this precedent had nothing to do with their campaign-finance principles, and everything to do with the fact they could afford to. Mr. McCain could never have competed this fall without the federal funds and, in the end, Mr. Obama ...

DeLay presents himself as the solution
Political Animal — DELAY PRESENTS HIMSELF AS THE SOLUTION.... Disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) has an item in the far-right Washington Times today, acknowledging how impressed he is with "liberal infrastructure," which he believes now "dwarfs conservatism's in size, scope, and sophistication," and will be "setting and helping to impose the national agenda for the coming years." It's a remarkable turn of events, given the head-start conservatives had in establishing an intellectual infrastructure over the years. He notes that progressive groups and Barack Obama's impressive ...

Intellectual infrastructure
Political Animal — ... for American Progress, the New America Foundation, and the Center for a New American Security. As Avi points out, those think tanks have one thing in common: None of them existed 11 years ago. New America was founded in 1998, American progress in 2003, and CNAS last year. Good point. It happened quietly and deliberately, but the left has created some impressive institutions, few, if any, of which existed when the conservative movement was ascendant. In fact, none other than Tom DeLay recently acknowledged how impressed he is with "liberal infrastructure," which he believes ...

Parallels
Political Animal — ... no equivalent outlet. Any strategy to revive the party's fortunes will require developing the kind of online infrastructure the Democrats now have in place, but you can't do that without a bunch of right-wing Greg Sargents. I've been seeing a lot of these observations lately. Conservatives want to know why they don't have an analogous version of Huffington. And the Center for American Progress. And Media Matters. And MoveOn.org. And now, apparently, TPM. None other than Tom DeLay recently acknowledged how impressed he is with "liberal infrastructure," which he believes now ...