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Goodbye Cruel World! As I informed Erick, Ben, and Mike several weeks ago, and as I decided myself several months ago, my long stint with RedState will come to an end now that the election cycle has concluded. Like many others after me, I found RedState as a random internet reader, way ...
Back to The Future.
redstate.com — Looking back in order to look forward. In the aftermath of the utter failure of the McCain... campaign, and the Republicans in general, to come with and understandable and comprehensive plan of how we will govern, I decided to look back on to the ... (more) Back to The Future.
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Republicans Enter Wilderness (as America Leaves It)
Taylor Marsh — ... Humiliating defeat, with no clear path back to relevance in an increasingly progressive nation, can do that to a party. The dire situation was perhaps best summed-up by Ed Rollins on CNN, when the man behind Reagan’s 1984 landslide somberly proclaimed his party "crushed", adding: "There is no organized Republican opposition anymore." Meanwhile, Ann Coulter blames it on McCain for being too liberal, a Red State front-pager proclaims "goodbye cruel world", Tucker Carlson recommends that their next candidate speak fluent English and ...

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