balloon-juice.com - 10/30/2008
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Patrick Ruffini and the Next Right :
What will it take to turn this around? If you’re a conservative blogger, the question you need to ask yourself is this. Is the main purpose of your blog to express your personal opinion? Or is its primary purpose to build political power for a ...
motherjones.com - 10/28/2008
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motherjones.com —
Any mention of, information about, or support for
John McCain, outside of a link to McCain's campaign...
store and an outdated opportunity to volunteer for McCain on "Super Saturday," October 25th. A Fred Thompson video, in which John McCain get four ...
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What's Missing from GOP.com?
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 11/6/2008
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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com —
Patrick Ruffini has the grisly details . Greg
Mankiw ventures a conjecture : Why? I am not...
enough of a political scientist to be sure, but recent conversations I have had with some Harvard undergrads have led me to a conjecture: It was largely ...
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Losing the Youth Vote
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And a cogent explanation from John Cole
Martini Revolution —
Nice distillation of McCain’s campaign from John:
None of this matters a whit when you have no message, and that is the unenviable position the Republicans are in right now. What is John McCain’s core message? I will tell you, as it is very simple- “Not Obama.” That is it. That is the sum total of the message. He and the Wasilla Wingnut have done nothing for the past two months but provide weak and ugly reasons why you should not vote for Obama, starting with the sneer de force at the RNC and continuing on to the present, where we learn that we ...
How To Save The GOP
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
John Cole has a smart post responding to Ruffini's call for a new rightroots.
Midday open thread
Daily Kos —
... a profound change similar to Ronald Reagan's win in 1980 which seemed to usher in a conservative-dominated era. Five more days until the great socialist uprising in America. My little company SportsBlogs is all grown up now. Just when you think the wingnuts couldn't get any crazier, they one-up themselves. It would be a much blander world without them... John Cole on Obama's infomercial: Notice what is missing from that, conservatives? Attacks on John ...
Viking Pundit —
Thursday, October 30, 2008 Blue Tuesday – Larry Sabato has his next-to-last set of election predictions up over at the Crystal Ball. The only "good" news is that the GOP might avoid a filibuster-proof Senate . More – Don't really disagree with anything Cole has to say here . posted by Eric at 8:15 PM Comments: Post a Comment HOME
Into the Forest
Whiskey Fire —
... amongst the Online Conservative Intelligentsia, such as it is, about the Next Step Forward and Where Do They Go From Here after the stomping they will receive next Tuesday at the hands of a certain skinny mulatto. Most of this discourse suffers from the problem The Renegade discusses here (and ...
That’s Him! That’s… Barack Hussein Obama! He Shot Cyrus!
Sadly, No! —
... Speaking of which, I am not particularly concerned with how wingnuts resurrect themselves from the political oblivion they are about to face. But if you’re interested in that sort of thing, John Cole dips into lessons learned from his own awakening and doles out some sugar-free advice to former comrades. ...
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Next Up: A CGI Palin?
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 10/22/2008 — Ruffini looks to the future : Everyone remembers Howard Dean for the "scream" but I think his example provides a context in which Sarah Palin could lose the election, but ultimately win the party and pave the way for a conservative victory ...
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What It Will Take to Build a Rightroots Movement
thenextright.com 10/29/2008 — Keying off Jon Henke , John Hawkins has sparked an enormously provocative and healthy discussion about punditry vs. activism in the conservative blogosphere. Here he hits the nub of the problem:
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