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Balloon Juice — ... There is a not unsubstantial portion of the electorate who, while completely happy in a world where everyone can worship as they want, simply are sick and tired of the holier than thou pushing their views on us. Having said that, Larison is correct that the theocon wing of the GOP does not deserve all the blame for the current mess. People like me who got us into an overseas mess share a good deal of the blame. ...

The GOP's "Oogedy-Boogedy" Problem
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Contra Parker, Larison doesn't like how the Evangelicals are scapegoated: Certainly there is an argument to be made that dead-end partisans qua dead-end partisans who cannot speak to anyone outside their party are a problem, and you can make the case that the holdouts who still think Bush has done a good job are complicit to some degree in all of his errors and crimes. Maybe there is some significant overlap with the so-called “oogedy-boogedy” set, but then the problem with them wouldn’t be their religiosity or their social conservatism or any of the ...

Those Oogedy Boogedy Christians
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... she exemplified/amplified the Christian right. It was that voters perceived her to be incompetent and not able to handle the job of commander in chief. In any event, there might be evidence to support this claim; Barack Obama ( a self-described evangelical, it must be said) turned over a whole bunch of suburbs in fast-growing areas. Democrats tried mightily to make inroads with conservative evangelicals, and they failed. This demographic group is, as Larison points out, is one of the most reliable factions within the party.  At this point, they matter enough. The dirty ...

Kathleen Parker has some advice for Republicans
Newshoggers.com — ... Republicans know it. ...the GOP has surrendered its high ground to its lowest brows. In the process, the party has alienated its non-base constituents, including other people of faith (those who prefer a more private approach to worship), as well as secularists and conservative-leaning Democrats who otherwise might be tempted to cross the aisle. Parker's column has sparked an interesting online debate between Andrew Sullivan and Daniel Larison.  Larison began: It never ceases to amaze me how the least influential, but most reliable ...

Links for 2008-11-19 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... be rendered into weapons-grade material should Tehran decide to develop a nuclear device. The agency says that, as of this month, Tehran had amassed 630kg of low enriched uranium hexafluoride, up from 480kg in late August. Analysts say Iran is enriching uranium at such a pace that, by early next year, it could reach break-out capacity – one step away from producing enough fissile material for a crude nuclear bomb. +++++++ Israel must be getting nervous. What will Obama do? Oogedy-Boogedy-Boo Maybe there is some significant overlap with the so-called ...

links for 2008-11-20
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: mike_huckabee bobby_jindal) Oogedy-Boogedy-Boo Maybe there is some significant overlap with the so-called “oogedy-boogedy” set, but then the problem with them wouldn’t be their religiosity or their social conservatism or any ...

Mike Huckabee and libertarians
The Next Right — We've seen a lot of social conservatives upset over today's intemperate attack by Kathleen Parker (Note: she was unnecessarily contemptuous, but her point that "the Republican Party -- and conservatism with it -- eventually will die out unless religion is returned to the privacy of one's heart where it belongs" is worth serious consideration). Well, I am a libertarian, so let's talk about the Kathleen Parker of the social conservative crowd: Mike Huckabee. This week, Huckabee called ...

God, Politics and the GOP
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — ... GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn’t soon cometh. First, a minor digression: when making a serious argument deploying the term “oogedy-boogedy” about those one is criticizing will result in more focus on the term (amusing as it may be–just say it out loud if you doubt me) than on one’s argument. (See, for example, Jonah Goldberg and Daniel Larison.) Second, and more importantly, she has a point, although it is more ...