corner.nationalreview.com - 11/3/2008
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Yuval and Ramesh -- Good points. Let me respond to Yuval's bafflement first. Yuval writes:
More importantly, though, I continue to be a little baffled by the idea that what you're calling reform conservatism (and I'll speak for myself, since I can't speak for others on your list) is to be ...
politico.com - 10/29/2008
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politico.com —
Two days after next week's election, top conservatives
will gather at the Virginia weekend home of one
of the movement's most prominent members to begin a conversation about their role in the GOP and how best to revive a party that may be out of ...
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Conservatives plan secret post-election strategy session
campaignspot.nationalreview.com - 11/6/2008
online.wsj.com - 11/2/2008
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online.wsj.com —
All eyes are on Tuesday. For the GOP,
the real question is Wednesday. That's the day the
party will survey the damage of the 2008 election, and have to decide what it wants to be. Even if John McCain pulls out a win, the Grand Old Party will be in ...
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Back to a Big-Tent GOP?
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Around the Horn
Ross Douthat —
For election eve, a potpourri of links related to the future of the Right ... ... Yuval Levin, who's almost always more sanguine than yours truly, discusses what reform conservatism might mean. (And see Jonah Goldberg's response as well.) ... Allahpundit parses
the final Fox poll, and offers some astute thoughts on how the Joe the
Plumber gambit and the selling of Sarah Palin worked out - or didn't. ... Peggy Noonan and Kathryn Jean Lopez, in conversation. ... Bill Voegeli on how to reform Big Government. ... ...
Moronageddon
Whiskey Fire —
... This would be quite a trick, given that "contemporary circumstances" suck so horribly because "conservatives" came up with and indeed implemented "conservative policies" based on "conservative principles." Not that the National Review inmates will ever admit this, obsessed as they are with explaining why the financial meltdown is Barney Frank's fault, Obama is a Secret Stalinist, and that "conservative reformers" are in trouble if they criticize Sarah Palin because, as we are flatulently informed, she is popular and they aren't (which, of course, is exactly the problem, ...
Quote From The Cocoon
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Jonah Goldberg: The Reformers who seem to want to destroy Sarah Palin are picking an incredibly self-destructive fight for the simple reason that, as a political matter, Palin is popular and they aren't (How many divisions does David Brooks have?). Rather, they should be fighting to win Palin and Palin supporters to their cause. Palin is popular? ...
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