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Republican Reaction to Obama's Iraq Speech: Mostly Negative
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyPresident Obama's speech Tuesday night marking the end of combat operations in Iraq drew a largely -- but not universally -- negative response from Republicans. One particular sticking point for many Republicans was the president's failure to tip his cap to the apparent success in Iraq of the counterinsurgency "surge" strategy -- authored by Gen. David Petraeus and implemented by President George W. Bush over the objections of many Democrats, including then-Senators and presidential candidates Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Sen. John McCain, who ran against Obama in the 2008 general election ...
Brit Hume: Tiger Woods Should 'Turn to the Christian Faith'
By David Sessions - Politics DailyOn "Fox News Sunday" yesterday, Fox anchor Brit Hume suggested that Tiger Woods should trade his Buddhist faith for Christianity if he wants to make a personal comback. When host Chris Wallace asked the show's roundtable to predict the biggest sports story of 2010, Hume said:"Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Whether he can recover as a person I think is a very open question, and it's a tragic situation for him. I think he's lost his family, it's not clear to me if he'll be able to have a relationship with his children, but the Tiger Woods that emerges once the news value dies out of this ...
Kristol: Only Conservative Populism Will Win for Republicans
By David Sessions - Politics DailyWashington Post columnist William Kristol writes Tuesday that "the GOP is likely, for the foreseeable future, to be of a conservative mind and in a populist mood." Reviewing polls that show 40 percent of Americans and 72 percent of Republicans say they are "conservative," Kristol concludes that out-of-office candidates like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee embody the party's near future. "The center of gravity, I suspect, will instead lie with individuals such as Palin and Huckabee and Gingrich, media personalities like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, and activists at town halls and tea parties," ...
Vanity Fair's Palin Piece Underscores Republican Split
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyRepublican infighting over the recent trashing of Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair is bringing to the surface the long-bubbling conservative dislike of moderate "maverick" John McCain. Once McCain won the presidential nomination last year, most conservative Republicans supported him because he was better than the alternative, Barack Obama. Support on the right for McCain became more enthusiastic when he chose Sarah Palin -- a true conservative -- as his running mate. ...
Bye Bye, Bill Kristol
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyKristol's stint at the New York Times lasted only about a year. His final column, titled with the question "Will Obama Save Liberalism?" opened with this statement, sure to strike dread into the hearts of any conservatives who are still paying any attention to anything Kristol has to say (which they aren't) :All good things must come to an end. Jan. 20, 2009, marked the end of a conservative era.Interestingly, his first column for the New York Times way back on January 7 of last year also was titled with a question. "President Huckabee?"Well, I can answer that question Bill, and I could have ...
Re: Obama Dines With The Enemy: Journalists, That Is
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAs I write this, young conservatives on Twitter are discussing Barack Obama's dinner with certain august members of the conservative intelligentsia, and the general opinion is one of skepticism.David Brooks is certainly no longer a conservative -- if he ever was one. And though George Will certainly qualifies as a conservative, many younger conservative bloggers -- who view how one came down on the issue of Sarah Palin as a sort of "legacy vote" -- would argue that he is, at least, not generally representative of modern conservative thought. Give Obama credit, though, for rounding up ...
Obama Dines With The Enemy: Journalists, That Is
By David Knowles - Politics DailyLast night, at 6:34 pm, President-elect Barack Obama's motorcade came to a stop in front of an unlikely Maryland address. The occasion was dinner, and the host was none other than George F. Will, one of The Washington Post's conservative columnists. Also waiting in that den of lions were such luminaries as David Brooks, Peggy Noonan, Bill Kristol, and Charles Krauthammer, who, like Will, tend to inhabit distinctly non-liberal portions of the political spectrum.So, no word yet on what was discussed over cocktails and gnosh, but the event itself must come as a surprise to those who have been ...
Should Torturers Get Medal of Freedom?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyConservative columnist Bill Kristol has long been lead cheerleader for the policies of George W. Bush. In fact, his brand of neo-con logic--like that of his favorite acolyte, Sarah Palin--sees anything less than full support of the Iraq war, domestic wiretapping, waterboarding, Guantanamo Bay prison, extraordinary rendition and the rest as a threat to democracy itself. The Bush dictum, "You're either with us, or you're against us," serves as the guiding beacon to this particular philosophy, honing geopolitical complexity down to sound-bite solutions. To their admirers, Kristol, Bush and Palin ...
What Does G.O.P. Stand For?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThis figurative question has been asked quite a bit in the wake of last Tuesday's historic election. What does it mean to be a member of the Grand Old Party? That you favor small government over large? That you cling to guns and God more than your Democrat neighbors? That the issue of abortion trumps all else? Perhaps all three reasons apply. Whatever the reason for Republican affiliation, a clear side-effect of this political condition became apparent in the waning days of the campaign, and has taken hold of the party faithful: Anger. Consider this now-famous exchange from a McCain rally. The ...
Karl Rove's Broken Wings
By David Knowles - Politics DailyMuch like Alan Greenspan, political strategist Karl Rove has received a mountain of lavish praise over the past decade. Back when times were good, Rove epitomized success. His business was winning elections, and with the dawning of W., he seemed to have no peer. Well, the mighty, they have fallen. Himself a closet atheist, Rove forged what proved, for a time, to be a cunning strategy of harnessing the fervor of two distinct groups within the Republican Party: Christian and fiscal conservatives. To be sure, these two factions often overlapped. There are many anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage ...
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