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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!From its beginnings, a tension existed in the heart of American conservatism between winning hearts and minds -- and winning elections. A slogan from the 1964 presidential campaign hinted at this dichotomy. "In your heart you know he's right" implied that although we believed in Barry Goldwater, we knew you might not – at least not enough of you, not yet. By 1980, a majority of Americans certainly did rally to the side of the conservative star of the Goldwater campaign, but Ronald Reagan's eight years in the White House did not lay to rest the intramural Republican tug of war between ...
Last 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 ...
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