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'Citizen Newt' Could Boost Gingrich's Image In 2012
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyA new book about former House Speaker Newt Gingrich could provide a last-minute boost to his chances heading into the primaries if he seeks the GOP nomination for president. The book, "Citizen Newt," is being authored by the respected Reagan biographer Craig Shirley (who has been interviewing Gingrich one day a week) and is set to land on bookshelves just one month before the Iowa caucuses next January. "Citizen Newt" will focus on Gingrich's professional life from 1973-1994, ending with the Republican revolution. It will portray Gingrich as an energetic leader who hit the ground running and ...
Are Social Conservatives Losing Clout -- or Just the Gay Debate?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailySocial conservative groups (which I would distinguish from rank-and-file social conservatives) don't have the juice they used to. Nobody on the right wants to admit this publicly, but they've lost clout in recent years. The most recent example occurred when social conservatives couldn't keep GOProud -- a gay conservative group -- from continuing its affiliation with the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (Whether you think this is a good or bad thing is not the point here.) As National Journal's Reid Wilson wrote: Social conservatives, including the National Organization for ...
Podcast: Election Postmortem and Craig Shirley on Reagan
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThirty years ago, on November 4, Ronald Reagan was elected president. To discuss the significance of that election, Craig Shirley, author of "Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Started it All," joins us on the podcast. Shirley, who chronicled Reagan's 1980 campaign in his book, discusses Reagan's impact, as well as the similarities between Reagan's victory and the emergence of the tea party movement. Later in the podcast, The Hotline's Reid Wilson and The Washington Post's Aaron Blake are back to defend their pre-election predictions (as you'll hear, their Senate ...
Podcast: Craig Shirley Discusses Ronald Reagan and 'the Campaign That Changed America'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn today's podcast we re-air a classic episode of "The Matt Lewis Show," featuring Craig Shirley, author of "Rendezvous With Destiny, Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America." In our interview, Shirley discusses how Reagan's optimistic brand of conservatism initially angered many conservatives who were devotees of Edmund Burke. He also shares with us how a young radio broadcaster named "Dutch" Reagan was inspired by FDR's use of the term "rendezvous with destiny," and later appropriated it for his own campaign. We also discuss the details of the vital 1980 campaign. As Shirley ...
Sarah Palin Plagiarizes Newt Gingrich?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyLast week, when introducing Ronald Reagan's son, Michael, to a crowd in Anchorage, Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin delivered a speech that made news for its stinging criticism of President Obama's economic stimulus package. Further analysis of the speech, however, suggests that Palin lifted many of its central ideas, and the way they were worded, from fellow conservative (and presumptive competitor in the 2012 race for president) Newt Gingrich. It appears that much of Palin's text was inspired by an article that Gingrich and Craig Shirley published in 2005 in the Manchester Union Leader, titled ...
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