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Conservative Strategist and Publisher Rusher Dies at 87
By not in system - AOL NewsSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- William A. Rusher, a conservative strategist for more than 50 years who helped engineer Barry Goldwater's nomination as the Republican candidate for president in 1964, has died, officials confirmed Monday. Rusher died Saturday in a nursing facility in San Francisco at the age of 87 after a long illness. His death was confirmed by Richard Vetterli, a spokesman for the San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office. His influence was felt on decades of U.S. politics, from the 1961 stirrings of the "draft Goldwater" effort to opposing Richard Nixon's overtures to China in the ...
Daily Caller: National Review's 'Pledge to America' Editorial Was 'Prearranged'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe other day, I blogged about how conservative RedState blogger Erick Erickson disagreed with the National Review over the GOP's "Pledge to America." National Review endorsed it, while Erickson called it "dreck." Now, The Daily Caller is reporting that National Review's endorsement was already in the tank before the pledge was unveiled. As the Daily Caller reported: ... skittish rank-and-file members were reassured at a Wednesday night caucus meeting by leadership aides who distributed a National Review editorial praising the "Pledge." The National Review editorial had been prearranged, ...
Pope Benedict XVI and the Tea Party Movement: Soulmates?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe leader of the Roman Catholic Church doesn't do political endorsements, and Pope Benedict XVI isn't likely to make an exception for the Tea Party movement, no matter how much momentum the populist tax revolt gains as the fall election campaign picks up speed. But after watching Benedict during his visit to Britain this weekend -- widely considered a success in the face of low expectations -- Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor-at-large of National Review Online, saw both the Tea Party and the pontiff as calling Americans to a spiritual and political battle against big government and on behalf of ...
Newt Gingrich: Obama's 'Kenyan, Anti-Colonial' Worldview Rules America
By David Gibson - Politics DailyNewt Gingrich has unleashed some of his most explosive language yet against Barack Obama, telling National Review Online that a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" mindset governs the president's actions, which he blasted as "authentically dishonest" and "factually insane." Gingrich's comments on the website of the conservative periodical were inspired, he said by a sharp-edged analysis of Obama by the conservative pundit, Dinesh D'Souza, in the latest edition of Forbes. In that article, D'Souza says that in his policies Obama is essentially channeling the soul of his late Kenyan-born father, an African ...
Is President Obama a Socialist?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIt is one of the most frequent refrains among critics of our new president. Scrawled in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and followed by a forest of exclamation points, the McCarthy-esque charge populating comment sections of blogs across the internets reads: Barack Obama is a Socialist!!!!!!!Well, the main stream media (such as it its) has not shied away from this debate either. Witness two recent examples. From the National Review, for whom "progressive" is itself a dirty word, comes a cover sure to send shivers down the backs of laissez-fare, Ayn Rand-reading capitalists everywhere. And in today's ...
When Conservatives Go Bad: Bashing Limbaugh to Sell Books
By Dave - Politics DailyWe've seen this before. A neo-conservative luminary says something critical about conservatism, is showered by adulation by the liberal press, finds that he likes it and tries to springboard the criticism to launch a bigger career. In David Frum's case, this was started with his criticism of Sarah Palin, but Copious Dissent has his number and reports the sad trajectory from there.Personally, I wish I could generate an audience simply by people hating my guts. But, that is David Frum's entire shtick. He writes a book about how Conservatives "can win again" by abandoning Conservatism, and it is ...
Buckley Quits National Review
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHere's a follow-up on my earlier piece about Christopher Buckley--the son of conservative thinker William F. Buckley, Jr.--who last week endorsed Barack Obama for president of the United States. Apparently, that move didn't sit too well with fellow some conservatives, especially those who work for William F.'s old magazine, The National Review. So, Christopher announced today that he was leaving the publication, effective immediately. Here's part of his reasoning:"While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative ...
McCain Under Fire
By David Knowles - Politics DailyNearly every poll conducted in the wake of our nation's financial meltdown has been bad news for John McCain. His numbers began to drop early last week, when news of the $700 billion bailout started to sink in. Clearly, McCain's week-old pronouncement that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," wasn't meshing with the facts. If, as McCain's financial adviser, Phil Gramm insists, this recession is all in our heads, then why do the taxpayers need to pay nearly a trillion dollars in therapy bills? When McCain's pollsters let their man know of the ominous trend, the Arizona Senator did what ...
The Evil of Two Lessers
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWith every passing election, Americans reaffirm a basic truth about the inherent nature of those who seek higher office: politicians lie to get elected. In fact, it is something of a bedrock assumption that to rise in the ranks of the politically powerful, one must, by definition, be untrustworthy. Hence the dictum: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Indeed, the race for president might be viewed as a competition to see who can tell the more convincing lies about his or her opponent. This might come as crushing news to idealistic followers of Barack Obama or John McCain (and, ...
Wright Reactions
By David Knowles - Politics DailyReverend Jeremiah Wright surprised just about everybody this week by launching a counter-attack of speaking engagements and interviews designed to give his side of the out-of-context remarks recycled in numerous YouTube clips. The image-rehabilitation tour started rather quietly on Friday during a taped sit-down with PBS's Bill Moyers. From there, however, the tenor of the discussion began to get more animated. Sunday night saw Wright speaking to an NAACP dinner in Detroit, during which he found time to mock the accents of both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. On Monday, Wright addressed a ...
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