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Palin Warns Again of 'Rationed' Care

Abortion mindset could be applied to elderly and disabled, she says

Nov 7, 09 2:12 PM CST
(Newser) - She didn't use the term "death panel," but Sarah Palin kept up her criticism of "rationed" care for the elderly and disabled last night. In a speech to abortion opponents, Palin warned that the same philosophy that allows abortions could be applied to those two groups with... More »

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abortion • conservative • health care reform • Sarah Palin • death panel

Jonah Goldberg

Conservatives Aren't Crazy, They Just Want
Their Turn

8 years of Bush
didn't count

Nov 3, 09 12:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Don’t listen to the liberals telling you the right is crazy and going to heck in a handbasket. The reality is far simpler: “After 15 or 20 years of steady moderation, many conservatives think it might be time to give their ideas a try,” writes Jonah Goldberg... More »

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conservative • compassionate conservatism • conservative base • George W. Bush • Jonah Goldberg

'Tea Party' to Fight Dozen GOP Candidates in 2010

Conservatives taking aim at moderates

Nov 3, 09 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - This election cycle could herald all-out war between far-right conservatives and the Republican establishment. Empowered by their success in pushing the GOP candidate out of the race in New York’s 23rd District, tea party activists and their allies plan to launch primary challenges against more than a dozen GOP... More »

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conservative • Charlie Crist • Bob Bennett • conservative base • Dick Armey • Rob Simmons • tea parties • Mark Kirk • Tea Party

OPINION

 GOP: It's 
 Time to 
 Rebrand to 
 'Conservative' 

New name may have greater pull than tainted Repub label

Nov 3, 09 2:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Candidates on both sides are doing their best to hide their party affiliation but it's the Republicans who have the most to worry about, writes Nate Silver . "The Democratic brand is marginal in about half the country, but the Republican brand is radioactive in about two-thirds of it ,"... More »

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Republican • conservative • Republican Party • election • conservatism • Nate Silver • conservative movement • Doug Hoffman • Dede Scozzafava • 23rd District

NY-23 circus

 Limbaugh 
 'Handpicked' 
 Hoffman: Biden 

Limbaugh: VP should 'reacquaint himself' with Constitution

Nov 2, 09 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Joe Biden took aim at a variety of GOP and conservative opponents today at a rally for New York congressional candidate Bill Owens. The VP said Conservative candidate Douglas Hoffman was “handpicked” by Rush Limbaugh, adding that Hoffman is in line with conservatives like Sarah Palin who “will... More »

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Joe Biden • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • campaign rally • special election • Sarah Palin • New York state • congressional district • Doug Hoffman • Dede Scozzafava • Bill Owens • Election 09 • election day November 2009

Mutiny!

 Conservatives 
 Declare War on GOP 

New York race just the beginning, activists say

Nov 2, 09 8:36 AM CST
(Newser) - The conservative coup in New York’s special election shows just how little control the GOP has over the ascendant tea party movement—it's a mutiny, and it's just gaining steam, activists say. The folks who helped push Republican Dede Scozzafava out of the race in favor of conservative Doug... More »

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Republican • conservative • Charlie Crist • conservative base • conservative movement • Tea Party • Doug Hoffman • Dede Scozzafava • 23rd District • election day November 2009

NY GOP Dropout Backs Dem
Over Palin Fave

Hoffman calls
Scozzafava
a 'turncoat'

Nov 2, 09 1:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Sarah Palin-backed conservative upstart Doug Hoffman called Dede Scozzafava a “turncoat” after the New York Republican state assemblywoman endorsed Hoffman’s Democratic opponent, Bill Owens. Scozzafava issued her surprise endorsement a day after pulling out of the upstate congressional race. With prominent conservatives backing Hoffman, an independent, Scozzafava had... More »

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Congress • Republican • New York • GOP • conservative • Doug Hoffman • Dede Scozzafava • Bill Owens • Election 09 • election day November 2009

doug hoffman

 Conservatives to GOP: 
 Get Out of Our Way 

Upstate New York candidate wants liberal Republicans to sweat

Oct 27, 09 12:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - The conservatives' newest rising star has no qualms about his congressional race turning into a referendum on the GOP. "The establishment Republicans are beginning to panic," writes Doug Hoffman. They're worried that a victory by a true conservative like himself will hurt the party's political strength. But Hoffman—... More »

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Congress • Republican • conservative • candidate • congressional candidates • Doug Hoffman

 Coulter: 'All 
 Prez Assassins 
 Were Liberals' 

Behar tells her to 'stop it'

Oct 23, 09 5:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative screed scribe Ann Coulter insisted yesterday that every presidential assassin in history has been a liberal. "They're all liberals—assassin by assassin by assassin," she spilled on CNN's Joy Behar Show. An angry Behar retorted: "Wait a minute. Don't make that jump from murder, terrorist to... More »

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Ann Coulter • conservative • racism • assassination • CNN • Joy Behar • assassination attempt • assassin • right wingers • liberal

Beck, Limbaugh & Co. Scare
GOP Brass

Top Republicans complain talkers are pushing party to fringe

Oct 22, 09 6:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Top Republicans are fed up with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh—off the record at least. Without naming names, Politico says that “congressional leaders” privately complain that the conservative commentariat is hurting their chances in 2010 by pushing the party too far to the fringe. Operatives close to top... More »

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Mitt Romney • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Republican Party • Tim Pawlenty • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • conservative base

ANALYSIS

 Meet the Future 
 of Conservatism 

Novice Doug Hoffman is shaking up the right

Oct 21, 09 6:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - He's a "nerdy-looking" political novice, but Doug Hoffman just may be the "conservative superstar of the future," writes Marc Ambinder. Hoffman is running as a Conservative in the closely watched special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district. Despite his lack of experience, the lifelong accountant... More »

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Congress • New York • GOP • conservative • Michelle Malkin • Glenn Beck • conservative base • Doug Hoffman

WATCH THE VIDEO

 Beck: Progressives 
 Are Like Slave Owners 

Plus, Fox News host is now traveling with an armed guard

Oct 21, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s latest metaphor: Progressives are like slave owners. He came up with this one last night while bemoaning the thousands of people in Detroit who lined up to apply for, as he called it, “free government money that we don’t know where it came from,”... More »

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conservative • Fox News • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • stimulus funds • progressives

OPINION

 Paranoid 'Pseudocons' Hijacking Right

Logic-defying conspiracy theories jump from the fringe to the mainstream

Oct 21, 09 4:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - The paranoid fringe of the American right has become mainstream to an extent unthinkable even when the John Birch Society was at its peak, writes Thomas Frank. Historian Richard Hofstadter's landmark 1965 The Paranoid Style in American Politics seems more relevant than ever, Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal.... More »

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conservative • Fox News • John Birch Society • Glenn Beck • conspiracy theory • birther

Limbaugh op-ed

Rush: I'm Another Victim
of Left-Wing Bias

Liberals in the media want to keep conservatives down

Oct 17, 09 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh is the victim of a vast left-wing conspiracy. Or so he argues in a Wall Street Journal essay in the wake of his NFL adventures. Lefties in the news business, "including the sportswriter community," have nothing but "contempt" and "blind hatred" for conservatives, he... More »

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St. Louis Rams • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • National Football League • Dave Checketts • Rush Limbaugh racist quotes

 Beck Weeps for 
 'Simpler America' 

He recalls kinder, gentler football players

Oct 16, 09 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck had a weepy "Kodak moment" when he shared old commercials with viewers yesterday and recalled a "simpler" America when "we used to be united." One of the oldie ads he played—a day after fellow right-wing commentator Rush Limbaugh was bounced from a Rams... More »

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NFL • St. Louis Rams • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Kodak • commercials • Glenn Beck • right wingers • New Coke

Palin Memoir a Gift to Booksellers

Going Rogue likely to continue trend of hits from right-wing figures

Oct 15, 09 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin’s memoir is expected sell so well that it will singlehandedly boost the fortunes of the ailing book business. The book is already topping preorder lists, and publisher Harper plans an extensive slate of promotional appearances to make full use the former Alaska governor's drawing power. "They... More »

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Alaska • Republican • conservative • publishing • memoir • author • Michelle Malkin • HarperCollins • Borders • Glenn Beck • book • Sarah Palin • Amazon.com • publishing industry • Going Rogue

 Bachmann: 
 'Reckless Liar,' 
 Rising Star 

Rep's star rising on sheer controversy

Oct 15, 09 8:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michele Bachmann thinks the administration is trying to eliminate the dollar. She’s refusing to fill out her census form, which, she notes, has been used to populate internment camps. And she’s suggested that Democrat-proposed privacy rules for school clinics could lead to abortion referrals for young girls. To... More »

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conservative • celebrity • Minnesota • US Census • Michele Bachmann

Columnist Backtracks, Slightly, on Limbaugh Quote

Rush still has no business trying to own the Rams

Oct 14, 09 12:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Columnist Bryan Burwell acknowledges that he is among those who ran with an old quote attributed to Rush Limbaugh on the "merits" of slavery without verifying it. Limbaugh insists he never said it, and Burwell is fine taking him at his word on that. It doesn't change his view... More »

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NFL • St. Louis Rams • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • football • slavery • Rush Limbaugh racist quotes

 Tea-Party Protesters Hit 
 'Pro-Obama' Jersey School 

Demonstrators sing 'God Bless America' to protest song about prez

Oct 13, 09 3:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - A band of tea-party protesters descended on a New Jersey elementary school yesterday, complaining that a class song hailing President Obama was "indoctrinating" kids. Some 70 protesters sang God Bless America and The Battle Hymn of the Republic outside the B. Bernice Young School in a suburb 15 miles... More »

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Barack Obama • music • New Jersey • conservative • protests • song • elementary school • protesters • President Obama • Tea Party

There He Is: Miss America Judge Rush Limbaugh

Glenn Beck needs something really great to upstage this

Oct 9, 09 5:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The perennially publicity-hungry Miss America Pageant will shake up the judges' panel for the January event by adding a lightning rod: Rush Limbaugh. The right-wing titan isn't the first political blowhard to serve as a judge—MSNBC's Chris Matthews did a stint in 2007—but the pageant "has... More »

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Republican • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Republican Party • conservative media • Miss America Pageant

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