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ANALYSIS

 GOP 2nd Wind 
 Doesn't Mean 
 Smooth Sailing 

Party back from last year's beating but upheaval still likely

Nov 4, 09 3:09 AM CST
(Newser) - The victories in Virginia and New Jersey look set to revitalize the Republican Party ahead of next year's elections, writes Adam Nagourney. The party now has the chance to re-energize its base and prepare for a proper comeback from last year's defeat, although the Democratic win in New York's 23rd... More »

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Republican • Republican Party • Republican candidate • conservatism • 2010 election • Christopher Christie • Bob McDonnell • 23rd District • Election 09 • election day November 2009

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

(Newser) - Bill Kristol remembers his late father as a man of a "deep modesty" who "loved intellectual pursuits but always shunned intellectual pretension." Irving Kristol, who died earlier this month at age 89, is generally regarded as the architect of neoconservatism, but the honors he accrued never gave... More »

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Weekly Standard • memorial • right wingers • conservatism • neoconservatives • William Kristol • Irving Kristol

(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s popularity as compared to the more “traditional American conservatism” of, say, Rush Limbaugh heralds the advent of a new archetype, Nate Silver writes on FiveThirtyEight: “Beck is a PoMoCon—a postmodern conservative.” A recent poll shows Beck and Limbaugh equally popular while Limbaugh’s... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • Glenn Beck • conservatism • opinion polls • Nate Silver • conservative movement • big government • post-modern • skepticism

appreciation

Counterculture Made Kristol
an Ex-Liberal  

Fear of post-'60s 'moral crisis'  spurred neocon's shift right

Sep 19, 09 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - "Neoconservative" was originally a label applied to newly conservative ex-liberals and Irving Kristol, the late godfather of the movement, was among the first and finest of the kind, E. J. Dionne writes in the Washington Post. Kristol made a powerful case for "pragmatic liberalist" when he was still... More »

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neocon • conservatism • neoconservatives • William Kristol • counterculture • Irving Kristol

 Neocon 
 Founder 
 Kristol 
 Dead at 89 

A former liberal, he sparked ideas behind the Reagan Revolution

Sep 18, 09 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Irving Kristol, the "godfather" of neoconservatism and a key intellectual force behind the Reagan Revolution, died today from lung cancer in Arlington, Va., the Washington Post reports. He was 89. Once a New York liberal, Kristol grew disaffected with liberalism in the 1940s and founded conservative magazines like... More »

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obituary • Ronald Reagan • neocon • conservatism • neoconservatives • William Kristol

OPINION

  Hey, Jews Should Be 
 Conservatives, 
 Not Liberals: 
 Podhoretz 

Following 'false messiah' Obama is bad politics, bad religion: Podhoretz

Sep 10, 09 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jewish voters backed Barack Obama over John McCain last year by a staggering 57 points—the most resounding mandate from any group other than African Americans. That bewilders neocon Norman Podhoretz, who argues in the Wall Street Journal that both Judaism and the Jewish experience endorse "the infinitely precious... More »

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Barack Obama • Jews • Norman Podhoretz • Judaism • liberal • the Jewish vote • conservatism

OPINION

 Right-Wing Crazy 
 Is All-American 

Birthers, tea parties—it's nothing new

Aug 16, 09 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the left back in power, we’re seeing right-wing "crazies"—the “birthers, tea-partiers, town hall hecklers”—getting louder. But that’s nothing new, writes Rick Perlstein in the Washington Post. In America, “the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and elites... More »

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media • American media • town hall meeting • conservatism • right-wing attacks • tea parties • right-wing extremism • American history • birther • death panel

analysis

Southern Cheaters Call on God—but Which God?

Sanford used God-talk in confession; Spitzer, McGreevey didn't

Jul 2, 09 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mark Sanford's liberal use of religious rhetoric in confessing his affair prompts Gustav Niebuhr to observe that whether Sanford is pandering or actually penitent, he is very much in the tradition of Southern politicians caught in scandal. Bill Clinton, David Vitter, and John Edwards all applied an ample dose of... More »

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Southeast • Christianity • religion • affair • scripture • cheating • political scandal • conservatism • Mark Sanford

 Revolted? 
 You May Be 
 Conservative 

Studies suggest those on right have weaker stomachs

Jun 5, 09 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Those easily repulsed by a creepy bug or bloody scene may lean to the right, new studies suggest. People who are easily grossed out are particularly likely to take conservative stances on homosexuality, LiveScience reports. Surveys using scales for “Disgust Sensitivity” and political ideology helped researchers draw the conclusions;... More »

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study • science • research • Cornell University • conservatism

Republicans Slam Party-Purist Outfit

Club for Growth backs unelectable righties,
say some in GOP

May 18, 09 2:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some in the GOP have had it with the Club for Growth, an organization that identifies Republicans it deems weak on low-tax, small-government values, the Wall Street Journal reports. Party members argue that the Club backs Republicans too far right to win elections. “If their goal is to increase... More »

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Congress • conservative • Arlen Specter • Republican Party • conservatism • conservative credentials • Pat Toomey • Club for Growth

OPINION

Abortion 'Purity Test' Is New to Republicans

Not even 'conservative issue' for older generation: Goodman

May 15, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Abortion has become “the purity test for remaining in the GOP’s inner circle,” writes Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe: The Republican Party is shedding and shunning abortion-rights supporters it once called its own. But it wasn’t always that way—even “Mr. Conservative” Barry Goldwater... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • Arlen Specter • Barry Goldwater • pro life • pro choice • Colin Powell • conservatism • conservatives • Republicans

OPINION

 What the 
 GOP Needs Is 
 a John Wayne 

Community, not freedom, is the true Western virtue: Brooks

May 5, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Republicans have admired Westerns for decades, continually flocking to leaders—Goldwater, Reagan, Bush, Palin—who embody the John Wayne ideal of individualism and bravery. But as David Brooks writes, Westerns aren't really about lone heroes, but "civic order": how newcomers build communities in inhospitable regions. For the New ... More »

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GOP • Barry Goldwater • Ronald Reagan • Republican Party • David Brooks • conservatism • George W. Bush • Sarah Palin • community

After Limbaugh Dig, Palin Joins GOP Group

Alaska gov gets on board rebranding effort after Rush 'hate' jibe

May 5, 09 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin will join Congressional Republicans' high-profile rebranding committee, CNN reports, after days of confusion as to whether she was snubbing the group or it was snubbing her. Last week John McCain said that the Alaska governor would likely join the National Council for a New America, but there was... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • GOP • Republican Party • conservatism • Sarah Palin • Eric Cantor • National Council for a New America

 30 Years On, 
 Thatcher 
 Still Divides 



Britain's first female PM polarized during her rule, and after

May 4, 09 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thirty years ago today British voters elected Margaret Thatcher in a landmark election, ushering in 18 years of Conservative rule. She remains a polarizing figure: her enemies still regard her as nearly diabolical, while her admirers speak of her as a saint. The Telegraph looks back on her tumultuous 11-year... More »

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United Kingdom • British Parliament • Conservative Party • Tory Party • Margaret Thatcher • conservatism

OPINION

 Cheney Should 
 Have Run in 2008 

VP would have lost big and awakened right, says Douthat

Apr 28, 09 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - As he bashes the Obama administration and insists that torture kept the country safe, Dick Cheney sounds less like a retired VP than a man campaigning for a third Bush term. For Ross Douthat, it's a pity he didn't run himself. In his first column for the New York Times,... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Dick Cheney • torture • Election 2008 • conservatism • conservative movement

GOP Targets Critics With Own Economic Plans

Budget proposals
seek to douse 'Party
of No' label

Mar 26, 09 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - “The Party of No” is rejecting that label by introducing alternatives to President Obama’s policies rooted in GOP ideology, Politico reports. The Republican Road to Recovery is a weighty fiscal counterpart to the Democrats’ economic agenda, and marks a new strategy in the minority’s response. Republicans laud... More »

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Congress • Mike Pence • budget • House Republicans • conservatism • Eric Cantor • President Obama • economic policies

OPINION

 Frum: 
 GOP Needs 
 Reform, Not Rush 

Stick-in-the-mud Limbaugh makes disastrous figurehead

Mar 8, 09 9:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh is gunning to be the face of the Republican Party, and the GOP is allowing it—with potentially disastrous consequences, writes noted conservative David Frum. “With his private plane and his cigars, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence,” Frum writes. Worse, Rush insists Republicans need... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • Republican Party • conservatism • David Frum • Bill Maher Grid

OPINION

 Old Guard Will 
 Win Battle for GOP 

Defeat likely to send party further to the right, ensuring future losses

Nov 11, 08 9:30 AM CST
(Newser) - A battle between reformers and traditionalists for the soul of the GOP lies in the party's immediate future, David Brooks writes in the New York Times—and the reformers don't stand a chance. The conservative old guard, with Rush Limbaugh as its loudest mouthpiece and Sarah Palin as its heroine,... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • GOP • Senate Republicans • Republican Party • House Republicans • Election 2008 • conservatism • Sarah Palin

OPINION

 Conservatism Dead 
 by Its Own Hand: 
 O'Rourke 

Bloated government is only one (though huge) legacy of GOP reign

Nov 10, 08 6:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Modern conservatism is dead, and conservatives are to blame, PJ O’Rourke writes for the Weekly Standard. “Anyone who is still on the left is obviously insane and not responsible for his or her actions,” he contends. “No, we on the right did it.” Ideal after... More »

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Congress • abortion • Bill Clinton • impeachment • Ronald Reagan • Election 2008 • conservatism • George W. Bush • P.J. O'Rourke • President Obama • conservative movement

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