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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
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conservative movement stories: 19 news summaries
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

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

 Palin Bucks GOP, 
 Backs Conservative 

Race for NY House seat turns into battle for soul of the right

Oct 23, 09 6:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin has bucked the GOP to endorse a third-party challenger in a closely-watched House special election. In the race for the upstate New York seat, Palin has joined Fred Thompson and Dick Armey in endorsing the candidate for the Conservative Party, Doug Hoffman, over a Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava,... More »

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New York • political endorsement • special election • Sarah Palin • conservative movement • John McHugh • Doug Hoffman • Election 09 • election day November 2009

Righty Site Yanks Post on US Military Coup

Newsmax scribe said Obama overthrow 'gaining possibility'

Sep 30, 09 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Newsmax columnist—the conservative mag says he's a mere “unpaid blogger”—suggests that a military coup against the Obama administration is “gaining possibility.” “Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration,” writes John Perry in a... More »

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US military • military coup • Obama administration • President Obama • conservative movement • John L. Perry • Newsmax

 Daughter Liz 
 Revives the 
 Cheney Brand  

She carries on dad's national security message, and her fan base is growing

Sep 28, 09 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Move over, Sarah Palin and Megan McCain—the GOP’s newest rising star is Liz Cheney, “our favorite vice president’s daughter,” as she was touted at a recent conservative gathering. Cheney—an outspoken proponent of “enhanced interrogation” who has said “waterboarding isn’t torture”—... More »

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national security • Dick Cheney • torture • GOP • conservative • waterboarding • right wingers • red state • Liz Cheney • conservative movement

(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

ANALYSIS

 Right Steals Left's 
 Language of Protest 

From 'Nazi' to 'my body,' conservatives are the new liberals

Sep 18, 09 7:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you go to Amazon to buy Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky's classic treatise on left-wing protest, you'll see authors that other readers are also interested in: Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, and GOP Sen. Jim DeMint. For Politico, that's one of many signs that conservatives have co-opted liberal techniques, from... More »

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health care reform • political demonstrations • protesters • conservative movement • tea parties

 Gingrich Group Raises $8.1M 


Aug 1, 09 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Newt Gingrich’s political organization brought in a hefty $8.1 million in the first 6 months of the year, Politico reports. American Solutions for Winning the Future advances conservative issues by paying for Gingrich’s air travel, promoting his books, and distributing mail and advertising—but if anybody asks,... More »

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Newt Gingrich • presidential campaign • political action committees • Election 2012 • conservative movement

(Newser) - With the 2006 and 2008 election victories, liberals have been cheering the end of the “ghastly interlude of conservative dominance ushered in by Ronald Reagan,” William Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard. Not so fast. “Only six months into the new administration, even a talented hot... More »

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Bush administration • liberals • Obama administration • President Obama • conservative movement • William Kristol • public opinion • big government

ANALYSIS

As Calif. Righty Bastion, Orange County Cedes
to Rural Placer

But it's a place to hide from, not breed, change

Jun 16, 09 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Placer County, Calif.—stretching from Sacramento east to Lake Tahoe—is this generation’s Orange County, and that bodes ill for conservatives, Tom Schaller writes on FiveThirtyEight.com. Placer’s demographics and voting record are similar to the Orange County of the 1960s, which birthed the modern conservative movement.... More »

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California • Sacramento • Barry Goldwater • Orange County • demographics • Lake Tahoe • conservative movement • Placer County

(Newser) - Republican groups have already prepared dossiers and attack strategies on a host of possible Obama Supreme Court nominees, the New York Times reports. Ten memos obtained by the Times—all about female judges and scholars—focus on records of abortion rights, gay rights, and the citing of foreign... More »

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gay rights • abortion rights • sovereignty • US Supreme Court • judicial nominations • Obama administration • President Obama • conservative movement

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

Bush Fans Rare at Conservative Pow-Wow

CPAC speakers slam former president,
along with Obama

Feb 28, 09 9:50 AM CST
(Newser) - George W. Bush spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference every year of his presidency, but this year when you hear his name, it’s usually being derided, writes Andy Barr of Politico. Newt Gingrich spent his speech railing against “Bush-Obama big spending,” while Mike Huckabee cited Bush’... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Mike Huckabee • Bush legacy • Conservative Political Action Conference • George W. Bush • conservatives • conservative movement

OPINION

Conservatives Must 'Obstruct and Delay' Obama: Kristol

GOP can check rush toward big government

Feb 26, 09 11:57 AM CST
(Newser) - The “day of reckoning” has come for Republicans, writes William Kristol in the Washington Post. On Tuesday, President Obama delivered “the most unabashedly liberal and big-government speech” since Lyndon Johnson, and seems poised to undo the whole Reagan agenda. “Conservatives can’t win politically right now,”... More »

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Barack Obama • Lyndon Johnson • conservative • US government • FDR • President Obama • conservative movement • William Kristol • Republicans

OPINION

Kristol Wraps
NY Times Gig

He's done, and says dawning Obama era may mean his fellow conservatives are, too

Jan 26, 09 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - The “conservative era” in US politics is over, and so is William Kristol’s stay at the New York Times. “All good things must come to an end,” the conservative writes in today’s column, his last, calling Jan. 20 the official end of the right’s... More »

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Barack Obama • New York Times • conservative • conservative movement • William Kristol

OBITUARY

 Weyrich, Who Coined 
 'Moral Majority,' Dead at 66 

Conservative thinker gave name to movement key in GOP rise

Dec 18, 08 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Paul Weyrich, the influential conservative who co-founded the Heritage Foundation and coined the term “moral majority,” died today at 66, the Washington Post reports, after years of poor health. A reporter, Weyrich got his Washington entree in 1967 as press secretary for a Colorado senator. At a 1979... More »

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religious right • conservative • obituary • Moral Majority • Amtrak • John Boehner • Paul Weyrich • Heritage Foundation • conservative movement

OPINION

 Blame Rush
 and Co. for
 GOP's Fall 

Divisiveness makes for good ratings, bad political movement

Nov 17, 08 12:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Blame has been flying in Republican circles, but not enough has stuck where it belongs: on conservative talk radio. Rush Limbaugh and his imitators skyrocketed to prominence by being "rabble-rousers—high intensity, 'hot' performers whose appeal is based on energizing their base," writes Steven Stark in the More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • Mike Huckabee • Ronald Reagan • right-wing media • conservative base • Sarah Palin • conservative movement

OPINION

 And Don't Let 
 the Door Hit You ... 

Lefty glories in Bush's imminent departure, fires off some parting shots

Nov 11, 08 7:45 PM CST
(Newser) - George W. Bush will soon no longer be president, and “it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on the multifaceted burden that will soon be lifted from our collective shoulders,” Paul Waldman writes in the American Prospect, taking more than a few minutes to catalog the low... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • Election 2008 • George W. Bush • President Obama • conservative movement • Paul Waldman

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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