The dean of Washington Post political columnists says that reports of the GOP’s impending demise are premature. Maybe so. The evidence Broder gives, though, suggests just the opposite:
Support for President Bush and his policies remains high among Republicans. His overall job rating among GOP voters is 75 percent, “and by overwhelming numbers they approve of [...]
Steve Chapman on Giuliani and his fans:
What the enchantment with Rudy suggests is that the GOP has morphed from a party that reveres limited government to a party that is girlishly infatuated with executive authority.
In 1964, presidential nominee Barry Goldwater declared it “the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power.” George W. Bush, by [...]
My review of Brian Doherty’s comprehensive history of modern libertarianism, Radicals for Capitalism, is now on-line here.
I’m a little surprised at how much coverage the assassination of Captain America is getting. He’s not the best-known comic-book character, and Marvel Comics is renowned for its revolving door of death. I remember around 1987 when they nuked the Hulk — that was pretty impressive to a nine-year-old Daniel McCarthy. They couldn’t possibly bring [...]
Among other things, because he’s so power-hungry he might just be the last president we ever have, warns Jim Sleeper:
The first serious problem is structural and political: A man who fought the inherent limits of his mayoral office as fanatically as Giuliani would construe presidential prerogatives so broadly he’d make George Bush’s notions of “unitary” [...]
The New York Times‘ David Kirkpatrick reports on Mitt Romney’s donations to conservative organizations, many of which have been notably friendly toward him lately. But of course, those donations didn’t buy any influence. Rich Lowry even points to a timely pro-McCain cover story in National Review to illustrate the point.
Kirkpatrick writes:
The recipients of Mr. Romney’s [...]
Justin Raimondo compares Rich Lowry’s view of perjury during the Clinton era to his take on Scooter Libby’s perjury today. Is perjury not a crime if there are no charges arising from what the perjuror lied abot? Lowry didn’t think so back then.
Contrary to some libertarians, I think Libby would have earned himself slammer time [...]
The pro-life and antiwar Democratic Senator who was George McGovern’s running mate until word of his psychiatric treatment — including electroconvulsive therapy — died Sunday at age 77. We could use a few Democrats (or heck, Republicans for that matter) more like him. He once co-wrote a book called War and Presdiential Power: A Chronicle [...]
…think that the United States of America circa 2008 is likely to resemble New York City circa 1988? Evidently he does; he writes of Rudy Giluliani:
his deviations from the social conservatives’ agenda is more than balanced by his record as mayor of New York. That city was liberalism’s laboratory as it went from the glittering [...]
I forget where I was reading it or who was telling it to me, but it was lately brought to my attention that George W. Bush polled quite well in surprising places like Massachusetts early in the 2000 election cycle. Once the campaign really got going, of course, most states reverted to their expected loyalties, [...]