The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors’ rebellion over President Bush’s immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times.
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Following on my post from the other day, here is the Book TV video (real media) of a Sean Wilentz-moderated panel discussion on the first two offerings from Princeton UP’s James Madison Library series. John Patrick Diggins (author of That Reagan Book, among other things), RFK Jr., Sam Tanenhaus discuss Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative. [...]
Princeton University Press has published a new edition of Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative (ghosted by L. Brent Bozell) as part of the James Madison Library in American Politics series curated by Sean Wilentz. The new edition includes a new foreword by George Will and a new afterword by RFK Jr. Both are pretty [...]
Andrew Bacevich has a wrenching piece in today’s Washington Post on the death of his son in Iraq. He relates what a few great patrioteers had to say to him about his son’s death:
Among the hundreds of messages that my wife and I have received, two bore directly on this question. Both held me personally [...]
Lew Rockwell has posted the video clip of Ron Paul’s second visit to the Bill Maher show; this time the host let Paul talk seriously about foreign policy. Maher even half-apologizes for his flippant attitude the first time around a few weeks back.
Speaking of flippant… here we have a WaPo gossip columnist (I take it) [...]
If you can’t get enough of voting in on-line polling, here are some more:
LittleGreenFootballs
HotAir.com
RightWingNews
AOL
(Thanks to Mitch P.)
And taking on Hannity and Colmes. Video here. (Thanks to Xenos.)
From Reuters:
Paul, a nine-term congressman from Texas and the Libertarian Party candidate for the White House in 1988, stood out in a field of 10 Republican presidential candidates by standing up to front-runner Rudolph Giuliani in a spat over the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Not much, mind you, but he’s better than most Maryland Republicans. He was on Fox News just now calling for dumping Ron Paul (edit: from the debates, that is).
I’ve given in to what I’m sure is a Fox fundraising scam and sent a text-message to their “you decide” voting hotline to vote for Paul. If [...]
He’s fallen for a question about whether there are any areas on which he’s changed his position in a direction that doesn’t help him with the conservative base. Yes, he says, he used to want to abolish the federal department of education, but now he loves it and supports NCLB, too. Another good reason not [...]