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Controlling the debate

One of the first things you learn as litigation defense counsel is that you will lose if you let the plaintiff control the case’s message. It’s easy to let this happen, because the plaintiff comes out of the gate like gangbusters, and the defendant finds himself, logically, in a defensive, purely reactive posture. [...]

Rich man, poor man

My kids used to go to a wonderful little private school. It was a stretch to afford it, but I felt the benefits outweighed the burden. Then the tuition went up, and up, and up. So we left. The wonderful little private school is now precisely like all the other private [...]

Jews don’t vote Republican

When I was growing up, my best friend had the most wonderful grandparents. They were an incredibly flamboyant Polish couple who escaped the Holocaust because the woman was so charming she was able to talk the Nazis into letting them leave (with the help of some diamonds as bribes). He was pretty charming [...]

Values problems in bed and in politics

Conservatives believe that it is dangerous to tumble into bed with someone instantly. They’re appalled by the raunchy hook-up culture amongst our young people, one that says it’s okay to have sex on the first date, as long as you try to line up reasonable precautions to limit some of the damaging fall-out (such [...]

The politics of Clemens

DQ here.  While Bookworm is on a well-deserved vacation, let’s see if we can get some good discussion going and, maybe, learn a little from each other.  Let’s start with a topic I doubt BW would ever blog on — Roger Clemens.  Several commentators have pointed out that most (though not all) of Clemens critics [...]

Eating our own *UPDATED*

I caught a minute of Mike Gallagher today, and he was talking about the fact that Republicans are more critical of Republican candidates than Democrats are critical of Democratic candidates. It occurred to me that, at least in this election cycle, that may be because there are real, substantive differences between the Republican candidates. [...]

Trust Mark Steyn to sum up the political playing field perfectly

Three paragraphs of perfect political analysis from Mark Steyn:
If I could just sneak out in the middle of the night and saw off Rudy Giuliani’s strong right arm and John McCain’s ramrod back and Mitt Romney’s fabulous hair and stitch them all together in Baron von Frankenstein’s laboratory with the help of some neck bolts, [...]

Moving Republicans forward in American hearts and minds

A week ago, I did a post that sought to find issues common to the greatest number of conservatives — and I got a lot of wonderful help from you guys in the comments section. I still hope to turn it into a more widely read article, but I’m a little bogged down in [...]

Reaching out to women voters

In an inspired Wall Street Journal article, Kimberley Strassel points out that Republican candidates, at their peril, are ignoring women, while Democratic candidates, knowing that women voters are the statistical difference for them between success and failure, are wooing them aggressively. This wooing needed go well.  Strassel explains that the Democrats are locked in the [...]

Keep your legs crossed

Chris Muir, of Day by Day cartoon fame, hits another wonderful home run:
 

Hillary is being very weird

In a bizarre speech yesterday, Hillary wittingly or unwittingly admitted that the Republicans are best when it comes to security against terrorism. Here’s what she said:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday raised the prospect of a terror attack before next year’s election, warning that it could boost the GOP’s efforts to hold on to the [...]

Poor Scooter, Part II

One of the things that T.S. raised in my original Scooter post was that Fitzgerald said that it was wrong to disclose Plame’s identity. Now, as a lawyer, I can tell you that the fact that Fitzgerald said something doesn’t make it so. In fact, nothing a lawyer says is evidence, unless a [...]

Double standards

This kind of writing is why I’m not going to turn my back entirely on Ann Coulter, even when she makes inept (and, yes, offensive) jokes, not so much about John Edwards and gays (although they were caught in her misfire), but about a type of political correctness that has Hollywood stars going into rehabilitation [...]

Remember the rules

From Jay Nordlinger:
Reading about John Edwards and what he thinks Jesus would think of us, I remembered the rule. You know the rule, don’t you? You can talk about Jesus and religion all you want, if you’re a liberal Democrat. That’s cool. But if you’re a conservative Republican, you are a dangerous theocrat, about to [...]

“It is better to look good than to feel good”

We’ve all laughed at Billy Crystal’s savage caricature of Fernando Lamas, a sketch character reportedly born when Crystal heard Lamas, on The Tonight Show, announce that “it is better to look good than to feel good.” That quotation popped into my mind when I read a New York Times style article fawning over Madame [...]

The GOP’s election song

I’ve been hearing a lot of analyses about the recent Republican failure being due to a “culture of corruption” amongst Republicans. That’s horse puckey that’s being sold by the MSM. The Dems are equally corrupt (for goodness sake, land grabber Harry Reid is now the leading Democratic Senator), so corruption can’t be [...]

Listening to conservative voters

Head on over to the Captain’s Quarters if you want to participate in a straw poll that’s looking to identify conservative candidates for the 2008 election.

Sportsmanship

I know I’m neither the first to notice or comment, but I still feel compelled to point out that, when Dems lose an election, they claim Republicans cheated.  When Republicans lose an election, they immediately try to figure out how to do better next time.  It’s a very different mindset.

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Vote!

If you’re one of the disgruntled Republicans thinking of boycotting the polls, don’t. Today, Michael Medved offers eight reasons why you should support your local Republican candidates. Reason number one, standing alone, is good enough for me:

1. Judges. On April 20th of next year, Justice John Paul Stevens (arguably the most liberal member [...]

Convince me

A liberal friend of mine who is genuinely fond of me is quite concerned that I’ve gone around the bend. Because I think the Republicans are now the better choice than the Democrats, he’s worried that I’ve become a groupie. When I press him, though, for ways in which the Democrats will be [...]

Pot, you are way blacker than kettle

One could argue many reasons why the Republicans should lose Congress.  I won’t agree with any of them, because no matter how weak or confused Republicans may be, I think Democrats leading today’s world would be a very, very dangerous thing.  However, if the Republicans were to lose Congress because of shrill Democratic screams over [...]

Bonds, not divisions

Michael Medved writes about Paul Krugman’s gleeful belief that the Foley affair (or, poor Foley, non-affair), will cause the tenous relationship between economic Republicans and religious Republicans to implode. Not so fast, says Medved. Here’s just a little of his analysis and I, as a non-religious Republican, completely agree:
For instance, religious conservatives support [...]

It’s the Jihad, stupid!

No, I’m not calling you, my readers, stupid. I’m riffing off of James Carville’s message to Bill Clinton during the 1992 elections, in order to keep him on message. Everywhere Clinton looked were signs saying “It’s the economy, stupid!” I’ve just updated that thought, and I’ve updated it with a purpose. [...]

Mark Steyn on why Foley doesn’t and shouldn’t matter

Here is the ultimate summation of why the Foley folly is irrelevant, except insofar as it highlights how stupid Congress is on both sides of the aisle:
This was a honey trap (as they used to say in the Cold War) designed to leverage one peripheral figure’s squalid fantasies into political opportunity. It’s as predictable as [...]

The risk of having principles

Jonah Goldberg writes compellingly about why this whole Foley thing may one day backfire on the Dems. I particularly appreciated this bit:
What liberals don’t understand is that social conservatives actually believe their moral rhetoric, even when it’s politically inconvenient. That’s why GOP Rep. Bob Livingston of Louisiana had to resign when his marital infidelities [...]