Bookworm on May 16 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections, Republicans
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. [...]
Bookworm on May 09 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on May 09 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Jews, Republicans, Uncategorized
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 [...]
Bookworm on Apr 15 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Presidential elections, Republicans
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 [...]
Don Quixote on Feb 16 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Identity politics, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani
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. [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections, Republicans
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, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 12 2007 | Filed under: Conservative ideology, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Aug 31 2007 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Presidential elections, Republicans, Women
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 [...]
Bookworm on Aug 29 2007 | Filed under: Congress, Republicans
Chris Muir, of Day by Day cartoon fame, hits another wonderful home run:
Bookworm on Aug 24 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2007 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Democrats, Law, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Mar 07 2007 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Democrats, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Mar 07 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Democrats, Media matters, Religion, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Jan 18 2007 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Media matters, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Nov 10 2006 | Filed under: Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Nov 10 2006 | Filed under: Republicans
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.
Bookworm on Nov 09 2006 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Republicans
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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Bookworm on Oct 25 2006 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Judges, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 20 2006 | Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Uncategorized
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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 13 2006 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Elections, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 11 2006 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 10 2006 | Filed under: Democrats, Islam, Muslim violence, Republicans
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. [...]
Bookworm on Oct 08 2006 | Filed under: Democrats, Elections, Republicans
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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2006 | Filed under: Democrats, Republicans
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 [...]
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