W. James Antle III
Orrin Hatch is spitting mad about conservatives working against his renomination to the U.S. Senate. The six-term Republican incumbent from Utah denounced them in an interview with NPR. (Hat tip: Daily Caller.) “These people are not conservatives. They’re not Republicans,”…
Daniel Larison makes two points about my column yesterday. The first is that it is hard for the conservative vote to be unified, because a.) there are so many conservative candidates and b.) as he puts it, “When voters are…
Partly in response to my piece about movement conservatives generally losing the Republican presidential nomination, the Atlantic‘s Conor Friedersdorf lists five reasons why this is the case. I agree with much of what he has to say, but here I’ll…
Daniel Larison makes two points about my column yesterday. The first is that it is hard for the conservative vote to be unified, because a.) there are so many conservative candidates and b.) as he puts it, “When voters are…
Partly in response to my piece about movement conservatives generally losing the Republican presidential nomination, the Atlantic‘s Conor Friedersdorf lists five reasons why this is the case. I agree with much of what he has to say, but here I’ll…
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is throwing a Faneuil Hall birthday party for Romneycare, which turns six today. Think this is a coincidence? Patrick is close to the Obama administration and his first gubernatorial campaign was run by David Axelrod. Coming…
In 1992, Bill Clinton ran for president against the “worst economy in 50 years” and a recession he blamed on Reagan-Bush economic policies. The problem? The recession had technically ended before Clinton even declared his candidacy. Yet when George Bush…
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is throwing a Faneuil Hall birthday party for Romneycare, which turns six today. Think this is a coincidence? Patrick is close to the Obama administration and his first gubernatorial campaign was run by David Axelrod. Coming…
In 1992, Bill Clinton ran for president against the “worst economy in 50 years” and a recession he blamed on Reagan-Bush economic policies. The problem? The recession had technically ended before Clinton even declared his candidacy. Yet when George Bush…
What happened yesterday in Pennsylvania wasn’t just the end of Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign. It was the conclusion of a year-long battle between the Republican establishment and disaffected conservatives, which culminated in the collective failure of the candidates to the…
