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Showing posts with label Politics Republican Conservatism history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics Republican Conservatism history. Show all posts

Monday, September 10, 2012

Richard A. Viguerie: Time for Ron Paul to Help the Republican Party


Time for Ron Paul to Help the Republican Party

Ron PaulIn 1996, when libertarian icon Ron Paul was running for re-election to Congress as a Republican, a challenger filed against him in the General Election. This challenger wasn’t an establishment Republican or a liberal Democrat, he was a Natural Law Party candidate whose national platform included much of Ron Paul’s agenda.

In the key swing state of Virginia, former Republican Congressman Virgil Goode has qualified to be on the ballot as the Constitution Party’s candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has qualified in states across the country as the Libertarian Party candidate, despite running in the Republican primary elections and demanding to be included in the televised Republican primary debates.

In states like Montana, where there are close Senate races, Libertarian candidates are pulling votes from solid conservative candidates, like Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg, who is locked in a race with Democratic Senator Jon Tester that could determine control of the U.S. Senate.

The peculiar tendency for libertarians and constitutionalists to turn on anyone who works to change the Republican Party from within has reared its ugly head again this year in the aftermath of the Republican National Convention.

Admittedly, Ron Paul and his delegates to the Convention were treated in a ham handed way by establishment Republicans – but that is hardly cause to hand the election to Barack Obama and control of the Senate to the Democrats... http://www.conservativehq.com/article/9736-time-ron-paul-help-republican-party
The New Yorker’s Steve Coll Proves the “Jindal Rule”
By George Rasley
Liberals are going to impute all kinds of bad things to you if you are a Republican, so you might as well run as a conservative and sell the real conservative agenda, as opposed to trying to rebut the phony one they construct.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Irving Kristol Dies at 89

Irving Kristol Dies at 89

Irving Kristol, Architect of Neoconservatism, Dies at 89 http://tinyurl.com/ltl2kz

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Adam Bernstein The Washington Post Friday, September 18, 2009

Irving Kristol, 89, a forceful essayist, editor and university professor who became the leading architect of neoconservatism, which he called a political and intellectual movement for disaffected ex-liberals like himself who had been "mugged by reality,... Read Full Article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/18/AR2009091803728.html?sub=AR

20090918 sdsom Irving Kristol Dies at 89

http://twitpic.com/i9yxw Full story: http://tinyurl.com/ltl2kz Irving Kristol Dies at 89 http://tinyurl.com/nhq48y

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/09/irving-kristol-dies-at-89.html http://tinyurl.com/nhq48y

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Boston.com: A exam of the history of American conservatism By Mickey Edwards

For more than half a century, historians, sociologists, journalists, psychologists, political scientists, and philosophers have studied, probed, analyzed, pondered, attacked, lauded, and attempted to explain that force that is American political conservatism. Sometimes this avalanche of books, articles, and op-eds has veered weirdly into the realms of psychobabble (once a group of left-leaning psychiatrists, without ever meeting or talking to him, diagnosed conservative Senator Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican nominee for president, as a megalomaniac); at other times books focused on relatively minor pieces of the conservative mosaic, creating straw men against whom they proceeded to rail. Occasionally, conservative insiders have attempted to put their own spin on defining what conservatism is, or at least what it once was.

Now comes Patrick Allitt. The accepted norm in academia is for praise of conservatism to be left to the practitioners while others, more “objective,’’ more “scholarly,’’ denounce conservatives as morally and intellectually inferior. That’s the game and them’s the rules.

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Read the rest here: Boston.com: A wide-ranging and clear-eyed examination of the history of American conservatism By Mickey Edwards July 12, 2009

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/07/12/a_wide_ranging_and_clear_eyed_examination_of_the_history_of_american_conservatism/

http://tinyurl.com/mb5cat

20090712 sdosm A exam of the history of American conservatism

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