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Oct 25, 2010 8:09 AM CDT

'Victory Is at Hand': Palin

Mama Grizzly urges conservatives to keep fighting

(Newser) - Sarah Palin promised conservatives that soon they'll "all be dancing ." With election day looming, it seems she's polishing her dancing shoes. "Victory is at hand," she told the crowd at a fundraiser in Florida. But she warned it's not yet time to gloat. "The...

Plutocrats Are Playing
Tea Partiers for Fools

dana milbank

Oct 20, 2010 1:55 PM CDT

Plutocrats Are Playing Tea Partiers for Fools

Dana Milbank: This anti-elite movement is funded by elites

(Newser) - Tea Party activists are right to be angry, writes Dana Milbank—but that anger should be directed at their own supposed leaders. Ordinary citizens are being manipulated by deep-pocketed "plutocrats" and "professional politicians" like those at FreedomWorks, he writes at the Washington Post . And before you follow Glenn...

'Mean Girls'
Run the GOP

MAUREEN DOWD

Oct 17, 2010 11:06 AM CDT

'Mean Girls' Run the GOP

Dowd's sort of afraid of Brewer, Angle, et al

(Newser) - It's a new breed of GOP woman: Whether they're telling Harry to "man up," knocking the president's cojones, carting around a gun, or getting catty with a rival's hairdo, "We are in the era of Republican Mean Girls," writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times....

Ann Coulter:
New Topics,
Same Hatred
of Liberals

profile

Oct 9, 2010 3:18 PM CDT

Ann Coulter: New Topics, Same Hatred of Liberals

She should be arguing before the Supreme Court, says former beau

(Newser) - Ann Coulter is the subject of a lengthy profile in the New York Times , which makes the case that because the Tea Party has "stolen her thunder," she's staking out new political territory. (Headline: "Outflanked on Right, Coulter Seeks New image.") It cites as "...

Dear Palin and DeMint:
Go to Delaware, Now

charles krauthammer

Sep 17, 2010 10:04 AM CDT

Dear Palin and DeMint: Go to Delaware, Now

Krauthammer: You got Christine O'Donnell this far; now make her win

(Newser) - Charles Krauthammer comes out firing at Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin today, calling their endorsements of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware "reckless and irresponsible." It's nice to trumpet statements like "support the most conservative candidate," but he reminds them of Bill Buckley's caveat: "Support the most...

Right Wing
Flying High,
Thanks to
Women

Estrogen Express

Sep 16, 2010 3:00 AM CDT

Right Wing Flying High, Thanks to Women

They are Mama Grizzlies, hear them roar

(Newser) - Time to face facts, ladies: The Tea Party express appears to be fueled by estrogen. A new film on the ferociously reactionary "Mama Grizzlies" examines candidates like Sharron Angle and Nikki Haley (and now Christine O'Donnell) rattling political races—as well as grassroots organizers of the "reborn" conservative...

Palin Orders Rove:
Buck Up on
O'Donnell

Sep 15, 2010 11:00 PM CDT

Palin Orders Rove: Buck Up on O'Donnell

Shut up about 'nutty' O'Donnell, climb on Tea Party express, she warns

(Newser) - Sarah Palin warned Karl Rove yesterday to "buck up" and get with the Tea Party program after he lashed Delaware Senate primary winner Christine O'Donnell and her "nutty" ideas. "To those who say that the GOP nominee is not electable and that they're not even going to...

Growing Conservative Market Sprouts RightNetwork

Sep 8, 2010 1:06 PM CDT

Growing Conservative Market Sprouts RightNetwork

Kelsey Grammer is public face of on-demand network

(Newser) - Kelsey Grammer has teased conservatives for months with the idea of an upcoming all-right television network. Today, the RightNetwork launched, with Grammer as the public face. (One prominent investor is Ed Snider, chairman of Comcast-Spectacor and owner of the Philadelphia 76ers and Flyers.) The network, currently available on the...

Gay Republicans Complain of Intolerance—on the Left

Aug 31, 2010 2:54 PM CDT

Gay Republicans Complain of Intolerance—on the Left

Political reaction to Ken Mehlman goes against stereotype

(Newser) - In assessing the fallout from former RNC chief Ken Mehlman's decision to come out of the closet, Jacob Bernstein points out in the Daily Beast that fellow conservatives seemed to shrug it off while "gay activists on the left pounced." Witness this diatribe from a PR strategist in...

Conservative Group Drops Coulter Over Speech to Gays

Aug 18, 2010 6:08 PM CDT

Conservative Group Drops Coulter Over Speech to Gays

She blasts 'swine' who made decision

(Newser) - The right-wing website World Net Daily has dumped Ann Coulter from an event next month because she's separately agreed to address a group of gay conservatives. WND editor Joseph Farah calls it a "matter of principle," reports the Huffington Post . Coulter fired back, telling the Daily Caller that...

5 Tea Party Myths

Dave Weigel

Aug 7, 2010 1:33 PM CDT

5 Tea Party Myths

The movement isn't racist, and Sarah Palin's not the leader

(Newser) - Dave Weigel may not be the Washington Post's blogger on conservative politics anymore, but that doesn't mean he can't weigh in now and then. He busts 5 myths about the tea party in a new column:

Myth: It's racist. Reality: Individual racists have surfaced, but they're rooted out. "

...

Conservatives, Enough
With the Nostalgia

jonah goldberg

Aug 3, 2010 1:52 PM CDT

Conservatives, Enough With the Nostalgia

Instead of whining about the past, build on the giants' work

(Newser) - Jonah Goldberg is tired of hearing the same lament from fellow conservatives (as well as liberal critics): Oh, for the "good old days" of conservatism, when we had esteemed giants such as William F. Buckley Jr. and Irving Kristol instead of Andrew Breitbart and company. It's nostalgic nonsense, Goldberg...

Sarah Palin's Invented
Word Is Exactly Right

william kristol

Jul 24, 2010 1:38 PM CDT

Sarah Palin's Invented Word Is Exactly Right

Conservatives must 'refudiate' liberalism

(Newser) - Sarah Palin's critics snickered when she used the non-word "refudiate" (see summary here ), but William Kristol thinks her coinage is spot-on—and a perfect prescription for what conservatives must do to liberals. It combines refute ("primarily an intellectual act") with repudiate ("a practical or political...

Cops Nab
Gunman
Hunting
Beck Foes

Jul 22, 2010 5:10 AM CDT

Cops Nab Gunman Hunting Beck Foes

Intended target was group lambasted by Beck

(Newser) - The man charged with firing on Oakland cops in a highway shootout was on a rampage against liberals and hunting down Glenn Beck enemies. Unemployed carpenter Byron Williams was after the ACLU and the Tides Foundation, a particular favorite villain of Glenn Beck, who has repeatedly lambasted the organization as...

Here Come the '60s:
Be Fair, Mad Men

opinion

Jul 20, 2010 12:42 PM CDT

Here Come the '60s: Be Fair, Mad Men

Conservatives, liberals see the show through different eyes

(Newser) - The fourth season of Mad Men starts Sunday, providing a political litmus test of sorts for viewers. The shift from the 1950s to the '60s fills conservatives with "apprehension" and liberals with "anticipation," writes Natasha Simons for the National Review . Each camp sees it through the prism...

Palin's Genius Isn't the Message, It's the Messenger

Kathleen Parker

Jul 14, 2010 1:57 PM CDT

Palin's Genius Isn't the Message, It's the Messenger

She is now The Good Woman

(Newser) - Don't hate Sarah Palin, writes Kathleen Parker. Instead, take her "with a grain of humor and a dash of admiration," she writes at the Washington Post . "A different version of Madonna, she's a public relations machine who manipulates public perception with well-timed and, recently, sophisticated messaging."...

NRA Under Fire for
Being ... Too Liberal?

Jul 12, 2010 10:51 AM CDT

NRA Under Fire for Being ... Too Liberal?

Group cozies up to pro-gun Democrats, moderates

(Newser) - Conservatives are taking aim at the NRA, which they complain has drifted too close to the middle, supporting both moderate Republicans and even some pro-gun Democrats against opposition from the right. The NRA has given 29% of its political contributions this election cycle to Democrats, the most in more than...

Lindsey Graham: The Tea Party
Will 'Die Out'

Jul 1, 2010 1:53 PM CDT

Lindsey Graham: The Tea Party Will 'Die Out'

It has no 'coherent vision,' says senator

(Newser) - Tea Partiers don't think much of Lindsey Graham because he's willing to work with Democrats on the occasional issue. The conservative South Carolina senator doesn't think much of them, either. “The problem with the Tea Party, I think it’s just unsustainable because they can never come up with...

Blog Puts Tea Party Gems
in the Mouth of Jesus

channels coulter et al

Jul 1, 2010 9:19 AM CDT

Blog Puts Tea Party Gems in the Mouth of Jesus

Site gives conservative wisdom the Christ test

(Newser) - If you have an important deadline today, stop reading this—continuing basically guarantees that the next 27 minutes will be eaten up by plenty of clicking and, depending on your political persuasion, grimacing or chuckling. The on-fire new blog Tea Party Jesus is so simple it's smart: It superimposes bubbles...

Time for 'Rational Conservatives' to Speak Up

opinion

Jun 30, 2010 1:26 PM CDT

Time for 'Rational Conservatives' to Speak Up

Fringe candidates are getting out of control

(Newser) - It's easy to write off the campaign ads of Tea Party candidate Rick Barber in Alabama as the ravings of someone on the fringe, writes Ruth Marcus. But his latest —in which he equates taxes to slavery and uses images of Holocaust victims—is not only "sacrilegious" but...