// Reclaim Conservatism

John Hawkins examines a National Review piece by James Gimpel. Here is a bit of the flavor of Gimpel’s work:
A campaign doesn’t move toward them [centrist or moderate voters], but instead attempts to inspire them to come in the candidate’s direction. The incoherent center moves to the left or to the right, inspired by the [...]

Uh Oh.   It looks like the political stunt of not allowing Sarah Palin to the Anti-Iran rally backfired on Soros and those that pulled the plug on Palin coming to the event.   Are the Left just trying to throw this election???   Every time they do this kind of crap it will only push more and [...]

And I am the Pope.   Obama came from Chicago and melded into the Chicago Machine.   He is a typical Chicago Politician, talks of Change And Hope, but offers none of it. He has voted with Democrats %96 of the time, and that is just when he decides he should go and actually do his job [...]

In August of 1963, a muggy, sweltering day, a Senior at Mt. Vernon High School stood by the reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.  The student was only one of many many thousands that day, gathered in the hopes that some day there would be peace between white and black Americans.  [...]

John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  Empty suits, empty heads.  Each has policies that are incompatable either with a free market or with a constitutional democracy, certainly this one. Yet, each has adherents that all but deify their choice for president, and many complain that Obama has indeed been deified into the “Obamessiah.”  
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The Mainstream Media is trumpeting a massive defeat for the Republican Party. Of course, this is in part an attempt by the MSM to influence that outcome by setting up expectations. Adding to the predictions has been a lackadaisical performance by the Republicans. Did I say “lackadaisical?” change that to “unbelievably poor” [...]