Category: conservatism
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The right’s alternate reality
Between stale quips — someone, probably herself, has convinced Sarah Palin she’s funny — the half-term former governor of Alaska endorsed an abject failure. Palin’s speech was a pretty typical collection of memes, alliterative insults, and sentence fragmentation, but the one thing that stuck with me was her endorsement of the theory that Ted Cruz’s…
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The Phyllis Schlafly collection
EVERYTHING is political, as evidenced by the “right-wing jewelry” on display at the Value Voters Summit. (via Joe.My.God.)
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Why do conservatives have awful taste in music?
And what’s with the creepy hero worship of charlatans like Andrew Breitbart? (video after jump) via Weigel
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The dumbing down of conservatism
Some “highlights” from the CPAC convention: *Severe conservative Mitt Romneytron was programmed to liberally repeat the word “conservative” and did so more than two dozen times. Chasing the wind, as he’s wont to do, The Anchorman said he “will fight for an amendment to our Constitution that defines marriage as a relationship between one man…
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Georgia surprisingly not among 10 most conservative states
Mississippi, unsurprisingly, is the most conservative, followed by Utah, Wyoming and, drumroll, Alabama.
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Erick Erickson (sorta) endorses Jon Huntsman
I’m starting to think I need to walk it back on my rejection of Jon Huntsman. Because I’m starting to think even he would be more faithful in his conservative convictions than Mitt Romney. Romney is so spineless he won’t even go on Fox News. Huntsman, according to the Wall Street Journal, has the best…
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