PJM’s Jennifer Rubin: School choice and card check good issues for GOP

Good post the other day from Jennifer Rubin of PJM.  As we start looking for issues around which we can win back some of the middle, Rubin picks two good ones – school reform and card check:Card Check
If the Republicans are looking to restore their credibility with the American people and differentiate themselves from the [...]

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David Brooks on the future of conservatism

From Brooks’ column today in the NYT:
It’s only been a week since the defeat, but the battle lines have already been drawn in the fight over the future of conservatism.
In one camp, there are the Traditionalists, the people who believe that conservatives have lost elections because they have strayed from the true creed. George W. [...]

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Snowe and Collins the most powerful Senators in Washington?

Katherine Rizzo’s recent Wall St. Journal blog describes how, with the Democrats “tantalizingly close” to a filibuster-proof sixty-seat majority, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe will have more power and influence than ever:
Susan Collins and the other senator from her state, Republican Olympia Snowe go their own, moderate way so often that when GOP leaders are [...]

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What’s a Republican to do?

Got an interesting phone call today in response to my most recent column in the Camden Herald, entitled What is a Republican to do? The gentleman that called, a Camden resident, described himself as center-left politically, voting for Democrats, he suspected, about two-thirds of the time.  He volunteered that he had, however, voted for Susan [...]

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