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Christopher Hitchens seems a bit disappointed to find Barack Obama engaging in the same sort of pandering that caused Hitchens to bail out on John McCain: If we must have an officiating priest at the inauguration, we can do much better than Rick Warren. It is a fact that ...
Barack Obama, Rick Warren, Gay Rights, Saddleback Church, Christopher Hitchens, Social Conservatives
Pastor Rick Warren, the “new age fundamentalist” preacher picked by Barack Obama to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, gave a speech last night to the new age radical Islamic front group MPAC: Pastor Rick Warren addresses Muslim group, emphasizes need to find common ground. MPAC’s “moderation” is questionable, to ...
MPAC, Muslim Public Affairs Council, salam al-marayati, Radical Islam, Rick Warren, Social Conservatives, Creationism, Gay Rights
Is Bobby Jindal the next Barack Obama? No less an aspiring kingmaker than Steve Schmidt, the chief strategist of McCain’s failed presidential bid, sees Jindal as the Republican Party’s destiny. “The question is not whether he’ll be president, but when he’ll be president, because he will be elected someday.” ...
Social Conservatives, GOP, Republican, Bobby Jindal, Creationism, Evolution, discovery institute
Social conservatives are waxing ecstatic over Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal. November 22, 2008—He’s already made history, but does Bobby Jindal want to take on the president-elect who made history just weeks ago? It’s the question on many peoples’ minds as the Louisiana governor made his way across Iowa on ...
Tod Lindberg, Hoover Institution fellow and Policy Review editor (and informal foreign policy adviser to the McCain campaign), weighs in on the swirling socialcon controversy: The Center-Right Nation Exits Stage Left. Here’s the stark reality: It is now harder for the Republican presidential candidate to get to 50.1 percent ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, GOP, Republican, Social Conservatives, Christian Right
Several readers emailed about this Washington Post column by By Christine Todd Whitman and Robert M. Bostock on a subject that’s been responsible for several highly contentious threads at LGF: Free the GOP. Subtitled: “The Party Won’t Win Back the Middle as Long As It’s Hostage to Social Fundamentalists.” ...
This is a thought-provoking essay by Paul Hsieh, a practicing physician in Denver and long-standing Republican voter: How the GOP lost my vote. After a resounding electoral defeat, in which voters in this once-red state rejected Republicans McCain, Schaffer, and Musgrave, the Colorado Republican Party will undoubtedly be asking ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, GOP, Republican, Social Conservatives, Christian Right
P. J. O’Rourke has one of the best election postmortems I’ve read so far: We Blew It. In how many ways did we fail conservatism? And who can count that high? Take just one example of our unconserved tendency to poke our noses into other people’s business: abortion. Democracy—be ...
P. J. O'Rourke, conservatism, Social Conservatives, Abortion, Democracy
In an article about right-of-center blog reactions to the Obama victory (you knew this was coming), Hatington Post smear merchant Jason Linkins seems to approve of what I wrote about social conservatives earlier today, titling his link to LGF: “Hey! Let me make total sense for just a second!” Hey, ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Social Conservatives, Abortion, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Huffington Post
Some interesting comments from David Frum, as the GOP soul-searching and finger-pointing begins: Republicans face fraught choice between two roads to revival. A generation ago, Republicans dominated among college graduates. In 1984 and 1988, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush won states like California, Pennsylvania and Connecticut – states ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Social Conservatives, Abortion, Creationism, Fundamentalism
ABC News says John McCain is backing away from a pledge to moderate the GOP’s platform position on abortion, as extreme social conservatives rattle their sabres. McCain is on record stating that he’d like the platform to include exceptions for rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother, ...