Rule and Ruin
The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
Geoffrey Kabaservice
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By Geoffrey Kabaservice It's hard not to feel at least a little sorry for Iowa's conservative Republicans. Although three-quarters of the votes in Tuesday night's caucus went to conservatives of one stripe or another, the winner by a bare eight votes was Mitt Romney, the most moderate candidate running ' and 'moderate' is an obscenity for conservatives.
Posted on January 9, 2012
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By Geoffrey Kabaservice Will you be tuning in to watch this year's Republican and Democratic national conventions in the hope of seeing something of historic significance? The managers of both conventions are working hard to make sure that you don't get your wish. From their standpoint, the best convention is a precooked and tightly controlled event that passes placidly and without controversy into the annals of national forgetfulness.
Posted on August 27, 2012
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Veteran Gingrich-watchers wouldn't have predicted the latest Newt incarnation, either, but they probably weren't too surprised. Over the course of his long political career ' he first ran for Congress almost four decades ago ' Gingrich has been consistently inconsistent and predictably unpredictable. Whatever the issue, he has been on all sides of it.
Posted on January 20, 2012
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