Doris Kearns Goodwin on Morning Joe:
What happened to [political] parties in this country? I mean, I think it’s a deadly thing – parties used to be part of peoples’ identity. There used to be parades, they used to go running around feeling like ‘I’m a Catholic, I’m a Democrat, I’m a Protestant, I’m a Republican. [...]
Archive for the ‘Political Parties’ Category
Quote of the Day
Posted in Political Parties, Politics, tagged Democrats, doris kearns goodwin, independents, Political Parties, Republicans on November 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Vote Republicrat!
Posted in Political Parties, Politics, tagged Alan Grayson, Joe Lieberman, LBJ, Ned Lamont, Netroots, Ron Paul, Russ Feingold, two-party system on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two things are undeniable:
1) Electoral politics are changing in ways that hurt the two-party system. Online fundraising and alternative media outlets have robbed both the Democratic and Republican parties of their most basic functions. An independent candidate could easily mount a competitive campaign – even for President – in the very near future.
2) Pretty much [...]
Happy Days are Here Again
Posted in Libertarianism, Political Parties, Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged Club for Growth, Dick Cheney, Jim DeMint, Kentucky, libertarian, Lindsey Graham, Mark Sanford, Michael Steele, Objectivist, Rand Paul, Ron Paul on May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
What a fun turn the Republican Party has taken…
Over the weekend, Lindsey Graham was heckled at the South Carolina Republican Convention for urging the Party to embrace moderates who can “win in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.” Interesting, but not surprising. Of course, it does make for an odd Senate delegation from South Carolina: Jim DeMint said [...]
The Far Right
Posted in Libertarianism, Media, Political Parties, Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged Arlen Specter, Chris Matthews, Club for Growth, Herdrik Hertzberg, Howard Dean, Michael Smerconish, Mike Huckabee, MSNBC, Pat Toomey on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just an annoyance:
I’ve been watching some of the fallout from the Specter switch on MSNBC and I can’t help but notice a complete disconnect between my definition of the far-right Republican base and the commentators’ definition of the Party’s base. Let me see if I have my facts right: 1) Arlen Specter was being [...]
Arlen Specter (D-PA)
Posted in Political Parties, Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged Arlen Specter, Club for Growth, Lindsay Graham, Pat Toomey, Republican Party on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lindsay Graham: (on the pressure conservatives are putting on moderate Republicans) “I don’t want to be a member of the Club for Growth.”
Guess he won’t be doing too many fundraisers for Pat Toomey…
On Michael Steele
Posted in Political Parties, Politics, tagged DNC, Michael Steele, RNC, Tim Kaine on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tim Kaine must love his job.
Things that went unpublished #4
Posted in Political Parties, Politics, tagged 50 state strategy, Democrats, Howard Dean, Paul Wellstone, Republicans on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m at a Democratic faction ceasefire. With the Clintons at least, if not the “Clinton Wing.” But I remember so well the night of the 2002 mid-term election massacre, and that sense of rock-bottomness. Two years after a stolen election, one year after September 11, a month after the authorization of the Iraq War, weeks [...]
A (mostly) snarkless rebuttal
Posted in Elitism, Political Parties, Politics, Populism, tagged Breakfast Club, Claire McCaskill, elite, Greenwich Village, intellectualism, Jim Webb, John Kerry, Matt Taibbi, Rush Limbaugh on June 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Response to my brother’s post:
I guess if we’re kicking these off with movie quotes, I’ll reach for the high-ground (not a tough climb from “fuck-mooks”)
Brian: Did you know that without trigonometry there would be no engineering?
Bender: Without lamps there would be no light.
-The Breakfast Club
But I’ll leave that aside for a bit. Truth is, [...]
