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...poll—sponsored by the Harvard Republican Club—reflects the opinions of roughly a quarter of Harvard’s undergraduate population, and cuts across all bands of the political spectrum: 54 percent of respondent self-reported as Democrats, while 19 percent identified as Republicans and 27 percent as independents...
...Charges of hypocrisy ignited immediately: it was all just "a clear bid to help Mama rise higher in the Republican Party," said Fox News contributor Ellen Ratner. "It doesn't look good for a future presidential hopeful to have a daughter who had a child and did not marry the dad. They had to re-brand Bristol Palin so that she fits into the conservative base." It was a mixed message, others charged: "Don't have sex as a teenager, but if you do, you might end up a happy celebrity with this beautiful baby." Still others disqualified her from...
...first thing Republicans must do is move past the current definition of conservative. Let's face it. American conservatism is now associated with wasteful spending, military adventurism and ideological conformity. The GOP took a $155 billion surplus and turned it into a $1.5 trillion debt. George W. Bush and the Republican Congress also allowed federal spending to grow at its fastest clip since the Great Society, while adding a $7 trillion burden to a Medicare program already headed toward bankruptcy...
...Perhaps most damaging to the Republican brand is the fact that GOP leaders have allowed themselves to be defined too easily as rigid ideologues, blindly faithful to an unyielding agenda. Because of that, Obama has been able to move America dangerously leftward while blaming Republicans for the partisan divide...
...living in, and understand its facts. As William F. Buckley said more than two years before his death, "Conservatism implies a certain submission to reality." But the approach championed by Burke and Buckley is a far cry from the mind-set embraced by today's Republican Party...