Comments on: Make Room for Mitt?

By: JohnS

JohnS — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:17:43 +0000

John McCain of the the party’s moderate wing? He is a staunch Reaganite. Or has the party just gone completely over the edge…

By: Ed Brayton

Ed Brayton — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:19:08 +0000

I guess I’m just baffled by the notion that George W. Bush is considered the current “standard bearer of the conservative movement”. That can only be true if one has quite a creative definition of “conservative”. He’s overseen an enormous increase in Federal funding and control of education (something all good conservatives would be entirely opposed to), presided over a vast growth of government in virtually every phrase, including the largest new entitlement program in 40 years, signed the very campaign finance reform bill that he himself had declared unconstitutional only months earlier, and much more. If this is the standard bearer of conservatism, then conservatism is in a world of trouble.

By: David Darlington

David Darlington — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:25:56 +0000

I’m with you, Josh.

By: Joshua Claybourn

Joshua Claybourn — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:33:56 +0000

My early interest is in George Allen.

By: Jim S

Jim S — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:44:13 +0000

Isn’t that supposed to be ‘having the “right” positions on…the merger of church and state…”?
I think that Brownback has a better shot at being their standard bearer anyway.