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• Jim Lee Thanks Incumbent for Endorsement

  —The Conservativist

  Inglis: “…I’d want to lose to Mauldin businessman Jim Lee.” Incumbent offers a solid endorsement of Conservative candidate Jim Lee Mauldin businessman and Conservative Republican candidate for Congress in South Carolina’s Fourth U.S. House district, Jim Lee, thanked incumbent Representative Bob Inglis for recognizing the authenticity of his candidacy and seemingly endorsing [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 6:56am EST
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• Only in a party that so values anti-intellectualism can 40 equal a majority, and patriotism equal letting defense funding expire to slow health care reform

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  SC's Good Samaritan in the Senate unveils his health reform plan:
  Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) Wednesday vowed that Republicans would take all steps necessary to halt the Democrats' healthcare reform bill in the Senate.
  The conservative senator voiced his support for Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-Okla.) requested that Sen. Bernie Sanders' [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:36pm EST
  

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• When is a conservative group a radical leftist group? Read on-

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Here's an instructive little tale illustrating how thinly the GOP/conservative Christianist crowd can slice ideology.
  
  You'll recall that for along time there has been a gay Republican group, Log Cabin Republicans.
  
  Its top ranks were pretty much populated by well-heeled GOP insiders and the pretty much pursued' [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:29pm EST
  

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• The Wilkins Award – They’ll Give It To Anybody (Again)

  —FITSNews For Now

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  Former S.C. Speaker of the House David Wilkins likes to brag about his conservative, “Republican” legacy, but the award administered in his name by Furman University’s Riley Institute of Government has become little more than a pat on the back for some of the biggest (and [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:18am EST
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• Defining rightness as purity often obscures wrongness when there is no acceptable messenger

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Conor Friedersdorf on another of the GOP's regrettable intellectual blind spots: 
  
  Awhile back, I published an open letter to Jonah Goldberg asking him why he believes that if the right returns to power things will turn out better than last time. Contra the conservative base, I argued, the ills [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:46pm EST
  

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• In a conservative state with a growing knowledge worker population, this'd be a sound strategy if the GOP weren't so invested in playing stupid.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  In the Wall Street Journal, Michael Petrilli argues the Republicans are failing to see a new class of conservative voter emerging that they ignore at their peril:
  
  
  But with the white working class shrinking and the educated "creative class" growing, playing the populism card looks like a [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:15pm EST
  

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• Graham: Appropriations bill ‘a disaster’

  —The Palmetto Scoop

  

  OMNIBUS BILL CREATES 12% SPENDING INCREASE

  U.S. Senate Democrats railroaded through trillion dollar omnibus appropriations bill on Sunday that conservatives are calling little more than a continuation of the federal government’s binge spending.

  One Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham, called the bill “a disaster.”

  “At a time when most Americans are [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 12:56pm EST
  by Adam Fogle

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• And the people who don't fall within his blinkers? Well, they just fend for themselves. It's good for them. Builds character. Advances freedom.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Albert Hunt's New York Times interview with Senator Jim DeMint lets the senator put in his own words just how he understands true conservatism to be making the United States of America safe for wealthy, straight, white people and the military-industrial complex:
  
  -Some conservatives are nuanced: libertarian conservatives, [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 6:20pm EST
  

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• Jim DeMint stands tall in the GOP saddle

  —Voting Under the Influence

  
  Even opponents of Senator Jim DeMint have to give him the fact that DeMint is a man who talks about big ideas, be it tax reform, conservative approaches to healthcare or the like. Jim DeMint is not the petty type and that drives liberals nuts. Liberals [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 2:01am EST
  

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• How long till Pat Robertson predicts a hurricane?

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  After a nasty runoff campaign in which conservative Republicans and African-American ministers made common cause to attack her for bing gay, Houston city comptroller Annise Parker was elected mayor today.
  
  NYT:
  
  
  But the ugliest attacks came from a group of black pastors who spoke out against [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 11:53pm EST
  

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• And DeMint wants more like this lot?

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Update to Jamie Sanderson's post earlier today about how Senators DeMint and Graham blew off trying to block a vote on the massive appropriations bill:
  
  Turns out four rock-ribbed conservatives passed on a trillion dollar chance to stand up for freedom:
  
  
  Not Voting - 6
  Bond [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 6:34pm EST
  

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• DeMint goes weak-kneed

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Jamie Sanderson, always a keen eye for congressional votes, finds that both Senators Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham took a powder on the omnibus appropriations bill passed yesterday.
  
  In DeMint's case, it underscores the fundamental hypocrisy of the Man Who Would Be Top Conservative in his own treehouse [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 2:57pm EST
  

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• -which goes a long way to explaining why Jim DeMint considers David Vitter and John Ensign "real conservatives"

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

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  Adultery: It's okay if you're a Republicanby Joe Sudbay (DC) on 12/11/2009 10:49:00 PMPPP polled South Carolina voters and took a closer look at "values" voters. Guess what? They're hypocrites. VVs have less of a problem with Mark Sanford than the average South Carolinian. For example:
  While [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:49pm EST
  

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• Dems go it alone on major financial overhaul bill

  —The Politics of Jamie Sanderson

  That's right. The Party of No held to their "guns" and voted no on the bill that would provide major regulations to the very same industry that has run rampant in the past years - producing the situation we are in today. Sadly, we had 27 conservative (sell-out) [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 3:34pm EST
  

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• It's two, two, two thoughts in one hyopcrite

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  h/t The Daily Dish:
  
  
  
  
  
  This is mostly a message problem for Republicans, but it’s one that’s been a long time coming. Much of the conservative movement has honed in on “Medicare cuts” as a killer argument against health care reform. [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 6:48pm EST
  

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• SC blogger has a chance to bring home some useful lessons from Australia. For one, relax.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  SC conservative blogger Michael Rentiers, on holiday down under, writes:
  The folks are very cool and Australia is something to behold.  We spent the first night having drinks with a couple of regular blokes we happened across, and besides being a riot, they are very up on our politics [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:58am EST
  

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• Reagan praises McMaster in web video

  —The Palmetto Scoop

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  ATTORNEY GENERAL RELEASES CLIP WITH FMR. PRESIDENT

  As Republicans running for governor in South Carolina channel the conservative ideals of Ronald Reagan, Attorney General Henry McMaster has released a video that proudly displays his ties to the former president.

  “To give you some idea of how [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:27pm EST
  by Adam Fogle

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• Tuesday lunch break

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Somebody clued Palin in on that Rasmussen Poll showing the teabaggers'd whup the GOP as a party. Whether she'll bolt depends on whether the party gets back to its conservative base in the next few days.
  
  Senator Ben Nelson gave US Catholic bishops sign-off on his [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:49pm EST
  

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• They especially hate sins that are profitable

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  A conservative journalist objects to his college's use of gay-baiting and easily provable falsehood:
   If someone is telling you the gays are coming to destroy your marriage and take your children, they probably want your your money. [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:48pm EST
  

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• Haley gets RedState.com endorsement

  —S.C. Politics Today

  Conservative Georgia blogger Erick Erickson is marshaling his readers to back Lexington state Rep. Nikki Haley's gubernatorial bid.

  In a post on his RedState.com blog Monday, Erickson urged his readers to dedicate time and money to Haley. Erickson's blog has also promoted up-and-coming candidacies of Florida U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:42pm EST
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• DeMint Versus Graham: It’s On!

  —FITSNews For Now

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  One is a principled fiscal conservative Republican who is loathed by the Washington establishment as an ideologue and an obstructionist (red robot).  The other is a fiscally liberal “consensus builder” who is loathed by taxpayers and mockingly referred to in his home state [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 4:23pm EST
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• Blogroll Spotlight XXII

  —Eye of Polyphemus

  It is time for the weekly round up of favorite posts from my blogroll. As usual, these are not ranked, but in alphabetical order by blog title.
  
  American Digest exposes ObamaCare's failure in treating breast cancer.
  
  Audacity of Logic says the conservative v. liberal' [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 2:57am EST
  

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• When it comes to right-wing military types in Central America, DeMint puts out for free.

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  William Finnegan on the Honduran democracy whitewash:
  
  
  But the coup leaders did have friends in Washington. Some were bought, like Lanny Davis, the former Clinton White House special counsel, now a lobbyist, who took them on as clients. Others were ideological. The latter group included conservative regional [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:53am EST
  

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• The rest must go beg from Southern Baptists and get the slab-handed proselytism that comes with aid

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  Once again, why do conservatives who hate government cling so tightly to the control of government?
  ‘There will never be enough in government programs to help all of those that need to be helped,’ Sanford said.  [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:33am EST
  

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• Graham defends bi-partisan work

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  SENATOR: ‘I’M ABLE TO WIN DEMOCRAT, INDEPENDENT VOTES TO SUPPORT A 90% CONSERVATIVE’

  South Carolina’s senior U.S. Senator is defending his record against critics who are angered by his efforts to find bipartisan solutions to some of the most difficult problems facing the country.

  This week, Sen. Lindsey Graham [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:26am EST
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• Culture wars and terrorist paranoia requires way fewer staff, it turns out

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Funny how some of SC's conservative bloggers have been crowing for ages about the decline of newspapers as though it would only happen to "liberal" papers.
  
  Now the Moonie DC paper, The Washington Times, is laying of 40% of its staff- for starters- dumping local and [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:27am EST
  

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• How to be a real fiscal conservative in ten easy steps

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  Bruce Bartlett, a former Bushie, says this Harvard economist has a real plan modeling fiscal conservatism, and challenges anyone who claims the title but disagrees with the plan to come up with one as detailed. No more eliminating Amtrak and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to balance the [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:36am EST
  

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• Douche maker sues O’Reilly, Beck over trademark infringement

  —theDiscust

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  North Charleston – Bold & Fresh, manufacturer of feminine hygiene products, is suing Fox News personalities Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck over trademark infringement. O'Reilly and Beck recently announced a tour where the two conservative commentators will share a stage in a number of cities, including a stop in North [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:05pm EST
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• Charles Johnson unveils the Republicans' Picture of Dorian Gray

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  Charles Johnson, founder of the highly regarded and widely read conservative blog, Little Green Footballs, is getting rounded on by his conservative confreres for a post he put up lately:
  
  
  
  What? Did I Say Something?
  OPEN | Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:18:35 am PST
  Well, [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:43pm EST
  

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• It's like the Pinto gas tank: cheaper to let some drivers fry

  —Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

  The New Yorker notes that whenever health care has come up, conservatives have been against it:“At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without compulsory health insurance,” the Yale economist Irving Fisher said in a speech in December. December of 1916, [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:10am EST
  

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