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...legislative director Kyle A. Krahel ’08 squared off against Jeffrey Kwong ’09 and Colin J. Motley ’10 of the HRC to answer questions posed by fellows from the Institute of Politics (IOP). Democrats took seats on the left while conservatives??who were significantly fewer in number—gathered on the right...
...that it paints him in the best possible light today and obscures the disasters of the present by constantly spinning the truth through surrogates. These are the sorts of party tactics that one would expect in a communist country, not in a democracy where we—especially conservatives??expect our government to be open and honest with us and accountable for its actions...
...wets,” once thought vanquished by the hard-right Lady Thatcher, have had the last laugh since the arrival of Cameron.Of course, this is an over-simplification. Even moderates have been shaped by the Thatcher revolution. Today’s “Cameron-conservatives??, however, are kinder, gentler Conservatives??the kind you wouldn’t be ashamed of inviting over for dinner. This makeover has led to the Conservatives?? resurgence in the polls. But that’s not enough for some hard-right Tories. The party?...
...Many “conservatives?? here and around the country are uncomfortable around religion and more than a little embarrassed about the “red-state” yokels that constitute their ideological brethren. They would be just as happy in the Democratic Party if it dropped its populism and class-rhetoric; their allegiance to the Republican Party runs not through their minds and hearts but through their pocketbooks. Social or “paleo-” conservatives such as myself will continue to protest the changes ripping through our society, but I expect at some...
...other hand, middle-of-the-road enthusiasts believe we can woo social conservatives??many of whom agree with the Democrats on non-cultural issues—if we reign in the party’s social liberalism. Exit polls showed that a majority of voters disapproved of Bush’s record on Iraq, tax cuts and the economy, but as many Americans based their vote on “moral values”—mainly socially conservative values—as on the economy or terrorism. Ohio was the state hit hardest...