In this vein, here’s the view from the extremely pro-Giuliani FrontPageMagazine, which is to say, David Horowitz:

But as the mayor’s poll numbers cratered in the days ahead of yesterday’s primary, it became clear that the numbers would not add up. In desperation, Giuliani turned to the trusted rule of politics: when all else fails, pander.

It was not a pretty sight. There was little, in the days before

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Paul Weyrich is one of the creators of the modern conservative movement, and remains one of the most influential people in the Republican Party and in Washington, D.C. It is very dangerous to trifle with him: his prophesies are frequently self-fulfilling.

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A very interesting article from the New York Times regarding conservatives’ efforts to find an acceptable Presidential nominee, with a central focus on the Council for National Policy (full disclosure: I’m a member of CNP’s Board of Governors). A most interesting read.

Full text after the jump. Original link here.

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My friend David Jeffers, who recently started blogging for us here at TheVanguard.Org, just posted another great item in his series on “Reviving the Republicans”.  You won’t want to miss it.

Revised/improved/extended version of yesterday’s blog entry, “Death of the Last RINO President“, is now available at Human Events Online.  Please take a look.

Many others have said plenty about Gerald Ford’s virtues, and I certainly concur with them.  But perhaps the most interesting thing to note about Ford is that he was the last RINO President; or more precisely, the last Rockefeller Republican.

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Hugh Hewitt states:

The post-mortems are accumulating, but I think the obvious has to be stated: John McCain and his colleagues in the Gang of 14 cost the GOP its Senate majority, plus any chance of reshaping the judiciary from here on in. They must be held responsible.

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With the zeal of converts, Republican leaders thought they’d found the magic bullet. They could ignore the big, visionary stuff that characterized Reagan-era campaigns — and Bush’s presidential runs too — because they could turn out the vote. Yea, on our conference calls, the leadership regaled us with the (genuinely amazing) number of person-to-person contacts they were generating — far more, in fact, than 2004 — and how all of this was going to save the day, or most of it anyway.

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My message to TheVanguard.Org’s membership: we’re fed up, and we’re going to do some very specific not-taking-it-anymore. Read on.

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