conservatism

Nate Silver explains:

From Politico:

I wish over and over that I didn’t have to sleep.  With more time, I’d already have written a proof-in-the pudding response to the silliness that is bubbling up in Republican circles that it’s those right-wing-nuts that cost us seats time and time again.

Mick Wright is tired of cosmopolitan conservatives lecturing him on what conservatism is:

It’s nice of the moderate Reformers to take time out of their busy schedules to tell conservatives what they should say and do. Particularly since they’ve been so successful of late.

John Brown reminds us that conservatism used to have a bit more heft to it:

Lots of debate lately about the role of intellectuals in the conservative movement. Anyone who’s been paying attention has surely noted the movement’s swing in a more populist direction.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn is charting one: