social conservatives

Publius does a nice job summing up what’s at the heart of the liberal/conservative divide on “social conservative” issues:

Publius does a nice job summing up what’s at the heart of the liberal/conservative divide on “social conservative” issues:

Sarah Palin's book deal is said to be worth up to 7 million, according to the Huffington Post.

I make no secret of not liking her, mainly because she's not qualified to hold office in any real state, and certainly isn't qualified for the executive branch of the federal government.

Joe Lieberman never held a single investigation as Chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. With all of the allegations swirling around the Bush Administration on Homeland Security, Joe never even felt the need to offer up a staged kangeroo court to cover his own butt. He never even went through the motions.

Former state Senator turned pro-family lobbyist, David Fowler, sees good things coming for social conservatives in a new Republican controlled legislature:

Yesterday Slate asked: did the financial collapse kill Libertarianism?

God, I hope so.

John McCain made the mistake of not waiting for Bob Schieffer to invite him to Bill Ayers and ACORN tonight. I was frankly surprised that he went scorched-earth on Obama so immediately over Ayers, and it was McCain's worst performance.

I caught MSNBC's David Gregory last night promoting John McCain as an effective alternative to the Bush economic policy in the wake of yesterday's market crash essentially because Sarah Palin holds down the social conservatives for him while he can play up his ethics reform background and promote tighter regulations against the broad latitude of the Bush Administration.

If you’re like 99.5% of the country, you probably haven’t kept up with the circus sideshow that is the Libertarian Party campaign this year. But it actually has been entertaining in a “can’t not watch the trainwreck” sort of way.

According to the AP:

Evidence shows that [Sarah] Palin is not drawing a lot of support from voters outside the Republican base. An ABC News poll released Friday found the selection of Palin makes people likelier to vote for McCain by just 6 percentage points.