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Democracy: Made in Thailand?

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 12.04.2008 | World

Read More: Karl Rove, Thailand, George W. Bush, Gop, Tupao, Bangkok, Peoples Alliance for Democracy, Dick Cheney, Republicans, World News
John Wellington Ennis

Welcome to the Thai government: Wealthy families with puppets in power, election fraud, refusal to compromise in the face of mass dissent from your own people. Sound familiar?

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Sarah Palin: The New and 'Explosive' Leader of the GOP

Bob Cesca | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jeb Bush, Bobby Jindal, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, 2012 Election, Gop, Palin 2012, Politics News
Bob Cesca

The only possibilities for the resuscitation of the Republican Party are either, 1) a failed Obama presidency or, 2) an as-of-yet unannounced transformative and inspirational Republican figure.

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Health-Care Reform Could Kill the GOP

Thomas Frank | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Conservatives, Bill Kristol, Health, Gop, Democrats, Health Care, Republicans, Politics News
Thomas Frank

Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. But it pleases me even more to think that the conservatives' nightmare of permanent defeat might come true simply if Democrats do the right thing.

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Bobby Jindal, the Republican Strategists and the Last Battle

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2012 Presidential Election, Republican Party, Bobby Jindal, Barack Obama, 2012 Election, 2008 Presidential Race, Gop, Race, Republicans, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Positioning Jindal to run in 2012, based on the notion that he could somehow become a Republican Obama, is more of a gimmick than a serious effort to move the party into the post-Bush era.

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Republicans See Jindal As GOP's Obama

Washington Post | Michael Leahy | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bobby Jindal Barack Obama, Republicans Bobby Jindal, Bobby Jindal, Barack Obama, Gop, 2012, Politics News

Last weekend, 18 days after Barack Obama decisively defeated their candidate for president, a mostly Republican crowd of self-described conservatives ...

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Republicans Didn't Read the Memo

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Conservatives, Minorities, Republican, Politics News
Charles D. Ellison

Discussion and speculation abound regarding the sorry state of the Grand Old Party, with its clone-like band of graying White dudes and their backstag...

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GOP Senator: "We Haven't Learned "

Politico | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Roger Simon, GOP Tactics, Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

The Republican U.S. senator sits glumly across the restaurant table. "I don't think we have learned much from the election in terms of what people ...

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Who's The Turkey?

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, The South, Ronald Reagan, Racism in the South, Sarah Palin, Thanksgiving, Reagan Democrats, Gop, Sarah Palin Turkey Video, Sarah Palin Turkey Pardon, Sarah Palin Turkey Death, Democratic Strategy in the South, Politics News
Beth Arnold

With this Palin-style Thanksgiving (smiley face with urge to kill) dancing across my laptop screen, I found myself thinking of home.

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Poll: 61 Percent Of Americans Have Unfavorable View Of GOP

CNN Political Ticker | Peter Hamby | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Gop, Republican Popularity, Republicans, Republican Party, Politics News

The Republican Party has hit a new low. Just 34 percent of Americans in a Gallup Poll released Thursday say they have a favorable view of the party, ...

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Conservative Columnist: "Religion Is Killing The Republican Party"

Washington Post | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Republicans, GOP Problems, Kathleen Parker, Religion, Republicans Religion, Politics News

Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, who received piles of hate mail during the Presidential campaign for questioning Sarah Palin's credentials, ha...

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Schwarzenegger Opens Global Warming Summit

AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 11.18.2008 | Green

Read More: California, President Obama, Gop Future, Gop, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Global Warming, Green News

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his international climate change summit on Tuesday by upstaging himself with an even b...

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Making Sense of the Sixties: Reflections for the 40th Reunion of the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1968

Stephen Mo Hanan | Posted 11.18.2008 | Style

Read More: Counterculture, 1960s, The Sixties, Loose Morals, 1968, Counter Culture, Gop, Rebelling, Harvard, Hippies, Style News
Stephen Mo Hanan

The dress, music, drugs and loose morals of the emerging counterculture must have looked to a Sixties puritan like a reversion to chaotic paganism.

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While GOP Smears Franken Vote, Will Obama Help Repair Election System?

Art Levine | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Election Reform, Acorn, Voting Machines, Vote Suppression, Franken, Chambliss, Obama, Politics News
Art Levine

The never-ending Republican War on Voting continues apace, with new smears against Democrats and Senate candidate Al Franken for alleged voter fraud in the razor-thin race against Norm Coleman.

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Thomas B. Edsall

The Next RNC Chair: Captain Of The GOP Titanic?

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Titanic, Rnc Chairmainship, Gop, Gop Nightmare, Republican National Committee, Republicans, Politics News

The steadily growing number of prospective candidates for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee share a collective dream: that 2008 wi...

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Newt Gingrich: Sarah Palin Will Not Be The Future GOP Leader

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republicans 2012, Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Gop, Gingrich Alin Future of Gop, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Politics News

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is batting down the hype that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin heads into 2012 as the frontrunner for the GOP presid...

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Bobby Jindal: Something Is Wrong With The GOP

CBS News | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Governor Bobby Jindal, Republicans 2012, Bobby Jindal, Bobby Jindal Gop Wrong, Gop, Republicans, Politics News

When asked about the future course of the Republican Party following their losses on Election Day - losing not only the White House but also considera...

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236.com: Six Ways The GOP Can Recover And Start Ruining The World Again

236.com | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Republicans, Republican Party, 236.Com, Politics News

Politico is asking their panel of pundits this question: "What's the most important first step Republicans should take on the road to recovery?" Not s...

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Reading The Pictures: Rough Handling Between Sarah And the Govs?

Michael Shaw | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Gop Governors Conference, Gop, GOP Governors Conference Palin, GOP Governors Conference Perry, GOP Governors Conference Jindal Palin, GOP Governors Conference Jindal, Perry, Palin, Sarah Palin, Media News
Michael Shaw

2008-11-14-shaw_perry_palin.jpgTexas Gov. Rick Perry's handling of Sarah Palin yesterday seemed at least partly reflective of a resentment the other governors must be feeling toward their diva counterpart.

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Time to Buy Republican

John Ridley | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Republican Party, Politics News
John Ridley

You buy stocks when they're low. Basically, it's wise to get a bargain when a bargain's to be gotten. So, is now the time to "buy" Republican?

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GOP Ponders Gloomy, Dark Forecast

Washington Post | Robert Barnes | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Charlie Crist, Gop's Future, Sarah Palin, Gop, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Perry, Politics News

MIAMI, Nov. 12 -- Republican governors were the brightest spot in an otherwise dispiriting election last week for the GOP, but the chief executives ga...

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What Doesn't Kill The Far-Right Only Makes Them Crazier

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Paul Broun, Karl Rove, Obama Wins, Stolen Election, Gop, Obama Administration, Michelle Malkin, Facebook, John Hinderaker, Intellectual Violence, Republicans, Governor Broun, Politics News
Bob Cesca

If the last seven days have been any indication, the far-right is shaping up to make the 1990s seem quaint -- even erudite by comparison.

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Palin: 2012 GOP Ticket Should Feature A Woman

AP | BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palin Brainfarts, 2012 Election, Sarah Palin, Gop, Alaska, Palin 2012, Politics News

MIAMI — Republican governors, down and out after the party's devastating Election Day losses, said Wednesday that the future of the GOP rests wi...

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Maybe the Civil War Isn't Over

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil War, Election 2008, Race, Southern Strategy, Gop, Electoral College, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Joshuah Bearman

The Civil War might be over, but the War Between the States lives on. The good news is that the lingering resentments of that time might have finally lost their political power.

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After the (Grand Old) Party: Don't Go Home Just Yet

Shahid Buttar | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Barack Obama Presidential Transition, Obama Election Day, Grassroots, Obama Presidency, Obama's Cabinet, Obama, Obama Transition, Executive Power, Barack Obama, Culture Wars, Pakistan, Christopher Shays, Marriage Equality, Change, Robert Gates, John Kerry, Electoral System, Gop, Community Organizing, Newt Gingrich, Domestic Spying, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama White House, Obama Priorities, Obama Issues, President Elect Obama, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

If the crowds celebrating Obama's victory go home in 2009, his Administration will achieve disappointing results. The President-Elect will confront a variety of national and global crises.

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A Vet's Message To The GOP on Veterans Day -- Shove It

Bob Geiger | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Veterans Day, GI Bill, Gop, Bob Corker, Lamar Alexander, Orin Hatch, Jim Webb, Jon Kyl, Politics News
Bob Geiger

I see Republicans turning up on Veterans Day with their flowery pronouncements of how much we Vets mean to them when they prove at every turn that they really don't give a damn about the troops.

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