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Grumpy Conservatives Survey Post-Iowa Scene

Dan Kennedy | Posted 03.05.2012

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The Pollyanna award goes to Ross Douthat of the New York Times, who thinks caucus-goers did themselves proud last night. "Presented with the weakest presidential field of any major party in a generation," he writes, "they made the best of a bad situation."

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Huck Going To Sarah's Turf

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Move over Sarah Palin, the mythic land of Alaska is getting some attention from another would-be Republican contender. If former Arkans...

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Fred Barnes Is On Republican Payroll

Salon | Joe Conason | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Weekly Standard editor claimed political purity in bashing Journolist, but he's on the Republican payroll...

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Health Care Post-Mortem: Dems Feel the Wind at Their Back, GOP Hoisted With Its Own Cynical Petard

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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The lives of millions of Americans will be improved because of what the Democrats have done. The Republicans, meanwhile, have been hoisted with their own deeply cynical petard.

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Fred Barnes: Palin Has A "Whiny Edge" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the wake of Sarah Palin's resignation, even conservative magazine editors are getting tired of her relentless anti-media shtick. Charles Krauthamme...

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Fred Barnes: Palin Has "Dashed Her Chances" For 2012

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Numerous Republican pundits who heartily backed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in 2008 have tried to argue that her surprise resignation could help her run i...

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Bashing Obama On Iran's Election: Watch Out For Agent Provocateurs On The Neo-Con Right

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 05.25.2011

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The possibility that leaders could emerge in Iran who would be less easy to portray as lunatics has the Neocons worried.

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Pundits Celebrated End Of Iraq War 6 Years Ago Today

Posted 05.25.2011

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Right Wing World from The Stephanie Miller Show

Stephanie Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today's "Right Wing World" features Bill Cunningham attacking women, Fred Barnes attacking Colin Powell and right wing caller Jerry checks in with a challenge.

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The Republican Party Is Headed To War -- With Itself

Matt Littman | Posted 05.25.2011

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There will be a civil war in the Republican Party, between the people who believe the Party has gone too far to the right, and the people who believe that the Party just had the wrong messenger this time.

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Even Fox News Admits McCain's Missteps (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are some things that even Fox News has to admit, and apparently among those things is the fact that Barack Obama had a better week than John McC...

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Some Conservatives Air Concerns Over Palin

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

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The McCain campaign's desperate gamble on Sarah Palin, aimed at reversing the Arizona senator's downward spiral, has met with decidedly mixed reaction...

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