Why Romney deserved to lose: Daniel Larison

Daniel Larison writes a fitting political epitaph for Mitt:  Romney represented almost everything that was wrong, misguided, and self-destructive in the Republican Party and the conservative movement. His defeat is a good outcome for the cause of peace and liberty in the country as a whole and within the Republican Party. The public rejected aContinue reading “Why Romney deserved to lose: Daniel Larison”

Daniel Larison: GOP is a party about nothing

Strange irony of the political punditry today: Nobody, but nobody, has been tougher on the GOP than the gang at The American Conservative. Here's Daniel Larison on what the Republicans will learn from their loss this fall:  The GOP’s predicament is that it is mostly running on nothing, or at least nothing that isn’t aContinue reading “Daniel Larison: GOP is a party about nothing”

Larison Loses His Temper

The eloquent conservative Larison lost his temper a week ago at Sarah Palin’s "Bridge to Nowhere" lie. Now he’s just pissed: The main innovation of the Bush administration in U.S. foreign policy, the one for which he will be remembered for good or ill, is the placement of preventive war as a means of nonproliferationContinue reading “Larison Loses His Temper”