The Roots of a Conservative Republican Party

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  October 5th at 10:09 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Michael Bowen to discuss how the split between Thomas Dewey and Robert Taft led to the transformation of the Republican party as a party of conservatives, which began with Barry Goldwater’s nomination in 1964. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and | Read More »

The Goldwater Talking Point

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 04:46 AM  | 

“The greatest lesson to take away now is that the media is going to again fixate on Goldwater from 1964 and Kerry from 2004, and they will probably mostly ignore the most historically relevant election points” The media typically begins any Presidential campaign with comparisons to Harry Truman. The Reagan re-election in 1984 had the comparison. The Bush re-election in 1992 had the comparison. The | Read More »