http://www.redstate.com/the_directors Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:02:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/11/27/happy-thanksgiving-3/ We at RedState have ten items on which we would like your responses. We will print your responses to all ten items on the front page of RedState in the order in which they are received. The ten items are: Please state your qualifications for the job and why ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/11/25/answers-wanted-from-all-parties-running-for-r/ This morning at 10 o'clock we'll have a live chat with Senator Saxby Chambliss on the front page. Feel free to stop by and submit your questions to Senator Chambliss. Likewise, we would encourage each of the candidates considering the RNC Chairman's race to think about posting here at RedState ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/11/13/saxby-chambliss-rnc-chairmans-race/ In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/11/11/the-eleventh-hour-of-the-eleventh-day-of-the/ Today there are three U.S. Senate races currently unresolved: Norm Coleman faces a recount in his victory over Al Franken, Ted Stevens has a narrow lead in his re-election bid, and Saxby Chambliss faces a runoff on December 2 against his Democratic challenger. Chambliss deserves any support you can ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/11/07/get-engaged-for-saxby-chambliss/ We now move to the leadership struggle for the House and Senate Republicans. We have no preferences in these races yet. But we have a question that Messrs. McConnell, Boehner, and Blunt must answer: How are you qualified to lead after two consecutive elections of significant losses? There are others who are ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/11/05/leadership-struggle-ahead/ Only a few years ago, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing to uphold affirmative action policies at the University of Michigan, speculated that the time would be ripe to reconsider racial preference policies in thirty years, after the nation has had more time to progress. Thirty years came quickly. The nation has moved ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/11/04/congratulations-president-elect-obama/ We have been treated in recent weeks to an unfortunate procession of people on the Right lending their assistance to Barack Obama against the Republican presidential ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin. These people should never be listened to or employed in any responsible or prominent position by ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/10/27/conservatisms-sunshine-patriots-will-never-live-do/ Note - A previous version of this post was entitled "RedState Endorses Mark Begich, Democrat For Senate, and Ethan Berkowitz, Democrat for House At Large in Alaska." We have changed the title and amended the post to retract the formal endorsement out of respect for RedState Contributors who did ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/10/27/redstate-endorses-mark-begich-democrat-for-s/ Barack Obama is the most left-wing major-party presidential candidate in modern history. The evidence of this is all over his record and his campaign. Yet for a variety of reasons, ranging from terminal frustration with the Bush Administration to swooning over Obama's pop culture cache to buying Obama's ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/10/21/barack-obama-one-man-one-vote-one-time/ There are troubling whispers in Washington that John McCain might soon endorse the Gang of 16 Energy Proposal. It would be a terrible mistake for John McCain to sign on to this plan. The plan is both bad politics and bad policy. For the past several months, John McCain ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/09/16/john-mccain-would-undermine-his-credibility-a/ This was not an uplifting, unifying, post-partisan speech.  It was a typical Democrat speech, an act of attack to disguise a record thinner than that of any president.  It was an act of religious prayer for the believers, not evangelism to the nonbelievers.  When he declared he would engage in ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/08/28/redstates-take-obamas-speech/ In 1862, when some of Abraham Lincoln's political allies, furious over the losses at Shiloh, demanded the removal of Ulysses S. Grant from the leadership of the Army of the Tennessee, the first Republican President responded with unequivocal fervor. "I can't spare this man," Lincoln said. "He fights." What John McCain ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/08/27/eric-cantor-vice-president/ We'll get right to it. The Politico reports Senator John McCain is feeling out state parties on the issue of a pro-choice Vice Presidential pick and what effect such a choice would have on the base. Make no mistake about it, it would so dishearten the base we can spend ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/08/19/pro-abortion-not-option-vice-president/ Dear Mr. President, Pursuant to Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America, you can compel the House of Representatives and Senate to convene in special session. You, Mr. President, can force the Democrats to either vote on energy legislation or not. Mr. President, members of ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/08/01/time-for-a-special-session/ Let's cut to the chase:  last week should have been a good week on Iraq for John McCain and it wasn't.  In an ideal world, of course, every week should be a good week on Iraq for McCain.  It is his signature issue and he should be scoring points on ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/07/29/solving-mccains-iraq-problem/ There are always a number of problems with the launch of a site like RedState onto a new platform. There are the load issues that you can only really experience when you experience them. There are the caching issues. There are the compatibility issues. Then there ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/07/14/special-thanks/ Welcome to RedState 3.0. It's been a long time coming. As we get under way on this first Monday after launch, we're going to have a number of guest posters throughout the week, helping us celebrate both the start of our fifth year and our new site. ... http://www.redstate.com/the_directors/2008/07/14/the-gop-is-the-party-of-freedom-of-choice-th/