Read more conservatism stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/24466/conservatism.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:02:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74579/book-tour-shows-palin-hitting-a-nerve.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJust 5 days into her book tour, first-time author Sarah Palin is attracting crowds so huge and adoring that they're feeding speculation about her political future. The philosophy that moved one fan to call her "the female Ronald Reagan" is nothing new, experts tell Erika Bolstad of the Anchorage Daily...http://www.newser.com/story/74579/book-tour-shows-palin-hitting-a-nerve.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 22 Nov 2009 14:46:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73265/gop-2nd-wind-doesnt-mean-smooth-sailing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe victories in Virginia and New Jersey look set to revitalize the Republican Party ahead of next year's elections, writes Adam Nagourney. The party now has the chance to re-energize its base and prepare for a proper comeback from last year's defeat, although the Democratic win in New York's 23rd...http://www.newser.com/story/73265/gop-2nd-wind-doesnt-mean-smooth-sailing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Nov 2009 3:09:44 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73147/gop-its-time-to-rebrand-to-conservative.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCandidates on both sides are doing their best to hide their party affiliation but it's the Republicans who have the most to worry about, writes Nate Silver . "The Democratic brand is marginal in about half the country, but the Republican brand is radioactive in about two-thirds of it ," Silver writes...http://www.newser.com/story/73147/gop-its-time-to-rebrand-to-conservative.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 2:29:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70373/bill-kristol-thanks-dad.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBill Kristol remembers his late father as a man of a "deep modesty" who "loved intellectual pursuits but always shunned intellectual pretension." Irving Kristol, who died earlier this month at age 89, is generally regarded as the architect of neoconservatism, but the honors he accrued never gave him an inflated...http://www.newser.com/story/70373/bill-kristol-thanks-dad.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 26 Sep 2009 14:13:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70098/beck-a-pomo-conservative-and-its-working-well-for-him.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGlenn Beck’s popularity as compared to the more “traditional American conservatism” of, say, Rush Limbaugh heralds the advent of a new archetype, Nate Silver writes on FiveThirtyEight: “Beck is a PoMoCon—a postmodern conservative.” A recent poll shows Beck and Limbaugh equally popular while Limbaugh’s negatives dwarf Beck’s. Silver sees...http://www.newser.com/story/70098/beck-a-pomo-conservative-and-its-working-well-for-him.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 23 Sep 2009 9:54:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69791/counterculture-made-kristol-an-ex-liberal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tag"Neoconservative" was originally a label applied to newly conservative ex-liberals and Irving Kristol, the late godfather of the movement, was among the first and finest of the kind, E. J. Dionne writes in the Washington Pos t. Kristol made a powerful case for "pragmatic liberalist" when he was still a...http://www.newser.com/story/69791/counterculture-made-kristol-an-ex-liberal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 19 Sep 2009 5:48:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69774/neocon-founder-kristol-dead-at-89.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIrving Kristol, the "godfather" of neoconservatism and a key intellectual force behind the Reagan Revolution, died today from lung cancer in Arlington, Va., the Washington Post reports. He was 89. Once a New York liberal, Kristol grew disaffected with liberalism in the 1940s and founded conservative magazines like Encounter and...http://www.newser.com/story/69774/neocon-founder-kristol-dead-at-89.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 16:39:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69033/hey-jews-should-be-conservatives-not-liberals-podhoretz.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJewish voters backed Barack Obama over John McCain last year by a staggering 57 points—the most resounding mandate from any group other than African Americans. That bewilders neocon Norman Podhoretz, who argues in the Wall Street Journal that both Judaism and the Jewish experience endorse "the infinitely precious virtues...http://www.newser.com/story/69033/hey-jews-should-be-conservatives-not-liberals-podhoretz.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 8:43:05 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67033/right-wing-crazy-is-all-american.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith the left back in power, we’re seeing right-wing "crazies"—the “birthers, tea-partiers, town hall hecklers”—getting louder. But that’s nothing new, writes Rick Perlstein in the Washington Post . In America, “the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow...http://www.newser.com/story/67033/right-wing-crazy-is-all-american.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 16 Aug 2009 8:23:26 CDT