National Review Writer David French 'Planning for' Independent Presidential Bid?
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“The ‘impressive’ ‘independent candidate’ that #NeverTrump leader and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol touted as having a “real chance” to win the presidency has been identified as National Review writer and Iraq War veteran David French, who is now believed to be planning for a presidential run.”
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An Autopsy of a Movement
By Dr. Caleb Verbois, The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College (Grove City, PA). Used by permission.
With Ted Cruz having dropped out of the 2016 presidential race, there will be a string of eulogies seeking to autopsy his campaign. At least some of those critiques may hit the mark. In particular, Cruz’s campaign strategy went awry in three ways.
First, Cruz consciously copied Obama’s micro-targeted campaign of voters. He has been repeatedly praised for a campaign that focused on tiny groups of voters in states like Iowa to learn exactly how to win their vote. But while that works in Iowa where there is time to prepare, it does not work once the primary calendar heats up. This focus on targeting winnable voters also led Cruz to worry too much about focusing on states he thought he could win. He had success, in the sense that he won most of the states he heavily focused on, but by “giving up” in other states he let Trump get too far ahead. The most recent example—giving up on the northeast state primaries to focus on Indiana probably doomed his campaign. Cruz was ahead in Indiana but after Trump’s victories in the northeast the polls in Indiana changed drastically.
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Why President Trump Would Be A Bigger Disaster Than Hillary
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“For conservatives, supporting Trump would mean facilitating their own destruction.”
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"[T]his declaration focuses on a number of issues that the writers believe need to be reaffirmed in our current cultural context."
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Kevin Bauder, Scott Aniol, Mike Riley, et. al. … New Book—A Conservative Christian Declaration
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Christian Right Not Responsible for People Leaving Church, Study Finds
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“Differences and disagreements at the congregational level are more likely to drive people away from the Church, they conclude.” CPost
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A Christian Alternative to Unicorn Governance
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“The centuries-long debate between conservatives and progressives about governance, argues Michael Munger, is essentially a disagreement about a simple concept: whether the State is a unicorn.”
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CPAC reverses decision, will not allow atheist group at conservative conference
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“David Silverman, president of American Atheists, tells CNN that a groundswell of opposition from high-ranking members of CPAC compelled the group to pull the invite.” CNN
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"The conservative vision for America is not an Ayn Rand novel," he said, "It's a Norman Rockwell painting."
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“Lee was speaking at the Antipoverty Forum hosted by The Heritage Foundation” Renewed Conservative Movement Should Lead New War on Poverty, Sen. Mike Lee Says
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"In today’s world, conservatives have often conserved more of the best of classical liberalism than liberals have."
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“Hayek wanted to expose the collectivist ideals which threatened freedom.”
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek and A Humane Economy by Wilhelm Röpke
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