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The right overreached. After pressuring Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava out of the race with charges that she was too liberal, conservative activists watched New York's 23rd District go to a Democrat for the first time in more than a century. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who had endorsed Scozzafava and warned Republicans not to "purge the party of anybody who doesn't agree with us 100 percent," appeared to be vindicated.

The lesson of New York 23 is that if the Republican Party nominates people who are Republicans in name only, they are going to meet conservative opposition   -Tom Minnery

 

John Lupton is a lifelong Republican. His father, also named John Lupton, represented this area for 10 years in the state Senate. The elder Lupton was co-chairman of Barry Goldwater's Connecticut campaign in 1964.  

Evangelicals organized by Southern Baptist leaders are pushing for more U.S. pressure against Iran's nuclear program while also offering solidarity to Iran's suppressed domestic opposition. "Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terror, is funding Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon and Gaza, has sought to destabilize democratic and Western-leaning regimes throughout the Middle East, is currently arresting and detaining political opponents, actively persecutes its Christian citizens, has shot protesters  

SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Think you have a crowd coming over for Thanksgiving dinner? Last year, Frances and Ralph Reed fed 130 people and this year they could top that number. This is the 10th year that the Reeds, who own the Quietside Café, have hosted a free Thanksgiving dinner for Mount Desert Island residents.  

When Josh Belanger from New England Harbor Services got the tugboat Capt. Shorty underway Thursday morning, the 25-ton load on the barge he was towing astern was not the usual cargo. It was Debbie Francouer's new home, making four knots through the placid waters off Sconticut Neck and bound for Brandt Beach in Mattapoisett. Waiting on shore to receive them was a crew from Mike Reed Building Movers of Marion and a very excited Francouer, along with her 11-year-old son, Isak Cook. For Francouer, the m

The house was so well built we had a hard time busting it off the old foundation and then there were so many delays with the weather. But today is just perfect.   -Ralph Reed

 

Sarah Palin isn't staying out of the Virginia governor's race after all. Less than 48 hours before voters head to the polls to elect a new governor, several Virginians reported receiving robocalls on Sunday from the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, urging them to "vote your values" on Tuesday. But the recording makes no mention of the Bob McDonnell, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who has been reluctant to embrace Palin during the governor's race, out of fear that she might alienate some of  

Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod were on television this week, and they were talking about Fox News. And they were talking about how Fox News is -- is not really even news. Now, this is an important story, because it has now been bumped up one level. Before they put Anita Dunn out there -- this is the woman who was extolling the virtues of Mao Zedong -- you know, just a guy who killed 70 million people -- and said it was one of her two favorite political philosophers -- Mao. She has since said that she was

Van [Jones] has never served time in any prison. He has never been convicted of any crime.   -Beck

 

Now that popular conservatism has given itself over so avidly to racial resentment, it's curious to remember how hard the right once tried to scrub itself of the lingering taint of prejudice. Indeed, for a decade and a half the Christian right -- until recently the most powerful and visible grassroots conservative movement -- struggled mightily to escape its own bigoted history. In his 1996 book Active Faith , Ralph Reed acknowledged that Christian conservatives had been on the wrong side of the civil rig

The white evangelical church carries a shameful legacy of racism and the historical baggage of indifference to the most central struggle for social justice in this century, a legacy that is only now being wiped clean by the sanctifying work of repentance and racial reconciliation   -Ralph Reed

 

In considering the collapse of Ralph Reed's political dreams, it's tempting to conjure up biblical parables about Jesus instructing his followers in humility by suggesting they go "sit in the lowest place"--or of pride going before a fall. Reed was the preternaturally boyish spear carrier for the religious right, the brash Evangelical who transformed the Christian Coalition into a populist power center, then helped usher Republicans into control of Congress and George W. Bush into the presidency. The next

I'm proud of the campaign we ran   -Ralph Reed