Tag: Barry Goldwater

Letting your ideals get in the way of common sense, or practical problem solving, and of necessary compromise is the ...

The Party of Rove, with its 51% politics, its routine character assassinations, and its culture war, has lost its way. ...

So for Vice President, I offer the name no one has yet mentioned, the man who created the movement, Barack ...

Principles are vital. They are a guide to proper action. Ideology is a bane. It always leads to trouble, no ...

When they don't have power to hold them together, the Republican Party could atomize into its various tribes, practically disappearing ...

The power of political myth and values, of a political thesis, to bias us, often unconsciously, is enormous. That's why ...

Cynics have appeared at every point of crisis, and their arguments have always been wrong. It is only in gathering ...

There are three dimensions to political choice -- the person, their programs, and their beliefs. Belief is at the heart ...

A lot of "netroots" bloggers express constant consternation over this, but it's a very typical historical pattern. The pattern is ...

Change, and the need for change, continues to accelerate. I know there are people who complain about this. I am ...