Rebuild the Party on UserVoice (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
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Right From Left (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Patrick Ruffini asks an important question. Are progressives out of ideas ? Now before I get to the meat of his post, let me say that the idea that Liberal Democrats are in any way 'progressive' is a notion I reject out of hand altogether. The Democrats are the party of 'No' on down the line, on issue after issue. No drilling, no utilization of our own natural resources, no Social Security...
Confessions of a Political Junkie (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
As most of you know, I, several of us here for that matter, am a signer of Rebuild the Party. I have not written much about it here because too many people initially attributed it to me, but it is very much Patrick Ruffini’s idea. I did not want to start blogging about [...]
The Essence of Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
The four-year ascent of Barack Obama from state senator to president marks not just the triumph of a man, but the coming of age of a movement. That movement belongs to liberal (or “progressive”) Democrats, who in less than a decade have remade themselves. Once respected only in academia and the news media, they have become a fighting force. They systemically digitized the means of political organization...
TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
(promoted by Soren) Patrick Ruffini recently wrote a piece arguing that the GOP needs an "ideas czar" , while Soren Dayton disagrees, insisting that, "The beltway is the disease not the cure." Regardless of where you stand on this argument, both Patrick and Soren raise a critical, underlying point:...
Internal Monologue (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Patrick Ruffini takes an admiring look at Left Blogistan : T he four-year ascent of Barack Obama from state senator to president marks not just the triumph of a man, but the coming of age of a movement. That movement belongs to liberal (or “progressive”) Democrats, who in less than a decade have remade themselves. Once respected only in academia and the news media, they have become a...
The Next Right (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
(promoted by Soren) Patrick Ruffini recently wrote a piece arguing that the GOP needs an “ideas czar” , while Soren Dayton disagrees, insisting that, “The beltway is the disease not the cure.” Regardless of where you stand on this argument, both Patrick and Soren raise a critical, underlying point: the Republican Party needs a way to bring new, innovative ideas to the table if...
ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Jose Antonio Vargas titled “Republicans Seek to Fix Short-Sitedness”. It focused on the efforts of Patrick Ruffini and others, including RedState.com’s own Erick Erickson, to move forward with efforts to ignite the GOP and conservatives in leveraging the resources of the Internet. The WaPo article is one of the best overviews of the situation to surface in the post-election mop-up....
The Mamacoke Think Tank (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Patrick Ruffini, the smartest tech-guy on the right, has a post up on The Next Right arguing for an “Ideas Czar” for the GOP: What we need is a policy arm independent of the existing policy infrastructure on the Hill that incorporates the best of what’s happening in the states, on the Hill, and in the [...]
Fixin' Supper (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... online about politics. So few people can be rational about it. Those who are [ Roger Abramson , Patrick Ruffini , ACK all come to mind -- though I don't vote the way any of them do very often] have my admiration. But in real life, I’m a very active campaign volunteer and sometime contributor. I volunteered on my first political campaign before I was eligible to vote. I love good local...
PoliticsBlog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
A Conservative ‘rightroots’ movement is at play on the Net according to Patrick Ruffini, a Republican political strategist and co-founder of TheNextRight.com.
The Next Right (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Rick Moran poses some pointed questions I'm eager to respond to and plan to shortly. -Patrick Patrick Ruffini and Mindy Finn have a nice write up in today’s Washington Post regarding their new web effort Rebuild the Party.com. The website features a list of endorsers that constitutes a who’s who of the rightysphere as well as a plan they would like to see the GOP adopt that, includes...
Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Over at the Next Right, Patrick Ruffini writes that conservatives shouldn't waste their time crying wolf about the Fairness Doctrine, a regulation that would mandate equal time for political opinions on public airwaves and thus kill conservative talk radio. Ruffini...
MidnightBlue (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Patrick Ruffini, a blogger that I follow on Twitter has penned a critical post mortem of the Great Mistake in 08. I heartily agree with his assessment of the election cycle and the technological road to recovery conservatives must travel. "Another problem is that conservative bloggers are there to provide you with their opinion. The new pillars of left-wing media are there to provide...
The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Patrick Ruffini is one of the most prominent, perhaps open Republicans of the Millennial Generation but in being so it’s meant a pretty good gig as a point person for articles explaining why the GOP is so far behind the times when it comes to Internet activism as opposed to mere blogging for example. He brought more [...]
