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You have to hand it to the conservative movement. For the utter hypocrisy if nothing else. For months, conservatives have been crowing about the election of Scott Brown in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a sign of an impending conservative re-ascendancy.

John McCain has recruited his former running mate to campaign on his behalf as
he faces the strongest challenge yet to his US Senate seat.

Either outcome of January 19’s special election would have left us wondering what Democrat would step up to challenge the junior senator from Massachusetts. The fact that Scott Brown won, while unfortunate in every other way, probably produces a stronger field than would have been willing to primary a sitting senator, however clearly she needed to be primaried. As it is, the entire party will be looking to unseat Brown.

The Republican win in the special Senate election in Massachussetts has been compared to a powerful earthquake that could transform U.S. politics as we know it, pointing out to a forceful populist uprising that reflects the rage of the economically distressed and politically frustrated American voters who are ready to storm the barricades and get rid of the crooked politicians on Capitol Hill and the Fat Cats in Wall Street.

PHOENIX, AZ — After months of speculation that popular talk show host and former Rep. JD Hayworth might challenge Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his senate seat, Hayworth took the first concrete step by resigning from his talk radio show Friday night.

It is now a given that if he wins a Massachusetts Senate seat on Tuesday, Scott Brown will destroy the Democrats’ plan to pass health care reform. But he will also destroy the Republicans’ not-so-secret plan to pass health care reform. In Washington, where everyone is desperate to know what’s happening behind closed doors, all you have to do to keep something secret is do it out in the open, preferably on C-Span. Mitch McConnell did exactly that when he entered a unanimous consent agreement with Harry Reid about how to proceed on the health care bill.

Yesterday, John McCain launched an attack on the health care bill before the Senate, calling it “monstrous” and an example of “Enron accounting.” This may sound like just another of the hysterical, nonsensical, fact-free rants that have become the foundation of the today’s Beck/Palin GOP. But on this point, you have to pay attention to the Senior Senator from Arizona. After all, if anyone knows Enron accounting, it should be John McCain . Sen.

Have you ever argued politics with a conservative counterpart and felt as if you were speaking two different languages? Well, you were. In order to bridge the divide, we have developed some definitions in the hopes of making things a bit easier.
con-serv-a-tive [kuhn-sur-vuh-tiv] -noun: A liberal who has not yet figured out how to think for himself/herself.

I have a hard time looking at or listening to Joe Lieberman. I know this is my problem. If I agreed with the man’s politics, I’d likely view his smirking mien, his habit of droning and whining, even that occasional Alfred E. Newman grin with something resembling affection.

One of the Republican Party’s most respected and relied-upon consultants has serious reservations about two the party’s biggest names. Alex Castellanos, a conservative media strategist and regular presence on CNN, raised questions of Sarah Palin’s viability for office and took major swipes at Florida Senate candidate Charlie Crist during an appearance at Bloomberg News’ Washington Summit Thursday. The harshest lines were saved for Crist, who Castellanos said was not really a Republican.