Christopher Buckley's endorsement of Barack Obama - followed by his abrupt departure from the back page of the magazine his father founded, National Review - has caused a ripple of contempt from the conservative right. ...more

October 18, 2008

NORTH CAROLINA - Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself. ...more

July 6, 2008

watching Mitt Romney go down to defeat in nearly every contest and encountering a newly victorious but ultimately unnominatable Mike Huckabee all across the Bible Belt. ...more

February 7, 2008

Rudy Giuliani probably will benefit most from the smorgasbord of conflicting presidential endorsements this week by social and religious conservatives, according to a handful of political insiders in the Florida conservative movement. ...more

November 10, 2007

They could compete for strangest bedfellows of 2008. Rudy Giuliani is a supporter of gay and abortion rights who is building his Republican primary campaign around his response to the Sept. 11 attacks. ...more

November 8, 2007