Conservative idol and direct-mail pioneer Richard Viguerie thinks that conservative voters need to look away from the current crop of Republican presidential candidates when it comes to looking for a winner. Instead, they should look for the next Barry Goldwater, a candidate more concerned with building up the conservative movement rather than winning. "Too many
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…former State GOP Chairman Alexander "Sandy" Treadwell will face freshmen Democrat Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (pictured) for an upstate congressional seat in 2008. Karol is taking notes on just who is jumping on the "Fred Thompson ’08" bandwagon. Mayor Bloomberg has reached an agreement with the United Federation of Teachers on school reform. In the New
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Bronx State Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz, who also serves as the president of the New York Hispanic Clergy Coalition, has just released an op-ed denouncing the Democratic Party and its 2008 presidential field for "ignoring the Hispanic community and the Hispanic vote."

In the op-ed Rev. Diaz noted that Rev. Al Sharpton takes no excuses from presidential candidates when it comes to attending his National Action network conference, and that Latinos need to step up to that level of aggressive demand.

In a brief conversation with Rev. Diaz, I asked him if his own organization would move to remedy the situation by hosting its own presidential forum. He said he had not yet made up his mind regarding such an event, but that it was a possibility.

"They go to other communities and show respect," said Rev. Diaz. "The Hispanic community they take for granted."

The full op-ed is after the jump.

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Speaking of John McCain, MoveOn.org has released a new campaign ad chastising the Arizona senator for his remarks on Iran, which found him quoting the Beach Boys (and not well, I might add). “At a tense moment, when cooler heads in his own party and many retired military leaders are calling on the President to
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The horse race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination is becoming unbearably dull. Today we have two new polls of Republican primary voters, and both say the same thing we’ve been hearing for months: if the nomination were decided today, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani would take it hands down. The first Harris Poll gives Giuliani
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Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays (pictured) is the only remaining Republican congressman in all of New England. Today Jim Himes, an affordable housing executive and community activist, made it official and announced that he will take on Shays in 2008 on the Democratic line. "For too long, Chris Shays has been single-mindedly focused on promoting President
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Below is a video of a group of local rabbis, led by Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in The Bronx, blocking the entrance to the United Nations on Tuesday in protest of Iran’s membership in that body. The group was arrested for blocking the entrance after warnings from the
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Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave NJ Gov. Jon Corzine some valuable post-car wreck advice: “Let’s hope Gov. Corzine recovers and gets back to work, but it is a wake-up call for all of us to make sure you put on the seat belt,” said Bloomy. He then explained how in his car he had two
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Ed Koch minces his words for no one. The former mayor and current New York Press columnist spoke at the opening of Rev. Al Sharpton’s annual National Action Network conference yesterday, and took the time to hit Sharpton for his role in the Tawana Brawley fiasco and how it affected his career. "If you would
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We hope Alanis, god bless her soul, reads the following post. There’s little doubt that several Long Island Republican policiticians meant well when they mailed out a postcard urging constituents to call a toll-free number to be notified when convicted sex offenders move into their neighborhoods. But in a textbook case of irony, the 1-800
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