Lyn Nofziger understood the meaning of sacrifice

by Craig Shirley 5 Jun 2013

Traditionally, losing presidential candidates stay out of party affairs, the practical reason being that their party has moved on and sees the loser as radioactive or having something contagious.

It may not be fair, but it is the way of the world.

Asking losing candidates for their advice is akin to asking George Custer about what really happened at Little Big Horn or asking the Buffalo Bills how they lost the Super Bowl four times. You don’t ask losers how to win. You ask winners about winning. It is the same in politics.

By Jennifer Harper – The Washington Times

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Now in the works: “Last Act,” the first book to offer a extensive, exclusive look at the post-presidential years of Ronald Reagan, this from historian Craig Shirley, author of two other books about the 40th president.

The upcoming book “will tell the important final chapter in the life of Reagan, widening our understanding of American history and of the presidency and one of the most singular men to occupy the office,” says Joel Miller, vice president for nonfiction acquisitions at publisher Thomas Nelson.

“Reagan’s legacy, his views, and his philosophy have become so crucial in the political sphere that they may very well mean the difference between winning or losing elections,” Mr. Miller adds.

By CHQ Staff | 5/23/13

Reagan biographer and conservative political guru Craig Shirley has made a powerful case on Breitbart’s BigGovernment for our position that the Tea Party victims of IRS discrimination must be made whole.

In our estimation, Shirley’s key point is this:
“Conspiracy is not too tough a word to use or to say in polite company that the Tea Parties were denied their civil rights to political participation by their own government and outside agitators.

by Craig Shirley 22 May 2013

As the old saying goes, beware of Greeks bearing gifts; but as the new saying goes, beware even more of Republicans bearing bribes. In either case, one could get destroyed (or at least corrupted) from the inside by trusting the wrong people.

Since 2006, with the beginnings of the breakaway of populist conservatives from the national Republican Party via the Tea Party movement, the GOP has been trying to figure out how to co-opt and capture it once again, just as George W. Bush did with many elements of the conservative movement in the early years of the 21st century.

But with the unofficial (and official) rise of the Tea Party movement, this development has struck fear in the Washington establishment because it represents an intellectual challenge to the anti-intellectual status quo of the Democrats and the Big Government Republicans.
Dorothy Parker observed her own destructiveness and the “curling smoke” of the “burning bridges” of her escapades. The IRS and the Washington Establishment may have irreparably burned down the bridge of legitimacy granted it by the American people, and the national Republicans smell an opportunity in the curling smoke.