A Master Class in Political Combat

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Revisiting M. Stanton Evans's 'Six Rules for Political Combat," and how well J.D. Vance is following them.
Steve Hayward
Oct 13, 2024

One of the legendary stories from sports is the despairing remark of Casey Stengel, the first manager of the hapless 1962 Mets, who said after yet another example of baseball ineptitude: “Does anyone here know how to play this game?”

Over the years it has been tempting to ask a parallel question about Republicans: Do any of them know how to conduct political combat, especially against the biased media? Too often Republican candidates and office holders accept the liberal premises behind hit questions, and never hit back.

J.D. Vance is someone who seems to have figured this out, and fights back effectively. My Power Line colleague Scott Johnson offers a complete account of what went down with Vance and ABC News’s completely partisan (and often hysterical) Martha Radditz today, but here’s a graphic that conveys Vance’s “Boom!) moment:

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Oct 14, 2024

Megyn Kelly is joined by National Review's Charles C.W. Cooke and Michael Brendan Dougherty to talk about JD Vance's on-air showdown with ABC News' Martha Raddatz, her claim that Venezuelan gangs are only taking over some apartment complexes and not whole towns, how out of touch the corporate media is with most Americans, and more.