Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, June 20, 2011

Huntsman and the Republican Civil War

Commentary By Ron Beasley


The Republican media created the Tea Party and the movers and shakers of the party don't like where things are going.


John Huntsman is getting a lot of exposure.  David Frum:



I was one of 36 people to cast a straw poll ballot for Jon Huntsman at this year�s Conservative Policy Action Conference and, like a lot of other reform-minded Republicans, I admire his concern about the environment and his modern views on social issues (although I�m glad he�s pro-life).


The thing that makes me happiest about his entry into the race, however, is the fact that he offers Republicans a second candidate (the first is Mitt Romney) who has shown he knows how to run a government.



The beltway talking heads love him - he's conservative but doesn't come across a bat shit crazy.  He's a Mitt Romney without a massive record of flip flops on nearly everything.  He is running for president but not in 2012.  The power brokers in the Republican party are looking ahead to 2016.  While Romney has the best chance of beating Obama there is still a good chance he couldn't.  For the sane Republicans this would be a disaster - still more of he lost because he wasn't crazy conservative enough.  What the Republican power brokers want in 2012 is a bat shit crazy tea party endorsed candidate who will lose the general election by a big margin.  Bachman fits the bill but look for them to trying to sell the moronic Texas governor Rick Perry. 


Obama has an advantage in 2012 as an incumbent but even more important may be the fact that the people in Ohio and Florida elected Republican  governors in 2010 that are already despised.




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