You want to see what happens if we revive “Compassionate Conservatism”? Look at New York City circa 1968 through 1976, when it was bearing the full brunt of Compassionate Conservatism. Only in those days it was called “Rockefeller Republicanism.” It didn’t work then, it didn’t work under George Bush Sr. and it didn’t work under George Bush Jr. It just blew up the deficit.
Ya, and lets have more “Compassionate wars” where we go down the dusty alleys of Ustinkistan kicking down doors for 10 years.
Yes. But no Bushes!
And first get the race-grievance industry, the Obama-Holder demagogues, and the MSM employees to speak truths; to wit,
the quote below has been in FR several times with sources. Has anyone stats that show St. Louis is alone in this? That no other city with numbers like those?
Would the Huffington Post allow this if there was some way to refute it?
President Obama's Elevator (Update)
Here's what Dr. King had to say about crime within the black community in 1961, and the general situation is still true today:
Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible for 58 percent of its crimes? We've got to face that. And we've got to do something about our moral standards. We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world, too. We can't keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.I didn't find the quote on my own. Jason L. Riley at the Wall Street Journal found it for his excellent July 15 article: "Race, Politics and the Zimmerman Trial." After he published, he was accused of making it up.
Riley wrote a follow-up on July 18 citing the quote's source: "A James Baldwin profile of King that appeared in a 1961 issue of Harper's Magazine. I was a little taken aback by the accusation, and not just because the Harper's piece can be located and read without too much effort via Google."
Riley's accusers "apparently just couldn't believe that the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders used to speak this way about problems in the black community and the role of personal responsibility."
Here's more truth
True statistics (both police records and surveys) here:
Take anything they write with a grain of salt. It will all be infected with an unhealthy dose of JEB-itis.
The idea that more government spending is the answer is ludicrous
It has to be the real type of compassion, that doesn’t pull punches in stating what is shameful.
You mean liberal lite? Been there, done that, failed miserably!!! This time, let`s just try just the Conservatism!
Compassionate Conservatism?
Isn’t THAT how we got here?