Posted on 05/01/2007 5:18:55 AM PDT by peyton randolph
I believe she is, indeed, the most conservative Democrat candidate running. She is also the most gangsterish. Her previous co-administration featured methods more familiar to the likes of the Longs of Louisiana and Mississippi and certain famous Italian-Americans of the Northeast. That said, I believe that she would have a more concrete conservative effect. She will provoke a conservative Republican Congress after November ‘10. Edwards will be Camelot redux, the prince who can do no wrong. Obama- the great void who probably won’t do anything particularly damaging to himself. Both will retain and strengthen their left-lib Congresses. No candidate now running will successfully change the march to defeat in the Iraqi and Afghan Campaigns. The Democrats desire that defeat and the Republican will not have a military after 08 with which to engage the enemy.
That paragraph is exactly right. But it conflicts with your "ideologically pure" statement. There is a hell of a lot of room between "ideologically pure" and Ralph. How about "50% ideologically pure", which would cause a half-way sentient being to vote libertarian or stay home? No one is asking for "pure." We are asking--especially after the last 6 years--for a conservative, not a faux conservative.
Just don't get caught up in the "Bruce Bartlett is a [fill-in-the-blank expletive]". He's always been a staunch conservative, a very smart economist. In this article I don't think he's so much promoting an idea as much as he's reading the writing on the wall and trying to come up with a strategy in response to what he sees is inevitable.
I don't fault him for that. I hope he's wrong.
P.S. Most every decent conservative pundit who has ever expressed an opinion that did not comport with the establishment view have been accused of being unhinged, insane, stupid, and causing trouble RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY.
No wonder that he wanted those with a functional brain to stop reading before he pitched his moronic plan.
“In ‘92 did you have the opinion that a vote for Perot was a vote for Clinton?”
Oh yeah, no question. Still makes me sick.
I can see us going down this same path, obviously. I have stayed out of the debate so far because it’s so early in the process. Don’t think Guiliani/clinton is a foregone conclusion. Looking back, remember how long it took for bill clinton to show strength in the dem. primaries.
Gives me hope that a Conservative will step up.
Not only that, he SPEAKS what the other Dems only think.
With a name like "Bruce" I think I would equate a "politically sophisticated conservative" with a "Log Cabin Republican"
Well, if the Republican Party would stop fielding Democrats as candidates, some enthusiasm might appear.
The guy is a Libertarian and a Rooty shill that thinks the SoCons are destroying the party.
I agree with everything you said.
When Hillary is President, say hello to Supreme Court Justice Lani Guinere.
For all of Bill’s so-called “conservative” credentials, this is what lies below the surface.
After reading this first sentence, you know to ignore the rest of the article, and in the future, it’s author and publication.
1. We are 16 months out from the GE. 85% of the voters could care less about the election at this point.
2. In the last 60 days alone, we have seen major shifts in the buzz about leading candidates, as well as fund raising trends.
3. This is all media hype to create a crisis to boost sagging ratings and circulation figures.
4. No one has any idea where we or the world will be in 60 days, let alone 16 months.
yea......like “Christians for Satan”.
Bump for later...
He of course is correct and you are in denial..
No conservative can win in 2008.. even Newt or Fred..
It will take Hitlery destroying the economy for a win in 2012...
More taxes and Universal Health Care.. quite simple really..
In 1983 Reagan was getting crused by John Glenn.
Heck in mid 1988 GHW Bush was losing to Dukakis.
In 1999 GW Bush was beating Gore by 15 points.
Polls are valuable, but not this far out.
That article is one to make me lose my lunch...blecccch.....
This is perhaps THE most pathetic article I’ve read in many years.
Chickens for Colonel Sanders! per..aaaaack!
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