Posted on 09/19/2012 2:52:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
I have been accused of many things during my lifetime, but mush thinking is not one of them.
Read the post again — you know, and I know, and every poster here today reading this thread knows, that I meant one person voting twice in their own name.
Your voting for your mother is the right thing to do.
A Democrat would have voted twice for both of you.
We will get what we vote for. No matter who wins.
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The truth is what it is. Romney is a liar, he's a pro-abort, pro-gay, anti-gun MA liberal. He's evil.
Terrorists are not the most dangerous enemy faced by people who value liberty.
Fair enough. I have to admit I happen to be warming to him. I doubt that I’ll vote for him but I’ve been progressively toning down the rhetoric.
” If I recall correctly he was pulling for Chris Christie or Jeb Bush to enter the race. So, yeah, Kristol’s squishy on conservatism, “
Yes, and in 2008 Kristol was pushing for McCain. Kristol is honest and sometimes on target (eg he also has been a Palin fan AFAIK), but sometimes way off. Kristol is honest, but a neo-con and semi-con at times.
In this case, he’s not actually wrong, they were poorly worded statements, but Kristol’s comments are really unhelpful and the focus is a typical media pack hunt mentality. Focus on this while ignoring Obama saying worse than that this past week.
True, Kristol was recommending Palin long before McCain picked her. But I think he later concluded she was brought onto the national stage too soon and I don’t believe he thought she should run in 2012.
I think what Kristol is is a pragmatic conservatism. He doesn’t have a liberal ideology, but he’s more willing to compromise on principles than others would be if he thinks it would make success more realistic.
They may be afflicted with excessive comfort -- comfort with who they are, with their privileges, with their exclusivity of power within the GOP, with their knowledge of politics that, unbeknownst to them, is being obsoleted by the totalitarian Progs behind Obozo.
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt -- and we forget too quickly (with help from academe and the Quisling Media) that FDR's four administrations were crawling with traitors just as Red as anything Bozo's got -- the Left has been making structural changes to the landscape of life in America with their institutionalization of huge national executive organs that promote fecklessness and dependency and indolence in American society.
No, if you read Rush's transcript more closely, it's more likely (quoth he, and it is more likely anyway) that Kristol and the other parachuting pundits are trying to protect their stock in trade, their judgment, by pre-bailing on a loser, much the way a stock-market pundit changes his opinion when the trend begins to weaken and possibly reverse.
The whole Atlantic Slope urbanite scene is really divorcing from America -- both the people, and the idea of America. They're steeped in Hamiltonian b.s. about "empire without the King", and they don't even particularly like representative democracy.
Keep in mind, too, that Hamilton, in the last five issues or so of The Federalist, vigorously attacked the idea of a Bill of Rights. That says a lot, but it's never taught or even discussed: but here we have all around us the sequelae of Hamilton's egotistical, self-privileging worldview, and now it's shared by millions, and by a huge majority of those closest to the political centers of power.
As for what they think of the rest of us, here's a primer (and be sure to expand and have a look at the embedded links to the David Frum comments linked on his site, and to the Commentary article that kicked it all off):
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