[Political Junkie Too]

Has Levin addressed the arguments in the Flight 93 Election essay? The author put out a Restatement on Flight 93 to rebut critics. He basically says that conservativism is dead if measured by successes, and it's time to do something else fast.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Levin's knucklehead is Alex Marlow.

I posted this to the Limbaugh thread this morning.

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I heard an interesting opinion from Alex Marlow on Breitbart Radio this morning arguing that the maternity leave program really IS a conservative principle because government should properly be encouraging citizens to have more babies so the nation can survive.

Marlow suggested that women are waiting until their mid-forties and six-figure incomes before having children, and this contributes to the nation reproducing below the replacement rate. He said that anything that helps families to have children sooner is a good thing.

Marlow did acknowledge that it would make government bigger, hence the conservative conflict, but he felt this was legitimate and necessary to protect the nation's identity as opposed to Italy, for example, which is only at a 1.1% replacement rate.

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-PJ

[TomGuy]

The problem with ‘conservatism/conservatives’ is that it has been co-opted by too many and has devolved into too many flavors, sort of like what happened with the tea party movement.

Most Republicans claim to be ‘conservative’ of some sort, especially around reelection time. They just create their own name for their own version of what they claim ‘conservatism’ to be.

It has become a Republican ‘litmus test’ word they have to invoke, like they do with ‘Reagan’ on occasion.