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You Say You Want a Revolution? We’d all love to see the plan.
National Review Online ^ | Septmber 10, 2014 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 09/13/2014 4:35:28 PM PDT by No One Special

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To: No One Special
I am so old that I can remember when National Review was a conservative magazine and not a fortnightly apology for the despicable likes of the US Chamber of Crony Socialism and a serial liar like Mitt Romney.

If the GOP wants to win elections it will have to nominate candidates WORTH voting for in their own right.

Kevin Williamson, by this article, proves himself an incurable airhead and a counterfeit "conservative." Bil Buckley would be soooooo ashamed. More likely, Williamson and others of his ilk would be fired.

21 posted on 09/13/2014 9:33:06 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Roast 'em Danno!)
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...write in Donald Duck if the Republicans should be so crass as to expect them to go to the polls in support of . . . Mitch McConnell, or Marco Rubio, or Rick Perry, or Ted Cruz, or Chris Christie.

Clearly the author does not understand the degree of disaffection toward the establishment GOP that would motivate conservatives to do precisely that. It is not simple stubbornness, it is the complete loss in faith that the difference between the two parties is anything other than the difference between a swift and a slow poison. That's a few dimes, to be sure, but not a dollar's worth.

Barack Hussein 0bama and his merry band of crooks, racists, and bullies, are not moderates, they are not compromise candidates, they are not bipartisan, and yet they occupy the highest reaches of power. The counter to that is not a smirking chumship. These people are at war with the country and have behaved in that way, perhaps the only honest thing about them.

The truth is that pandering to the media or to the racial or economic pressure groups that constitute the backbone of the Democrat party is futile and counterproductive. We are not going to win these people over. They have to be defeated, to the degree to which it becomes they, and not we, who will be reaching out for common ground. We saw in the brutal, partisan imposition of 0bamacare how they intend to operate, where they have attempted to set the bar. To accept that as the new baseline, which all of the candidates mentioned with the exception of Cruz appear willing to do, is to accept a creeping surrender. No more.

22 posted on 09/13/2014 9:52:11 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: QuisCustodiet1776

Maybe so eventually, but first let’s use the peaceful means our framers bequeathed to us, through an Article V state convention to propose structural amendments to the constitution.


23 posted on 09/14/2014 1:21:46 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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People are not ready for the solution. Despite the millions of people facing a multitude of problems, there are still millions more with too much to lose. It is why things have descended as far as they have. When enough people lose too much they will be willing to do what is necessary to restore their birthright. Liberty.


24 posted on 09/14/2014 11:15:34 AM PDT by TheArizona
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It’s over. There is no possibility of a political solution. We are outnumbered and that is a permanent position.

We either take power violently or power will be violently taken over us.


25 posted on 09/14/2014 12:59:53 PM PDT by QuisCustodiet1776 (Live free or die.)
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