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I’d certainly welcome Mr. Robinson’s input. And you,Night Hides Not, say you’re a conservative but you want to enact your version of the Fairness Doctrine? When something comes along that doesn’t suit you? How hyporcitical. DD

Meghan is a force to be reckoned with. She is not the bimbo/valley girl that many on our side portray her and neither should they ignore this - Progressive Powerhouse. So what am I saying? That conservatives should sit down with her and seek to find common ground? NO!! Meghan McCain represents a new progressive wing of the Republican Party that has gone on the offensive against Conservatism. Extreme/Radical Moderates, they are. In that sense Meghan and her sort are just as much a foe as are liberal democrats. And they should be considered as such. She and her ilk have chosen this confrontational path. These intemperate and immoderate moderates started this fight and it is up to Movement Conservatives to get up out of their whimpering fetal position, stop sucking their thumbs, turn and confront. Start pushing back! If they fail to stand and fight, this Conservative Movement that Ronald Reagan and others so lovingly constructed, brick by brick, could certainly (and soon) become nothing more than a footnote in some future history book. What was once a “shining city on a hill” will appear only as distant ruins to wayfarers passing by.

Meghan McCain is, no doubt, emerging as the unabashed leader of this Movement of Radical Moderates and she doesn’t try to hide or mask her objectives: 1) separate the Republican Party from the Conservative Movement, 2) push the conservatives out and/or diminish their influence. And she is succeeding to date. For that she deserves credit and respect. Respect for her intellect that is. Not her views.

For instance, in her recent address to the Log Cabin Republicans, she does correctly point out that the GOP and Conservatives are sitting around, “waiting for the other side to be perceived as worse than us”. And that is absolutely true. The Movement Conservatives have become completely distracted. Refusing to consider getting their own dysfunctional house in order but instead continuously harping and pointing their finger at the flawed, Constitution-hating democrats. They keep telling us what we already know rather than making an effort to fix our own problems. Of which they are in deep denial about. And many problems they do have, but honestly they are not insurmountable. However, their stubborn arrogance won’t allow them to even recognize that they have a problem. So they’ve become as a dog chasing its tail.

And Meghan, like most everyone else, can see this joke of a “GOP three ring circus”. It doesn’t take some political genius. She sees it! Many of us see it. And to her credit she at least has the courage to try to offer up, with an element of passion, some Progressive solutions. She’s a progressive what else do you expect her to do?? Just so happens that her solutions (and those of others in her camp) would finish the GOP for good. These “youthful” moderates may dominate the right Blogeshpere. They may be able to set up a Facebook page. They certainly know how to Twitter deep into the wee hours of the night. But, if left unchecked, they’ll finish the demolition job that John McCain started in 2008. If Conservatives don’t “gently & lovingly” smack them down, these misguided progressives will drive away millions more of the 59.9 million that voted GOP on 11/4/08 and ruin any chance we might have of taking back one of the legislative houses on 11/2/10. Of which, for the sake of our Nation, we desperately need to do.

So, who are these “Old School Republicans” that Meghan proclaimed as “Scared S**tless”? They used to be called Reagan Democrats. Now they are the 59.9 million Civic Conservatives who held their nose and pulled the GOP lever on 11/4/08. Surely not voting “for” her progressive Dad but rather voting “against” the socialist Barrack Obama. And lets not forget about the 10-20 million who opted to “Stay at Home” rather than compromise their principles. Meghan is correct about one thing, however. They are scared. But not for themselves because, you see, they’ve made their pot of gold! They are scared for the future of Meghan and her fellow Gen Y’ers because of the destructive course these youngsters have set our Nation upon. Installing at the highest level of our government one who will punish achievers/producers, take the wealth they’ve earned and give it to the non-producers of not only our society but throughout the world. And one who will incrementally push our Constitution aside and replace it with the charter of some world governing body.

Meghan says we Old School’ers want to, “cling to past successes”. Here’s where she show’s her serious lack of maturity. Certainly it makes perfect sense to “cling” to traditions and values that have worked for millennia. Truth transcends the generations but these Gen Y’ers, in their arrogance, believe that they have evolved to some higher plane of consciousness and have gained some unique higher knowledge. Hence, they’ve concluded, that these traditions/values that have served mankind well over the centuries, no longer apply to them. They, of course, are tragically wrong and will pay a heavy and painful high price.

If this mentality begins to control the Republican Party, to put it simply, Old School Republicans will flee the party by the millions. And they will not be replaced by some hyped-up, puffed-up, overrated youth vote.

These radical moderates are loose cannons on a rolling deck, encouraged and coached by an exultant MSM. Certainly they have moderate views but what makes them extreme is this; they are absolutely enthralled with what comes out of their own mouth. “Hooked” and enticed by the attention they receive from the media. They’re in awe of their opinions and see themselves as messianic. Viewing themselves as some great leader holding the torch and pointing the way for the huddled masses. And they’re dangerous because, in essence, they are so very wrong-headed. Next to the road they’re telling us we should travel upon there’s a tattered sign that reads “Bridge Out Ahead”. Yet they continue pointing the way and, as a result, many mindless followers within the lazy GOP Hierarchy convince themselves that this is the correct path-of-least-resistance to take. Hence the momentum builds for this Movement, in its infancy, of Radical Moderates.

I have feared for a long time that the vacuum caused by the total void of leadership within the GOP would eventually suck in something impure. Meghan’s Moderates seem to be that void filling contamination. Those on the right, such as Laura Ingraham, who believe the best way to deal with a force like Meghan McCain is to make fun of her dress size….well they have blundered seriously. Meghan has brilliantly turned it around on them resulting in Ingraham and other conservative talkers drawing back a bloody stump, in shock. They’ve been made to look small as Meghan swings her substantial mallet and drives the divisive wedge still deeper between Conservatives and the Republican Party. Those who oppose Meghan McCain had best learn do so strictly on an intellectual level and cease with the childish name calling. Darvin Dowdy

Also, love all the pithy comments. Especially got a big guffaw out of the graphics. I actually liked getting zapped by the “Zot” and his ray-gun. Like Chris Matthews, it sent a tingly feeling up my leg. Ha! Is that normal? Or could that’ve been caused by the Kool-Aid? Darvin Dowdy

...the minor inefficiencies of the corn ethanol program, which I don’t deny, will be offset by the massive amounts of currency we’ll bring in from grain sales abroad. 7 billion people have to eat and they’ll pay our price. This income will help sustain our next generation. And this “is” the free market working. The world’s harping at us over our alleged green house gas emissions brought this on. It wasn’t our idea. The world created this “market force”. You know, those people who vote against us over 98% of the time at the UN? They don’t deserve to have our grain products at bargain basement prices. We’ve been running a trade deficit since as long as I can remember. We are being slowly bled out, economically. We can’t continue in that direction. This higher price of grain products will help reverse that trend. The Corn Ethanol Program must remain. DD

Does EEExtemist have a website? Blog? If not he should. DD

TO ALL:

thanks for all the absolute fantastic replies/comments. And thanks for taking the time to join in on this very important discussion.

Darvin Dowdy

Hey Bob. Lighten up. No one likes a hair splitter. I’m an opnionator (is that a word?) not a reporter. My piece is loaded w/links but for some reason they don’t show up on FR. (am I doing something wrong?help!)You can go to my site and check them all out if you desire. I want to ask a favor of you. Memorize this name: DARVIN DOWDY. If you don’t like my posts - don’t read ‘em. Simple as that. There’s a lot of good posts on FR and other places. Skip on to the next one.
But if you do decide to read and comment, all I can say is that I appreciate you taking the time to do so. DD

I hear ya’. In fact I have a post in the works on the Mexican litter problem that is also migrating north. Unless you’d like to take that one on for me. This stuff needs to be discussed. This is not about folks in the U.S. hating folks from Mexico. With a selective and controlled immigration program, we can “educate” those coming in w/regards to the do’s and don’t’s. But the way things are, well its chaos. DD

Don’t understand why but if you go to that site you can have access to all the pertaining links plus the article. DD

Another example of our weakened state. There was a time when the heathen knew better than to mess with a Christian missionary because they realized they’d pay a terrible price. Todays Christian community is so mixed up about this aspect of their responsibility. They need only look at the life of King David, a man after Gods own heart. He had no patience with the enemies of his kingdom. He dealt quickly, decisively and brutally with them when they “misbehaved”. A tactic that the Lord approved of. Now we are beginning to understand why. There is no place within Christianity for pacifism. We must break away from waging our wars in accordance with the evil U.N. Charter. We need a much stronger and aggresive military and not be afraid to use it. So that these kinds of tragic things don’t happen to our dedicated missionary’s. They have a job that needs to be done and they can’t do it because we are too cowardly and selfish to back them up. DD

How about this. Lets be optimistic. Theres some fantastic GOP candidates running. I think the upcoming GOP primaries will be the most important in our history. If we don’t nominate the right person, “then” we can start worrying. Its really up to the GOP voters. I think its a mistake, at this point, to look at those that are collecting the most money. That money won’t necessarily convert into votes. The candidate must be a pure conservative. Personally I like Duncan Hunter. And I believe he has a chance. Optimism! Chin up! Shoulders back! Hooo Rahhh! DD

Rudy could become a more attractive candidate. If he’d take a few steps. He needs to trade in his armani suit and wingtips for a pair of jeans and boots and hit the southwest U.S. border are hard and furious. Get real aggressive on the illegal immigration. Next he needs to meet w/the NRA folks. Get down on his knees and beg them for advice on what he needs to do to get an endorsement from them. Finally, he needs to meet with a Cardinal from his own Church. Get some counseling. Do some soul searching. Become a convert like Romney did.
The reason he maintains the popularity that he does is because folks know he has an aggressive, in-your-face personality and won’t be bully’d as our present regime has been. People are tired of the GOP being a continuous “door-mat” for the opposition.
Or if folks in the GOP were smart they’d recognize that there is already a “ready made” candidate just waiting for them with all of the right qualifications: www.gohunter08.com Darvin Dowdy