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Everything I've been feeling since the Autumn of 2008 expressed in a single sentence. Brilliant.
The guy was probably never a conservative to begin with.
Never heard of posner either.
So I guess he’s an intellectual elitist. I bet he likes Olympia Snowe and that ilk
Bye bye Posner...Hope I don’t hear from you for some time...
In his mind, the golden age of conservatism was the Clinton Administration.
The writer of this peice is no Conservative IMHO.
Mixing half truthes with liberal babble does not fool me.
Generally, I’m in agreement. Conservatism and personal responsibility are a hard sell when people are feeling vulnerable. That touchy-feely, warm-fuzzy message of the Democrats is heady wine for malleable morons. We’ve turned the corner in this country. We are clearly in decline; morally, culturally, spiritually, economically, and politically. A clear majority of the idiots who now vote are immersed in a herd like mentality. It was a great ride, but it’s basically over. When a totally manufactured nonentity like Obama can be elected President of this former Republic it’s over, believe me. And he has a wife who wears $400.00 Lanvin tennis shoes! The irony. Imagine, the Vanguard of the Proletariat wearing $400.00 shoes.
How refreshing....NOT!
It is faltering. We don’t have conservatives running the party like real leaders. We have these flaccid country clubbers who don’t want to dirty their delicate hands and start taking charge. There’s no zeal or real passion to make a better country.
Before the sixties we had Eisenhower, Lincoln, really decisive men who understood the concept of win or lose. McCain is too old and we have to open ranks more, stop treating the party like a union or cocktail party.
We need to run it like a business, you either contribute, meet certain standards, and prove yourself, get votes and pound pavement.
The Democrats run their party according to their temperments, they’re out to win and we’re not.
If conservatives ran their personal businesses like they do the party, they wouldn’t be successful. We are zealous when it comes to our personal lives, but not in public.
Admittedly both parties were more civilized and didn’t resort to blackmail or personal attacks and the presidential candidates were usually better credentialed and did come from hardworking backgrounds that did connect them with the common man.
But it isn’t like that anymore unfortunately and the Republicans have got to open the door more. The Democrats win because they take anyone who can contribute anything.
We don’t try new things or take bold steps. We don’t strategize. Democrats more likely than not started cruising and vetting potential candidates after ‘04 and realized that Kerry failed because he was too freakin’ effete. Obama is easily identifiable with someone who went from little to big, no matter how much AA he enjoyed.
McCain did the same, but he didn’t take initiative when Obama inadvertantly handed him chance after chance after chance. Then the stupid Republicans started getting divided while the Democrats closed in and no matter what, did all they could to get Obama through.
What we have to do is start small, state by state by actively implementing tax reduction policies and make damn sure the public knows about it. Zero is handing us disaffected voters by the dozen and we better not blow this chance.
We expected McCain’s credentials to carry him through, they would have too in normal circumstances, but these weren’t normal circumstances.
We need to be ruthless politically like we are in the business world.
What an idiot. Hillary's attempt to communize health care, an orgy of affirmative action in Clinton's administration (so it would "look like America"), and appointment of an ACLU hack to the Supreme Court were "conservative policies"?
I’m just getting warmed up!
Fortunately, his analysis has more holes in it than a cheese grater.