Posted on 10/13/2009 11:36:16 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
You’re exactly right. Which begs the question why do these people continue this farce when they will be welcomed with open arms to the conservative side? Truth be told, most Americans are conservative. It’s not reflected by the number of liberal pundits vs. the number of conservative pundits tho is it? So apparently it’s all about their jobs. These gigs are nothing more than a job to the Alan Colmes’ and the Juan Williams’ of TV. All about the money. And screw the country. Let the country be taken over by a usurper, let the Constitution be torn to shreds, as long as i get my paycheck at the end of the week!!!
Well I don’t think Liberals are Conservatives, just because they think for themselves.
The problem as I see it is this... Liberal and Conservative ideologies have both been somewhat coopted.
You see there is the underlying AMERICAN idea, which tends generally to the right side of the political spetrum than to the left, but its definately not a concept that fits firmly and fully in any political ideology.
I have no doubt in my mind that Juan and Colmes are liberals, but they are also Americans. The problem is the liberal left in america today, the radical side of it anyway is decidely anti-american in many of the positions it holds. In fact it largely defines itself by that simple fact, anti-american mainstream. Anti Judeo-Christianity, Anit-nuclear family, anti-wester civ, etc.
Certain things the radical left proposes are so demonstrably anti-american that american liberals cannot remotely buy into them, because as much as they may tend liberal in their politics they are not anti-american. This is where folks like Colmes and Juan and others look rediculous, because its so blatantly obvious they are parroting a line they don’t intellectually or morally believe.
I don’t think Colmes or Juan would fell comfortable in a conservative party, its not who they are, they are Americans, but they are not conservatives. There was a time where we look at our similarities and worked to better our nation.. today we have become so polarized by radical attacks on our core institutions that its almost impossible for someone who considers themselves a liberal and one that considers themselves a conservative to seriously talk to one another about politics.
Rational thought tells anyone whos thinking spending more debt in a few years than what the nation has created in 200+ years is crazy and wrong. Weakening the military that protects the globe is wrong, etc etc etc. Where do you think these social countries get the $$ to spend on their social programs? They have non existent militaries because they know they live under the protection of our military... If our military is weakened, and they must defend themselves, those social programs can no longer be afforded. etc etc etc.
The common American Exceptionalism that defines us, is common to all americans, its being indoctrinated out by those on the far left because they don’t want that commonality to exist, as long as it exists, they cannot accomplish their goals. The far right takes things to overly extremes as well, while rugged individualism is a valiant and admirable trait, no man is an island either. One cannot simply do what one wants all times no matter what, that’s anarchy and not a good thing either.
The problem with the left today is they are being run completely and utterly by the absolutely radical fringe left, they completley control the DNC and the party at this point.. They allow no dissent, and that is at the end of the day why they will collapse next year.
Yeah, ok i hear you. They don’t have to buy into the conservative mind set totally. But they don’t have to lie and act like they buy 100% into the liberal mindset either. Just be intellectually honest. How bout that? But no! They aren’t so marketable to CNN or MSNBC or even Fox unless they play the crazy full on liberal kook thing.
Nobody thinks exactly perfectly 100% conservative on all things and the same for liberalism. There is a whole bunch of gray area in between and all i’m asking is for people if they’re gonna talk on TV to just be honest. If you’re a liberal, but there’s a liberal idea you don’t agree with, why not let the guy say so? Why not let the conservative talking head agree with a liberal idea? But no, it’s gotta be all this crazy drama all day long.
Well this is where I catch hell on Here and other places, when a lib does something right, I have no problem cheering them for it.
For example, what the national banks and credit card companies have been doing for decades has been abjectly criminal and immorral, it is right that the government reel in this craziness as one of the things this administration has been doing. I catch hell from folks on here for that statement but its true.
Bush should not have said “wall street got drunk” to a private group behind closed doors when talking about the economic problems that NY has wrought on the world, he should have stood up and said it flat out to the american people because IT’S THE TRUTH!
This political crapola that the CRA created the housing bubble is political rhetoric and has nothing to do with it. The CRA has nothing to do with Koreans buying US mortgage papers as such a rate that everyone wanted in on the action... But for the conservative Market uber all types it speaks the storyline they want to tell.
Banks weren’t being forced to write trillions upon trillions of bad loans by the gubment, they were doing it out of pure old greed. There were buyers willing to buy that paper, and they lost all sense of moral imperative to their lending practices to get some of that action.
Was the losening of the CRA guidelines a wise thing? Nope, but it has nothing to do with the problem that was set up by nearly a decade of absolute cavalier lending.
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