Posted on 06/02/2010 8:51:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. would approve of the tea party movement, says conservative historian Lee Edwards, who just finished a book about Buckley.
Bill Buckley embodied the idea of blending the main streams of conservatism traditional conservatives, libertarian conservatives, social conservatives, neo-conservatives, national security conservatives and so forth, Edwards told Newsmax.TV.
He always said politics is a matter of addition not subtraction. I think he would reach out with open arms to the tea party movement.
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Edwards sees many similarities between the tea partyers and Buckley. They both are/were anti-establishment; they both support(ed) limited government, for example.
And just as not all tea partyers are Republicans, Bill Buckley was very careful about choosing Republicans as the main political vehicle, but maintaining good relationships with Democrats like Joe Lieberman, Edwards said.
His book is William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement. Edwards is a distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
And how would Buckley unite conservatives to victory in todays political climate?
First, He would make sure there are no extremists, as when he said there was no room for the John Birch Society in the conservative movement of the 1950s-60s, Edwards said. That groups founder Robert Welch said communists made up 50-70 percent of the U.S. government.
In addition, Buckley would counsel against engaging in ad hominem personal attacks, Edward said.
Stick to ideas. Bring people together around the basic ideas of conservatism limited government, individual responsibility, free enterprise.
President Obama, who is trying to turn us into a European democratic-socialist society, presents the conservative movement with the biggest challenge of its 50-60 year existence, Edwards says.(continued)
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It's awfully convenient for you to omit the rest of Paul's remarks about Obama, specifically that he was not a socialist but a corporatist (just as bad).
First: if a bunch of racists join a Tea Party protest, does that make the Tea Party racist?
No.
Similarly, a bunch of “truthers” joined the ranks of Rep. Paul supporters in the 2008 elections, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that Rep. Paul himself endorsed their beliefs regarding 9/11.
So unless you can provide direct, verifiable quotes from Rep. Paul in which he has said that U.S. government employees (or other agents acting on the behalf of the U.S. government) perpetrated the despicable acts of 9/11, you’ve got nothing.
Second: you can post Photoshopped images all day long, but at the end of the day, they are nothing more than personal propaganda pieces.
You know what, about three months ago folks around her still thought Sarah could walk on water. Now that she’s up to her eye-balls in mud, they’re having a real hard time convincing everyone she’s still on the top of the water.
Folks just aren’t buying it any longer. These idiotic RINO enablers finally had to go off to their own splinter group forum so nobody would challenge them, and they could claim they were real Conservatives, in silence. Why, because no real Conservatives were there.
What vested interest would you and I have for calling Sarah a RINO for backing John McCain? Is it good to back John McCain? No. Of course not, but if you say it’s not good, you’re a Palin hater. That just borders on mental incompetence IMO. The only other explanation is that folks were being paid or were so damned stupid they would act like this without payment. And if they’re paid or that damned stupid, then leaving was the best thing.
Conservative tenets are sound. If we won’t sell them who will? If we won’t back sound candidates, who will?
I am flabbergasted to watch people claim to be Conservative, then back a guy who rubs shoulders with Democrats most of the time. A good portion of Obama’s agenda is the McCain agenda.
You explain this to folks and they melt down. “Oh, don’t say that about our guy.” Or, “Oh, I know McCain is the worst Repbulican on record, but it’s not a bad think to back him to go back to Washington, D.C. for another six years. We can get rid of him then.” Ahhhhhh..., what the hell is the problem with getting rid of him now?
If Sarah thinks she can’t get elected without McCain, what does that tell you? It tells me she’s no better than he is.
I’m not in favor of him getting six years, and at this point I’m not in favor of her getting four.
RINOs flock together because their birds of a feather.
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