Posted on 08/04/2006 3:06:23 PM PDT by pissant
As we all know, spending time here on FR, we recognize that there are various opinions about what makes a great conservative or what it means to be a true conservative. But like in Baseball, one does not get to the hall of fame unless enough of the sportsfans and writers think that person deserving after performing great deeds in his career. So here is the place to decide who gets to be in the Conservative Icon Hall of Fame.
I shall kick it off with my unimpeachable list (so don't try impeaching it...lol).
Cheers and happy friday to all.
She was extremely pleasant and argued for the conservative side very well.
And Sam Adams really was a brewer. A very noble profession.
Drinking or making?
...both of course....I have experience in both...but I only do one well.....*drinking*
I was getting pretty good at teh making part about 15 years ago. But it was time consuming, and i only had time fr one or the other. I chose wisely.
All true. I just question the Conservative tag.
:)
Maybe not for his era. I'd be more than happy to live under the scope of gov't he saw fit, versus what politicians today think is proper for the feds to screw around with
You don't have to trust him any more than I trust WFB today. Just look at the breakthrough he gave to the GOP and conservatism in 1994 and, despite some of his personal failings, the GOP has held the House ever since.
I'm not endorsing him in '08 or anything of the sort, merely acknowledging what he accomplished in the 1980s and 1990s. Remember Bob Michels, the GOP minority leader before Newt? He was as gutless as Trent Lott. Newt got the job and immediately worked to change the way the party behaved in the House and that led to the 1994 sea change we still enjoy today.
Yes, he's been a disappointment ever since impeachment failed. But that doesn't mean he wasn't a principal conservative in the revolution.
One thing is true of all five of these men. The MSM hated and villified all of them (except Buckley whom they most sneered at and ignored). It takes an awfully principled man to stand up to the blistering relentless attacks from the left. All, in their own way, took the arrows for the rest of us because they stood firm, at least for a significant time.
Yes, Newt has done some very admirable things. But getting played like a yo-yo by Clinton was not one.
It also says alot about her that everyone who knew her was very fond of her, even her adversaries (well, maybe not hillary)
BTW, what the heck are you doing up???
Check your freepmail and I'll tell ya ;)
My freepmail is down, you'll jus haveta explain later, since I'm gonna go saw some serious logs.
Adios.
Have a good weekend!
Not much for an argument here, but i agree with every single name mentioned, including the obvious additions of Rush and Newt -- hey even if you don't agree with EVERY thing newt ever did, he still deserves inclusion into the Hall Of Fame.
In the Music Wing...
Toby Keith -- Angry American
Merle Haggard -- Okie From Muskogie
Ted Nuggent
Anita Bryant -- blackballed from public life, for speaking against gays.
And no one seems to have mentioned the most important woman of the 20th century, and the person who single-handedly torpedoed the Equal Rights Amendment -- Phyllis Schaffly.
If hillary runs in 08, people will hear of Barbara Olson's work again -- you're right.
OR if her husband, Ted, is nominated for the Supreme Court -- Which would be excellent!
Not in the sense that a Conservative sought to preserve the status quo. Hayek recognized that his own theories were revoloutionary for the time period and that the status quo was slipping towards socialism.
Not sure I would go with Marshall. He did a lot of damage.
Rich Ward
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