Posted on 03/11/2005 6:25:36 AM PST by areafiftyone
Heh heh heh. Who needs the MSM? :)
True - when we have bunny slippers and PJ's who the heck needs the MSM ;-)
Fox and Friends this morning was NON-STOP Michael Jackson. The only thing that was worth watching was the parody their cameraman did about Michael Jackson walking into court yesterday. It was hilarious!
Well come on!! They don't have anymore Peterson stuff to go on and Martha Watch is dying down. So you've got to go with what you got. If that's a mid-40s no talent musician that shows up to court in his PJs to face a boy that is accusing him of child molestation, that's what they've got to talk about. Think the drawback about 24 hour news stations is they realize they have finally run out of things to talk about. Heck, some nights find myself watching the nature shows on MSNBC. At least it's something besides how many ways can we describe the same situation every hour
"When exactly did the switch happen that to be called conservative one had to quit calling for limited government only to be replaced with a feeling of false nationalism? 'Spreading democracy' isn't a conservative function."
Huh? Where did that come from? Not my post, I'm sure.
By the way, haven't seen you on the local lately.
No not from your post. However, it's just a general underlying feeling I've seen of late in Republican circles, even on this thread. Support the administration's actions without valid reasoning. And one of those excuses has been the excuse of WMDs which plainly did not exist as we were told
We can assume that Charles Duelfer along with Hans Blitz were in on the fix also. The United Nations is corrupt in all things, this should also put the 9/11 Commission on notice - Jamie Gorlick was a shill; who else was working for Aziz on that infamous committee?
'Spreading democracy' isn't a conservative function.
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When did conservative stop being about defending freedom and defeating tyranny wherever it rears its ugly head, and start being about bitchin' and moanin' about 'spreading democracy'? You talk as if that democracy spreading is a bad thing.
Well, if you're a liberal it is a bad thing. Now, if you're spreading COMMUNISM...
Why don't you look to these two men? Conservatives actually look to the words of what the Framers said instead of invoking their names for unconstitutional actions
The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.You support continuance of Wilsonian nation building? Fine. Just don't call yourself conservativeOur detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? --Washington's Farewell Address
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force....
She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.... --John Quincy Adams
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