Posted on 09/22/2006 8:59:03 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Seven prominent conservative writers turned up in The Washington Monthly magazine almost begging Democrats and voters to put a spineless, incompetent Republican Congress out of its misery.
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Time For Us To Go. Conservatives on why the GOP should lose in 2006.
Now seven prominent conservatives dare to speak the unspeakable: They hope the Republicans lose in 2006. Well, let’s be diplomatic and say they’d prefer divided government—soon. (Perhaps that formulation will fool Dennis Hastert.) Of course, all of them wish for the long-term health of conservatism, and most are loyal to the GOP. What they also believe, however, is that even if a Speaker Pelosi looms in the wings, sometimes the best remedy for a party gone astray is to give it a session in the time-out chair.
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Well, any conservative who thinks we will be better off with Speaker Pelosi is off their rocker.
If we weren't at war, I would be very tempted to wish that the Republicans had a two year stay in the desert.
People who think that you win by losing are so Kerryesque.
I must not read enough.
And the near death of several SC justices. Whatever you think of the RINO's, a Democrat house will only make it worse, not cure it.
I'd just soon see those seven go down and register as Dems right now, at least they'd be honest.
For them to list Joe Scarborough as a conservative is laughable. I wonder how much of a bonus he got from MSNBC to write that piece. He's already sold his soul to them with his program, this must be overtime pay for him.
The shallow thinkers award should go to the 7 shallow thinkers.
Conservatives turn to ... Democrats? ratmedia turning to drugs?
When the GOP base sees traitors like this wishing for a Pelosi lead House they become angry and vote in masses.
Cancel your subscription to NATIONAL REVIEW, I did last week.
Jonah Goldberg is a QUISLING traitor.
"Conservatives turn to ... Democrats?"
Out of the frying pan into the fire? I think not.
I am new here but I like your post. The way I feel about it is to try and not let side issues distract from the job at hand, no matter how I personally feel about those side issues.
The job at hand for everyone that considers themselves a conservative, no matter how ticked you are at the Republican party, is the destruction of the Democrats.
One of my favorites, posted by quidnunc:
Message to Death Wish Republicans: You Can't Win By Losing
by Michael Medved
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698407/posts
"First, and most importantly, the idea that Republicans can benefit from making the country suffer under Democratic misrule is disgusting, selfish, idiotic and unpatriotic. Can there be any more revolting example of putting partisan advantage over the national welfare? Anyone who seriously believes that it's worth damaging the nation to bring about future political gain is not only a fool, but the sort of traitorous fanatic who should never be trusted in responsible positions.
Consider for a moment the real example of Jimmy Carter, so beloved of Death Wish Republicans. Under his watch, the Soviets invaded Aghanistan (beginning a nightware from which we still haven't awakened), the Communist Sandinistas seized Nicaragua, and the Islamo-Nazi Mullahs deposed the Shah (with Carter's cooperation) and installed the fanatical regime that still threatens the world today. On the domestic front, Carter launched vast new governmental programs (including the utterly unnecessary new cabinet departments of Energy and Education) that neither Ronald Reagan nor any subsequent president has managed to eliminate. In other words, the appallingly inept Georgian did permanent damage to the country, both domestically and in foreign policy, from which all Americans still suffer, but the political gain for the GOP was merely temporary: by 1986, a mere six years after Carter left office, the Dems had regained control of the Senate and just six years after that they took back the White House (for two terms of Clinton). You can't build a successful political movement for the long term on the idea that you're going to turn over power to your opponents so they will proceed to wreck the country."
Joe Scarbough is a self-serving weasel who has been in the Beltway Bubble so long he thinks like John McQuisling. I think he has asperations for the Presidency himself, and believes he can accomplish it via a McQuisling "straight-talk" express approach.
I don't think Joe is crazy enough to think he could be President. I think he just likes being on TV and getting invited to the good parties in DC.
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