Posted on 11/10/2006 7:27:00 PM PST by outofstyle
"There is no connection between the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and Saddam Hussein"
So?
Everyone, (except the UN, France, Germany, and Russia because they were scamming millions from the oil-for-food-program in direct partnership w/ Saddam) thought there was a connection b/w the two.
I can care less that there was no connection, we went to war with Saddam in '91 and we should of took care of him back then but we finally took care of it after 8 years of weak Carter-like leadership under Clinton...call it delayed gratification.
Did you agree w/ those phoney sanctions that were imposed upon Saddam...where everyone got rich, including Saddam and the Iraqis continued to be tortured, starved and murdered.
And BTW Saddam's butcher-factory would've still been entrenched and the (4) corrupt regimes above would've still been making their millions off those phoney sanctions if...WE WEREN'T ATTACKED ON 9-11.
re: Conservatives cannot slink away without fighting when lies are spewed
Amen and amen!
I don't know what having "In God We Trust" on our coinage has to do with "religious...imposition of dogma on (our) society", and I certainly don't understand how we got from that to the Patriot Act, but at least you've tacitly acknowledged that there are some extremely unattractive features of Anarchatarianism. BTW, are you implacably opposed to Federal imposition of martial law and states of emergency, because, like the Patriot Act, those are temporary measures designed to protect us in times of deathly peril, though I suppose that some might refer to them as "sacrificing liberty to gain security". I think of them as proving that the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
I agree with much of what Chuck Colson says, but I also find it very strange that with Chuck Colson as one of the major players in the Watergate Scandal that he should be the one talking all about one's "character"! It's just like Senator Ted Kennedy discussing all about the wrongs of "water torture".
According to that great conservative thinker Russell Kirk, the first tenet of conservatism is the preservation of the moral order. True conservatives don't look at government as a plaything by which they can impose their latest ideas on the country; they look at political power as a guardianship, what Chesterton called the democracy of the dead. In other words, we have a debt to those who have gone before us, and the primary debt is to preserve the moral and constitutional order that our forebears fought to defend.
Moral order is too vague a phrase, it is weasel words. It isn't moral order that conservatives should preserve, but the specific order, the folkways, laws and traditions of the culture. Communists have moral order. Conservatism is irrelevant in the face of immigration so vast that it will make the "natives" a minority in their own homeland. It's a change so big that it makes conservation impossible.
If we are to survive in an age of Muslim assertiveness, is is only Conservative and Christian principles that will win the battle. Multiculturalism's a loser.
I was thinking the same thing. You are exactly right.
Not everyone has time to read or listen. They have children and jobs.
We lost to the Media. Not too the Dems or the slimy Libs.
The Media caused our losses. And I Know it for a fact.
MaxMax.
I am a conservative. My views are less effectively represented after this election. My guess is that other conservatives feel the same way. So in that sense conservatives lost. That is not the same thing as saying conservatism lost/
Yes, the liberal media was a big problem. But there has been a noticeable loss of quality leadership at the top.
We need articulate people capable of speaking and persuading people, and who know how to handle the media as Reagan did.
I like this reason better why we didn't win:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2006/11/08/the_road_not_taken__forfeiting_a_majority
And then sit back and say republicans deserved to lose.
I see hypocrites here, but not the people who voted republican, the ones who sat home and are now gloating.
Even God fearing people sometimes don't think or vote smart. I think there were at least some of those type people who had an impact on this election. The question now is What are we going to do about it moving forward.
Also worth mentioning is that we gave them cannon fodder as a direct target.
Unless we redirect our party from being fodder for the media,
we'll never take back the House or Senate.
They get away with murder, and we run away like punks for
throwing stones at a girls window.
Or (God forbid) a pages window.
The Republican party is a party of punks!
Imagine the kid in school who couldn't take a joke. What happens?
Everybody piles on and jokes on the kid for life.
Remember that person at work who couldn't take a joke? Either they caught on
or QUIT!
The media is treating us as the party who quits for walking into a WALL!
All while the bully pulpit (MEDIA) keeps drumming on.
/Salute
MaxMax.
They want their influence to count so they make demands that cannot be met and then withdraw their 'favors'. (votes)
Our President did not deserve this, our troops did not deserve this, and our allies did not deserve this tantrum.
BUMP!
You're up late, young lady.
But it seems to me, in the body of the piece, the author is saying that conservative leaders were hypocritical which is the reason they lost the election for themselves and the rest of us. I believe it is more accurate to propose that Republicans leaders in general, some of whom may be conservative, were hypocritical and lost the election for the rest of us, if you are going to make the argument to begin with.
Yep, the squishy middle. We always vote GOP, the left always votes dem, with few exceptions. This isn't one of them.
Fence sitters listened to incessant bad news from the media, tired of war in Iraq, and tired of high gas prices, even though they had come down quite a bit.
We always have to play to the fence sitters, and this time lost that battle. Stupid fence sitters...
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