COMMENTARY: The Huckabee Phenomenon and the fall of the old 'religious right'

Catholic Online ^ | 1/4/2008

[11th_VA]

LOS ANGELES (Catholic Online) - First, it was Larry Sabato and then it was Rush Limbaugh. Sabato is the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics of the Center for Politics at the University of at the University of Virginia.

[unspun]

Progressivism was far more than anti-trust, it was the origin of the regulatory state, and the maze of extra legal bureaucratic controls which are leading to every move we make being controlled by the government.

Yeah, fine point. But I said I was referring to having a check on corporate manipulation of the market.

[durasell]

A nation is judged by its laws.

[Polybius]

.... authorize the President of the United States to ignore the Constitution of the United States, the laws passed by Congress, the rulings of the Courts, and the will of the people to use any force, including deadly force, he desires to do anything he thinks is morally right?

"Got a problem with that?"

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If you look at my homepage I said I considered him to be someone who was led by good motives to a terrible result. Some folks on this thread seem to want a President rather like the Emperor Constantine: a Christian autocrat.

[Polybius]

If you look at my homepage I said I considered him to be someone who was led by good motives to a terrible result.

No personal inference intended. Just thought you might enjoy the denarius. It was issued in 54 BC by the mint magistrate Q. Pompeius Rufus, son of Cornelia, the daughter of Sulla.

Some folks on this thread seem to want a President rather like the Emperor Constantine: a Christian autocrat.

Actually, the situation would be much worse. With Constantine, once he established authority, the political situation was heavily in his favor so thing were relatively peaceful.

The Red-Blue divide in the U.S. today is pretty close to 50-50. If we resort to autocrats imposing their moral will by brute force with the Rule of Law, we would have a replay of late Roman Republic with an alternating cycle of Sullan and Marian bloodbaths.