Amen.
Posted on 06/08/2008 6:37:34 AM PDT by vietvet67
These themes appealed to a much broader audience than racist white Southerners. In 1968, concern over the growing power of Washington bureaucrats, the rising crime rate, and riots on college campuses and at national political conventions was rising throughout the nation.
By the way, in his book The Winning Side--The Case For Goldwater Republicanism (Putnam's, 1963), Ralph de Toledano provided evidence that in the South, white racists tended to vote for Democrats, while a growing, nonracist conservative element was increasingly voting Republican.
But I’m not quite so ready to live in that toilet while waiting for the great revival as some on this site seem to be.
It’s hard to enjoy shouting ‘I told you so, while floating around with t**ds.
Those are slow, academic cures that won't appeal in the political arena to voters who demand instant solutions. Democrats have no moral issues with lying about the supposedly immediate effects of their proposals (usually, tax increases on people the public dislikes, anyway) so they get the votes.
Someone forgot the “barf alert”...
I agree, and it goes much beyond that, as well. Surely the labor movement in the north and east was a prime mover in driving the leftist agenda toward identity politics and that was the era of “right to work “ laws and opposition to closed shops, union shops, etc. in the south.
‘Upon further review’.
McCain thinks Lieberman is a Conservative. Conservatives haven’t disappeared they are just reinventing themselves as McCain supporters.
Perdogg: “I do not believe the Govt should be there to pick up people after they have screwed up their own life. Therefore, my beliefs cannot be characterize as “liberalism”.”
Thanks for the clarification. Realize that liberty cannot be maintained without individual morality. So, even though you and others believe government shouldn’t bail out immoral or irresponsible people, your numbers are dwarfed by those who want government to protect them from their own mistakes. That is why libertarianism cannot work. The closest we ever had to achieving something like it was in the past when Americans were more Christian. That is why you’ll find many of the older conservatives, while not necessarily religious themselves, greatly respected and encouraged the Christianity that modern libertarians seem to fear. Believe me or not, but the greatest threat to your liberty comes from the left.
No, not dead or resting. Restless, maybe. Pissed off, definitely.
What we are lacking is someone to lead and inspire. Someone to steel the spines of those who are willing to vote for McCain and sell out the Republican party.
Arkinsaw: “There is nothing to be afraid of, most conservative principles stand up very well in a debate if you properly arm yourself with logic.”
What you say is true. Nearly every conservative principle can be well defended on logic. However, it’s a mistake to assume logic is all that’s involved. For every argument, the left has a counter argument. You make a point, they make a point. At some point, the discussion ends with neither side being persuaded. Why? Because the debate was never just about cold, hard facts.
Also, I completely disagree that religious arguments are irrational or not based on logic. In fact, my faith in Christ would not exist had I not read the Bible and reached the intellectual conclusion that #1 it’s an accurate and credible depiction of man’s interactions with God, #2 Christ’s wisdom and teachings are true based on my own observations of the world and the people in it, and #3 if it’s true (and I believe it is) then I’m compelled to act on it.
Maybe we need to form a new party. Make the Repubs court our vote. Elect a farm team of state and local politicians to draw on for future Congresscritter slots.
Any leader put up for examination will be dissected and reduced to trash within a few weeks.
The party is dysfunctional and vanity rules. It has devoured it's self. It must be completely rebuilt from the ground up.
The up coming election will serve to begin that process. Where it goes from there, and how long it takes will be difficult to predict, so I won't and can't say.
I'm still laughing after reading that.....
The very fact that they shoved McCain in your face should tell you something.
LOL!
You oviously can’t see past the end of your nose. If conservatives were not part of the Republican party we could not be taken for granted. If a real Conservative had been running in a real Conservative Party, McCain might not have made it. Even if he were the GOP nominee we would still have someone to vote for. Who you going to vote for now?
Amen.
Wasn’t it Huckabee who said that he wanted to make “God’s law” our law?
I don’t know if he did or not, but either way it wouldn’t be a theocracy. Which theological position do you want our laws based on? The insistence that laws not be based on some religion is still equally theocratic.
Just think - we coulda had Mitt - but noooooooo, wasted days and wasted nights waiting for another Ronny.
Would Mitt have been an improvement over McCain? I’m not sure.
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