"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
As we say in N.Y. aw, shat up!
These Neo-cons are nothing but girly men!
What Barnes is showing is classical lack of sand in his ideological bucket, Barnes was a Free Trade Cheerleader, a Amnesty Gopher and a Bushian Hawk.
No problems with that, however, if our ideas lead to prosperity, if low taxes, trade, low regulations and Social Conservatism lead to the Wealth Effect, then the Dhimmicrat ideas do not.
The implementation of the Dhimmcrat Ideas must fail if that paradigm is true, and I believe it to be true.
Unionization will lead to small businesses shuttering, or moving to less unionized states, that will create economic problems in the areas they vacated, now that merely has to play out in the Real World.
Yet Barnes is waving the white flag already, lion heart that one...