Posted on 11/05/2008 11:30:22 AM PST by neverdem
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Excellent.
-bflr-
Conservatives have two choices: engineer a takeover of the GOP like the left's takeover of the Dem Party or start a another party. RINOs do not have the vision nor the fortitude to fight the left.
He knows damn well the next four years will not merely be “interesting.” They will be damaging.
As for Thatcher’s observation, it is proving out. There is no turning back.
He nailed it.
ah of course. Blame Bush. How original.
You’re right but the answer is NOT starting another party, as it’s this very attitude that got us here in the first place, and into trouble with disengaging from public schools and allowing William Ayers’ ilk to socialize the younger generation.
We take our kids and run off to homeschool or private school, and STILL we have to pay for their failed godless liberal NEA public schools which STILL indoctrinate children.
THEY get up in our faces while we continue to turn the other cheek. We’ll sure as the day is long lose this country by disngagement.
I think Derbyshire is assuming his readership is literate enough to know that there is a Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.”
The problem, IMO, is that the conservatives’ natural state (in general) is a less government/don’t get involved ( in govt) idea. It leaves WIDE PATHS for liberals, who are almost religious in their passion to control, to control the gears of govt, even when conservatives have the top.
What other explanation for educational policy to be so dismal, for DECADES under GOP congress or Presidents? It SHOULD be a state matter, but even in deep Red (we are going to have to change the red/blue state them now) states the engines of educations are decidedly liberal controlled.
I believe just as the Dems turned NEOCONS into a dirty word, NEO MARXIST must be the Obama phrase.
Exactly. Which is why it is so disheartening to read the fools on this site who advocate compromise at every turn. "Better half a loaf than none!" they cry, never realizing that the Dems will be back to ask for half of what we kept, then back for half of that quarter, etc. until there's nothing meaningful remaining.
I hadn't heard of Thatcher's "ratchet effect" but I've understood it intuitively for years. Sadly the Republicans have not and they've drifted slowly leftward over the years, but leftwards nonetheless. Many of the current crop of Republicans in the Congress make John F. Kennedy look like a hardcore right-winger in comparison.
Does Pres. Bush not deserve some of the blame?
How FABULOUS of you to know this!!! Fortune cookies are chock-full of literacy!!!
No thanks. I’m tired of that bandwagon and don’t wish to jump on it.
“May you live in interesting times” is a famous curse, supposedly of Chinese origin.
It is in this sense I think Derbyshire is using the word.
I hate talking out loud, but why can’t Conservatism form the equivalent of a [I can’t remmember!] group that was created to spread communism. Conservatism needs to spread and use any means as well, including forming our own Saul Alinskys. It will take more than our lifetime, but if the Left can do it, so can the Right.
See #14.
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