Posted on 11/07/2008 11:13:33 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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The right-wringers, for instance, have worked in the setting where medicare and medicaid are in place, and nobody seems to seriously challenge them. Yes, they complain about additional generosity, but not the programs themselves. Meantime, the left-wingers have also adopted the importance of market. They still don't like free-market, but they in general have abandoned the central planning economy.
Nothing is 'pure' in the policies of a country such as US, except in the mind of ideologists on both sides.
Bush did his job all too well. He should have listened to the democrats and not been so assiduous in pursuing terroists. The only way half of the american public is going to wake up is when muslems are banging on their doors screaming “submit or die!”
I can’t even remember all the times I was asked why I was supporting Bush in 2004. When I said I considered nation security to be the most important issue, people laughed and said “oh, that was a one time thing, they won’t dare try it again.”
Color me amazed and I always wondered if they even realized why they could afford to feel so confident. Talk about irony.
“Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future, said during remarks at the National Press Club. “This is the end of the conservative era.”
Horse feathers. We’ve seen the end of the Big Government Republican era at the federal level, nothing more.
0bama won just 51% or so of the vote in a year that was as toxic as Chernobyl for Republicans. Prop 8 passed in uber-blue California. Republican governors continue to serve in 21 states, with the prospect of more in 2010.
The country has not lurched left as whole. They voters were just tired of the last 8 years and Dr. 0bama’s patent medicine sounded pretty good to many of them. Once they start seeing what all this new “progressive” crud is going to cost and accomplish (lots and very little), the taste won’t be so dandy.
Hitler talked about a third reich too. Didn’t happen.
They’ll overreach, or become arrogant, or somebody in their coalition will bail, and people will want more ‘change’.
It’s human nature, not politics.
I was thinking about this in regards to the "Fairness Doctrine". Since it purportedly is going to target Talk Radio and not print or television, couldn't conservatives pool their resources for a TRULY conservative television presence? I know Rush didn't necessarily translate to TV all that well, but doing so would force them to either put up or shut up on the FD, since they would either have to include CNN, MSNBS, et al or do nothing.
Save your brass, get a kit and get reloading!
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