[goldstategop]

Guess who have been the biggest proponents of more entitlements and big government, you'd have guess the Democrats, right? WRONG! Its Republicans who have been pushing for entitlements to every one from Wall Street bankers to middle class homeowners pressed with the looming threat of foreclosure. All in a pursuit of votes and its hard to scare the vox populi with threats of socialism and big government when you are the one advocating more of it. When enough Americans get their share of the entitlement hog, they won't want to get off from it. The Nanny State will prove so addictive, its going be very difficult to preserve the traditional American ideal of self-reliance and individual liberty that characterize the essence of American exceptionalism.

"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

[Outlaw Woman]

“Those with the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening” Ronald Reagan 10/27/64

[ari-freedom]

it’s not just about socialism. Republicans were supposed to be about strength and Bush gave us “Islam is a religion of peace.” McCain couldn’t even go after Obama’s connection to Jeremiah Wright. How can we expect you to deal with Iran and Putin if you can’t even stand up to a metrosexual junior senator?

[baa39]

Center-right? We’re not even center-left! Seems like the entire country except for a few “redneck” hold-outs and those on FR are virtually Communists....yet they will be shocked when we have gulags, free speech silenced and our cars confiscated by the govt.

[TAdams8591]

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[Christian4Bush]

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[nutmeg]

Article by Mark Steyn. Excerpt:

“Give me liberty or give me death!”

“Live free or die!”

What's that? Oh, don't mind me. I'm just trying out slogans for the 2012 campaign and seeing which one would get the biggest laughs.

My Republican friends are now saying, oh, not to worry, look at the exit polls, this is still a “center-right” country. Americans didn't vote to go left, they voted to go cool. It was a Dancing With The Stars election: Obama's a star and everyone wants to dance with him. It doesn't mean they're suddenly gung-ho for left-wingery.

[avenir]

I am glad Mark Steyn is around to elegantly describe the decline of America. Once completely fallen I bet he’d be a lot of fun while we’re all huddled around a campfire!

[metesky]

Years ago I used to say as a joke, "We're all on work release in "The Big Camp" now.

It is no longer a joke...

[Perdogg]

This what I wrote on May 11th, 2008

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2014469/posts

“If Hilabama is elected, they will go to great lengths ensuring that they will never be out of power. They will leave no dime unspent in their pursuit of unabated democrat rule.”

[foreverfree]

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[fightinJAG]

I disagree with my fellow conservatives who think the Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Frank liberal behemoth will so obviously screw up that they'll be routed in two or four years' time. The President-elect's so-called “tax cut” will absolve 48 per cent of Americans from paying any federal income tax at all, while those that are left will pay more. Just under half the population will be, as Daniel Henninger pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, on the dole. By 2012, it will be more than half, and this will be an electorate where the majority of the electorate will be able to vote itself more lollipops from the minority of their compatriots still dumb enough to prioritize self-reliance, dynamism, and innovation over the sedating cocoon of the nanny state. That is the death of the American idea — which, after all, began as an economic argument: “No taxation without representation" is a great rallying cry. “No representation without taxation” has less mass appeal. For how do you tell an electorate living high off the entitlement hog that it's unsustainable and you've got to give some of it back?

This is why my tagline for a long time was:

"As Rush says: YOU NEVER WIN BY LOSING."

Incredibly, however, I still see some folks around here claiming we can win by losing.

Stuck on stupid.

[GOPJ]

And this is the “center-right” candidate? It's hard for Republicans to hammer Obama as a socialist when their own party's nationalizing the banksz and its presidential nominee is denouncing the private sector for putting profits before patriotism. That's why Joe the Plumber struck a chord: he briefly turned a one-and-a-half party election back into a two-party choice again.

Steyn see past shadows on the cave wall...

[Malesherbes]

I always read Mark Steyn with pleasure and gain, but I do disagree with his premise here.

Yes, half the population will be off the tax rolls and on the dole, but there will be one tax that will be burgeoning and hitting them hard where it hurts, one that will inflame their discontent. That tax is inflation. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

The response to the Age of Obama will be, “Man, where did this come from?”