Posted on 11/08/2008 11:40:01 PM PST by Nachum
While I don’t agree with P.J. on everything he writes here, but I do admire the way he writes it!
Instead of leading, we still needed a bogey man as a focal point.
***No, we on the right did it.***
It’s not so much that we did it, but that we let it happen and we allowed ourselves to believe that some of our leaders were actually conservative.
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How will conservatives ever pull the voters away from the liberal feeding trough? Liberalism is a sickness for which there is no known cure.
Who’s this “we”, P.J.?
When they start to starve they may come around. Dear Leader won't be able to prevent this.
It sure as hell wasn't me. With due respect to PJ.
That is the $64 question right now and into the future. It’s never been done before. It will, literally, take a miracle. But I fear God has had it with us.
I agree that conservatism is almost dead-almost. When optimism by conservatives doesn’t actually become true, then it’s time to think about life outside of politics as much as humanly possible. I honestly don’t see any kind of serious and successful conservative comeback for, at least, sixty years, if ever. I should know, because I’m still stuck in Massachusetts, where both Republicanism and conservatism have been successfully suppressed for more than fifty years now and counting. Almost all elected Massachusetts Republicans at all levels are “leftist” Republicans anyways. And now, the majority of U.S. voters have made “Massachusetts politics” go national. This is really a profoundly bad thing to have done, and too many conservatives still don’t know the full extent of the political damage that’s really coming everybody’s way for a very long time.
Two words. Government cheese.
It is delusional to think you can stop the political pendulum from swinging back and forth.
However,
We DID blow it.
Yes there was historical precedence that we would lose much this election, even before the the market meltdown.
Here is the good news...
We own the failure, that means we have the power of success as well.
Even the mighty Obama Messiah cannot stop conservatism when it is running no all eight cylinders.
I figure we were running on 2.5 cylinders this time.
Time to take the engine back to the garage and fix it.
RINO mechanics need not apply.
“It’s not so much that we did it, but that we let it happen and we allowed ourselves to believe that some of our leaders were actually conservative.”
By we you mean conservatives then I believe you are incorrect. Not so long ago, 2006 to be exact, on this site many people were telling others to stay home and not vote to teach us a lesson. Now look who’s been taught the lesson? The Dems have just about a filabuster proof Senate a Marxist for president and tax increases on the horizon. We as a whole need to get our acts together and promote the conservative politicians. Promote the likes of a Duncan Hunter, Tom McClintock etc.
We as a group didn’t press our leaders the way the Left did and we are all going to pay.
End of semi-rant.
Aren’t poorer people even more succeptible to socialism? Venezuala comes to mind.
The real fun will begin when the Obama 'government' runs out of that pie his followers are so fond of.
Correction
no all eight cylinders.
Should be..
ON all eight cylinders.
When can we get a damn edit function on this forum!
Everywhere else does.
There is always a tomorrow.
I am Joe the American.
It seems you have me there. I just try to appeal to the better nature of man. I'm wasting my time.
We do. It’s called preview.
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