Posted on 11/11/2008 12:26:03 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Reagan had faith and handling. It’s why the Soviets were scared of his developing instincts. He was difficult if not impossible to corrupt. It’s why they tried to kill him. Reagan gave them a nod of care but an iron hand of reason. Bush tried to copy this but could not, because it’s an art and he were weak. He went accomodating and wobbly all along his nods.
This guy is whacky, but it doesn’t follow that he’s 100% wrong. The only way a conservative will be able to win now is if he or she is calm and articulate and can eviscerate a liberal opponent or MSM interviewer. Palin can’t. Those who can may include Romney, Jindal and Pence. But Romney is too disliked to make it, unless the Democrats really bomb. Someone like Jindal has a chance. They have to use every interview and speech as a teachable moment. It won’t be enough just to rally us conservatives.
Comic relief.
It took me a minute but I like it!
LLS
Correct again.
LLS
GOP’s Last Chance: BURN DOWN THE MSM!
The GOP already tried the democrat kool-aid with McCain.
The Mainstream Media betrayed the United States of America by covering up the truth about Obama while promoting lies about McCain. That’s not journalism... that is propaganda.
If we fail to deal with the real cancer in America, it won’t matter a hill of beans what the GOP does in the future.
I wonder how many people in America actually know WHO owns the major news networks? We could easily expose and attack our favorite liberal news anchors, but what good would that do? When are we going to realize that people like Chris Matthews are a dime a dozen??? They are easily replaced. OH... and fair market forces??? Please!..... if fair market forces had anything to do with it, FOX would not have been enjoying such a lopsided ratings success for so long... but they have. NO!... the real enemies to America are never seen or heard about because they live in the shadows pulling all the strings with their money. And, they will continue to have all that money to spend on their propaganda as long as Americans continue acting like sheep.
The man who wrote this is an ass. The GOP lost, conservatism did not.
I am trying hard to understand this statement in a manner that is reflected by what actually happened in the election
. In the core South, McCain often won by more than Bush did in 2004 indicating that conservatives did vote for him afterall.
But, a pretty darn large majority of voters went for Obama. I did not get the impression that that many people stayed home since it was the largest turnout in a century.
Are you saying that conservative voters chose Obama because McCain wasn't conservative enough? And, if McCain had been more conservative people who voted for Obama would have voted for him? Or is this more about enthusiasm and money?
For the GOP to continue to be faux Democrats. Best way to guarantee the real ones stay in power.
IMHO, Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, Mike Pence, ete., are the seedlings of a future conservitive revivil because “buyers remorseeee” will set in soon enough.
This column could have been written in 1976 — when the conservative movement was declared dead after the Nixon Administration and Carter’s victory over Ford. Four years later ... morning in America.
If conservatism were truly dead, Obama wouldn’t have had to run on tax-cuts and “more troops in Afghanistan” to get elected.
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My appologies. I was not expecting a reply and went on some silly business.
No, really, they hate the Cowboy Reagan because he represents the tamer, the rider, the animal whisperer, and they’re animals. Surely, though, that was not Reagan’s aim to people, for he were merciful, except to show it to staunch arrogant pretend corruptor like Gorbatchev, to whom he gave a fig leaf of dignity out... a risky thing but such mercy sure must have infuriated them even more and made them feel inferior yet.
Sooner or later they are going to yearn for a Cowboy’s return. They already are dressing up Obambi ridiculously that way.
Not to be bad and inject myself in this pride and on them, but liberals ultimately are a bit like Hitler’s German Nazis, as they do not like the mercy hand in the “agony” of their lives prolongated, they prefer the condemnation of themselves and their kinds by the drugs, euthanasia, abortion or even blown by suicide bombers. Mercy hurts them, it’s a fraud to them, and it’s a show of their weakness, an insult. For others it’s a welcome humbling of the heart for growth, a situation of not interfering, but encouraging while not allowing interferance either.
It’s interesting they claim that talk radio is like porn. It was a bizare statement to me, flung at folkes genuinely concerned about an American downfall. However isn’t it strange that they are the ones fawning all over Santa Obama and the Democratic party Elves? Calling us to join them? As if we liked this stuff because they do?
They are down and cannot imagine, yet talk of “imagination of Obama”. They are gay and fawn over in endless porn like eulogies and media masturbation agitations for Obama (BET style), with airwaves filled with trash music, and, yet, want to bring “Fairness Doctrine” because a few outlets see that trash porn music gets old and folkes breath better without it.
Ultimately Obama is going to get fatigued and disgusted by his partners. Ultimately we can “encourage” them in this absurd folly for all to see, making them danse like his family in Kenya. Come on, bring it on, is all I can say. Let them show their colors without Hollywood polish and isolated enjoyments while the rest of us look at the reality of the T-Walls and true poverty. Let them show that this party they pretend we partake and enjoyn is but a fraud because at the end of the day we have to clean the mess while they go soundly sweetly asleep. Let us see this corruption and deceit.
The economy will hurt. I hate to see our freedoms and enjoyments curtailed, but this is a war for the soul’s sanity, and if it took me to compare looking at a T-wall while watching antics of Fraternities in “American Pie”, I know what is real and fantasy.
They can fanfare all along for us to join them, it will not change a thing to this disaster and travesty election of transvestites. Money cannot buy it, Power cannot hold against it, idiocy is idiocy, there is no proofing it, it loses all holds.
Well stated!
LLS
People were saying the exact same dumb things about the Democrats just six to eight years ago.
McCain lost in NC didn't he?
That's in the south isn't it?
And he is the first Republican candidate to lose in that state for years.
And, McCain, could barely win even in his own state, with all this talk of amnesty.
He only manged 53% of the vote in Arizona. Pathetic I call it.
Given the high tech corridor in NC, it is hard to say how to classify it exactly.
The question is whether McCain lost in those places and the other states Bush had won because of:
1. exceptionally low voter turnout on the side of conservatives?
2. exceptionally high liberal democratic turnout?
3. conservatives voting for Obama?
4. Given the past 8 years no Republican could have won?
If the answer is 1 or a combination of 1 & 2 then a more conservative candidate could have won. If the answer is only 2 or any combination including 3 or 4, I do not necessarily buy the premise that a more conservative candidate could have won.
The point is not whether I agree with McCain or would have liked to have seen a more conservative candidate, but rather what was McCain the best choice or was the choice irrelevant given the circumstance?
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