Posted on 12/29/2008 1:58:09 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Conservatives lost when they allowed government schools in the beginning.
Government schools have **always** been socialistic. Their first champions were socialists. The goal of government schools from the beginning was to produce a compliant, dependent, and meek citizen.
It is likely too late but conservatives could take back education, and that must included destroying the government K-12 system. Conservatives could do this by setting up educational foundations that would offer **free** conservative K-12 education. They must sponsor conservative teachers willing to set up one room school houses, mini-schools, and homeschool cooperatives. The foundations would certify the teacher, approve the curriculum, and test the students.
Conservatives must also work to wrench team sports from the control of government K-12 schools. They could do this by moving all team sports to the parks and recreation departments or by sponsoring private team sport leagues. ( A great deal of community support for government schooling is due to sports.)
On another level, conservatives must work with their neighbors to elect representatives willing to close down government K-12 schools.
If Harvard can have a $35 Billion dollar endowment surely conservatives could do this for private education.
By the way....It is likely too late. I personally think we are doomed. One more generation in government K-12 schools and into the voting booth and the course of this nation is doomed.
I am not encouraged either.
Yes, we will have elections for a while. Eventually, people will stop going to the voting booth.
As parents of our progeny - WE ARE THE CULPRITS!!!!!
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Absolutely keep your children out of the government Marxist indoctrination camps ( AKA: Public schools). Send them to conservative colleges and universities.
I have a hard time believing it too, but yet the number remains.
I don’t remember which outlet I originally read it from, but upon googling I found this:
Here’s more:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110508/content/01125107.guest.html
RUSH: Want some exit poll data to buttress what I was discussing in the first hour? Senator McCain, the theme, the purpose of his campaign was to go after moderates, to go after these rock-ribbed independents and so forth. McCain lost independents and moderates 60 to 39%. Did you hear that? Do you people hear that? And the wizards of smart on our side advocated this very strategery! Just walk across the aisle.
You walk across the aisle, they break your leg. You reach across the aisle, they break your arm. If you walk and reach across the aisle, they punch you in the nose! McCain lost independents 60 to 39. Yet, get this number, this is nationwide tallies now of exit polls. Obama got 20% of the conservatives who voted in America yesterday. What it says here. Twenty percent — well, it says here conservatives. McCain got 78% of the conservative vote. Doesn’t say Republican here. If McCain would have won 100% of the conservative vote, what might have happened yesterday? Well, look what happened when conservatives supported Prop 8 out in California. The exit polls also show — now, again, these are polls and these are exit polls, but I find this interesting. This is CNN, by the way. “Exit polls show that only 22% of voters yesterday claim to be liberal, 34% claim to be conservative. McCain got 89% of Republicans.
“but i am a psychotic punk”
or maybe just a lurking liberal.
I think we have turned in to a Banana Republic.
***Well, if the SCOTUS doesn’t uphold the constitutionality of eligibility, we’re no longer a constitutional republic. You can fill in the adjective with whatever is appropriate after that: Banana “republic”, pre-empire republic, bread&circuses republic, unkept republic (hat tip to Benjamin Franklin), crumbling republic, et al.
I suspect that anyone that voted for Obama and called themselves conservative, either have no idea what conservatives are, or were lying to the exit pollsters.
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