Posted on 03/01/2009 1:30:29 PM PST by jessduntno
"Well, conservatism isn't dead because it cannot be dead. Conservatism is not manmade. Conservatism is a philosophy. It's not a scheme. It's not a plan to figure out what the American people need and want, and then give it to them. That's populism! Conservatism is a philosophy based on God-given natural rights...You know it and I know it, and that's why this Republican roster of candidates has always been somewhat disquieting, and we know that it is because if you look at it, it's pretty much evenly spread, the support around all the top-tier people. Look what happens, by the way, when one of them happens to pipe up. Look what happens...when conservative truths are heard, it's an affecting and effective message. People have revelations when they hear it. They just haven't been hearing it from people who want to lead the party and who want to lead the country. So what's lacking here is not ideas and not principles, but the right people to speak them and the right people to develop strategies to win elections based on those ideas and principles. What's lacking, if you will, is intellectual and political leadership. Let me be even more specific. Where's the Russell Kirk? Where's the Bill Buckley? Where's the Milton Friedman of our day? Where's the Barry Goldwater, the Ronald Reagan? We have people who claim to hold the mantle of these greats, and yet they also claim that the mantle to hold is not worth holding, that we gotta redefine it because the era is over. If you believe that liberty, national security, free enterprise, faith, and the Constitution are dead, then what are you saying? On what do you base your definition of conservatism?"
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"Let me be even more specific. Where's the Russell Kirk? Where's the Bill Buckley? Where's the Milton Friedman of our day?"
Good question...what's the answer???
I have - it reminds me of the crab tank at a Chinese restaurant. ;)
So...”the speech” was pretty much written a month ago...
“Let me be even more specific. Where’s the Russell Kirk? Where’s the Bill Buckley? Where’s the Milton Friedman of our day?” Good question...what’s the answer???
Sorry - the date was Jan 14, 2008...a year and a month ago...
The idea of a democratic government was “dead” for millennia but it wasn’t dead.
Bridge to Captain...
“Where’s the Russell Kirk? Where’s the Bill Buckley? Where’s the Milton Friedman of our day? Where’s the Barry Goldwater, the Ronald Reagan?”
The religious right would run Friedman and Goldwater away.
They were in favor of too much freedom.
“Where’s the Russell Kirk? Where’s the Bill Buckley? Where’s the Milton Friedman of our day? Where’s the Barry Goldwater, the Ronald Reagan?”
The religious right would run Friedman and Goldwater away.
They were in favor of too much freedom.
Hahahahaha...or....ohhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooo...choose one...
I’ll wait until Buchanan comes back to the GOP.
As Rush stated, "Conservatism is a philosophy based on God-given natural rights...".
The speech was written an infinity ago. Rush was merely relating an absolute which many others have done again and again. But repetition is obviously necessary in order for the dimwitted Republican political leadership to get the point.
No more McCains.
.
Ever.
“The speech was written an infinity ago. No more McCains. Ever.”
That goes without saying...well...agreed...but I think he was taking off on Newt in that particular speech and it was VERY similar to the talk he gave then...that was what I was referring to...
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