Posted on 03/13/2009 1:08:18 PM PDT by pissant
Conservatives must change and hope.
Another intimidated conservative who thinks the way to beat the left is to look more like it. It’s watered down, milque toast conservatism that cost us the White House and that may cost us the country, but that doesn’t make kowtowing and compromise the right thing to do. I don’t want “He couldn’t beat ‘em, so he joined ‘em” carved on my headstone.
Why can't Republican candidates run as center-left candidates to get elected, then govern as far right conservatives?
Their opponents have been winning by campaigning as center-right candidates, then governing as far left liberals for years.
They seem to be succeeding with their strategy while the "principled" conservatives are losing.
Evolve beyond David Frum. I hate getting personal, but he does have a “missing link” look.
Blah blah blah. This idiot Mary Kate Cary could have summed it up in one phrase: “The parasites now outnumber the hosts and unless the Republicans become “Democrat-lite”, they are doomed.”
America is dead and gone. What’s left is a land mass populated by cretins and parasites who have absolutely no respect for the military and who vote for big government to confiscate money from their neighbors and “redistribute” it to them.
It is not an America worth defending anymore.
Every man for himself.
Screw the GOP before it screws you!
Sorry, you are either for reason, pursuit of one's own individual happiness, individual natural rights, independent nonparasitical mentality, limited government, and capitalism or you're not. There is no compromise with these principles of the Founding Fathers.
Maybe it's all that "modulatin'" they've been doing.
Damn! Where’s my slingshot. There are too many of these dragoons running around out there. God, I think I’m glad to be living in Texas, in the middle of a forest.
Actually Bill Weld, former governor of Mass. was a fiscal conservative and social liberal.
But only in the corrupt liberal garbage dump of Massachusetts politics could such a bizarre hybrid survive. And we haven't seen another one like him.
Well, unless they convinced the GOP to run McCain or somehow sank the economy on purpose, I'd say "nothing".
For people that are concerned more about a political party than political ideals, maybe this makes sense. It your primary goal is to win elections, regardless of the means, then we don’t need political parties at all. Just let the pollsters pick the office holders.
On the other hand, there are those that are more concerned about a political ideology or a philosophy than a political party. Does the GOP stand for anything? That is the question that needs to be asked, not how can we win elections.
Mary, you evolve.
The rest of us will stick to our principles.
Sorry, wrong answer.
You want to fix health care? Several things must be done.
1. Tort reform.
2. Stop treating illegal immigrants.
3. Significant update of medical billing codes to increase the number of codes so the right procedure/right kind of person can get billed at the right rate.
4. Stop forcing doctors and hospitals to have language translators for patients (per Clinton’s EO) driving up costs no matter how big or small the practice is.
5. Allow doctors and nurses to continue to have opt-out conscience clauses on procedures they believe are immoral.
There are other things but these are ones that come to mind first.
If you want to get right down to it, conservatism is really about slowing the pace of change. Conserving. And since things in the universe progress from order to chaos it’s probably a good thing that someone is trying to slow the deterioration.
I’m talking about core cultural changes like our current progression away from personal responsibility. Not about changes such as the Internet or using alternative energy.
Someone has to do this since once the change has become ingrained in society it is damn near impossible to reverse it without some traumatic societal upheaval.
And look how well it works for the people who think that is the way to go.
Their only core belief is that conservatives must moderate themselves.
No wonder why we cannot stand these morons.
No, sorry, Mary Kate. When it comes to conservatism I prefer intelligent design, and on that score, David Frum is not smarter than Trig Palin.
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