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We conservatives need to calm down
Chicago Sun Times ^
| 04/06/09
| DAVID HOROWITZ
Posted on 04/06/2009 8:55:07 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
Calm down? We’ve got a 6 year old who has trouble with tricycles trying to fly an F-22.
To: subterfuge
He's got the presidency. You've got terminal partisan brain-melt.
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:45:24 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: JasonC
Well, if Ears finds that Great Britain is aligning with the indian tribes to foment rebellion and is forcing US citizens to work on its naval ships, I’ll support him if he declares war.
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:45:52 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: JasonC
Godwin's Avenger. You just lost this argument, the author is right.
Most people would agree that we should learn from history so that we do not repeat its mistakes. However, now you are suggesting that we completely ignore one of the premiere events in history simply because someone came up with a lame internet policy? We should just ignore the striking similarities so that we don't look uncool to the internet geeks? I don't think so.
The author is right only in that a great many conservatives are wondering aloud if we are not seeing a socialist dictator in the making. What the author fails to understand is that it is possible those conservatives are correct.
To: Jim Noble
That is an interesting perspective.
I remember a while ago he advocated that Republicans (rinos) advocate for the expansion of government to get election. It was something like - do and say whatever you must to get elected. He reminds me of Bill Krystal.
To: Da Coyote
He should take a Midol if he is getting too upset and excited over colorful conservatism criticism of Obama.
To: JasonC
Your knowledge of history stinks.
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:46:36 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: subterfuge
(If my last didn’t make it obvious, the point is you aren’t hurting him with your hyperbole, you are only hurting yourself, and us).
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:47:02 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: mikeus_maximus
"Republicans seem determined to refuse to learn about PR and how to sway public opnion. Your highbrow, Buckely-esque, "reasoned discourse" approach is never going to cut it with the American Idol majority, and you will continue to fail." Oh...but we, the moral ones, are expected to play by the proper rules of etiquette, play nice and stay in the fence, while the commies cavort with crooks and play without even a pretense of anything called honor. They attack Palin's every breath and that of her children, slaughtering us at every turn and moving the country further and further toward complete loss of freedom with each new generation of brainwashed youth.
"Unfortunately the matter did not end in honourable battle, but left a stain on [their] bravery. They captured many of the soldiers, fair-haired women, little boys, servants, kerne, horseboys, and herdsmen, making of them one universal litter of slaughter, butchering both prisoners and cattle.
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:47:16 AM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
To: pissant
Don't worry, he won't declare war over anything.
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:48:03 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: autumnraine
At first I thought he was a moron. Now I think hes a moron with a plan to actively destroy the United States.
I told my husband the exact thing last week. He is evil, evil, evil.
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:48:55 AM PDT
by
muggs
(If Obama is the answer, it must have been a stupid question)
To: Borges
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:49:33 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
To: SaraJohnson
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:50:22 AM PDT
by
ichabod1
(I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
To: fr_freak
You can talk about a socialist presidency (that's a fact) and can put on tinfoil and worry about socialist dictatorship (which is flat nuts but you are free to be a vigilant nutter if you like). Neither requires stepping in the pile of steaming that evokes Godwin. If any parallel in it were remotely close you could try to soberly make that case, but you aren't and neither is anyone else. Instead you are engaged in the classic rhetorical overreach of the reductio ad Hitler, "like Hitler, a lover of dogs..." In case nobody noticed, the whole point of Godwin is that this *always* happens when one side loses an argument.
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:51:36 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: pissant
I know more history than you ever will.
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:52:12 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: Kansas58
I like your concept of a “Big Tent”. It is working well for the Republican party. Instead of men like Ronald Reagan we get men like John Mccain as a choice for president.
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:54:03 AM PDT
by
armymarinedad
(Support, v., To take the side of; to uphold or help.)
To: Borges
How is all of the past, present, and future legislative “leftist damage” on all of the issues successfully fixed to conservative, free market solutions instead for always, even if conservatives are ever successfully elected as a political majority sometime in the future? What the present leftists along with all of their friends are already seriously doing to the entire U.S. on all of the issues, is more than reason for all non-leftists to be profoundly concerned for both the short-term future and long-term future! It also should be seriously noted that this “leftist domination” is and has been an ongoing and worsening worldwide “leftist domination” and not just a problem for the U.S.!
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:54:13 AM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
I would go further still:
I am not sure “boots on the ground” in Afghanistan, is a very good idea.
No foreign power has EVER controlled that area. Historically, that area has NEVER really been under the control of one tribe or leader.
The geography is terrible. The drug business will be impossible to stop. Religious fanatics will NEVER go away.
It will be far, far harder to bring Afghanistan into the civilized world than it was with Iraq.
I think drones and fast attacks from the air, when we know where the Taliban is hiding, would make more sense.
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
I would go further still:
I am not sure “boots on the ground” in Afghanistan, is a very good idea.
No foreign power has EVER controlled that area. Historically, that area has NEVER really been under the control of one tribe or leader.
The geography is terrible. The drug business will be impossible to stop. Religious fanatics will NEVER go away.
It will be far, far harder to bring Afghanistan into the civilized world than it was with Iraq.
I think drones and fast attacks from the air, when we know where the Taliban is hiding, would make more sense.
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
See, what is going to happen is the economy is going to right itself as it always does, and meanwhile Obama is going to leave the army operating in Afghanistan, and being the army it is going to do a good job and kick ass. And you will be out of the street corner in a washboard screaming that the sky is falling for two straight years, and then there will be a congressional election with the sky in the same place is always is. And you will look like a fool, and lose.
The author can see that far ahead, as can I. You can't, and repeat whatever the headlines scream about ephermal stuff that will be gone and over in a year's time. When you could be making an intelligent and principled case against Obama's expansion of government or inaction on Iran or whatever, instead you are betting the party and movement on a rhetorical overreach long-shot that doesn't have a chance in hell of materializing.
He's right, you're wrong, snap out of it.
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posted on
04/06/2009 9:57:12 AM PDT
by
JasonC
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