This has got to STOP! Republicans need to DEFINE THEMSELVES and stop letting Newspaper writers and other LIBS do it for them. Rush is RIGHT...We need an teaching tour to re-aquaint America with what a TRUE conservative is and what conservative values really are....
good post.
moderate GOP is a myth like the unicorn except for a handful of beltway types who hog the media’s attention by design
Please don't send Michael Steele on that tour.
Unfortunately, the voters want a Free Lunch.
“in a democracy, the people know what they want and they deserve to get it, good and hard.’
From The Never Realized Republic: Political Economy and Republican Virtue.
Polity is how societies organize themselves into governing bodies. Polity is from the Greek politeia meaning citizenship or government. Political relates to governments and the public interest. Whereas, economy relates to the production and consumption of goods and services and the supply of money. Together it conveys the meaning of political economy.
Republican pertains to a republic. Republic, is from the Latin res publica which conveys both the public good and the public affairs. Virtue is the motivating force and the first principle of a republic. Virtue is the desire to do good. In a republic, virtue is the basic truth on which all other truths rest.
Therefore, republican virtue is the desire to do good for the public good. However, who is to say what the public good is or what good is in general, has caused many a republican society to struggle with the duty and obligation of government. Inasmuch as polity is how, virtue is why, societies organize themselves into governing bodies.
America’s political economy is clearly based in capitalism. Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Capitalism is clearly America’s political economy. Most of America’s founding fathers believed, however, that capitalism was to bring about a great era of goodwill toward all people and nations.
The main body of this work explores the heritage of republican virtue upon which the nascent capitalism of the 1790s had a tremendous impact. It is not a critique of capitalism’s worth, value, or benefit. It does however, inquire as to whether those advocates of capitalism, in the late eighteenth-century honored or dishonored their ancestral republican heritage.
This is one thing, IMO, that liberals do best...they tell the masses what conservatives are or are not. Conservatives tend to just sit and take it. It is time to stop.
Nope. Republicans ought to behave like Christian gentlemen and allow our beloved party a peaceful, honorable death.
We need a new party that promotes states' rights and strong local government. We need to lead states to return to election of The Senate by state legislators. We need strong state government ... strong enough to keep the Federal Government out of purely local affairs. The primary check and balance of our constitution: the balance between Federal and Local, is gone and we need a lot of it back.
One is a citizen of a STATE first, and the nation, second. I would love my state to be the first to reintroduce property requirements, literacy, and the payment of a poll tax to qualify its citizens as voters.
Nope. Republicans ought to behave like Christian gentlemen and allow our beloved party a peaceful, honorable death. It has had a long, purpose-driven, and successful life, and as a political organization is of no further use.
We need a new party that promotes states' rights and strong local government. We need to lead states to return to election of The Senate by state legislators. We need strong state government ... strong enough to keep the Federal Government out of purely local affairs. The primary check and balance of our constitution: the balance between Federal and Local, is gone and we need a lot of it back.
One is a citizen of a STATE first, and the nation, second. I would love my state to be the first to reintroduce property requirements, literacy, and the payment of a poll tax to qualify its citizens as voters. And the very first thing I would like my state legislature to do is demand that the electors of the state demand full documentary evidence of the constitutional qualification of presidential candidates before placing them on the ballot, and witholding electoral votes, even from winning write-in candidates, until it is provided.