Posted on 04/06/2010 8:16:19 AM PDT by CJBernard
AR: Characterize the divide that currently exists between the mainstream Republican Party and the resurgent sense of conservatism that we’re now beginning to experience in this country.
JD: That’s a great question. It seems as though we’re seeing a lot of people in the Republican Party suddenly turning around and labeling each other RINOs [Republicans In Name Only]. The trouble is that the Republican Party wants the proverbial “big tent,” but the question is whether that tent should include big government Republicans. This is another reason why I became involved in politics. I was furious with my own party. We had a great opportunity during the first part of the last decade to truly reduce the size of the federal government. It was an opportunity that we hadn’t had in a long time.
The Republicans also blew it in the early 1950’s, when the Eisenhower administration had both the Congress and the Senate. I think that we have to find a home in the party for these big government types, but they can’t have a central role. We can’t have these kinds of mistakes again.
AR: It would seem to me that a “big government Republican” would have to be, to some extent, a sell-out — a person who is ultimately more concerned with his own interests rather than the country’s.
JD: Well, yes, there is that element. The problem is that conservatism is too often confused with ‘neo-conservatism’. But neo-conservatism is not about limited government. That’s what we’re up against in the party as a whole. Neo-conservatism is not based on traditional conservative principles to which true conservatives adhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at americasright.com ...
Find it interesting that you see plenty in the GOP who say this but NEVER see any candidate on the Democrat side ever say any such thing.
I still like the Glenn Beck response "What is this a circus?"
...and I thought this was going to be about a primary challenger to Barney Frank...
If the election was between Satan and Pelosi, I would vote for Satan.
Nope, not any more.
Either Big Government wins or we win.
Government bureaucracies are always the problem.
Tunnel vision gets us into neo-con, country club, religio-con, fisco-con, libertari-con kinds of rivalries and railings. These have just enough in common-con to bump their priorities up one notch to Constitution-con, where we can all agree; and agree to disagree on the more divisive and elusive points of emphasis which we are now experiencing. And it does look like a circus, and is destructive to us and encouraging and comforting to the libbie-coms.
I say let’s all go along together, adjust the national platform to feature the Constitution, strict construction, original intent — re-educating the public as we go (for so very much about the Constitution has been forgotten or revised).
After we get that back under control, maybe we could get back to bickering over the points of emphasis and other nuances of purity, and eyes of beholders. But first things first: the Constitution, first, last and always; nothing else even remotely matters in any form, shape or circumstance.
A bit redundant, wouldn't you say? :)
I Think Pelosi could give Satan lessons.
Pelosi’s face looks like wax, if a candle got near it she might melt. Absolutely horrifying.
Thank you for your support!
LOL!
I think you’re right... :)
NEWS/ACTIVISM ??
In San Francisco, Pelosi would be God.
Fingers missed keys again. Meant to say “beat” not “be”.
Then we need to find another way to get rid of her - corruption charges?
Interesting article....sounds like someone in the GOP actually “gets it”
What’s the difference between Satan and Nancy Pelosi?
Botox
The only gripe they might have about her is she's too "moderate."
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