Posted on 02/24/2012 1:17:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
“...but it’s a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people’s fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective and that’s kind...”
Ah, significant bull-Obama alert, significant bull-Obama alert.
Note that there is absolutely no real information in the above extract. Typical libstuff...all plastic, no metal.
Then again, Bush is a RINO...just as is RINOmney, RINOewt, McRINO and Bob DoRIno.
I guess Jeb doesn’t understand that the left is practicing political warfare for keeps. He seems to be under the impression that the left wants the same thing we do, just has a different way to get there.
If so, he is dead wrong.
Jeb Bush was never a conservative. Look at the history of the Bush family. They have always been establishment. Sorry to all the fans of the Bushes. Not trying to start a fight.
A brain-dead RINO?
But was Jebby a “Severe Conservative”?
Proof positive that the GOP establishment believes that the “age of Reagan” is over.
The entire Bush family suffers from ‘Blue Blood Guilt’ psychosis constantly trying to sound apologetic. “Kinder Gentler Nation”, “Compassionate Conservatism”, “Leave No Child Behind”.
Let me tell you about these Bushes.
They are less about being ‘conservativism’, than they are about POWER and WEALTH within a political Party that provides those political cards and bennies! They use the “conservatism” card to get membership in the political party club.
Spit it out, Jeb. It’s all about amnesty, is it not?
Well, he certainly isn't a Newt.
This video of Barbara and George HW Bush always makes steam come out of my ears:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDvzA_jgn_4
No fight here - agree 100% - A-1 pandering prick that man is. He would love nothing better than to be drafted and not have to waste his own money. Where’s that picture posted on FR of him and DaddyGeorge sitting with our PINO in the Oval Office with big grins...blech...
I used to be a “conservative” until I realized that conservatives seem to want to seize government just like liberals do. The difference being what they want to use government for. Thanks to von Mises, Rothbard and others, I now understand that big government threatens everybody’s liberty.
Everyone has heard of the Laffer Curve. Our country was founded on the basis that we need government so we can “enjoy the blessings of liberty”. However, above the amount of government needed to repel anarchy, the bigger the government, the less liberty that anyone can have, even if only because they are forced to work to pay for it in taxation.
So, just like there is a Laffer Curve for economic issues, there is a Liberty Curve: the more government we have, the less liberty we have, no matter how much we may cheer the way the current regime uses government in ways we like. This is because if we give anyone the legal power to expand government, sooner or later, government will be expanded at our own expense.
Our goal should maximize liberty, no maximize government, which the current crowd in Washington in both parties seems hell-bent on doing.
I used to be a Conservative Jeb says. What is he now, the question is asked.
He is a Bush , and we have had enough of them for a while.
He used to be a “severe conservative,” now he’s a “reformed severe conservative.”
The only really meaningful thing old Jeb has ever done is save us from an Al Gore presidency.
When our federal government was tiny, we had the most liberty.
But in those times, the public was far more religious than it is now. Hanging of criminals within hours of conviction was quite common.
Today we have near total government, the public at large is quite irreligious and crime is rampant, both within and without government. Convicted criminals are rarely executed, and we pay dearly to feed, house and entertain them.
I would argue that the best way to cut the size of government would be to pass a law that says all criminals found serving in government should be executed within 24 hours of conviction.
“The only really meaningful thing old Jeb has ever done is save us from an Al Gore presidency.”
Yes, but I wonder if Al Gore could have ultimately done as much damage to conservatism as George W. did. George W’s lukewarm moderatism layed the groundwork for Obama to become President.
My vote is an a**hole.
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