Posted on 04/23/2012 9:30:05 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
FREEPER COMMENTS REQUESTED: Is it just me, or is Mary Matalin way off base today with her entire theme for the show (guest hosting for Rush). Now I normally like her work tremendously, but her idea that we should search for "virtue" in government and for "virtuous people" to be in government seems extremely naive.
The only virtue in government is its limit. We will never get a government full of virtuous people. By definition, government is power and virtuous people are not drawn to that. Our Founders knew that. This is why they insisted on LIMITED government. Wake up Mary!
I bet that’d do it. But damn, I quit drinking 15mos ago. Almost makes me want to go back to it. Nah; I just switched to another program.
If there is public virtue, there are no parasites. People have enough moral values to not abuse the system. People have to have a certain level of honesty and dignity with constrained government. No public virtue means no good judges, no good public officials to put common sense practices into place.
We have been sold out on all sides. The Rush show a Carville Matalin show now. I don’t turn on his show to hear two of the biggest frauds in the political business yuck it up.
If you were elected, the unemployment rate would increase
for a time, because you would..
1) Close the Department of Energy
2) Close the Dept. of Education
3) Close the EPA
4) Give illegals 60 days to leave.
5) No I.D. no vote.
6) Drill like no tomorrow
But in a year or 2, business would boom, and the debt shrink
And America would get real witty one liners !
SOL 2012 !!
” Carville is always mean, nasty, vicious, and dishonest.”
And those are his GOOD virtues...
” ROTFL.
I hope comeone sends her this thread.”
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Given who Matalin’s husband is, I’d say having one child who is conservative and one liberal is expected in that household.
Was she desperate? I am thinking, “yes”.
Well, I’d add Dr. Walter E. Williams to my “approved” guest host list. He usually has Thomas Sowell on, and it doesn’t get much better than that.
>> Whose next to host? <<
Newt may be in the market for a new gig soon. I’d love to listen to him on a daily basis. But I’ll bet Rush wouldn’t let him be a guest host, because Newt probably would outshine Mah Rushie too much!
Yes, we should hope to find virtue in government and we should encourage the virtuous to seek office. However, we should assume that anyone seeking political office has the morals of an alley cat. We should assume that they’re all scoundrels looking for a bribe or a piece of tail or both. We should never stop digging for dirt.
I’ll bet the RINOS did Cain in (not kidding)
Ann dated Bill Maher?
Please tell me it is another Ann you are referring to!
Desperate is a mild term......kinda like me marrying Rosie O’Donnell......uh oh......gulp......barf....bathroom please.
“We, the people” get duped over and over again by having our government and special interests in one concentrated are for most of their “reign”.
This is 21st century. Send ALL politicians back to their states and districts. Every last one of them. The give them “Skype,” “Go to my PC”, “Go to Meetings”, ability to teleconference.
Anything less than this is putting the government at peril and really shafting “we, the people...”
“Poor dear. In a book of just-missed-the-mark quotations. A limit on government is something that is antecedent to government. It is something the founders said lay in the people, that was expressed in the Declaration and the Constitution, and that the people should re-impose on government by whichever means are most appropriate when government, whether large or small, starts to trample their liberties.”
The horses done left the barn already, Clem!
Us stupid, simple engineering folk saw us some right wisdom without the $0.50 words and was sayin’ ‘Good on ya’!’
You lawyerin’ types keep settin’ the rest us of simple folk straight.
I feel so out of the loop - well, think I'll go run those young whippersnappers off my lawn and think about adopting lots of cats!
Your response proves you didn’t listen to the program, have no idea the point I was making, but you damned sure think of your self as righteous - but really its just naivete and self righteousness.
I’ve written in American Thinker several times about a virtual congress, keeping them in their districts. It is the future of our nation, if we are to have one.
Keep spreading the word.
You are a brick wall: I am tired of beating my head against it. You have yet to show any grasp, even the faintest grasp, of what is being discussed here today.
But you have no doubt made yourself feel superior. Congrats.
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