Posted on 03/01/2013 11:48:04 PM PST by Bratch
Via the Andrea Tantaros Show, I assume his point here about the urgency of economic renewal will form the core of his CPAC speech so consider this a sneak preview.
Interesting little exchange between him and Tantaros: She seizes on his message about opposing political correctness to steer him towards criticizing Christie’s and GOProud’s exclusion on those grounds, that it’s a form of conservative PC. But that’s not really where he takes it.
He comes back at her, essentially, with something similar to Mitch Daniels’s idea of a “truce” on social issues. We need a big tent right now because rescuing the country from fiscal unsustainability takes precedence over all other disagreements. There’ll be time later to decide which cultural ideas are “barnicles” on the ship of state after it’s been turned around.
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During the interview, the doctor makes some newsworthy comments regarding the 2nd Amendment. It's another example of how hard it is to find a candidate that's agreeable to everyone.
Sounds like someone should form a conservative CPAC! LOL
The meaning of “republican” has already been changed, if we allow “conservative” to be redefined the game is over.
And this sort of cultural moderation from Carson is precisely why i find him yet another flash in the pan minority who utters a few conservative paragraphs and stupid knee jerk racial redress conservatives like Hannity and plenty here act like a fat girl who just got asked to prom
Freepers fall for this over and over
A minority candidate..however ideologically soft.....will carry minorities
No...it will not
Here in TN a white ultra liberal Jew beat a black conservative in a nearly all black district for Congress....Cohen
I think whites who kneejerk over this only know Cosby blacks...or none at. All
Not me obviously....all my life as a minority white or at least as merely. A tentative majority
Only true well known black conservative i know.....Clarence Thomas....West is ok....but mercurial
Some lesser knowns out there.....that judge lady Bush should have nominated over Souterish Roberts......
Ditto latinos.....Cruz maybe....Rubio...no.....and both are what Indian Mexicans would consider white....both are Canary island origin I guess
Orientals.....Michelle Malkin is top notch and she links sites they don't allow. Here that i like
So yes....i have supported minority. Candidates but there are precious few and i don't support them any more for being non white or female
I find that so tedious
The big tent approach will actually make a smaller base. You’re not going to win elections by driving out social conservatives. We don’t need two liberal parties. Suspect the Republican party will fail miserably going down this road.
The first C in CPAC is supposed to be Conservative not Conciliation!
The people who think ignoring social issues (going liberal) is going to make the tent bigger are blithering idiots
How is he a candidate? He makes one good speech and already the Pathetic Party nutroots want him to run?
Yes it will. The car has a flat tire, they are saying lets let the air out of the other 3 and get moving!
But I've heard more than one person say he would make a good President.
We need to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I remember the same crap about Scott Brown. If Ben has posed for Playgirl he’d have even more fans here I guess. ugh
i find it ironic that the only ones seemingly “excluded” from this CPAC, are conservatives and conservatism, itself.
it’s a bit of a laugh when i read “journalists” opining about us believers and our philosophy, conservatism—i.e. based on the very ground and bedrock of Truth, God Himself—as mere “social issues” or “cultural barnicles.” but i keep forgetting, we’re not conservatives, we’re “social conservatives.”
it makes sense that “journalism,” which after all is just the exploitation of human suffering for personal gain, would have to oppose the Truth, wouldn’t it? for the journalist, human suffering has to have many fathers to be profitable; for us it has one, that would be boring old sin.
Republicans forming another circular firing squad while Obama releases 700 pages of Obamacare regulations designed to destroy healthcare in this country.
This is why I left the R party and became an Independent. I cannot be unequally yoked with something that I believe is a reason for the country’s downfall . It really is liberating.
Will the R’s also look at adding government paid abortions for any reason to the big tent?
A few years ago, I had a wierd dream. It was george bush the younger holding a wooden road sign which read, “Ex hic.” Then the dream shifted and a caricature of bush was holding another wooden road sign that read, “Quo vadis.”
Before my eyes, the words caught fire and began to spread across the entire sign until it was burned up. bush was laughing hysterically.
I took it to mean that we were on the road to hell and he knew it. Not only knew it, but was part of it.
Looks as if the dream and my interpretation of it was right on.
One good speech warrants this...
XXXXXX XXXXXXXX for president Woo! Woo!
It is a FreeRepublic right of passage. We have had dozens of them.
There is a right Candidate and they will come forward or it won't matter. Certainly not to someone my age.
Thank you for a provocative post that gets right to the heart of the matter. As far as I'm concerned, this guy's sell by date has expired. Conservatism is all about being Conservative. For all of his highly-touted intelligence, that key, fundamental principle eludes him.
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It's not a "truce" when only ONE side stops fighting!
It's an unconditional SURRENDER!
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