[ConservingFreedom]

repudiating 80 years of institutional development growing chains

Fixed it.

[Paine in the Neck]

Yes, Mr. Gerson, millions of us do seek a break from the collectivist past built by your Bull Moose cronies.

"Bull Moose" refers to Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Party. We don't want to go down a path we recognize as leading to disaster. But you, GOPe, carry on.

[Hostage]

...liberal masquerading as a “conservative.”

Lots of those out there today.

[Ray76]

Good article, on target.

Reminds me of Hayek's "The Constitution of Liberty"

The picture generally given of the relative position of the three parties (ed: socialism, conservatism, classical liberalism) does more to obscure than to elucidate their true relations. They are usually represented as different positions on a line, with the socialists on the left, the conservatives on the right, and the liberals somewhere in the middle. Nothing could be more misleading. If we want a diagram, it would be more appropriate to arrange them in a triangle with the conservatives occupying one corner, with the socialists pulling toward the second and the liberals toward the third. But, as the socialists have for a long time been able to pull harder, the conservatives have tended to follow the socialist rather than the liberal direction and have adopted at appropriate intervals of time those ideas made respectable by radical propaganda. It has been regularly the conservatives who have compromised with socialism and stolen its thunder.

[Conservatism] by its very nature it cannot offer an alternative to the direction in which we are moving. It may succeed by its resistance to current tendencies in slowing down undesirable developments, but, since it does not indicate another direction, it cannot prevent their continuance. It has, for this reason, invariably been the fate of conservatism to be dragged along a path not of its own choosing. The tug of war between conservatives and progressives can only affect the speed, not the direction, of contemporary developments.

Hayek's article is food for thought. We need a party of liberty.

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It is slowly dawning on Republicans that Democrats have not been the problem, but rather liberal Republicans who masquerade as conservatives.

It is truly inspiring to see a formerly blind Republican see the light.

Shills like coulter, mccain, glenbeck, oreilly, medved and countless others have rendered a great service to us by exposing themselves. Nothing opens peoples eyes faster than realizing the betrayal coming from the mouths of their former heroes.