Posted on 04/11/2015 6:27:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s often said there’s an Eleventh Commandment in conservative politics: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any Republican.” This edict is usually attributed to Ronald Reagan, though it was actually coined by then-California Republican Party chairman Gaylord B. Parkinson in 1965.
Since then many conservatives have treated it as constitutional law, deriving from it interpretive statutes about how the right should behave.
Today those conservatives must feel like Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles when he steps unsuspectingly out of the bathroom only to find food flying in all directions. The modern right is wrought with divisions. We’ve got Tea Partiers bum-rushing the establishment, hawks trying to marginalize doves, social conservatives clambering for sandbags to plug up the libertarian deluge, and rival-voweled reformocons and reformicons warring in the streets around the American Enterprise Institute. The Republican presidential debate stage next year is likely to feature six candidates and possibly as many as fourteen.
For party whips and political unifiers, these are times of tribulation. But I have a question for those who would criticize a divided conservatism.
Have you checked out the left lately?
The Obama era should have been a high watermark for American liberalism. Democrats in 2009 not only laid claim to the House, the filibuster-proof Senate, and the White House, but did so during an economic recession in which jobs vanished, wages shrank, and Wall Street was held in nearly universal contempt. Deregulation was out and stimulus was in. The table was better set for progressive ideas than at any time since the Great Depression.
Early on, liberals made three calculations that cost them dearly. First, given enough political capital to tackle either sweeping Wall Street reform or sweeping health care reform, but not both, President Obama chose the latter.
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How can we FReepers assist them along their road to a hasty and total destruction?
let the shia and sunnis kill each other, muslims really do like to kill each other.
Hell isis is at open war with al nusra the al qaeda front in syria, isis has beheaded them.
Like why is poverty densest where Dems are in control?
Yes, but on a level they will understand.
FR is a drop in the conservative bucket. It’s going to take a lot of people.
Well stated in post 8
Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley had the right idea about islam , a full blown war on islam,
from a preservation of his
Some actions offered for consideration here will be seen as not “politically correct” in the
eyes of many, both inside and outside the United States (Examples: . Decision Points
considered in PH Ill where Saudi Arabia threatened with starvation, Mecca and Medina
destroyed. Islam reduced to cult status).
This model presumes Geneva Convention IV 1949 standards of armed conflict and the
pursuant UN endorsements of it are now, due to the current common practices of Islamic
terrorists, no longer relevant or respected globally. This would leave open the option once
again of taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary (the historical precedents of
Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki being applicable to the Mecca and Medina destruction
DP in Phase Ill)
Don’t get my hopes up. After 2008 and 2012 I couldn’t take another defeat by the Marxists.
also
This model calls for direct ideological and philosophical confrontation with Islam…this model asserts Islam has already declared war on the West, and the United States specifically, as is demonstrable with over 30 years of violent history. It is, therefore, illogical to continue along our current global strategy models that presume there are always possible options for common ground and détente with the Muslim Umma without waging near “total war”.
sorry wrong thread! how do i delete posts?
right now conservatives should be looking to consolidate their gains by putting some effort into up and comers from various state houses and in turn plant the seeds for future up and comers in the state houses.
I have read a bunch of the obits for the Left over the years, mostly from American Spectator. Each time the Left roars back stronger than ever.
The Left elected a not-so-crypto Communist to the Presidency, inflicted a catastrophe on medical care that will eventually lead to socialized medicine, set in motion a process to change the demographics of the country permanently in their favor and generally set a precedent for ruling by executive order and lawless behavior and this idiot thinks they are weak?
Whatever he’s drinking I really need some.
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