I remember when Levin and Beck were arch enemies. Levin even had mocking names for Beck Hannity also was on the outs with Beck.
Beck loaned Hannity his office, a few years back, and then things began to suddenly change between them. The FW connection now makes sense. FW must have offered great incentives.
“I remember when Levin and Beck were arch enemies. Levin even had mocking names for Beck Hannity also was on the outs with Beck.”
Yes, indeed...they made up about the time Beck got bought off by Levin’s favorite...Freedom Works, who is anything but conservative.
FOLLOW THE $$$.. “ Dick Armey said FreedomWorks paid Beck $1 million to say nice things about the group to raise more cash” http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/01/dick-armey-sticks-his-freedomworks-payback-glenn-beck/60624/
Freedom Works, like the CATO Institute, are Libertarian bastions - and the same may be stated of Tea Party Patriots ...
The common thread between them is that none of these three, true to libertarian “principles,” gives a flying doughnut about moral integrity, public or otherwise. As long as there is fiscal solvency, limited government and unlimited personal freedom, then such is all that is necessary for a vibrant nation.
Well, bullocks! on their political theory.
Financial integrity goes hand in hand with moral integrity - and the moral absolutes that are the necessary bedrock of any legitimate government.
Moral absolutes, as derived by both the Divine and Natural Law, having there application in both the public and private spheres, are what make possible our Representative Constitutional Republic ...
And, more pointedly on the subject, I shall here quote one of the greatest conservative minds ever to make commentary on the subject”
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, - in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, - in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, - in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
EDMUND BURKE, “Letter to a Member of the National Assembly,” 1791. - The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 4, pp. 51-52 (1899).
That stated, I must confess to having some reservations about Mr. Trump - even as I much appreciate his other qualities of leadership. That he does not seem to care much about whether sodomites may maintain a legal recognition by the State of their politically coerced and illegitimately imposed “marriages” is a constant issue for me. Particularly since, as Trump is a very well-educated man, he must see the ontological impossibility of such “unions.”
This moral failing, is not to be found with Senator Cruz ...
However, OTOH, neither is it really a serious possibility that Senator Cruz could win the general election - his demographic appeal is simply too narrow ... I state this even as it is true that, should he win the Republican nomination, I would vote for him without reservation. This is an unsolvable conundrum for me - but that is life.