Posted on 04/29/2017 8:16:56 AM PDT by onyx
( Millennials Can’t Understand Castro Without Acknowledging His Legacy of Brutality)...the same no nothings that are marching for Soros and his ideas today.
Now that Jim Demint will soon be unemployed maybe he can be petitioned to return to the Senate via primary challenging Prissy Lindsey Graham in 2020 when Graham is next up for reelection to the Senate.
Demint is probably the one GOP figure in South Carolina who can for sure defeat Graham in a primary!
The US Senate and the USA as a whole would be a lot better off with Demint serving in it and Linda Graham OUT!
Hmm.. l smell Soros and the Rats. Trump has a relationship with Heritage (he used them for SC suggestions). Wasn’t it last week when a leftist mob invaded Heritage’s lobby?
DeMint smartly shifted fronts in a two-front war. Globalists had taken him out of Senate power with trumped up ethics charges (later disproven), and at the same time were close to taking over another of their powerful enemies, Heritage Foundation. DeMint put Heritage back on the offensive, but our enemies are very persistent. There is a whole industry that specializes in taking over mature foundations, so that massive endowments which were intended to further conservative and biblical principles can be turned against those pillars of our society.
Because he thought he could do more for the conservative cause at Heritage than in the Senate.
Indeed and judging by the remarks at American Thinker, Heritage is set to lose a lot of their donors when DeMint is dumped.
Absolutely.
Democrats ruin everything they touch.
Well, there ya go.
I had forgotten about THAT!
Absolutely!
Just another worthless organization that pretends to be working for America and Americans to make life better and that government is the problem. Results to date, zero. All it is doing is raising money to keep the worthless organization going under false pretenses of helping you, us. And government grows larger and makes matters worse.
Heritage's founding generation was careful not to get too narrowly political. Heritage was a public policy think tank. It was obviously conservative and mostly Republican, and it was pleased to launch ideas into the policy mill, but it was careful to remain independent of narrow party faction. That's a hard line to draw. There's no question that DeMint is much more hands-on political. I expect that riled a good portion of the old Heritage gang (starting with the Board), who would argue that there are plenty of others already in the partisan political space, and that Heritage is better served by maintaining a degree of distance.
Heritage used to be the place that movement conservatives sent their checks when they were teed off at the Republican establishment on the Hill, or when a Republican president went squishy. It's one voice among many, but its a useful voice. I would sympathize with Heritage board members who want to maintain their independence. It's not Heritage's job to blindly support whatever the current Republican president wants to do.
I do not know why these successful organizations, like the Heritage Foundation, decide to "fiddle" with their game-winning formula. This organization was a think tank that everyone could count on to present the fair, objective viewpoint on every issue.
Like I said in the first paragraph, I can see the "Oops , we made a mistake with DeMint" change of the guard. But why "reach out to democRATS?
It happens in the business world all the time. Remember the new Coke? What a disaster. Look at ESPN right now. Decided to add politics to their "sports" job and blew it big time. Losing ratings, fans, and having to fire 100's of employees. Or Starbucks' idea to give 10,000 refugees employment? What about our own veterans? The public spoke in a backlash and their stock dived.
Anyway you get the idea. Messing with a winning formula for success can have the opposite intended effect. Heritage Foundation needs to stick with what's worked for them in the past. Why do they need to take a "softer" approach?
Exactly so, “why a softer approach, particularly now, at the beginning of Donald J. Trump’s presidency?”
Talk about “pee-poor timing! Now is the time to double down on conservativism! Yell it from the mountain tops!
Sell it on all street corners across our nation.
Now is the time to make great strides!
“Wasn’t it last week when a leftist mob invaded Heritage’s lobby?”
Yes.
“Now that Jim Demint will soon be unemployed maybe he can be petitioned to return to the Senate via primary challenging Prissy Lindsey Graham in 2020 when Graham is next up for reelection to the Senate. Demint is probably the one GOP figure in South Carolina who can for sure defeat Graham in a primary! The US Senate and the USA as a whole would be a lot better off with Demint serving in it and Linda Graham OUT!”
Amen to all of that, brother. But I think it will be awhile before Grahamnesty is up for reelection again.
Sobering thought. Thanks for pointing this out.
Actually, no. The famous “Mandate for Leadership” that Reagan used was offered in 1979 to both the Carter and Reagan camps. Only Reagan responded.
A little background here. Beginning around 2011, I began going to every conservative “think tank” and funding organization out there to try and get support to turn my book “A Patriot’s History of the United States” into either six TV video segments (a la Milton Friedman’s old “Free to Choose”) or a single D’Souza-type documentary feature. I hit every one. Only Citizens United provided any support.
The answer at Heritage at the time was similar to almost all others: “We don’t do video.” I explained to the administrator-—a veep level guy-—that young people do not read policy papers, nor do they attend lectures and panel discussions, and that like Breitbart said we had to address the culture via video. It fell on deaf ears.
Fast forward to last year. I had reason to re-approach Heritage and the guy I interacted with was much more positive-—but their budget for video was way under what the project would entail. He said DeMint understood the need to shift to video, but it was a slow process.
I think DeMint wanted to get Heritage up to the 21st century on a lot of levels. The notion that it was “non-partisan” was as silly as the notion that Brookings is “non-partisan.” Still, I know there was a lot of resistance from the “pure” scholars who are the types to make a bullet in a factory then claim they had no part in who it killed.
The Trump budget is effectively an extension of a Heritage document that's been in existence over two years.
All foundations, large and small, given enough time, will eventually turn left.
A liberal is drawn to free money like a moth to a flame.
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