A very good insight. Perhaps this is what differentiates Romney from the rest of the pack. Romney alone had to test his realities against the brutal realism of the marketplace.
Posted on 12/02/2007 2:38:58 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Heh. Well, on the face of it, coming from a liberal Democrat socialist scumbag like Broder, we certainly know two candidates we DON’T want.
To a socialist Democrat like Broder there is no concept of "finite resources". All you have to do is raise taxes. "Resources" are therefore infinite.
Your entire post was excellent, but this snippet was especially insightful.
Huckabee and McCain are far too willing to extort money from the hard-working productive citizens of this great country to enable big government--in its heavy-handed, stupid, discriminatory, woefully inefficient way--to exercise "compassion." This may make these two men feel really good and holy about themselves, but in the end their misguided efforts inflict even more inefficiencies and waste on everyone else and create a deeper cesspool of misery than they started with. In this, they are no different than Lyndon Johnson whose "Great Society" nonsense destroyed entire generations of black Americans while flushing trillions of dollars down the "compassion" toilet.
What I really like about Romney is that he doesn't buy into such nonsense. He is far too good of a businessman to buy into it.
In fact, Romney and Guiliani should also quit the race.
A real presidential primary among conservatives would include Hunter, Thompson and Tancredo. The rest are just wasting time and shouldn’t even be there.
Exactly! But .. he’s the media’s darling still.
A very good insight. Perhaps this is what differentiates Romney from the rest of the pack. Romney alone had to test his realities against the brutal realism of the marketplace.
BINGO!!
Spot on!
Sure, Republicans should nominate candidates that Democrats like.....great strategy, Broder.
“Yeah, let’s nominate the two biggest open borders candidates in the GOP to be our standard bearers...that’s the ticket!!”
BRODER IS AN IDIOT!
Did you read the quotation I posted by Broder: “History will record that both of them saw the threat to the West posed by terrorism and responded courageously” Do those sound like the words of a partisan leftist?
Or that the man heaped praise on Karl Rove?
I’m not sure about “consistent.” I’m not familiar enough with Broder to say that. But I do remember the guy was a rare journalist who could praise Bush and the War on Terror. Why should I trash a guy who I think has been fair on an occasion or two?
Now that you mentioned, I’ve searched through some of his articles, and I would say he has a few redeemable moments:
On Bill Clinton:
“”Ambrose is right on both scores,” says Howard Baker. “But the difference between Clinton and Nixon is that Nixon resigned because he couldn’t stand it. Clinton is not cut from the same cloth. He can compartmentalize. I drive by the White House at night and think, ‘What in the world are they doing right now? How do they function?’ I would be destroyed.”
For Baker, the most serious consequence of the scandal is “the diminished capability for the U.S. to lead by moral example . . . the impact on Kosovo and Iraq. I can just see Saddam Hussein licking his chops seeing that the U.S. is less willing to respond.”
Washington insiders are particularly appalled by the president’s recklessness, given the fact that he was already facing the Jones lawsuit. “What angers people here,” says political writer Elizabeth Drew, is that “he was on notice. There are two different kinds of judgments — one, how terrible and two, how stupid. Even if this doesn’t warrant throwing him out of office, there are too many people who are bothered by it morally and there are others who want to take the opportunity to exploit his vulnerability. The result is an awful lot of wreckage and damage.”
“Even those who have to deal with or publicly support the administration do so grudgingly. They say that regardless of whether his fortunes improve, Bill Clinton has essentially lost the Washington Establishment for good.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/quinn110298.htm
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