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To: GonzoII
I'm glad the Grand Duke was a good guy, but is this article seriously advocating for a primogeniture monarch as a head of state?

He needs to update his calendar; this is 2009.

4 posted on 03/20/2009 1:35:38 PM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner
"is this article seriously advocating for a primogeniture monarch"

I'd take him over Obama.

6 posted on 03/20/2009 1:38:49 PM PDT by GonzoII ("That they may be one...Father")
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To: GunRunner

Surprisingly, there are some conservatives who are so conservative they reject classical liberalism and advocate a return to the monarchy. They argue that Enlightenment thinking—including the political and economic liberalism that accompanied it—was inherently anti-Christian, and while they may have a point I think they fail to recognize there’s little reason to assume the monarchy is a superior system.


8 posted on 03/20/2009 1:45:36 PM PDT by Arguendo
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To: GunRunner
this is 2009.

And ... what?

Popular election of heads of government has given the world such worthies as (in no particular order, and not implied to be equal) Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, Jimmy Carter, Robert Mugabe, Bill Clinton, Barak Hussein 0bama, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac ...

"Enlightened", "Rational" revolutions have presented us with "La Terreur", the Third Reich, The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the Peoples' Republic of China ...

Sometimes, Monarchy looks pretty darn good by comparison.

18 posted on 03/20/2009 2:07:29 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: GunRunner

The point, which you seem to have missed, is this:

The drive-by-media and the other leftists pitched a fit because a conservative office-holder exercised the rights and duties of his office. The same leftist groups then stripped the conservative office-holder of his authrority, despite the popular sentiment of the people.


92 posted on 03/21/2009 6:04:33 AM PDT by Notwithstanding (Member of the Long Grey Line)
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To: GunRunner

Good article, but ditto on your post. The Remnant is an, IMO, over-the-top Catholic rag w/ way too much holier-than thou attitude.


114 posted on 03/23/2009 6:19:10 AM PDT by jjm2111
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