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To: Jim Robinson
If you refuse to defend our God-given Liberty, then you are not part of the solution; you are part of the problem!!
I'm all about defending out God-given Liberty.
We all have the same objectives, the only question is how we go about best achieving them.
It is a question of emphasis and how we frame the agenda.
We are most successful when we work from the broadest common ground.
Fiscal conservatism is a sure winner, everytime. And now more than ever in this political climate.
Republicans can achieve anything they want, and with broad popular support, so long as they frame it as limiting the size and scope of government.

There are two arguments for every conservative agenda item.
Both seek to achieve the same results, but one will enjoy more popular support that increases Conservative's power than the other.
The Tea Parties are saying Republicans need to maximize that, and avoid more divisive debates, if they want to be successful long-term.
 
114 posted on 11/14/2010 5:28:00 PM PST by counterpunch ("Some election nights are more fun than others" - Baraq Hussein 0bama)
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To: counterpunch

God, Family, Country, Life and Liberty will never take a backseat on this bus, pal. Get the hell OFF of FR if you don’t like it!


116 posted on 11/14/2010 5:30:42 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: counterpunch

“Fiscal conservatism is a sure winner, everytime. And now more than ever in this political climate.”

Not every time. We are more likely to win over blacks and Hispanics with social conservatism.


118 posted on 11/14/2010 5:31:48 PM PST by ari-freedom (Islam is at war against America, while America is at the mall.)
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To: counterpunch

So you’re back trying to disguise yourself as a conservative? You’re one of the biggest RINO defenders around here, including Scott Brown, and you have the gall to attack the Tea Party, let alone the site owner?


123 posted on 11/14/2010 5:38:32 PM PST by rintense
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To: counterpunch

You sound just like the Siren who attempts to convince the sailor their are no jagged rocks beneath those calm waters... You cannot separate social from fiscal... one entails the other. You cannot separate morality from government... one requires the other. Amoral or immoral men cannot govern themselves:

In “A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly,” 1791, Edmund Burke wrote: “What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves.”

Edmund Burke continued: “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.”

This portion particularly applies to those holding your opinions:

“...in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves.”


310 posted on 11/14/2010 10:25:55 PM PST by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !When a majority of the American)
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