Posted on 12/13/2013 9:51:29 AM PST by kobald
I am in full agreement with you, sir. I do think it takes both sides to make the “Compleat Conservative”, if you will.
Over 90 percent of the Republicans we elect are phonies and qualify for your “liar” label.
True about the NJ, and this author particularly…having said that, the specific BS in this piece aside, there are legit discussions we need to have among ourselves involving this…..
“They’ve been dead to me since the Derbyshire fiasco.
What fiasco? “
John Derbyshire wrote columns for NR. He was a bit of a flake but sometimes had a good point. One of his best columns (and the one that got him sacked from NR) dealt with race, crime and situational awareness. Jonah Goldberg, the NRO editor who makes Barney Fife look resolute, thought the article was “raciss” and sacked Derbyshire.
But you still over reacted to kobold….too emotional and not intellectual enough...
Fiscal conservatism and social conservatism are two sides of the same coin. Sorry, but the are are mutually inclusive.
Just as with the opposite — the welfare state needs, and contributes to, immorality and decline of the family. You can’t separate those, so why do you think you can separate fiscal conservatism and social conservatism??
Well no doubt higher in PA and some other areas….but I would hope not 90……then again, what one is in the real world….and what they become 20 years later in DC….are two different things.
But my point is this: Tom Ridge’s problem is not that he is a “fiscal conservative”…his problem is that he’s a damned liar and a moderate…...
The flip side is the government mandating that taxes of everyone must go to support their socially liberal agenda, and their side is winning. Sodomite “couples” will now be eliglble for all kinds of taxyer-funded goodies, thanks to the GOP’s, at best, “see no evil” approach to social conservatism.
The reality was that they voted republican by 52% to 46% in 1972 and were the age group that was most supportive of the Vietnam war.
More and more, I suspect that the only solution is a great social upheaval that either realigns morality with pragmatism or renders the current "morality" irrelevant. The most likely upheaval is economic. People don't protest for gay rights when they haven't eaten for a week. High-minded notions of "morality" are replaced by more urgent matters.
Sounds nice but how is that practically applied? That we believe same-sex marriage is wrong, but don't ask the government to require marriages to be opposite-sex? That we believe abortion is wrong, but allow the government to mandate that abortions are covered in health insurance?
To be laissez-faire on these issues, the government cannot provide any different taxes or benefits for married people vs. single people, and has to get out of the business of providing marriage licenses. And they can't pass any laws restricting abortion in any way, other than defining whether the baby can be murdered before or after the umbilical cord is cut.
The bottom line is the government has to define marriage and define when life begins. The only question is who will set the definition and what will it be. The platitude that the goverment "shouldn't be involved" is meaningless, and essentially the position the left has on abortion. I don't think the left would mind having the government ignore and not recognize the institution of marriage completely either.
The fiasco when they fired him for telling the truth about the flip side of “The Talk”. And there was more truth, backed with sourced statistics, in his “The Talk”, than there has ever been in the other fantasy version (where black kids are being targetted by racist whites and in fear of their lives from whites every day of their lives. Statistics show just the opposite).
I’m a millennial and the gop has officially lost me by trying to he just like Progressives
If I wanted that I would vote for the dum’s
I would say the gop is tone deaf but the truth is they have become the second party of government
I know, I was agreeing with a previous poster who brought up NR about something.
Yes, the dems are always looking out for us, just to make it fair.....
Sheesh, only the GOPe would take advice from the enemy and run with it.
Coercion would be Supreme Court decisions like Roe vs. Wade.
All these issues are state issues and the people of the state should be deciding them, not judges.
Opposing judicial tyranny is a winning issue regardless of the age group of the voters.
“I would say the gop is tone deaf but the truth is they have become the second party of government”
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My bad! ...multi-tasking at work to help provide for all those takers.
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Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
Social conservatism is vital to our society but it is foolish to allow the Monica Media to use it as a trap for conservatives. When the gotcha questions are asked, the candidates need to push back and accuse the Dems of changing the subject from the issues.
RR never shied away from social subjects but he never allowed himself to get pigeon-holed by them.
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