Hush, she's on a roll.
Posted on 09/22/2015 8:02:44 AM PDT by conservative98
Donald Trump stands at 32 percent favorability right now, according to the latest Morning Consult tracking poll. Hugh Hewitt joins Morning Joe to discuss.
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Conservatives fought tooth and nail
It surprises me what is being called conservative. Unsurprisingly, history is a mixed bag, where conservative vs. "liberal" is concerned—because history is still in process.
To take one example, totalitarianism is not conservative, because treating men like ants instead of other Christs is not a tradition sanctioned by God, the Church, or the Bible.
The noblemen forced King John to sign the Magna Carta to reverse the fact that he had taken away their traditional rights to govern their own people. The 2,000-year-old Catholic church calls the nobles' position "subsidiarity," which is the arrangement whereby authority is exercised at the lowest level practical. On the opposite side, the bomb-throwing, God-hating Left believes passionately in tyranny, as long as they're the tyrants in charge. See the Liberté, Egalité, and Fraternité of the French Revolution and the Russian revolution for how that wonderful new idea worked out. P.S. Tyranny is an old idea.
Copernican theory? Conceived and published by a Catholic canon at the urging of two close friends—a bishop and a cardinal. Luther and the other Reformation types I've read all hated Copernicanism, as it was called, because they saw it as contradicting the language of the Bible. But the Pope at the time of Copernicus, Clement VII, was enthralled by a lecture he heard on Copernicus's heliocentric theory, and had his cardinals write to Copernicus to ask for copies of all his books. One hundred years later, Galileo got into trouble, not because he favored Copernicanism, but because he described some of his own theories (some of which were wrong) as received truth, and for good measure, made fun of his friend and protector, Pope Urban VIII, in print.
Evolution? How about genetics? Devised by a German Augustinian monk named Gregor Mendel using the traditional scientific method—which, by the way, is based on works by Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, on logic and philosophy. Evolution is not a science, but a hypothesis, and it's been creaking badly of late.
Independence? The colonists were asserting their traditional rights as Englishmen, which Parliament had been denying them for decades. Etc.
The Soviet revolution was 70 years old when Reagan, Mrs. Thatcher, and John Paul II knocked it on its butt. The Soviet regime was certainly entrenched, with its own, very conservative control of every word publicly uttered. Was Soviet tyranny liberal or conservative? The Communist Party USA was a fully funded subsidiary of the Soviet Communist Party. The CPUSA, officiated by Americans, never deviated from the Soviet Party line between 1920 and 1990. Was the CPUSA conservative or liberal?
The comment you mention is arbitrarily assigning the label of liberal or conservative after the fact, after picking sides for itself and its political enemies of today. The reality is that when something has been in place for a while, it becomes conservative to uphold it. Problems arise when rulers and their rules "conserve" and protect themselves to the point where they stop serving the people under them. Like, say, Democrats and the GOPe today.
So obviously, the Tea Party, because it opposes the Dems and the GOPe, is going to win in the end, because it's liberal! QED.
Well, George H.W. Bush was a nice young man, so I’m sure this “Jeb” is as well!
Maybe Cruz's supporters are really Trump supporters who haven't made the jump yet?
I don’t see Cruz dropping out any time soon. But there is this:
I’m disappointed from what I heard Ted Cruz say last night on Colbert - he said he wouldn’t bash or answer back to anyone trashing his R opponents. All well and good, but then he said the same about Democrats. That lost me right there - another George W. Bush who refused to stand up for himself and hit back at the Dems.
Um, Walker dropped out.
“I’ll not vote for him (Trump). Walker and Cruz are the only ones that will get my vote, and only one is still running.”
That’s mature. So hand the presidency to another socialist-democrat. That’ll show ‘em!
Walker and Cruz both are good people but neither could win against any Dem who will run.
FYI ...Walkers not running...he quit the race.
>>I don’t see Cruz dropping out any time soon.<<
Not soon, but next.
>>I’m disappointed from what I heard Ted Cruz say last night on Colbert - he said he wouldn’t bash or answer back to anyone trashing his R opponents. <<
That takes him off his own message as a sh!t kicker. It makes him look soft (as has his performance in the “debates”).
Speaking of his message - I can give his stump speech as well as he can - he has every word memorized and so do I. He needs to change it up some - he lists the 5 things he will do on day one - and then talks about putting the IRS agents on the border. Yeah, that’s supposed to be humor, but I want to hear something different from him.
Hush, she's on a roll.
>>and then talks about putting the IRS agents on the border. <<
He should talk about putting IRS agents on the Syrian border! THAT is a campaign winner!
Actually, it will “show ‘em”, if that’s what it takes.in a democracy, you not only get the government you want, but the government you deserve. The smart Jews didn’t fight Hitler.
The smart ones left.
Look around you at the current electorate and then rent Idiocracy. Seriously.
Yes; I know. I saw his Trump-bashing speech in real time. My post was responding to the original poster who had mentioned Walker.
Yes; I know. I saw his Trump-bashing speech in real time. My post was responding to the original poster who had mentioned Walker.
Just look at that face! I Mean, come on, do we want that face as our next president? NO
Trump plays ‘the terminator’ to perfection. The Trumpinator.
“These people are staring at being out of work.”
Yeah, next the GOPe will try to tell us all that the economy will tank again if all of them are put out to pasture. Any real government reform will only take place with the GOPe gone.
Cruz is having too much fun to drop out. He’ll stay in for the long haul. He’s doing fine with hard money and super pacs.
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