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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Slogan, from us to the New Pubbie third party: “We’ll beat you and the damn bitch too.”
69 posted on
12/24/2015 2:23:04 PM PST by
Nuc 1.1
(Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
As I have said, the GOPe would rather lose to Hillary than win with Trump or Cruz.
71 posted on
12/24/2015 2:28:59 PM PST by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
George Will is a pompous A-hole. Always was, always will be.
75 posted on
12/24/2015 2:51:20 PM PST by
CdMGuy
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So it IS true that a man can fit both his feet in his mouth at the same time.
77 posted on
12/24/2015 2:55:01 PM PST by
RetSignman
(Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
One of the great pleasures of watching Donald Trumps rise, is watching George Will’s demise.
78 posted on
12/24/2015 2:58:13 PM PST by
AdaGray
To: 2ndDivisionVet
79 posted on
12/24/2015 3:00:05 PM PST by
HippyLoggerBiker
(Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t like Trump, but I’ll gladly pull the lever for him to keep Hillary out of the Oval Orifice.
82 posted on
12/24/2015 4:17:47 PM PST by
driftless2
(For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
George Will is a DemocRAT who got SO OFFENDED by the DemocRATS, that he couldn't tolerate being associated with all those "CRAZIES" .
Now for a deeper understanding of just WHO George Will IS:
The word "neocons" is ONLY used by LIBERALS, trying to insult Conservatives.
The is no such thing as a "NEW" Conservative.
Conservatives ARE Conservative, plain and simple.
But read this"Liberals, Conservatives, and Neocons - - - Learn the Difference!
March 12, 2014
Almost everybody is confused about the word "neoconservative" and its shortened form, "neocon."
I find that liberals/Democrats seem to use it as a sort of disrespectful form of "conservative,"and probably have no idea the the words have distinct meanings.
On the other hand, I know of some conservatives who define it as "new conservatives,"meaning people who were formerly something else, but have converted to conservatism.
Both are wrong.
As near as I can tell, "neo-" doesn't apply to any other word that way -formerly not X, but having become X.
No, "neo-" almost always refers to an ideology that is different from the root word in a significant way.Neoconfederates are not people who want to secede and become a separate country.
They want the ideals of the Confederacy to be applied to modern politics, more or less, but not all of them.
Neoliberal is a more vague term,but it specifically applies to people who may have SOME of the attributes of liberals,
but who contradict liberalism in their advocacy of free trade and privatization
and other ideas usually thought of as conservative.
And, finally, neoconservatives are mostly those moderate cold war LIBERALS who defected to the Republican party when the Democrats got totally flaky with McGovern and his ilk.
Their ultimate origin, however, is not the Democratic party but the Trotskyite movement.
Jack Kerwick elaborates.
Read this:
Most "Conservatives" Are Secretly Neoconservatives
12 March, 2014, by Jack Kerwick, Ph.D.
A colleague of mine has drawn my attention to a Washington Post blog post - "Why Most Conservatives Are Secretly Liberals" - by a Professor John Sides, a political scientist at Georgetown University.
Sides agrees with fellow political scientists Christopher Ellis and James Stimson, co-authors of Ideology in America.
Ellis and Stimson CONTEND thatAmerica is, at bottom, a "center-left nation,"
for while "30 percent" of self-described "liberals" are consistent in endorsing "liberal" policy prescriptions,
the same sort of consistency can be ascribed to only "15 percent" of "conservatives."
And another "30 percent" of "conservatives" actually advance "liberal" positions.
In short, Americans may TALK the talk of "conservatism," but they WALK the walk of "liberalism."
That is, they favor Big Government.
Sides, Ellis, and Stimson, it seems clear to me, are "liberals."
It doesn't require much reading between the lines to discern this.
That they associate "liberals," and "liberals" ALONE, with such virtues as "consistency" and such lofty ideals as "a cleaner environment" and "a stronger safety net" is enough to bear this out.
Yet in peddling the ridiculous, patently absurd notion that"conservatives" see the media as PROMOTING "conservatism,"
the verdict regarding their "liberalism" is seen for the NO-BRAINER that it is.
There is, though, another CLUE that unveils Sides', Ellis', and Stimson's ideological PREJUDICES:They equate the term "liberalism" with a robust affirmation of Big Government.
They treat "liberalism" synonymously with its modern, "Welfare-Statist" incarnation.
There is no mention here of the fact that, originally, "liberalism" referred toa vision that attached supreme value to individual liberty,
a vision in which government played, and had to play, a minimal role in the lives of its citizens.
And there is no mention of the fact that, if "liberalism" is now "an ugly word,"
it is because the very same socialists who made "socialism" an ugly word hijacked "liberalism" when it enjoyed a favorable reception
and visited upon it the same fate that they secured for "socialism."
In other words, if Sides himself wanted to be bluntly honest, heâd have to admit that "liberals" are secretly socialists.
Still, though their premises are bogus, Sides and his colleagues draw the correct conclusion thatmost "conservatives" are NOTHING OF THE KIND.
The truth of the matter is thatthe vast majority of contemporary "conservatives"; are neoconservatives.
Now, "neoconservatism" is a term that hasn't the best reputation.
It has ALWAYS BEEN CONTROVERSIAL,
and most of its proponents have DISAVOWED IT to the point of, preposterously, condemning it as an "anti-Semitic" SLUR.
But George W. Bush and his party inflicted potentially irrevocable damage upon the label.
"Conservatism" is a more marketable label.
Nevertheless, the reality is that neoconservatism is indeed a distinct school of political thought.
Beyond this, it is fundamentally different in kind from classical conservatism.
Irving Kristol, the so-called "Godfather" of neoconservatism, an appellation that he readily endorsed, ADMITS this in noting boththat neoconservatism exists
and that "conservative" "can be misleading" when used to describe it.
Neoconservatism, you see, is THE INVENTION OF LEFTISTS like Kristol himself.
When the Democratic Party began veering too far to the Left in the 1960s, Kristol and more moderate leftists began turning toward the Republican Party.
So as TO DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES FROM traditional conservatives, they coined the term "neoconservatism."
Neoconservatives, Kristol asserts, are "not at all hostile to the idea of a welfare state" -even if they reject the "vast and energetic bureaucracies" created by the Great Society.
Neoconservatives ENDORSE "social security, unemployment insurance," and "some kind of family assistance plan," among other measures.
But what's most interesting, particularly at a time when ObamaCare has DIVIDED the country, is that Kristol reminds us thatneoconservatives SUPPORT "some form of national health insurance."
In all truthfulness, however, neither a degree in political science nor an IQ above four is required to know thatneoconservatism has always championed Big Government
for it is its foreign policy vision more than anything else that distinguishes it from its competitors.
For neoconservatives, America is "exceptional" in being, as Kristol puts it, "a creedal nation,"the only nation in all of human history to have been founded upon an "ideology" of equality, of "natural rights."
The U.S.A., then, has a responsibility to promote this ideology throughout the world.
And it is by way of a potentially boundless military - i.e. Big Government - that this "ideological patriotism" is to be executed.
Had the foregoing political scientists been looking in the right places, they would BE FORCED TO CONCLUDE that most "conservatives" are secretly neoconservatives.
So, you see that those WHO THEY CALL
"neoconservatives", are really nothing more than
the old moderate side of the DemocRATS.
It's just THAT SIMPLE .
85 posted on
12/24/2015 5:45:41 PM PST by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Someone has thrown his hat in with the oligarchy establishment.
86 posted on
12/24/2015 5:48:20 PM PST by
a fool in paradise
(The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
How old is George? Is he dementia eligible yet?
87 posted on
12/24/2015 6:16:04 PM PST by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support the troops pray for their victory!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They dont want Repubs and Dems uniting to throw off the chains of the establishment. Trump would get many Dem votes.
89 posted on
12/24/2015 6:43:24 PM PST by
Carry me back
(.Cut the feds by 90%)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing is more important that beating Hillary. Hillary=More Libs on the Supreme Court=Game over.
90 posted on
12/24/2015 7:39:09 PM PST by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Idjit George. Does he think Trump would trample all over The Constitution to get his way the way Hitlery Abedin Rotten surely would?
92 posted on
12/24/2015 9:11:24 PM PST by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Liberal pansy...go hang out with some other NPR woosies.
99 posted on
12/25/2015 5:50:10 AM PST by
CincyRichieRich
(Some Animals are more equal than others.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Will is ill, and has been for a long time.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The real problem is that with Trump in office the opportunity for Graft goes way down.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I can’t wait for Trump to start exposing and deconstructing Mr Fishnet Stockings.
109 posted on
12/25/2015 10:38:49 AM PST by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
George Will: Beating Hillary Less Important Than Stopping TrumpWill didn't say that. This is an outright lie. It's also pathological nonsense. Only a member of the Cult of Trump an ignoramus would believe this.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Stick with covering the Cubs, George...they're losers, too...like you.
Leni
114 posted on
12/25/2015 2:13:07 PM PST by
MinuteGal
("I will stand with the Muslims if the political winds shift in an ugly direction" - Barack ObaMao)
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