I see you are using your very best debating technique.;^)
When the facts aren't on your side, start the name calling.
I see a trend here suggesting two kinds of Republicans here. The modern, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity kind of GOPer I cannot abide. The name calling of conservatives who love our troops but oppose the war, who use the term “isolationist” when it isn’t at all accurate, it all smacks of liberal Democrats enraged but unable to defend their position. Nothing is uglier.
Wilson maneuvered us into WWI. Roosevelt maneuvered us into WWII, right or wrong. Bush maneuvered us into Iraq I. Bush II maneuvered us into Iraq II. Anything else is brainwashing and propaganda. Limbaugh is good, but wrong. Hannity is a know-it-all and even wrong on the facts. Michael Savage, however, swerves into the truth much of the time, if you can stand the swings between ranting and despair and resignation.
Odd as it may seem, it’s not my attempt to demonize any of them. Each of them felt it was right and proper to do so given the mindset they all develop after ascending the political or popular media ladder. It’s distorted and embraces the immoral “the end justifies the means” and becomes insular from, among other things, the tragedy of a dying man on the battlefield yearning for his mother’s company in his dying moments. Democrats claim a sensitivity to yearning to see such killing end but peace is the proper preserve of a true conservative. Witness Reagan’s finest hour as the Iron Curtain fell.
The demons are here in these forums where parrots live, men who can manage no better than to mock. That’s not conservative, nor close. They don’t deserve to wear the Republican mantle.
As a former Young Republican (I’m old now) I watched these candidates, Bush and all (and later, talk jocks) come into their own as politicians and it is all a tragedy of major scope. A friend, a former state campaign manager for Jack Kemp, watched Nancy Reagan break down weeping when Bush I was named Reagan’s running mate.
Nancy “got” it and President Ron remained typically sanguine. America and the GOP has tilted ever-leftward ever since. It’s lunatic fringe isn’t Ron Paul. It’s Giuliani, Bush and company. Wake up.