Posted on 09/05/2009 7:06:50 AM PDT by Bush Revolution
"In "The Joe the Plumberization of the GOP," I argued that conservatives have grown too comfortable with wearing scorn as a badge of honor, content to play sarcastic second fiddle to the dominant culture of academia and Hollywood with second-rate knock-off institutions. A side effect of this has been a tendency to accept conspiracy nuts as a slightly cranky edge case within the broad continuum of conservatism, rather than as a threat to the movement itself."
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Apparently not. I just don’t get his point. At this same site, they trash certain parts of Mark Levin’s book.
I guess I’m too “nutty” to be a conservative now, if conservatism means acting like a leftist wannabee, disregarding the wishes of the American people, and ignoring the laws of the land. Alright.
It was exactly this kind of thinking that lost the election to Obummer, the Fascist.
Joe the plumber and Sarah Palin took the republican ticket perhaps 20% higher than it would have been otherwise.
Obviously my 20% statement is a guess based on discussions with friends, but I have seen numbers similar by those who are professionals in the arena.
So establishment repubs; pooh pooh Palin and JTP and the likes and throw the next election away. You certainly have demonstrated that you have a gift for throwing opportunity out the window.
Flush the elitist RINO scum. Palin/Plumber 2012.
They simple cannot stand it when they are not in charge, their squealing and sniveling is unseemly.
I'm embarrassed for them.
So instead of talking about how absurd it is for the radical fringe of the Democrat party, people like 09-11 "truth-er" Van Jone, to be running the Democrat party, the RINO clown posse wring their hands and whine about mythical "right wing fringe running the Conservative movement".
No, this is the American people in action. What is fringe is these Democrat lite types (Frum, Noonan Brooks, et al) who fraudulently claim to be "Conservatives".
LOVE iowahawk!!!!! Thanks
Good point. There would be no Tea Party if we listened to people like him. He can now sit at the table with Frum, Parker and the rest of “I’m better than you” crowd.
I think this fellow is either too young or too stupid to remember how the media treated Reagan. They savaged him daily as too stupid and too unqualified to be President. They hated and ridiculed him - because he was effective.
While WFB was effective in spreading ideas - and I admire what he did - he had near zero influence on elections and power. That is why the NE liberals didn’t mind him. He wasn’t a threat to their immediate power.
If you want to know who is capable of challenging the liberals, look to the ones they attack without mercy.
I saw something else really stupid from this site recently. It does come off like some it was cutom-tailored for the Kathleen Parker / David Frum / Peggy Noonan wing of the Republican party. I don’t trust this site at all.
(Yikes - try this again.)
I saw something else really stupid from that site posted here recently. The site comes off like it was custom-tailored for the Kathleen Parker / David Frum / Peggy Noonan snob-elite wing of the Republican party. I don’t trust the site at all.
I have disliked WIlliam Buckley since meeting him at a PEN event (3authors reading)in 1986. I know he founded the movement, but he was so fatuous and patrician and so didn’t get it. I remember that Norman Mailer, who was one of the writers, introducing him in a terribky insulting way....”eventhough he’s a conversative, he’sintelligent” or “oneof the only conservatives who is intelligent” and Buckley just accepted it — instead of coming onto the stage saying: “this exemplifies what is wrong with discourse in the US oday, and the degree to which intellectuals marginalize anyone with a dissenting voice.”
apologize for my terrible typing. Still waiting for Mr Cupcake to bring me my first cup of coffeee. Don’t know why the words run together in this format.
have disliked WIlliam Buckley since meeting him at a PEN event (3 authors reading)in 1986. I know he founded the movement, but he was so fatuous and patrician and so didn’t get it. I remember that Norman Mailer, who was one of the writers, introducing him in a terribly insulting way....”even though he’s a conversative, he’s intelligent” or “one of the only conservatives who is intelligent” and Buckley just accepted it — instead of coming onto the stage saying: “this exemplifies what is wrong with the discourse in the US today, and the degree to which intellectuals marginalize anyone with a dissenting voice.”
Sure, just what we need. /s
What is it about these guys that hate regular folks, like Joe The Plumber? Joe stood up to Obama. I don't remember any elite conservatives doing that.
No, I didn’t. But I read The Painted Bird.
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