Posted on 07/13/2014 7:38:37 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
WASHINGTON | A few recent developments have revealed the tea party temperament in its most distilled, potent form. Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama on the theory that his border policies are "the last straw that makes the battered wife say, ‘no mas.' "
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It is three pages of discussion then, about the Tea Party vs Conservatism, to the extent they do not agree.
Good reading. I get the impression the writer is supporting the Conservative position but called out Palin early on because she's so visible. He settles on that as a conclusion, so I believe that is his point.
But the article seems to me, to support Palin, and to support that it is precisely the conservatism he supports which is putting the party to sleep.
Good note however. Worth reading.
Oh. WE'RE the ones who are apocalyptic, Michael?
Are we the ones who go around predicting the world will end if we don't get to spend another trillion dollars every few months?
The tea party temperament is often accompanied by easily reducible political theory. "The word ‘education,' " McDaniel has argued, "is not in the Constitution. Because the word is not in the Constitution, it's none of their [the federal government's] business." Neither are the phrases "health care," "retirement assistance," "disaster relief," "food safety" or "cancer research." And there goes much of the modern state.
These habits of mind — desperation, utopianism, purifying zeal and ideological simplicity — have their uses throughout history. But they can't be called conservative.
For me, doing away with much of the modern state is PRECISELY what conservatism is all about.
If that’s what you call “support Palin “ you’ve been smoking something.
Gerson is one of Bush’s speechwriter, and he’s a RINO’s RINO. In that screed he manages to ridicule not only Palin, but Cruz, Levin and all the tea party.
He’s worse than Rove.
According to this fool Getson the way you reform Marxism is by making small incremental changes to their 5 year plans
At the same time, failed tea party Senate candidate Chris McDaniel claims that his primary opponent, Thad Cochran, "stole" the election — a serious charge made without serious evidence — and equates overturning his 7,700-vote loss with preserving "the torch of liberty." Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has embraced McDaniel's legal challenge, blaming the "D.C. machine" for shifting the election results.
At the same time, failed tea party Senate candidate Chris McDaniel claims that his primary opponent, Thad Cochran, "stole" the election — a serious charge made without serious evidence — and equates overturning his 7,700-vote loss with preserving "the torch of liberty." Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has embraced McDaniel's legal challenge, blaming the "D.C. machine" for shifting the election results.
For the record I have supported Sarah Palin since before John McCain picked her as his running mate in 2008.
I am ALL IN.
I am for American production.
I am for American jobs.
(so for all of you who are sending American jobs overseas, you’re right, I don’t agree with that)
America needs to become far, far more aggressive and to fight to bring back jobs to America.
I am conservative, but I am very, very supportive of Palin.
100%.
So accuse me all you would like, I am what I am.
I posted this article because I believe the “media” right now, is blanket-publishing in favor of Obama right now.
Do a google of Palin. I’m serious. Google “Sarah Palin” right now.
You will (still, now nearly a day later) see the media is on the MSNBC article which was written by an Obama operative, and blatantly in the tank for Obama (and against Palin)
Our media is currently spinning, actively, against Palin.
So I decided to do some effort to publish some articles in opposition to the media spin.
Maybe I sometimes get carried away, but this is not the mainstream media. This is our site.
We need to set the agenda here.
If you think I am insufficiently pro-Palin then how about also finding some articles.
:D
Just saying.
Well well.
Google just now updated the results of a search on Sarah Palin.
Just now. Completely series.
Interesting.
Oh come on. Really now.
(still waiting btw, for some pro-Palin articles posted by yourself)
:D
Well well.This is HUGH!Google just now updated the results of a search on Sarah Palin.
Just now. Completely series.
Interesting.
I’m just saying.
Though yesterday afternoon there was a poll published on MSNBC (a site which I had never before accessed)
I spent a long time refreshing the screen, so if Google tracks (without logins, because I don’t belong to Google), so repeating if Google tracks actual site usage, without logging on, in their output.
Then maybe, just maybe, I set up the situation all on my own. Maybe.
I was only logged on FR. That is is.
But I’m completely series however.
The results changed, right after that.
(completely series)
I’m just saying.
Maybe there are ways that Google tracks stuff, I don’t understand.
Maybe Google can update your own Google output, without you even being a member of Google.
In which case, this was all a result of my own browsing habits.
But that is what happened.
I am series.
:D
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