Posted on 06/19/2006 1:04:17 PM PDT by fanfan
It's a very good editorial.
I really enjoyed it.
:-)
This has been posted. However, it was from another web site. But it's a great read on why he left the left. Good to post it again.
Sorry about that.
I was surprised I couldn't find it as it seemed to be something we would all enjoy.
:-)
In response, the Left offered bumper-sticker-type arguments like, Bush lied and thousands died. But Bush never lied. He, like Clinton and Gore and Kerry and the U.N. and the British and French and Israeli intelligence services affirmed that Saddam's WMD were a vital threat - a threat, that post- 9/11, could not stand. An overwhelming number of Democrats voted for the war - but now the Left says they were "scared" into their votes by Bush. What does it say about Democrats if the "dummy" they think Bush is can scare them so easily?
The crux of the matter, succinctly worded.
In which case he has no clue that the MSM carefully selected only a few seconds of the infamous "Rodney King Tape" for broadcast, editing out the 20-minutes where Mr. King lashed out at the officers like a wild animal.
The first jury acquitted because they were shown the tape in its entirety. The federal jury (double jeapordy) was not shown the tape in its entirety.
bttt
I didn't know that.
I am always amazed when judges decide not to let all the facts speak for themselves.
What are they afraid of, justice?
He was 11 in 1971. LBJ hardly registers on his memory at all I would imagine.
Could you please explain your tagline? Thanks.
I was a radical when I was young. Then I went into the apathetic mode. After 9-11, my mind started to clear.
I think the name was 'WHY I LEFT THE LEFT.' Oh please glad this was posted again. Thanks. It's a great article.
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Wonderful article. Thank you.
The author needs to rephrase this sentence for it to be historically accurate.
Jake Adams was elected by the House of Representatives in 1825 when the Electoral College failed to produce a winner in a 4-way race.
Rutherford Hayes was elected in 1876 when Congress decided to create a board to decide which election returns it wished to accept from southern states still under federal occupation. The board, with a Republican majority, chose southern electors for Hayes over electors for Tilden. Thus, the Electoral College ended up electing Hayes, although Tilden had a win in the popular vote. Historians pretty much agree that this election was stolen.
In 1888, Harrison won the Electoral College while Cleveland had a plurality in the popular vote. This was the election that most closley paralleled 2000 -- unless you really believe Florida was stolen.
They also re-elect people like Marrion Berry, Nancy Pelosi, etc.
It is because they do not have the ability to see how poor their own leadership is even when it's right in front of them.
I give you
I also had a similar conversion circa 1979-80, although I had voted for Nixon in my first pres election in 1972, don't think I voted for Carter, but did vote for RWR and Reps ever since.
However really bad the Dems are with their trading in of Jefferson for Marx circa the late 1800's, Republicans are no less statist, just differently and slightly less so.
The progressives of BOTH parties f@cked the nation, it is what we suffer under to this very day, a Govt run amuck with the people's purse for reelections and personnal gain.
These video & essay links will open your eyes America to what 100 years of self interested educrats saw fit to leave us in the dark about:
The State as an Organization (video)
http://www.mises.org/multimedia/video/asc2006/asc06-Rozeff.wmv
Taking money back (completely logical and constitutional)
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/moneyback.asp
How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (video)
http://www.cato.org/realaudio/cbf-02-15-06.ram
The Issue of Tariffs: How U.S. Revenue Collection Was Turned Inside-Out (video)
http://mises.org:88/Sophocleus
Size Matters: How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America's Families, Finances, and Freedom And Limits the Pursuit of Happiness (video)
http://www.cato.org/realaudio/cbf-02-02-06.ram
Big Business and the Rise of American Statism (exc essay)
http://praxeology.net/RC-BRS.htm
The Founding of The Federal Reserve (video)
http://mises.org:88/Rothbard-Fed
The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part I (video)
http://www.mises.org/multimedia/video/Woods/Woods5.wmv
Secrets of the Federal Reserve (the web of power is phenomenal)
http://www.barefootsworld.net/fs_m_ch_01.html
Jackson's 2nd Bank US VETO (very important - what he correctly and constitutionally opposed is just what we ended up with in 1913)
http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/ajveto.htm
"The Separation of Commercial and Investment Banking: The Morgans vs. the Rockefellers" (the true thieves of the taxpayers and obsconders of the const)
http://www.mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae1_1_1.pdf
The hi-jacking took place in Chicago at the Dem Convention in 1968. The radical Left took over the party, making it clear the Dems could not win without them. From that time to this, attrition has been occurring by those in that party who respect traditional standards of right and wrong. Some take longer than others. For example, Zell Miller is a very good man, but I wish he had changed parties and had done it sooner. Still, he helped GWB from the Dem Party when it mattered a lot. The radicals have the Dem Party control and the MSM, but they're driving more out of their party all the time. Hopefully, the Republicans will remain attractive by standing up for traditional standards.
Welcome to the 'dark side', where common sense rules and to be compassionate means, sometimes, saying no!
From the article I think he was about 30 in 1990, so he was about ten in 1970. He probably did not pay much attention to politics until he was eighteen. That would be 1978 or so and the media and campuses were heavy anti-establishment by that time. jmho
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