Is Conservatism Dying?

Townhall.com ^ | 17 March 2007 | Patrick Ruffini

[philman_36]

I meant it in the context of the current political situation.

Second sentence on...I agree. Somebody's day is gonna get ruined.

[TAdams8591]

Rudy is NOT going to win the nomination. : )

[UltraKonservativen]

...Conservatism is in fact being murdered by the MSM, liberal Dims and RINOs...
They are attempting murder but all we need is someone to take up the call of true conservatism. In Reagan's words ""The great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism." and stop this nonsense of appeasing this "Toxic Trio".

[Democratshavenobrains]

Conservatism was killed..........in the Billiard Room.........by Professor Plum........with the Candlestick!

[John David Stutts]

As I wrote on my blog a little over a month ago, we can expect a concerted effort to depress Republican turnout going into 2008.

The MSM succeeded in depressing the GOP turnout in 06. The voters rejected the WOT, GOP taxcuts, abortion bans, the end of the AWB, and conservative SCOTUS judges. Judging from the sizable number of Freepers who will not endorse any GOP candidate who can win...I see no reason to expect the GOP to prevail in 08. Conservatives are easily led by the MSM.

[dfwgator]

The problem is that conservatism is constantly being defined down. The conservatism of the Reagan-era is long dead.

[freedomfiter2]

The problem is that conservatism is constantly being defined down.


Don't blame me.

[jetson]

When you get right down to it MOST people are conservative. The problem is that we are creating allot of undereducated, misinformed dolts who are too busy feeding their fat faces or drinking lattes to ask difficult questions. Stalin would have been tickled pink to be able to mold the useful idiots that this country is producing.

[Ol' Sparky]

Conservatism can do nothing but die if enough conservatives are willing to sell out their principles and vote from someone that isn't significantly different ideologically than the typical Democrat for President.

Turning conservatism into a a water-down form of liberalism would disaster. Eight years of RINO/liberal Republican office will set conservatism back to the years before Reagan took office.

[goldstategop]

Liberals always make the mistake of thinking conservatism is dead. Its more relevant than ever.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[lapdog]

Bush had a majority in both houses, but you never would have known it had they not had a (R) after their names. Reagan had neither house, but got much more support from his party. Granted, Bush is NO Reagan, but if Bush is conceding to much to the Left, I'd put a fair amount of the blame on the gutless Republicans in Congress who left Bush standing alone.

[Sun]

It's sad to see so many "conservatives" ready to settle for RINOs.

Guess we true conservatives need to be extra strong, and work extra hard, and thankfully there's a lot of us on FR.

[Liz]

RINOs are like overbearing, unwanted guests who drop in uninvited.

They never take the hint....they just don't get that its time to leave.

[democratsaremyenemy]

I hate to say this , but he probably IS crying right now,crying for our country and what it has become,crying for the "Republican" party for what it has become......


I am so sick of this Administration...I wish It and the Republican Party would just go away. What happened to the "Grand Ole Party?" It has been completely taken over by a bunch of GUTLESS WIMPS????.



President Bush lets the Democrats just walk all over him...ie the latest manufactured scandal about the U.S. attrorney firings.What does he do? He and Gonzales apologizes....for WHAT? What are you apologizing for? I am so sick of seeing my President who I voted for both times just grovel at the feet of these Democrats......Im so sick of seeing my President who I voted for both times groveling at the feet of Calderone in Mexico.....I just cannot understand this.....I want to cry sometimes....

[Old Landmarks]

Conservatives are still alive and will continue to battle the evil of the left.

What has happened since the nineteen sixties is that fake conservatives who have no true foundation have been moved further and further to the left by the news outlets, godless university professors, leftist public school indoctrination when they were young, leftist indoctrination on television all day ever day and so forth.

Only those who have a true moral base will see clearly and have the courage and convictions to stand against the lies and deception.

We withstood the left during the thirties because they did not yet have centralized control over channels of daily indoctrination. Parent's morality was not attacked daily by their own government through the leftist public schools.

Now a lot of so called conservatives attack the religious conservatives as if they were the ones who just appeared out of nowhere and started this fight.

Religious conservatives, the so-called "religious right" are the ones who reflect this country's history, traditions, morals, virtues and law.

This fight was not started by the "religious right", it was started by the far left and in a more modern since it was the leftists of the sixties who hated the Bible and now they have allies in the Republican party who reject our history just like the Berkeley leftists of the sixties. The secular republicans need to point their guns back toward the fight starters, the usurpers, the liars, the Constitution revisionists and the traitors, all on the left.

[NutCrackerBoy]

We'll be asking if liberalism is dead in two years.

Liberalism is dead already but its damage is done. Liberalism lost nearly all of its battles except nanny state government and liberal activist judges. But these two are slowly eating away self-sufficiency and self-governance.

Conservatism won many battles, but in losing the big government and judicial originalism battles, can only watch in horror and staunch the bleeding by: 1) inserting a bit of accountibility into the vast bureaucracies and 2) slowing down the left-liberal rampaging Culture Warriors.

[CyberAnt]

Conservatism is NOT DYING! It's reforming under the "silent majority" cap.

When we launch on election day .. the dems could very well be in shock for years.

[Texas Federalist]

Conservatism can do nothing but die if enough conservatives are willing to sell out their principles and vote from someone that isn't significantly different ideologically than the typical Democrat for President.

And if conservatism is already dead, George Bush will be known as the man who killed it.

[madprof98]

As I wrote on my blog a little over a month ago, we can expect a concerted effort to depress Republican turnout going into 2008.

The incessant Rudybot posts here have already depressed prospective turnout considerably.

[epow]

No, Conservatism is in fact being murdered by the MSM, liberal Dims and RINOs.

If that doesn't constitute an evil triumvirate I don't know what would.

RINOs are more dangerous to America than liberals who admit that they're liberals. And conservatives who vote for RINOs because they are told that only a RINO can save the US from (pick one) Hillary, Obama, or Gore are gullible suckers.