Posted on 09/12/2009 7:41:30 AM PDT by AJKauf
Many prominent young bloggers say its time conservatives altered their fortunes and cast off those intellectual dead weights who stir up irrational fear. Time to throw off those whose intellectual bankruptcy has left the conservative movement with no credibility in the eyes of the American people.
No, they’re not calling for the removal of those writers and political leaders who told us that if we didn’t give the Treasury $700 billion to distribute to corporate America, the world as we know it would end, thus undermining free-market economics. Rather, the talk from young political guns Patrick Ruffini and Jon Henke has been about the need to purge WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah and the birthers. Ruffini called for the conservatives to bend it like William Buckley, who famously purged the John Birch Society from the conservative movement. Ruffini even calls for a return of “Buckleyite elite,” which will come after conservatives take the necessary steps to expel from their midst the rabble that believe in nutty conspiracies.
I’ve mixed feelings on Mr. Farah, and questioning the president’s country of origin is a waste of time. However, the calls for “purges” are wrongheaded for several reasons.
First is the issue of practicality...
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Work hard and vote out evildoers... when anyone tells you it is a bad idea or it will not work... ignore them.
GOD is on our side.
LLS
No JUANabies.
Now that made my day!!!
LLS
Who IS this guy and how did he land a job a PM?
I’m trying to see if that term could be made to go “mainstream” by 2012.
I am going to help you!
LLS
That’s a BIG start!
I think they have the idea of a purge the wrong way round. It is _we_ who should be purging the RINOs who think the constitution should be ignored just because it’s politically inconvenient to insist that it be enforced.
I can’t claim to have decided who will get my vote yet, but until the Republican party start demanding that the President be eligible under the CONSTITUTION, I cannot in good conscience vote for a Republican rep in ‘10.
Work hard and vote out evildoers... when anyone tells you it is a bad idea or it will not work... ignore them.
GOD is on our side.
That sounds nutty. Maybe you should be purged.
No, YOU should be purged for urging purging! ;-)
LLS
Us purging Rinos from the GOP leadership, is what the social Marxist/global economic power elite are worried about. We did that to the Rinos when Newt took the majority. That movement pettered out but for a couple of election cycles, Rinos were in the back of the back of the bus.
Rinos or “moderates” do not want an opposition party blocking “progress” as they move beyond the social and legal structure of the constitution or the rule of law.
Thank you for the back-up!
LLS
I don’t read PM anymore. They are to full of people that think they know everything and we the people should be treated as children.
I just couldn’t resist a 2/3 “Nattering Nabobs of Negativism”.
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