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The GOP's suicide pact
The Washington Post ^ | Sunday, November 29, 2009 | Kathleen Parker

Posted on 11/28/2009 7:56:03 AM PST by publius1

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My favorite two parts of this: "It's too bad that "elite" and "nuance" have become bad words in the Republican lexicon. Elites are viewed in Republican circles as "those people" who are out of touch with "real Americans." And "nuance," the definition of which suggests a sophisticated approach to understanding (as opposed to "Because I said so, case closed") has come to be viewed as a Frenchified word Republicans successfully hung on presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004. His flip-floppery on issues became associated with nuance, a.k.a. lack of decisiveness. Ergo, a lack of leadership skills."

And then -- "Thinking people need not apply."

The insane part of this is trying to use Bill Buckley on her side in this -- Buckley who engineered the elimination of the Objectivists, the NRA, and Pat Buchanan from the core conservative movement. Buckley would never have seen conservatism as a club that anyone can join where principles are optional.

She suggests that we revisit our "noniodeological roots." How about that, for a party birthed in opposition to slavery? What would she have written in those days?

1 posted on 11/28/2009 7:56:03 AM PST by publius1
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>>How about that, for a party birthed in opposition to slavery? What would she have written in those days?

Since everything liberals do is designed to preserve or bring back slavery in some form, I’d say that she would have written the same thing in 1860 or 1960.


2 posted on 11/28/2009 8:00:13 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Question O-thority)
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Sad truth is many in the GOP will turn to the Post for advise on how to save the party.


3 posted on 11/28/2009 8:00:33 AM PST by skeeter
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To: publius1

She also has no clue as to what Russell Kirk meant by “ideology.”

She might be right by hinting that Russell Kirk might not be a Republican today. But he wouldn’t be a Republican because he was a True Conservative.


4 posted on 11/28/2009 8:02:26 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: publius1

It really IS this simple : freedom works. While I’m touched by the “concern” the left has I’m not taking advice from our sworn enemy about what choices are to be made.


5 posted on 11/28/2009 8:05:36 AM PST by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: skeeter
Who cares what Obama rump kisser K Parker thinks??
She and David Brooks have lost the moral authority to dare
give advise on what republicans should think or do.
Hey Kathleen.....buzz off!
6 posted on 11/28/2009 8:05:49 AM PST by MamaLucci (It's Mourning In America........)
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To: publius1

Sure, the GOP should take the advice of Obama-supporter Kathleen Parker in how to engineer a return to power.


7 posted on 11/28/2009 8:08:30 AM PST by oblomov
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Most of us know that decisiveness isn't always a virtue,

Wonder how long it took her to "decide" to leave that bit of inanity in her essay...

8 posted on 11/28/2009 8:08:35 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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"Sad truth is many in the GOP will turn to the Post for advise on how to save the party."

It will be okay as long as they don't turn to the Post for "advice".

9 posted on 11/28/2009 8:09:07 AM PST by Redleg Duke ("Don't fire unless fired upon, but it they mean to have a war, let it begin here." J Parker, 1775)
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To: publius1

I love it when libs are sooo deeply concerned for our party and its survival.

What we need in Washington is a bunch of no thinking simpletons. The kind that wouldn’t be smart enough to devise a nuanced rational on how to stimulate the economoy with more deficit spending.


10 posted on 11/28/2009 8:10:17 AM PST by Crooked Constituent
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Kathleen Parker has no credibility.


11 posted on 11/28/2009 8:11:19 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10 YEARS OF FREEPING! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EEE!!!)
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another fine house conservative, Kathleen Parker, trotted out. She and David Frum need to get a room.


12 posted on 11/28/2009 8:11:29 AM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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If The Post doesn’t like it, they’re doing the right thing.....for a change.


13 posted on 11/28/2009 8:12:02 AM PST by edpc (Those Lefties just ain't right)
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To: publius1

Here’s a novel idea.

Let the people choose our candidates.


14 posted on 11/28/2009 8:12:20 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: MamaLucci
Kathleen speaks for the Rockefeller wing of the party - the same folks who are contemptible, and afraid, of the conservative base. They believe their constituents should just shut up & vote for the R cause they're clearly too stupid to be trusted to think.

They're also the same folks who led us into the wilderness for 50 dry years, and seek to do it again by telling us RWR & WFB would've wanted it that way. No sale.

15 posted on 11/28/2009 8:13:01 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

What’s the difference between Mary Landrieu and Kathleen Parker?? 300 MILLION DOLLARS is the ONLY difference .


16 posted on 11/28/2009 8:13:30 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: FastCoyote

I don’t think he’d be interested, if you know what I mean...


17 posted on 11/28/2009 8:15:36 AM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: publius1

sophisticated

1. knowledgeable and cultured: knowledgeable about the ways of the world, self-confident, and not easily deceived

Seems we are that, what she accuses us of not being.


18 posted on 11/28/2009 8:16:07 AM PST by razorback-bert (We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
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To: publius1
Washington (COM)Post - deny these principles ---just like for the candidates--- at your own peril.

These are basic, decent, requirements...nothing super radical here. You--the LameStream Media keep packaging it in these "horrible" bundles, but it's not...and the REST of America is ONTO you...we KNOW the truth!

19 posted on 11/28/2009 8:17:12 AM PST by NordP (COMMON SENSE CONSERVATIVES - Love of Country, Less Govt, Stop Spending, No Govt Run Health Care!!!)
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It's too bad that "elite" and "nuance" have become bad words in the Republican lexicon

That could be because all those "elite" aristocrats use their "nuance" to deceive us.

20 posted on 11/28/2009 8:18:14 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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