This "conservative" [sic]?
...or this Conservative?
Posted on 12/29/2013 8:24:06 AM PST by Innovative
Hitherto, they have thought that the most efficient way to evangelize the unconverted was to write and speak, exhorting those still shrouded in darkness to read conservatism’s most light-shedding texts. Now they know that a quicker, surer method is to have progressives wield power for a few years. This will validate the core conservative insight about the mischiefs that ensue when governments demonstrate their incapacity for supplanting with fiats the spontaneous order of a market society.
As millions find themselves ending the year without insurance protection and/or experiencing sticker shock about the cost of policies the president tells them they ought to want, a question occurs: Have events ever so thoroughly and swiftly refuted a law’s title? Remember, it is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I’m using the chamber of commerce attack on the tea party as a means of proving that the tea partiers are the only alternative that actually means what we say.
I point out to democrats that the democrat party stirs their rage about cronyism and corporate welfare but doesn’t ever do squat. The tea party actually intends to do something about it.
The 2013 lesson for Conservatives was here in Colorado.
STAND UP AND FIGHT AND YOU CAN WIN!!!
3 Recalls of gun grabbers, $1 Billion Tax Defeat, 1 conservative school board beat BIG UNION money, another conservative school board won because the Union was distracted by the other race.
Grass Roots and the Tea Party can kick ass, if only they’re willing to try.
THERE WAS NO GOPe money in those 3 successful recalls!!
Don’t consume the yellow snow journalism.
But, not quite. . . !
Those who claim "conservatism" quickly must help them grasp the set of freedom ideas which "progressives" have rejected in their effort to "fundamentally transform" America.
Economically, it was the Founders' principle of freedom for individual enterprise brought America from the crude tools of ancient Europe to the most free and prosperous destination for oppressed peoples.
See the following essay excerpted from "Our Ageless Constitution," a 292-page history of the ideas of liberty in upon which the U. S. Constitution was formed.
"Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise." - Thomas Jefferson
"The enviable condition of the people of the United States is often too much ascribed to the physical advantages of their soil & climate .... But a just estimate of the happiness of our country will never overlook what belongs to the fertile activity of a free people and the benign influence of a responsible government." - James Madison
America's Constitution did not mention freedom of enterprise per se, but it did set up a system of laws to secure individual liberty and freedom of choice in keeping with Creator-endowed natural rights. Out of these, free enterprise flourished naturally. Even though the words "free enterprise' are not in the Constitution, the concept was uppermost in the minds of the Founders, typified by the remarks of Jefferson and Madison as quoted above. Already, in 1787, Americans were enjoying the rewards of individual enterprise and free markets. Their dedication was to securing that freedom for posterity.
The learned men drafting America's Constitution understood history - mankind's struggle against poverty and government oppression. And they had studied the ideas of the great thinkers and philosophers. They were familiar with the near starvation of the early Jamestown settlers under a communal production and distribution system and Governor Bradford's diary account of how all benefited after agreement that each family could do as it wished with the fruits of its own labors. Later, in 1776, Adam Smith's INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS and Say's POLITICAL ECONOMY had come at just the right time and were perfectly compatible with the Founders' own passion for individual liberty. Jefferson said these were the best books to be had for forming governments based on principles of freedom. They saw a free market economy as the natural result of their ideal of liberty. They feared concentrations of power and the coercion that planners can use in planning other peoples lives; and they valued freedom of choice and acceptance of responsibility of the consequences of such choice as being the very essence of liberty. They envisioned a large and prosperous republic of free people, unhampered by government interference.
The Founders believed the American people, possessors of deeply rooted character and values, could prosper if left free to:
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Such a free market economy was, to them, the natural result of liberty, carried out in the economic dimension of life. Their philosophy tended to enlarge individual freedom - not to restrict or diminish the individual's right to make choices and to succeed or fail based on those choices. The economic role of their Constitutional government was simply to secure rights and encourage commerce. Through the Constitution, they granted their government some very limited powers to:
Adam Smith called it "the system of natural liberty." James Madison referred to it as "the benign influence of a responsible government." Others have called it the free enterprise system. By whatever name it is called, the economic system envisioned by the Founders and encouraged by the Constitution allowed individual enterprise to flourish and triggered the greatest explosion of economic progress in all of history. Americans became the first people truly to realize the economic dimension of liberty.
Footnote: "Our Ageless Constitution," Here, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5
Okla-homma = people red. I think he made that up.
And, collaterally, the rest of the USA and most of the free world too.
This "conservative" [sic]?
...or this Conservative?
For libtards, the failure of their programs means that there needs to be even bigger government and more government spending.The solution to every crises is more government. And it is too easy for demagogues to convince the ignorant and the foolish that it is true.
It’s more like “lets sit back and watch Dems figure a way to lie and blame everybody else for their disaster”.
They’ll do it too. LIV’s have short memories. They are already shifting blame to the insurance companies.
Obama has made a hobby out of blaming everyone else for his idiocy. The MSM has helped him do that for 5 years now.
Agreed. The left has been so successful with dumbing down the electorate that facts plainly in front of them may not be enough for many to make the connection. Democrat policies hurt me -> Don't vote for Democrats. Then once you factor in election fraud on the collectivists' part, the right definitely can't assume the battle is won. The GOP has a long history of snatching total electoral disaster from the jaws of almost certain victory.
Don't parse me, bro!
Lessons for Conservatives... from any year.
It takes strong ideas and stronger language to win in an era where the media will provide $1 BILLION worth of free advertising to any Democrat presidential candidate...
Strong language...
3 letters fully describe the Democrat party strategy
B as in Big. Big government, big labor, big big businesses
H as in Hate. Democrats hate us, and they hate the American people. No one hates us more than our current president.
O as in Oh Shut UP! If you don’t agree with the Democrat Party and it’s PC ways, you need to shut up. Just look at Phil Robertson.
If every Republican and every conservative used this to describe everything that the Democrats do, it would sink in and become part of the modern psyche.
Strong ideas...
Two words that will split the Black community away from the Democrat plantation... School Vouchers. If conservatives and Republicans come out strongly for CHOICE in education, we’ll be blasted by the unions. But if we stick with it, eventually parents of all American children will come over to our side.
Strong language and strong ideas will (over time) insure a conservative victory at the federal and state level. We just have to be unified and consistant
bkmrk
Hell yeah! Not just in CO, but across the nation. How many opportunities to deal a crippling blow to Obammunism have the Pubbies blown? IRS, NSA, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Solyndra/porkulus, voter fraud, NDAA, and now Obamacare is slipping through the GOP's fingers because they have no stomach for a fight.
We don't need any more "conservatives" of George Will's ineffectual, elitist, egg headed stripe. We need patriotic conservatives who are sick and tired of being sick and tired, who can communicate to Generation X and Generation.com, and convince them why conservatism and self-reliance rocks, and liberal, Leftist Obammunism sucks a**. We need conservative community organizers -- yes, I said community organizers. We need conservatives who are itching for a fight.
The lesson of 2013 is that the days of George Will, Newt Gingrich, Ed Rollins, Dick Morris and other old glue horse pundits are over. If we're ever going to win our Republic back, the lesson is it's time to stop talking and start doing.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The biggest lesson is that the GOP is not our party, we need a new one.
“The biggest lesson is that the GOP is not our party, we need a new one.”
The Dems applaud this sentiment. Ever heard of “Divide and Conquer” and Ross Perot?
You ever hear of “Not a Dime’s Worth of Difference”?
The fact is, we don’t need a third party, we need a second party.
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