Hard to believe I’m posting the loathsome Jon Stewart, but he pretty much nails it here (and even includes Coburn and Reagan):
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-17-2013/the-best-and-the-rightest
In answer to your question, Fightin Whitey, a balanced conservative is someone who realizes that in order to get his way most of the time (and thus prevail in the end), he’s going to have to pick his battles, stand on his principles, and accept that no piece of legislation is perfect and he’s not going to always win.
And the far right will hate him for it.
In other words, he’s reasonable and persuasive and committed and able to get his way much (but not all) of the time.
Which isn’t easy to do when your side controls only 1/2 of 1/3 of the government.
Coburn is worn out. God bless him and his replacement.
How did Jon Stewart nail it again?
All he did was distort the truth.
Conservatism = party of small government, because there has NEVER been a time in history when government has been a force for good. Government, always, is a necessary evil, and unless restrained, will seek to destroy the governed eventually.
Progressivism = government is a force for good, run by well-meaning people. After WWII, the possibility of tyranny by a government is a remote possibility. More government, by and large, is always good, and the infringement of our liberties to ensure our safety is necessary.
What Stewart, and all progressives, don’t understand is that history provides a literally unbroken record of tyranny.
That we don’t have a stewart-type running gun control segments interviewing Jewish death camp prisoners, slaves sold by their countrymen to Southern cotton farmers, and a resurrected Russian killed by one of Stalin’s death squads would be funny too.
I’d also like to see a skit where they show two news correspondents showing the opening of the DNC convention’s plank committee showing deathmatch 2000 style bouts between the teachers union and abortionists, watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) vs. construction workers, and pornographers vs women’s rights groups would also be funny.
They could start the segment after the ritual child sacrifice and the burning of the upside down crucifix with Jesus on it (the D’s voted God out of the plank twice before what was left of the adult leadership could bring the crowd to its senses).
There is a lot funny about progressivism. Gun ban advocates having to listen to their wives being raped by lesbians while on hold with 911 cowering under the bed she’s being raped on.
Alec Baldwin ACTUALLY did a skit showing a pedophile Boy Scout leader on SNL once, so he beat us to that one, not that anyone got the point.
The best part of all, of course is how anti-Semitic progressives actually are. How light skin blacks commonly discriminate against darker skinned blacks.
All of them, everywhere, united in the principle that government is good. If not good for people, its good for stealing from them legally.
For me it’s easy to believe you are posting, and are an apostle of, Jon Stewart.
I asked you to tell us who the “balanced conservatives” are that you and so many others are so proud of and grateful to.
Next time I won’t trouble you with an earnest question, since you aren’t up to answering one on your own.