Posted on 05/20/2014 12:05:51 PM PDT by mojito
Speaking to the National Rifle Association’s recent annual conference, NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre, in describing America, said, “Almost everywhere you look, something has gone wrong. You feel it in your heart, you know it in your gut. Something has gone wrong. The core values we believe in, the things we care about most, are changing. Eroding. Our right to speak. Our right to gather. Our right to privacy. The freedom to work, and practice our religion, and raise and protect our families the way we see fit.”
He went on to say this:
"There are terrorists and home invaders and drug cartels and carjackers and knockout gamers and rapers, haters, campus killers, airport killers, shopping mall killers, road-rage killers, and killers who scheme to destroy our country with massive storms of violence against our power grids, or vicious waves of chemicals or disease that could collapse the society that sustains us all. I ask you. Do you trust this government to protect you? We are on our own."
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This kind of rhetoric, which can only incite and never persuade, is alienating to everyone who is not part of the Apocalypse Now crowd. It is also, in deep ways, profoundly unconservative, in good part because it is overwrought and detached from reality.
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
Not here in Texas. New businesses springing up all over, places are hiring, everyone’s busy.
Bill, you drilled dead center on that one. Thanks, R2z
Indeed, the establishment is getting nervous. Particularly since the comments from folks on both the right wing and left wing are becoming eerily similar in some respects.
This establishment bootlicker does have a point with respect to hot words having a nasty tendency to become hot actions. I for one have zero desire to see this country ripped apart. But his analysis fails in that it doesn’t acknowledge that there are legitimate grievances that underpin those hot words.
In my view, it wasn’t so much the policies of King George III that resulted in our first revolution so much as the arrogance of power that refused to acknowledge that on some issues, those backwoods colonists might actually have a point. In retrospect it would have been a heck of a lot cheaper from the British perspective to toss the colonists a few seats on the House of Commons than watch its crown jewel colony go to war and leave,
That same type of arrogance is what our political establishment is expressing in words and deeds. The end results are both predictable and completely avoidable.
Excellent article by VDH. Thanks for posting it. He nails it on private property rights.
Pete can Go F himself. It is better to fight in any way possible than to give in to the communist scum ruining this country.
I don’t believe in the current version of America. We are a socialist nation being invaded and you are telling me all is fine. I hope I am wrong, but I know I’M not. I will never accept socialized medicine, gay marriage, a sodomite military, illegal aliens taking from all of us, etc. Unless these things are reversed, I have nothing but contempt for this imposter posing as my country.
If things don’t turn around, do you want to see life in America get worse, ohioman?
I’m glad to hear that you don’t want things to get worse. But I sincerely believe that it does not have to happen. Last night I listened to the entire speech Reagan gave in 1964 “A Time for Choosing”. There was not a word or sentence in it that was defeatist. It renewed my faith in the power of free people to make positive changes in government and society.
We should never give up the fight. However, we must face reality and be prepared to face whatever comes our way.
You're right. Wehner is living in an East Coast Elite bubble. Lots of people there think that because they can still get fresh bagels at 2 a.m., or a cab or radio car, and their stock went up again (pumped up with Fed funny money and Goldman's high-frequency trading on the Fed's Black Card), everything's hunky-dory. They won't change their minds until "good buildings" on Fourth and Fifth and Sixth Avenues start going up in smoke and rioters start murdering day-trading executives in the street.
Or, worse, Sarah Palin gets elected.
Yes, Peter Wehner sold out some time ago. In fact he may never have not been for sale.
“I think that’s on I-70 somewhere between the Frederick and Hagerstown exits where you start seeing boarded-up buildings and Going Out of Business signs again. “
I would choose I-70 from west of Columbus to St. Louis.
I drive I-70 frequently and from Morgantown to Columbus, you can not find a motel/hotel room and if you do find one, it is over 100 dollars a night.
Every hotel’s parking lot is full of pick up trucks. It is all about fracking in the Utica shale from West Pennsylvania almost to Columbus.
All the construction/oil workers have no place to stay, so they stay in hotels and the boom trickles down to virtually every business in the area.
I completely disagree.
Wehner, on his most Conservative day, is a center-left RINO.
He still writes almost every day for Commentary's e-newsletter.
The only thing “Conservative” about Wehner is that he supports a strong military, and he supports the defense of Israel.
On every other issue he is openly supportive of the Democratic Party, and, quite often, openly contemptuous of traditional Conservatives.
Correct.
They shut them down about 6 months ago.
Because they got tired of being ripped to pieces by enraged Conservatives.
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