Posted on 03/07/2007 6:57:43 PM PST by Bob J
"Lately, people here have forgotten that we conservatives are all going to need each other as the country slides leftward. I hope we start remembering soon."
Amen!
Amen to your tagline and I find it hard to endure.
Right now I'm staying off all threads about prospective candidates. I'll decide on that much later.
right now I don't want to argue about it.
(I did get on the Fred Thompson thread, but that was just for fun .... I think)
It's my wierd way of speed reading threads to catch the gist in a hurry. Sometimes I never even get to the posted article.
Some of the best minds used to come here and comment, now it's just who can come up with a more vicious insult.
I agree. It's been about 10 years now since the internet was the "next big thing," and all novelties get boring after a while.
There might also be something deeper going on. I wonder if the tide isn't going out on a whole style of politics. I began thinking this during Reagan's funeral (and also John Paul II's). The country has changed profoundly since Ronaldus Magnus was elected. I don't know if he could be nominated nowadays. Most of us thought the '94 elections would bring about a serious conservative turn in the country; although it had its successes, it never achieved the kind of social turnaround that we hoped for.
W's admin may be seen as the last "cold war" style admin. Look at who staffed it: Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. All good men, but they came out of a time when Europe was on our side and the cultural values of the country were less disintegrated. I think the culture war is where the real action is now, and that means less overt political interests. Old style politics seems fatally infested with the burocratic elites--whether Republican or Democrat they are equally soulless.
There's also Iraq fatigue. Let's face it: much of our pride came from our military performance in the 80's and early 90's and the blunders in Iraq have bruised our confidence. It's not lost yet, but will take much more struggle and sacrifice before we can claim anything like a win. I say this as a Gulf War I vet (2nd ACR).
5 sites is by no means a baseline.
That sounds confusing, but I understand.... I think.
Nice to know I'm being stalked... er, uh, I mean noticed.
;^)
Thanks.....I should have known that. ;^)
nut jobs been banned.
"Once the liberals succeeded in getting us to fight amongst ourselves, instead of against them, things changed"
How true is THAT??
The Immigration single issue types split us, allowed democrats to win, and have achieved NOTHING by it...
This is just nasty and there has not been the honest, intellectual debate just crash and slam.
I've always felt it will take a generation for the seeds of what we've done in Iraq to bear fruit. There are too many hatreds and scores to settle that have accumulated over the years, and they have to play themselves out before Iraq truly can become a functional democracy.
But Americans want everything to happen yesterday, they have no sense of historical perspective.
I think that's it right there. Folks are getting burned out on news.
And then there's people like us..... ;-)
'Course, if someone wants to pay me to hit 'em all, I'm up to the challenge....
*crickets*
Thought so.....laundry to fold.....
That's not necessarially an illegitmate point of view but a general election in which his opponent is an extreme leftist is not the time to fire away with it.
And an unrelated point -- I think we conservatives put way to much faith in candidates. We do a much better job when we stick to issues whether it be specific laws (shall issue, parental notification for abortion) or general philosophy (abortion is killing, the right to bear arms is not about hunting, tax hikes are bad for the economy)
Disgust with Bush.
Compare Korea then and now...a startling difference.
We've been betrayed by those whom we thought were Coservatives. Plus, those who are supposed to be the good guys turn out to be corrupt, lazy do-nothing politicians and pedophiles.
Why bother?
I was reading an article the other day about how a typical insurgency takes 8-11 years to put down completely. The article is HERE. It's a good read. It gives good grounds for optimism, but can we stick with it? That's the question.
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