“Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.” Alfred Adler
In the intra-Republican party fight for Texas governor, 41 {G.H.W. Bush} has chosen U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison over Gov. Rick Perry. He joins his close friend, longtime consigliere, and former White House chief-of-staff James Baker, who endorsed Hutchison earlier this week, and a long list of his son George W. Bush's closest associates in lining up behind the challenger to the incumbent. Hutchison has the public backing of former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and former Counselor to the President and communications director Karen Hughes, and she's being advised by former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove.
Amen, bro. Conservatism is by its very definition compassionate.
As much as I love Sarah Palin, I would say the same thing about her Common Sense Conservatism slogan.
Conservatism by its very nature is rooted in common sense.
Thank God he has. “Compassionate Conservatism” was not conservatism, period. It was Christian Socialism. It lead to the mess we have today and there is nothing compassionate about running up a huge debt because “when people hurt, government has to move” or whatever other nonsense Bush was spewing.
Bush was a conservative?
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute here, Washington Post. You're rocking my world.
I thought we Conservatives were all a bunch of brainwashed Bushbots who applauded anything and everything Bush said and did.
I like most of what Perry says and what he has done...but I cannot condone or let pass his stance on the immigraion issues...nor will I forget his pandering to La Raza in his speech to that organization in San Antonio in 2010 while campagning for governor.
IMHO, he should never have set foot there. He should have called them what they are...that organization is a racist organization dedicated to the dismembering of the United States and not worthy of recognition in any form IMHO.
Having said that, if it comes down to Obama or Perry, Perry will get my vote. But through the primaries, I must support somone who not only gets the economy and other critical issues right, but also get it right on immigration.
...for now.
Liberals claim their programs are compassionate, too. Is there really anything fundamentally different between giving $30 billion to Africans for AIDS and handing out welfare checks to the poor? I could argue welfare checks at least go to fellow Americans. Compassionate conservatism is essentially big government liberalism. It’s all about spending other people’s money on what should be one’s own private causes.
If Governor Perry is truly against compassionate conservatism, then that is a major plus in his favor.
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george w bush was not a conservative.
nor was george h w.
nor was prescott bush.
they were all spend big progressives.
And yet, Rick Perry supported TARP, and, more recently, raising the debt ceiling by $2.4 TRILLION dollars.
If there's a disconnect between campaign rhetoric and reality, I'll believe the reality every time.
The media really wants us to go with Rick Perry.
Are we going to give the media what they want? :(
Where is the article at the Washington Post? All I got was a title and one sentence.
Perry’s voter ID law goes into effect this Thursday. Just in time.
Importantly, instead of fretting about “compassionate conservatism”, which George W. Bush did, in some impressive ways, put into practice, what is far more to the point is the downside to the absolute monster he created, with “high security state conservatism.”
That is, with the Patriot Act and other enabling legislation, W. Bush deleted more constitutional personal liberty and freedom in the United States than any president since Frank Roosevelt.
Though his intent *may* have been against terrorism, only either incredible naivete, or abject paranoia and lust for authoritarianism, could have resulted in such a surfeit of laws, almost NONE of which prevent terrorism, but are applied exclusively to the honest citizenry of the United States.
That is, if the entire Patriot Act, and all the related legislation was eliminated right now, America would be just as safe from terrorism, but we would lose vast amounts of unconstitutional “wartime” oppression of all American citizens.
Yet instead, the “intelligence-police-state” has grown by leaps and bounds, with not just disdain, but fear and contempt for all forms of personal freedom and privacy. Obama, for his part, has allowed this insane expansion of police state voyeurism to continue to grow, unchecked.
To hell with it!
America does not need 16 federal intelligence agencies and 50-100 federal police agencies, with agencies like the department of Education kicking down doors using SWAT tactics, along with most any other agency that wants to do that.
I am indifferent to whatever dementia created this nightmare. Instead, I want Republican candidates to say “enough already”, and promise to scrub the vast majority of this worthless and oppressive authoritarian regime.
The terrorists are “over there”, with just a miniscule number “here”, and most of them long known to the police. So take the WoT “over there”. Don’t force us to live barricaded in our homes, not out of fear of terrorists, but out of abject terror from the steroid-crazed, gun happy, dog killing, door smashing, warrantless terror that our police state nation has become.
The government needs to save money. Eliminating 95% of this crapola is a great place to start.
The more I read about Perry the more I like him...
They were both cheerleaders in college, both were pilots in military service, both from Texas, both moderate Repubs big on govt spending, both are in favor of amnesty for illegals, and Perry just hired Bush’s campaign team...but, nah, they never heard of each other.
Ho-kay.