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Posted on 03/11/2012 5:35:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
morality vs. civil constitutionally guaranteed rights... you have the right to life (common sense here, not an issue of morality) liberty (see the bill of rights for those liberties guaranteed you) and the pursuit of happiness (that can and does include the items you work for and purchase)... murder, rape and theivery are not moral issues, they are civil rights issues.... you must have the ability to separate the two... give it a try (it is difficult to do)
Madison foresaw the problem of faction and lost a lot of sleep over it, and John Calhoun after him. Both were admirers of the "gentleman legislator" ideal of the 18th century, and both were long-lived enough to be disappointed to see the rise of the Albany Regency, Tammany Hall, and the Millocracy.
Nobody yet has found a solution for the "two-party problem", viz., the tendency of every issue to be coopted successfully by one of the two "established" parties. That's why the Bull Moosers failed in 1912, and why there hasn't been room for a new party in American politics since 1856, the year after the Whig Party finally came apart. But the Whigs only took 16 years to die, whereas the Republicans have been hanging around, their usefulness pretty well shot, since 1932, to serve mostly as a punching bag for the closet Stalinists who took over the Democratic Party.
We've debunked that myth so many times on Free Republic. You need better than that...
Comparison time:
the by now universally despised Harding was actually a much better leader than the present Kenyan recumbent ... especially economically!
Harding got handed a genuine recession ... and his administration solved the problem in 18 months! The "Teapot Dome" scandal? Peanuts! BTW, gasoline was $0.19/gallon. No high-test!
no myth.... not debunked....i have done my research on this subject
Imports during 1929 were only 4.2% of the United States' GNP and exports were only 5.0%. Monetarists, such as Milton Friedman, who emphasize the central role of the money supply in causing the depression, note that the Smoot-Hawley Act only had a contributory effect on the entire U.S. economy
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― G.K. Chesterton“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless—one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan’s will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite’s will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the crossroads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is—well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross-roads.”
There are a number of important answers to that question, but I'll just point out the most important one:
Constant compromise of principles that should never be compromised.
We don’t see a conservative message put across on the national debate because the so-called conservatives are themselves afraid of it. So long as the GOP establishment thinks elections are won by fielding centrist after centrist how can anyone expect them to all of a sudden deliver a conservative message? With what brain are they going to do that? The same that endorses Romney?
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