Posted on 11/21/2013 8:26:20 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
“People have to know that you care about them,” said Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one of the governors believed to be weighing a presidential bid in 2016. ... Create jobs, compassion and care.”
Compassionate conservatism redux.
Kasich et al. are stuck on stupid.
If they would, the economy would explode and their coffers would be filled.
That’s my basic message when I go to talk to people in Detroit. “You should want government to care as little about you as possible”.
One of the underground restaurant owners told me that he understands it perfectly. People can go down the street to the legal restaurant and pay higher prices for food with the approved levels of transfats, salt, sugar etc that tastes like damp cardboard or they can go to his place and fill up on a meal they actually enjoy. He understands the need for health and safety regs and despite working under the table still holds pretty firmly to what is reasonable. As he said, I wouldn’t be able to run an off the books restaurant if I were making my customers sick”.
Sticking to principles wins, “tailoring” your platform to attract < insert group here > doesn’t work.
How about compassion for the TAXPAYER?
EXCESS government, not the lack of it, is a primary cause of much of what spiritually ails this contry. Current law punishes Christians for exercising Christian morality.
I’d rather they show a spine and a set of ....
"It's not how much you know - it's how much you show."
"People don't care how much you know, people know how much you care."
As much as I despise George W. Bush's "compassionate conservative" (as if principles of conservatism generally isn't or hasn't been theretofore "compassionate" or "considerate"), too many of the conservative and/or Republican candidates (at every electoral level) seem either uncaring, mean or, at best, bland and unoptimistic - e.g., Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney, just to name a few at the top tier.
Compassion shouldn't be confused with and doesn't automatically mean or translate into "pandering" - quite the opposite, in fact. But the politicians should be able to explain and communicate that to the constituents and the electorate at large, before and after they are elected.
Nothing is more compassionate or important for politicians than educating people in general principles and tenets of economics and why it matters in politics and politics and elections matter to them.
Otherwise they just cede their ground to creeping liberalism and "progressivism," only winning occasionally and temporarily to "fix" / "patch up" the economic disasters that follow - not a long-term winning proposition and building-for-the-future strategy.
President Bush tried that. For his troubles he got urinated and defecated on.
I agree. Show compassion for actual Americans. Show compassion for those who are makers in our society. Show compassion for those who have been savaged by Obama. I agree with compassion for all these people.
2012 was lost because of voter suppression, voter fraud, and gutless candidates, IMO.
“People have to know that you care about them,” said Ohio Gov. John Kasich,”
Sorry John, been there done that for 8 years under Bush and his “compassionate conservatism”. It got us nowhere and gave us Obama.
Christie can shove his compassion up his backside!!
“People have to know that you care about them,” said Ohio Gov. John Kasich,”
How about caring about the taxpayers for once John?
“Alex Castellanos, a Republican consultant, echoed Kasich’s remarks, saying that in the eyes of voters the GOP has become the “pass-the-Grey-Poupon party.”
Great, another K Street hack is heard from. Sorry Alex, that’s the GOPe not conservatives. You know the ones the GOPe absolutely hates.
The party of the balless strikes again.
Even Romney had the good sense to tell Obama in the second debate that you cannot "create" jobs.
The sooner anyone to the remotely right of center starts pointing it out, pointing it out consistently, persistently, with humor and ridicule for this idea the other party "cares", the better.......
Republican wussification of conservatism has lost me I no longer care what they say or do. If I find a conservative who happens to be GOP I will vote for him ,But no more RINO E Gop will get my vote.
Freegards
LEX
Show compassion! hand another election over to the Democrats.
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