We conservatives need to calm down

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 04/06/09 | DAVID HOROWITZ

[jersey117]

I think Horowitz has gone back to his original liberal roots. Who needs him.

[johnny7]

WTF...?

[matginzac]

Oh, PUHLEEEEZE! Go AWAY!

[ClearCase_guy]

Something's up with Horowitz. He basically built a career (as a Conservative) pointing out that the Black Panthers were horrible people, that the sixties radicals (like the Chicago 7) were far more radical than a lot of people thought, and that the Left needs to be taken seriously as a destructive force.

Now we've got a corrupt Chicago politician, with ties to William Ayres and Saul Alinksy, sitting in the White House, basically acting as a dictator, and Horowitz shrugs and says "no big deal".

Weird.

[Frantzie]

Horowitz is not paying attention or is delusional.

[dforest]

Horowitz is an agnostic.

[MrB]

So... we can’t point out any leader’s fascist policies, nor the parallels to another point in history as a warning?

[abb]

Another “conservative opinion leader” who sees the base not paying attention to him anymore.

[kabar]

Horowitz is trying to equate Obama with Bush and McCain, i.e., there is a moral equivalency re their policies. He is wrong. Obama is trying to remake this country. His policies will destroy it. Unless the Reps can develop some passion and commitment, it will lose and the Republic will be gone.

We already pay $400 billion a year to service the national debt. Obama's budgeta and stimulus package will double the amount to over $800 billion in just five years. We can't afford it without drastically cutting back on discretionary items like defense. And that is exactly what Obama is planning and doing.

Mussolini made the trains run on time.

[Oztrich Boy]

He is not exactly the antichrist, he's just a very naughty boy.

[Rockitz]

He is not exactly the antichrist...

I'm not so sure about that. ;o)

[Chi-townChief]

To borrow a phrase, that’s not the David Horowitz that I know.

[pissant]

How long before he’s being interviewed on the lovely Rachel Maddow’s show?

[BornToBeAmerican]

First lesson in life is to watch both hands. Be very wary of the hand offered in peace if the other is holding a loaded Gun.

I see 0’s gun very clearly. So do a lot of people

[italianquaker]

Dave FU, how is that for being calm

[autumnraine]

At first I thought he was a moron.

Now I think he’s a moron with a plan to actively destroy the United States.

I don’t see him as a misguided fool as Jimmy Carter as some do. I see him as absolutely evil and a traitor.

And David Horowitz is not helping the cause one bit.

[matginzac]

With a little touch of the later - or more than a little!

[cripplecreek]

We’re talking about global smiley face fascism here and the only clearly defined target so far is western brand conservatives.

There is no one coming to the rescue this time so we have to rescue ourselves.

[JasonC]

He is entirely correct. Obama has been a non-entity president, he has done nothing but passed a democratic budget designed on the hill. On the economy he has been more hamfisted than usual, and blown with populist idiocy winds on the rhetoric. But that is all going to muddle along under technocratic forces, with pols merely grandstanding around what was going to happen anyway. On foreign policy, the one place where he has the opportunity to truly be a disaster, he just hasn't done anything. At all. That doesn't help, most one can say.

He's a dumb Chicago pol out of his depth and the country is on autopilot. Since we have decent technocrats in responsible positions, that means some things will go OK. Since in others (budgeting, grand strategy) we rely on pols, others will be mucked up royally. That is quite completely all.