Comments on: The Voice Of Moderation: Form Counts, Too

By: dan

dan — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:47:36 +0000

“the superficial and emotional, the form and the packaging”//how much of this has to do with the growing importance of women, who are usually very concerned with appearances, in American politics?

By: Mark J. Goluskin

Mark J. Goluskin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:08:51 +0000

Oh, I forgot but it is PATTON-not Patten! Sorry, but the general’s family were founders of the church I attend and there is a stained-glass window dedicated to General Patton.

By: Mark J. Goluskin

Mark J. Goluskin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:42:17 +0000

I actually get what you are writing, Doc. It is really depressing, but true. We live in an Oprahized nation. Look at these latest polls. The people seem to be ok with President Obama at this point, but are conflicted with his policies or do not think that they will work. I think there is something bipolar in that thinking. But, I think that Gov. Palin got a raw deal from the get-go. She said yes to being Sen. McCain’s running mate. Thus, she gave up her independence. If the American people saw THAT Sarah Palin, they would have seen a different candidate. One other thing that has to be pointed out here is that at some point, if things do not improve by the end of this year, even President Oprah Obama and all the teleprompter talk will fail and the American people will look for a change. I am linking this post to my blog. Some fellow conservative Republicans need to get a feel for the Brave New World we are in.

By: LEARNED FOREVER

LEARNED FOREVER — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:39:29 +0000

Bernard Goldberg has just written a book, “A Slobbering
Love Affair”. In the book he refers to our country as
the United States of Entertainment. He’s right. Everything that
goes on in this country, from 3yr-0ld Beauty Pageants, to Springer, Maury, Bridezilla, the Race to the White House, is
viewed by too many idiots as quality showbiz.

These Brain-Flattened-TV-IPhone-Text Messaging, Worshippers
don’t realize there will be consequences to electing a 47yr-old, know nothin’, sweet talkin’, Bimbo from Chicago. Bad consequences.

Melissa is right, in todays United States of Entertainment, the
first qualification for Prez is: a little song and dance. And each
debate end with a laser sword duel. Text us with who you thought,
won. This country is getting…stoopit.

By: J David

J David — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:42:05 +0000

You can only make a sold-out sinner “feel good” by either participating or acting like it is your intent, at some point, to do so. Nothing else will ultimately suffice in engendering peace but participation, and the militant queer movement is the first example that pops to mind. No civilization in history has long survived the mainstreaming/normalization of such practices. But we are already there.

By: J David

J David — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:33:55 +0000

You have surrendered, as there is no such thing as what you suggest, it is exactly what Frum, Brooks, Parker, Noonan, etc, suggest. There is a double standard that cannot be gotten around, over, under, or smuggled in thru a backdoor, and there is NO compromise with evil that is EVER a win, not even lying about being “moderate”(exactly how does one fake being a “moderate”, but secretly let people like me know that they are really LYING, about being a moderate, but they are actually the re-incarnation of Reagan?) as evil wins EVERY “compromise”? “Hey, Comrade! I am lying to those guys over there for pragmatic(soulless, amoral, unprincipled) political reasons, but I really, truly, honestly, swear-to-god-on-a-10-story-stack-of-KJV-Bibles am telling YOU the TRUTH! I’m a 200proof, 100% conservative!!!”

I can’t sort-a abort babies, sort-a accept the destruction of marriage and family, sort-a be alright with shades of socialism(any more than one can be sort-a pregnant), be sort-a on board with various aspects of the Constitution (but only the parts that I like!). I can’t sort-a save money, sort-a encourage free market enterprise,sort-a cut taxes but not really…exactly what part of conservatism do I give up? Socialism and capitalism are ultimately mutually exclusive, they cannot co-exist peacefully, as socialism will eventual cut capitalism’s throat.

Conservatism, social and fiscal, comes from the teaching and practice of basic moral virtues (opposite of sins), universal absolutes, and is destroyed by the rejection of any of those virtues or the practice as lifestyle of any given sin…pick one, any one will do.

That the culture has, with the negligence of the Judeo-Christian world, gone down the crapper is a fact that thinking people cannot ignore anymore, and can not mitigate by compromising with it. The question now, for some, is surviving it, and for others going down with honor(that may be taken to use by a future culture as an example), but compromise with the devil gains no salvation. Every civilization has ultimately collapsed, ours will also, and the faster one rises to world power the faster it self-destructs.

By: Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Dr. Melissa Clouthier — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:25:41 +0000

Listen guys, I’m not thrilled with the direction the culture has taken either. I say fight it tooth and nail on an individual level. I say keep the conservative substance.

But we are lying to ourselves if we think that what has worked in the past will work now. When Sarah Palin is too manly for the populace, there’s a problem both culturally and electorally.

The people want to be told easy things (it’s someone else’s fault) and to feel good. What I am saying is that Republicans better acknowledge this and put forth candidates who manage to keep the right image while having the heart of a conservative.

Yes, the press will still HATE him or her, but people will find the candidate more appealing.

More important, rather than looking like a conservative and acting liberal, the Republican will look palatable but act conservative. Barack Obama looked palatable but acts uber liberal.

In order for anyone to be elected, the mushy middle has to FEEL good. We need candidates that can make them feel good.

By: J David

J David — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:00:56 +0000

It took 50 years for the previously Democrat actors’ union leader, RONALD REAGAN, to become one of the two or three best presidents ever. WE AREN’T GOING TO FIND SUCH A PERSON whose hot, intelligent,sexiness is going to charm an amoral nation to the moral behavior represented by basic traditional conservatism. LOL! If that is what we are seeking we are lost INDEED!

By: B. Ducati

B. Ducati — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:07:02 +0000

Yes, I agree. But WHO! It won’t be Palin and absolutely not Jindal. WHO? Where do we find this young, energetic, well-spoken, clear thinking conservative?

By: J David

J David — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:06:30 +0000

Hitler was enthusiastically elected in free elections, yes, they were free, in a democratic country, one of the most “intellectual and enlightened” in Europe. The very same things that happened there most certainly can happen here, as human beings have NOT evolved to a higher plane of consciousness.