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IF REAGAN TOLERATED MODERATES, WHY CAN'T TODAY'S CONSERVATIVES?
Correction to above April temperature statement: April 2009 was the second coldest APRIL since 1999.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/05/rss-msu-2nd-coldest-april-since-1999.html
"April 2009 was also a whopping 0.65 °C cooler than April 1998"
"The mid troposphere saw a nearly trivial anomaly of 0.037 °C in April which is 0.022 °C cooler than the number from March 2009 and the second coldest April figure since 1997 (after 2008)."And continental USA temps for April 2009 are lower than in April 1980:
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 5.05.2009 @ 23:14
http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TMT_Anomalies_Land_and_Ocean_v03_2.txt
Dog whistle racism isn’t “conservative.”
Obama's dog-whistle references to Malcolm X and Islam are not conservative, true. Nor is it conservative to knee-jerk accuse people of racism. That's a liberal thing, for sure.
There’s also nothing “conservative” about wishing away climate change,
Yes, it is left to liberals to construct climate fictions.
The cap-and-trade non-solution to the non-problem of Global Warming (April was the second coldest month since 1980) is not conservative, true. The reality-based position on Global Warming is that it is a bunch of overhyped junk science, getting disporven daily by temperature facts on the ground, wrapped up in UN-approved twaddle. One can try to wish away the recovery of the artic sea ice, the non-rise in sea levels this century, or the fact that temperatures are lower now than in 1998, but ... horror of horrors, there it is.There’s nothing “conservative” about nation-building, or wars of choice ... which made Clinton's Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo excursions and his desert fox attacks on Iraq, both 'non-conservative' and a poor model for GWB to emulate.
As for marriage, the conservative position is to defend the definition of marriage as it has been defined for millenia - one man, one woman. Should the liberals want to suggest a 'states rights' position on the matter ... let's put the states rights position in place for the abortion matter first and see how THAT goes first.
(self-described conservative) radicals, or loud-mouths, haters or fools.
The ad hominem argument is a weak argument, but it sure is great to see Liberals fall back into bad habits and practice it so readily... Like when Obama would pull the race card, its a sign you know that the card they have left are pretty poor.
Having a non-conservative try to define what conservatives believe is a bit like relying on the Osmond Family to define Rap music ... by attempting to sing it. It's embarrassing all around.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 5.05.2009 @ 22:50
#40: I honestly have no idea what you are referring to in your vague jib-jab. I never called you an idiot. if you would "rather discuss policy details on how to make the US more competitive etc " rather than the mods vs conservatives topic of this thread, or my suggestion to tell us how to get the GOP elected in the northeast, I'm not stopping you. be my guest.
Achieving US economic competitiveness is a great topic on which I have a few ideas myself.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 5.05.2009 @ 22:33
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/03/fundamental-tax-reform-15-solution.html
Heh heh heh… One does not have to be liberal to know what “Tea-bagging” means. (Nor does one have to be gay to engage in such an activity.) Frankly, this “grassroots movement” is hard to take seriously if such a poorly chosen name was all that conservative activists could come up with.
Ah, I see. Now you are lying. I mistook your earlier comments for face value commentary instead of the liberal talking point tripe you are now parading.
Conservatives didnt choose that name. Fact is that the only people using the term 'teabagging' in relationship to the Tea Parties were MSNBC and related sicko / juvenile liberals. That was never used by anyone until Rachel Maddow and others picked it up. Since you are apparently so knowledgeable about this stuff, this is something you surely know. Twisting someones name to make fun of it ... how very 7th grade.
As I said, the complete lack of distancing by anyone in Democrat party from these clowns, similarly to the lack of distancing to that racialist clown Al Sharpton in the primaries, is telling point about left partisans are tolerated much more.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 5.05.2009 @ 21:26
"Moderation doesn’t win elections. Never has, never will."
Surely you jest. Why Wendell Wilkie and Thomas Dewey were fine Presidents, as President McCain will attest.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 5.05.2009 @ 21:14
#36: "Agreed, nobody expects political commentators expressing viewpoints (as opposed to analysis) to be liked by everybody, but these dudes go out of their way to decry and throw under the bus any dissenters. Worse, they are simply unpalatable to nearly anybody not already part of the extremist choir."
Fascinating. This is a fine summary of what is wrong with Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and dKOS blog. (And many others, like NYTimes columnists etc.) It's typical of liberals that they don't merely think they are more correct than the other side, but go out of their way to demonize, demean and denigrate conservatives at all levels. Olbie's show is a case study in argument ad hominem.
When you speak of "the lack of decency and openness amongst so many" I am reminded of MSNBC trying to turn a genuine grassroots movement into a gay sex double-entendre, and other juvenile and anti-right bigotted things. It is therefore more than stomach-churning to hear that the White House just 'loves' their pitbull liberal network MSNBC.
Given all that, its fascinating that the concerns going 'too far' are only aimed at partisans on the right and so rarely on partisans on the left. Double standards?
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 5.05.2009 @ 19:16
#29: funny man, your anti-southern prejudice is showing. I've lived 1/2 my life in the northeast. If northeast Republicans have a great secret to winning elections, they are not letting on.
I'm all ears: How can we defeat Schumer and Dodd in 2010 with conservative Republicans and add a dozen right-of-center Congresscritters from new England?
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 5.05.2009 @ 19:01
"I’m not convinced that there is a ‘moderate’ thinking/voting bloc. The term moderate us usually pulled out of the closet whenever there is a need to portray the Republican party as too right-wing or not tolerant enough but it seems to usually be a farce. A lot, if not most, conservative ideas are popular enough to create a solid and winning base but Republicans tend to abandon them when they get into power."
Moderate is a farce. I blogged last November about this. It turns out there are 'NON-IDEOLOGICAL VOTERS' who vote based looks, competence, character, likeability etc. A mix of good a bad reasons - but note, rarely does toning down your principles help win such votes!
MODERATES WANT COMPETENCE NOT MUSH:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/11/moderates-want-competence-not-mush.htmlFar better to run a campaign on competence and smarts and personality to win such voters:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2008/11/smartness-coolness-factors.htmlThen there are the gutless folks who think it is smarter to not be extreme so split the difference on every issue. Moderate is not an ideology. It's an attitude.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 4.05.2009 @ 22:06
"Rick, you’re an atheist living in sin. You’re a rational man. You believe in evolution and understand that gay rights are coming, like it or not. You don’t think torture is fun. You’re not ant-intellectual. Why are you a Republican?"
Let me guess, Micheal. You voted for Obama. You like strawman arguments. Your guy has put forth a budget that would bankrupt the country with $10 trillion in deficits in his terms, want to ruin the secret ballot for union elections, wants to spend taxpayer money for abortion and ACORN, signed of on a trillion dollar boondoggle 'stimulus' that has zero stimulus for the private sector in America, wants to tax families for using a harmless molecule CO2, has broken multiple promises, turned around on Iraq by implementing the Bush policies but is managing to lose headway there while Pakistan and Afghanistan unravel, yet he goes overseas and gets nothing and sells out and talks down America.
And that leaves aside his bad appts - tax cheat to run the IRS, Judges who are poorly suited to sit on the court, a DHS head who got basic facts of 9/11 wrong and put out an insulting report about veterans and assorted right-wingers.
Every day, Obama creates another reason to be a Republican. By November 2010, we may well see 10 million more Republicans than in the last election.
Obama is shaping up to be the worst President in our lifetime, and koolaid drinking morons have the gall to use the "anti-intellectual" to opponents of this pied piper of socialistic kleptocracy. No Republican thinks torture is fun, but the Obama administration is torture for those who believe in American freedom, decency and exceptionalism.
PS. I believe in evolution. The GOP will evolve and survive and be the fittest answer for even you.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 4.05.2009 @ 22:01
"Is the real problem that certain sophisticated Republicans from the northeast are embarrassed by the southern, bible-belt conservatives?"
If that's the problem, then let these no-as-conservatives tell us what they are FOR, and STOP the useless and coutnerproductive "I'll show you my mod credentials by bashing the so-called far right." That's nothing but a way to suck up to the liberal MSM while doing zippo to advance any useful agenda, center *or* right.
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2009/05/howl-of-rinos-and-rebuilding-gop.html
PS. "its the gop that has a litmus test and a guy named Rush who is the Enforcer" I failed to notice that part where the 2008 nominee was Rush's handpicked guy. Keep building up that myth, you O-bots ... you are only building his market share and fortune with that silly falsehood.
The question for ALL wannabe Republican strategists needs to be: What are the core principles that the Republican Party should stand on?
If you cannot articulate that, you have no business telling other Republicans off.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 4.05.2009 @ 21:49
