Comments Posted By Vivian
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WILL NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE KILL CONSERVATISM?
I'd like to see conservative leaders framing the debate over health care and everything else a trade-off--educate Americans to see every policy proposal as a trade-off between individual freedom and security, so that the voter understands just how they are giving up freedom and future benefit for short-term security. I don't think OUR leaders understand the trade-offs, so they can't possibly explain them to American voters.
It's an uphill battle, and as long as the MSM runs the country, and Americans keep their children in propaganda machines we call "public schools", I don't see a lot of hope. We need a handful of wealthy conservatives (are there any left?) to purchase a media outlet, and run it in order to have a venue for truth. Fox News is better than nothing, but it isn't much. Greta Van Susteren's show is not educative, and O'Reilly is inconsistent and unable to be the vessel for informing the public as to the tradeoffs. Although I like Sean Hannity, he doesn't seem able to make his case well, and with the constant shouting matches on the show, the audience is not hearing a coherent message. Conservatism has yet to be articulated clearly on television within the constraints of a commercial format. Reagan is the only person I remember who could make the right points, and do it on TV.
The idiot who blames Reagan for blowing it in the latter term fails to recognize as so many Americans do that the President does not control Congress, cannot force idiots in his own party to do the right thing, and has no influence with those not in his party. It's easy and ignorant to hold Presidents accountable for every government action which occurs during his terms.
Comment Posted By Vivian On 25.11.2008 @ 16:27
