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Sara:
We'll get him. And his little dog, too.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 1.03.2009 @ 09:35
THE POST MY DETRACTORS WISH I HAD WRITTEN ABOUT THE TEA PARTIES
Poor Rick. You keep trying to use the paddles, (clear! Bang! Clear!) trying to shock conservatism and the GOP back to life. And the commenters all want to die.
Why are you with these people, Rick? The Democratic Party is more than just the fringe and the Kossacks. We need people to strengthen the DLC wing of the party.
Why do you hang out with idiots when you're not an idiot? You're the Gary Cooper of loserville, trying to get the brain-dead populace to realize that the danger to the party and the movement is real. Trying to get them to strap on their six-guns and fight the good fight.
It isn't going to work because they don't want to live. They don't want to be reborn. They don't want to win. They're happiest in their paranoid fantasy world. They are exactly where they want to be: in angry, impotent exile.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 28.02.2009 @ 19:26
Lily:
I must have missed those tea parties.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 27.02.2009 @ 22:06
There's no rage. What rage there is is saved for bankers and Republicans. What there is is fear.
People support Obama. They want him to succeed. They aren't sure he's right, but they know he was handed a giant sh-- sandwich on November 20th and they will give him time to fix things as best he can.
Add the fact that the GOP has spokespeople ranging from boors to buffoons to go up against this world class communicator and you see just how screwed the Republican party is.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 27.02.2009 @ 18:43
REFLECTIONS ON GOD, MAN, AND CPAC
Manning:
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 27.02.2009 @ 12:57
Courage seems to manifest all across the political spectrum. The Red Army in 1942, the Chinese in 1950, the Viet Cong in 1967, were not lacking in courage despite being communists or led by communists. Similarly, the Wehrmacht never lacked for courage, nor did the Japanese Imperial army and navy.
Amba:
I also wrote An awful lot of people who think of themselves as conservatives, are no such thing.
So-called social conservatives are not conservative in the broader, philosophical sense of the word. Social conservatives look to government to promote their own denominational values. They aren't conservatives, they aren't liberals, they're sectarians with a grab bag of other features attached. Huckabee, for example, is an economic populist and social conservative, not a conservative.
This is why actual conservatives, like Moran, have such a hard time sharing a party with these people. The social conservatives used to be the useful idiots of conservatism. Now they're driving the bus and ejecting people like David Brooks or Peggy Noonan or Christopher Buckley or Rick Moran.
This is the subtext to many conversations about the future of conservatism: how do we ditch the nuts? Problem is, it's the nuts doing the ditching.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 26.02.2009 @ 19:34
steel=still. Jesus. Tired.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 26.02.2009 @ 18:12
Funny man:
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 26.02.2009 @ 18:12
I made the mistake of reading Dostoyevsky when I was just moving to San Francisco many years ago. It cast a gloomy pall over the city that I steel feel when I visit there.
I'm with Chuck. I thought bs made an interesting point.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 26.02.2009 @ 16:45
Greg:
The 17 year-old will vote in the next election. But okay, if you don't want his vote we'll take it.
Comment Posted By michael reynolds On 26.02.2009 @ 13:15
