Comments on: STACEY McCAIN ON WHAT AILS THE RIGHT

By: Gayle

Gayle — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:41:51 +0000

Hey Retire 05…you got what you wanted…a small tent GOP. With a minority party tag for the rest of our lives.

Good job teabagger.

By: MlR

MlR — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:55:36 +0000

Jeanne Kirkpatrick would have spit at the current crew running the government - even more so on domestic principles than foreign policy ones.

By: busboy33

busboy33 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:42:01 +0000

Been annoyingly cold out here in L.A. lately too, but I’ll happily concede to your sub-freezing numbers. Might be moving (back) to upstate N.Y. — can’t say I’ve missed the whole “snowy hell” ambiance.
Glad to hear things are going good, and good to see you back — now I can go back to disagreeing with everything you say by default. I likes me some consistency.

Any guesstimate as to probable T-party numbers in Austin?

By: retire05

retire05 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:58:18 +0000

busboy33, I’m doing great, thanks for asking.

I have been busy. Tea party planning (you know, the movement that Rick seems to ignore); the garden, flower beds and wondering why the hell global warming hasn’t come to Texas. It was 28 degrees in Austin the other night. Coldest April night ever recorded in Austin. Colder in my area outside of Austin.

Oh, and working against Kay Bailey Hutchison in her bid for the Governor’s Mansion (that some damn fool burned down).

By: Smitty

Smitty — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:20:48 +0000

Linked you at The Other McCain.
Cheers, mate.
Chris

By: busboy33

busboy33 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:05:58 +0000

where you been retire05? You used to be a regular commenter, then nothing. Everything allright?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:48:10 +0000

Intelligent people like Stacy McCain go into their economic philosophies always, failing to realize that the world has changed. Did Milton Friedman comprehend outsourcing jobs, credit-default swaps, bundling mortgage backed securities? Conservatives always seem to stick to outdated philosophies, as the economic and cultural world morph into different entities that Reagan free market ideas can’t grasp anymore. No, socialism won’t work either, but unfettered free market capitalism is a dinosaur. You don’t have to believe me, just look at the electoral blowouts of 2006 and 2008. Plus, I don’t see a big gop swell in 2010. The proof (of ideas) is always in the pudding.

By: Mark J. Goluskin

Mark J. Goluskin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:05:43 +0000

I read you as often as I can. But, I think that you tend to buy too much of the left’s talking points about how to expand the Republican party. What will do that are several things. One, like it or not, it will be when more Americans realize that, as R.S. McCain writes, “IT WON’T WORK”-the statist economy President Obama is doing. People will turn to the tried and true. Two, the nanny state that the Democrats have sought in many areas that are totally irrelevant to government. Third, when the Obama foreign policy collapses, and it will, the American people will turn back to the Republican party. A cohesive, comprehensive easy to explain to the people approach will also help the GOP. Giving up on any bloc of the party will not help. Libertarians and Social Conservatives need each other and I do not believe that there is all that much that separates both groups. We need to work together, not against each other.

By: retire05

retire05 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:23:00 +0000

Chuck Tucson, luck has nothing to do with it. I do not believe in haphazzard luck; I believe you make your own. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

And no, the philosphy of the “big tent” where those of all views are welcome is not my ideal of a “conservative” tent. If you hold liberal socialist views, you do not belong under the tent with those that don’t.

Perhaps you believe in the Kumbaya philosphy, sorry, I don’t buy it. Since we were tribalist, beating our enemies with clubs, we have gathered in groups that thought alike and had the same goals and social standards.

And I don’t hear a lot of grousing from the left wing of American politics how THEY should be inclusive. As a matter of fact, they are NOT inclusive. You either buy into the liberal view, or you will be driven from tribal lands. The left will eagerly grap their clubs, flog you in public, or apply Alinsky’s Rule #5 with rapid speed.

By: lionheart

lionheart — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:35:36 +0000

McCain is clearly brilliant, and should be added to any conservatives daily “must-read” list, along with RWNH. A bit religious for me, but smart.