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By: Right Wing Nut House » INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATISM ISN’T DEAD: MAINTAINING A CONSISTENT PHILOSOPHY

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:04:45 +0000

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By: busboy33

busboy33 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:42:55 +0000

Tell Galileo that.

By: busboy33

busboy33 — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:54:48 +0000

Just noticed rick’s comment on mikereynolds @33.

A honest but suprising declaration from from a Republican? I think its true, but isn’t that heresy?

Common sense is never heresy.

ed.

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By: Right Wing Nut House » INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATISM ISN’T DEAD: CHANNEL YOUR INNER ELDER

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:34:02 +0000

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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:20:18 +0000

By: Mannning

Mannning — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:55:08 +0000

Doug King:

The problem I see is that a candidate appears on the political scene and we have very little in the way of character or integrity information to go on, unless we have something to hang our hats on from his religion, his background work, schooling, written papers, or whatever else can be dredged up. A person that has been in the limelight for years, and has held elective office of a managerial kind provides a bit of substance and a file of reporting on his character and integrity.

Even that much is woefully deficient for those politicians that have a sterling public persona, but a horrible private one that no one divulges before the election.

By: Doug King

Doug King — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:23:52 +0000

Manning — Thanks for the thoughtful response. I thought you were attacking religion, but now I suppose you are describing your own feelings. Personally, I believe most people on both sides of the spectrum are religious even though most, perhaps most, atheists gravitate to the left. I also believe religion usually plays second fiddle to economics when voters decide who to select.

You also mentioned a candidate’s religion serves as “an imperfect but … independent measure of the moral system of the candidate.” I agree that’s how many voters think, but I think a superior measure is how well a candidate adheres to his/her professed religion and morality. In other words, character/integrity. Identity politics helps too many candidates win office who later act out serious moral flaws. Identity politics — be it race, religion, or gender — is an untrustworthy measure.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:22:43 +0000

Thank you pacatrue. Yes, “ed.” seems to be actively trying to DECREASE his readership (weird strategy at a time when there are a zillion blogs to choose from). I’ve come back for one reason only–to show how Obama’s election has helped us all. I still maintain that our “superpower” status is tenuous at best (if it remains at all–this giant economy “ed.” talks about is mostly on paper and we’re broke). However, I thought this was great: The GFK polling group has reported that we are indeed the most admired country again after being in 7th place last year. Here’s how the huge jump was explained:

“What’s really remarkable is that in all my years studying national reputation, I have never seen any country experience such a dramatic change in its standing as we see for the United States in 2009,” explains Simon Anholt, NBI founder and an independent advisor to over a dozen national governments around the world. “Despite recent economic turmoil, the U.S. actually gained significant ground. The results suggest that the new U.S. administration has been well received abroad and the American electorate’s decision to vote in President Obama has given the United States the status of the world’s most admired country.”

I don’t understand why conservatives want him/us to fail–this helps us ALL. This is good news for ALL Americans–liberal, conservative, or otherwise.

For more info on this, go to: http://www.gfk.com/group/press_information/press_releases/004734/index.en.html

Ok “ed.”–I think I’ll scurry off now to find a blog where the editor himself doesn’t freak out on the commenters with juvenile name-calling, etc. if his opinion differs. Michael luna, good luck to you if you’re gonna continue to subject yourself to such nastiness.

By: pacatrue

pacatrue — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:34:13 +0000

I don’t know if the “ed.” is Rick Moran or not, but the difference in “ed.s” comments versus the style of Rick’s essay is stark. The essay talks about not painting everything with a broad brush, but “ed.” takes a single thing a commenter says and concludes it’s the belief of every liberal leaning person in the world. “Why do American liberals reject the facts staring them in the face?” Then ed. goes off on personal insults against the commenter and then concludes by again insulting them by essentially calling them a coward with the “scurrying off” line.

I don’t think I need to come here for a good conservative view point either.