Comments Posted By L.N. Smithee
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CPAC AGENDA SHOWS CONSERVATIVES STILL IN DENIAL
Michael Reynolds wrote:
[Reagan] found the conservative edge of the center and planted his flag there. You guys are planting your flag on the conservative end of the Right and wondering why you’re not seeing Reagan reincarnated.
Excuse me -- "conservative edge of the center"? What political figure in 1980 was perceived as further to the right than Ronald Reagan? In the 1976 GOP primaries, Gerald Ford (or his supporters) ran a TV commercial in which a woman warned, "Governor Reagan can't start a nuclear war. President Reagan can."
You have to firmly walk away from gay-bashing, immigrant-baiting and dog whistle racism and fanaticism on abortion. Even then it will be a while before you see power again, but you need to play the long game.
Oh, brother. I knew we would get here eventually.
I strongly reject your premise of conservative "bashing," "baiting", "racism," and "fanaticism." But putting those aside for the moment, why don't you tell me what the difference would be between Dems and Republicans once those traits are eradicated.
Don't chicken out, Michael.
Comment Posted By L.N. Smithee On 16.02.2009 @ 17:00
I was hoping I would see something more than the usual bitching and moaning that conservatives have to change their message to something ... y'know, different.
How silly of me.
Your idea of "clear-thinking conservative[s]" are David "Axis of Evil" Frum, whose 2/15 piece that you quoted runs 493 words. 31 of those words offer a job-boosting alternative to the trillion-dollar stimulus bill: a FICA holiday. The remaining 462 words detail how despite the increasingly restrictive and confiscatory central government Obama is ramping up, he still kick's the GOP's elephantine posterior in opinion polls. He bashes GOP congressmembers as "clueless," "brain dead," and "futile" for hitting Obama's stimulus on pork issues. If they would only listen to me, Frum implies, "we" would be seen as "serious" by whoever those pollsters question.
The FICA holiday idea is a good one. But does Frum sincerely believe that if promoted, it would make an impact greater than directly contradicting Obama's fatuous proclamation that there were NO earmarks in the 1,000-page stimulus bill? Should the GOP let go unchallenged Charles Schumer's snark that the American people don't care about pork? Why is it "silly" to focus on "protecting" a mouse but NOT silly (or outrageous) for Nancy Pelosi to extract $30,000,000.00 for it in a so-called "emergency," and then lie about it? As for his laughing that conservatives are offering up "1980s-vintage solutions" in 2009, has it been lost on him that Obama, Pelosi, & Reid are harkening back to Nineteen-Thirty-Freaking-Six?
Comment Posted By L.N. Smithee On 16.02.2009 @ 16:41
