Con blogger Don Surber:
“Republicans tried moderation. It failed. Get back to conservatism.”
Now, the Republican candidate for president and his running mate just spent a month dancing around our televisions calling the Democratic nominee a socialist who pals around with terrorists, but this is supposed to be moderation.
Look, I’m not about to engage in the sort of triumphalism Karl Rove did in 2004 about permanent majorities and whatnot, but this is the same attitude the right pushed after 2006 – simply not accepting that a conservative lost to what they told us for a year was the “most liberal” senator in the history of the senate.
But keep it up. More Democrats please.
What he means is that they get back to conservative principles. Small government.
Then they get in and keep government by a secretive cabal and stay big and raise the deficit. They then attack certain segments of society for being immoral. They have Tom Delay and Larry Craig and Dick Cheney and George Bush and Karl Rove. Then they’ll get voted out again by people pissed at their long term incompetence and out of touch mentalities. So they lose.
Rinse, repeat.
Please, oh, please get back to the failed policies of conservativism.
Birchers being Birchers
Hey Oliver! I heard it’s all the Blak Peeple’s fault Prop 8 passed. Is that true?
Short answer: no.
Long answer: http://www.maatsfeather.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=229
Please, oh, please get back to the failed policies of conservativism.
If they did get back to actual conservatism, they’d probably have been more successful recently. But those who call themselves “conservatives” very rarely actually enact policies of smaller government, personal responsibility, etc.
Fafaroo – thanks for that excellent link.
Every time one of these angry white gays try to wave that 70% figure in my face I direct them to this map, and ask them to tell us the “black population” in all those counties that went 70-75% Pro Prop 8 — Imperial, Tulare, etc.
http://vote.sos.ca.gov/Returns/props/map190000000008.htm
As one can imagine, the silence is deafening.
Not only that, why is the focus only on Prop 8 and not “the black vote” on Amendment 2 in FL or Arizona, or Arkansas’ antigay adoption law?
What a load of bull.
It’s not really a surprise, is it? The nature of conservatism, practically the definition, is a resistance to change, and, when change is to be offered, it is always represented as a change *back* to some pristine state.
Yeah, remember that massive budget surplus Dutch Reagan left? Remember how the government got smaller under Reagan? Oh, wait, I’m thinking of Clinton. Reagan drove up a massive deficit (thinking it didn’t matter) and government grew under Ol’ Dutch. Never mind.
Which is why what’s left of the principled conservative population is fleeing, en masse, to the Libertarian Party.
Remember how the government got smaller under Reagan? Oh, wait, I’m thinking of Clinton”
Not entirely true. Reagan did gut OSHA. In the steel industry alone, lost workdays due to injuries went from 77.7 per hundred workers in 1982 to 97.7 per hundred workers in 1985.
Or perhaps “smaller government” meant less oversight on the executive branch, as in the case of Iran Contra. Minor stuff, you know.
Not entirely true.
It is entirely true that the size of the Federal Government, in toto, grew under Dutch and shrank under Clinton. Your point about Iran Contra (which is somehow still worse than a blowjob) is a fine one, but the other team still doesn’t do nuance. And they never will, it’s a key part of what makes a Wingnut a Wingnut.
Which is why what’s left of the principled conservative population is fleeing, en masse, to the Libertarian Party.
Well there’re lots of ways to be a conservative. You can be an old school Hamiltonian economic developer, or you can be an old school Jeffersonian guns God and gold type. The Republicans can’t afford to lose either in droves.
But otherwise near as I can tell, this has some truth to it. David Brooks in today’s NY Times quotes some conservatives having a post-election get together somewhere as actually being excited about the fact that this election has purged most of their moderates, their ‘wobbly-kneed Republicans.’ Folks, that’s a party in the weeds, big time.
Hey, it’s the first week of the ‘Pubs walk in the wilderness. Give them a break. They’ll learn.
Oh. Wait.
There is no wilderness. They sold it off.
And they can’t learn. They cut their own education budget.
Palin 2012!
“Which is why what’s left of the principled conservative population is fleeing, en masse, to the Libertarian Party.”
Both of them?
ba-da-boom!
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“We could have won if our cantidate was more conservative.”
I’ve heard this old story before. The repubs pull it out everytime they lose.
Any spelling deviations from the norm in my quips are OW’s fault. He does not provide a preview button!
cool. I learned me some republican responsibility!