You all are just the GOP equivalent of the Democrat’s Nomenkaltura, the only real difference being the locus of you “funding”. The whole lot of you are even more out of touch with the political reality of this nation than the DNC.

You idiotic Bush bashing, most especially at this juncture, is all the proof one needs of this. The Tea Party folks and real and pragmatic conservative flee from the likes of you as from the plague. All they need hear , beside the signal Bush bashing cant, is pompous nonsense like this:

“Whatever you may think of the Establishment dissenters (and we will deal with them later) they are right in decrying these trends and Conservative INC. debasement into a rank, demagogic populism
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You could not be more obtuse.

Sean, you are part of the “opportunistic Establishment GOP,” you decry. though a extremely small part of it, and the only reason you keep grousing about that bunch is that they are adult enough not to take you seriously.

Speaking of adulthood, what a comic formulation that “libertarians” are some how “grown up Conservatives”.

Of course, it is the exact opposite that is true. Libertarianism is an even loopier a political construct than is Socialism–and, amazingly, even more improbable, irrational and ahistorical. In fact, Libertarianism attracts the same sort of noxious mixture of obtuse and puerile economic determinists, materialists, positivists, cynical opportunist and reflexive cultural marxists as does Socialism. They merely want to keep their “own” money, which. most likely, comes from a lifetime of of smalp time political hustles in some corporation somewhere rather than any real contribution. “Libertarian Man” is an even more elusive and rare of a beast than is “Socialist Man”, and, like the Socialists, the Libertarians will lead us all to darkness whilst they seek him out.

None of any reflection and quality is a libertarian after 24 unless they are ether particularly pig-headed or stayed to long in grad school. No one with any decency or common sense at all, or even a thimbleful of real world experience or basic and real education, believes this gobbledygook after the after 30. They realize that they are a very small part of a great and noble civilization and do not imagine that they have “earned” all they have inherited nor are they childish enough to think that self-indulgence is the path to self-awareness.

It is Western Civilization that must be preserved, not some sort of bizarre and radical political abstraction that confuses license with liberty, contribution with inheritance, self-awareness with self-absorption and narcissism, and God with the Self.

Libertarianism is the faith of those Boomer who have made a little cash, but have little understanding how they came by it. I have yet to meet a self proclaimed Boomer Libertarian who was not a “sputnik brat”, whose education was in some measure supported by the state and whose major accomplishment has been that of deftly handling corporate politic–and little else. Most of these boomers made it by virtue of the nation and civilization they happened to find themselves in and not on their own contributions too it. They corrode and corrupt our values just as much as the left.

Libertarianism is the Socialism of the Right, or more accurately the Socialism of the Center Right. It is, paradoxical, the collectivism of unexamined self-indulgent and and the myopic narcissist.

To Man of the West all I can say is “Department of Law?” in the White House? Come on! I’ve been very fair Mrs. Palin but this is ridiculous.

To waltinseattle I agree, I will try to refrain from calling leftists “Liberals” and Rightists “conservatives”. Let’s stop the preversity of these terms.

I have a lot of trouble with all the Tea party stuff I really want to be part of, but the people running it act like we were in the guttenberg press and handmade paper era (the Expense of it all!!! (send cash) .Are they related to a certain Nigerian King I read so much about?)

But then its not just the right who has this particular flu thats going around. The radical right, the markets, the media, the corporations all have the hand out, the cup extended. Its the new American Dream so it seems some days.

And Please, don’t call the left Liberals. They are anything but. Call them Illiberals if you must, but, to give them the word is to turn against the enlightenment and somne of the best it had to offer us. Don’t back up, don’t allow nespeak to colonize your dictionary

From Washington, one of these several, united states….

I don’t know if they have “almost perfect freedom,” but they do have a lot of leeway. But this may be a somewhat hopeful thing. A few defections at the top, especially on foreign policy, and the base might come with them. I don’t know if they could credibly switch overnight, but they could start trending our way.

“However, what we’re dealing with here is an establishment that has split itself in two. In the majority is what I like to call Conservative INC. It has become….”

Excellent post Mr. Scallon. Simply excellent. The Republican Party has just simply arrived at the point where the “organized interests” that support it (the money interests, the ideological interests and etc.) have so completely taken it over that it has utterly divorced it from the influence of the unorganized popular interests that might otherwise support it. And the hilarity is that it’s the unorganized popular interests that determines its fate.

While the Dems have their organized interests too, at least they haven’t forgotten who actually pulls the voting levers.

Cheers,

Does Perez Hilton use the same ghostwriter as you?

Are you, and Perez Hilton and Ann Coulter, actually all 3 the same person?

What about Michelle Malkin? Does she like Ron Paul?

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Sean says, “When you abandon the field of education and let its institutions become leftist enclaves, it only feeds the intuition of those who feel listening to talk radio or watching Fox News is the only education they truly need and anything else is simply “elitist.” ”

If we forget what a Liberal is, then we forget why Mass Media, Hollywood, Newspapers, and College “Campi” tend to BECOME liberal.

Someone reports on WHAT WAS. Someone opines on what WILL BE. Someone suggests what SHOULD BE. Add dishonesty, and you have a liberal figuring out a way to FORCE THAT ON PEOPLE. Simple as that.

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For as long as “intellectual center of gravity” is too advanced a concept, one will fail to see how “elitists” can fit within the Conservative movement.

In a classroom, any good teacher knows that the intellectual center of gravity is in the middle of the room. When a “Bill OReilly” forgets that, his appeal to conservatives begins to wane. Then some Perez Hilton comes along, and begins to attack conservatives by attacking the “Bill OReillys and Sean Hannities”.

Then one finds similar shell casings next to the dead reputations of the “Joe Wurzelbachers and Sarah Palins”. Some of those shell casings have the name “Perez Hilton” on them, along with a little note that says, “This person, and indeed all America, caused the attacks on them.”

Do we expect government to be amoral? Do we expect the federal government to legislate morality, nobody to legislate morality, or the states to regulate some moral issues?

Are tax rates principled? Should they be a focus?

CONINC seems unlikely to feature such a dialogue, but, as Mr. Scallon points out, CONINC isn’t composed of very many of us.

Concur. Your comment about Palin’s intelligence ironically validates her arguments about snobby elites.

Welcome to the club…

Now, dadgummit, that’s just rude–completely and unnecessarily rude. You may not like the woman or her positions, or the depth of her education, but dadgummit, she’s at least got enough intelligence to graduate from college and govern a state.

Think what you like of certain popular icons and whether or not they are conservative in precisely the fashion you prefer, but when you get to the point of suggesting that Ann Coulter is insufficiently intelligent to write her own books (whatever you think of them), it makes it impossible to take your words as in any sense objective.