Comments on: The GOP’s Lame NY-20 Spin http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/04/01/the-gops-lame-ny-20-spin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-gops-lame-ny-20-spin n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: taxman10m http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/04/01/the-gops-lame-ny-20-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-31304 taxman10m Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:16:14 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=9112#comment-31304 After you hook up nyx with G20, please give us part II of your BSG post. After you hook up nyx with G20, please give us part II of your BSG post.

]]> By: nyx http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/04/01/the-gops-lame-ny-20-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-31303 nyx Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:55:29 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=9112#comment-31303 Since almost all prisons are located in Upstate New York, I doubt that the attitude on death penalty has changed that much in the race though I am willing to be proven wrong. I think it has just lost salience in the issue. As taxman10m states, the GOP has used this fear button too many times. I don't think it is a harbringer of anything, just local politics and I still put money on the midterms in 2010 going badly for the Democrats but I have not counted on the GOP being this tone deaf. On the other hand, Daniel, I know its a strain but can you talk about the coming G20 conference? I expect nothing would come out of it but I would love to hear your perspective on it. Since almost all prisons are located in Upstate New York, I doubt that the attitude on death penalty has changed that much in the race though I am willing to be proven wrong. I think it has just lost salience in the issue. As taxman10m states, the GOP has used this fear button too many times. I don’t think it is a harbringer of anything, just local politics and I still put money on the midterms in 2010 going badly for the Democrats but I have not counted on the GOP being this tone deaf.

On the other hand, Daniel, I know its a strain but can you talk about the coming G20 conference? I expect nothing would come out of it but I would love to hear your perspective on it.

]]> By: taxman10m http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/04/01/the-gops-lame-ny-20-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-31302 taxman10m Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:56:20 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=9112#comment-31302 Dan, I think it's just that the GOP has gone to that well one too many times. People have caught on that when a Republican invokes terrorism it is a ploy for votes, particularly of the dimwitted. It's essentially an insult of a person's intelligence when the GOP uses such an argument. Dan, I think it’s just that the GOP has gone to that well one too many times. People have caught on that when a Republican invokes terrorism it is a ploy for votes, particularly of the dimwitted. It’s essentially an insult of a person’s intelligence when the GOP uses such an argument.

]]> By: Daniel Larison http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/04/01/the-gops-lame-ny-20-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-31289 Daniel Larison Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:38:39 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=9112#comment-31289 Perhaps there is more questioning going on, but I would have thought that rural upstate New York would be a place where opposing the death penalty for terrorists would still work as a hot-button issue that would work to the disadvantage of the more liberal candidate. Maybe I am assuming too much about views on capital punishment in upstate NY. Perhaps there is more questioning going on, but I would have thought that rural upstate New York would be a place where opposing the death penalty for terrorists would still work as a hot-button issue that would work to the disadvantage of the more liberal candidate. Maybe I am assuming too much about views on capital punishment in upstate NY.

]]> By: ottovbvs http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/04/01/the-gops-lame-ny-20-spin/comment-page-1/#comment-31279 ottovbvs Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:06:12 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=9112#comment-31279 I have to agree Daniel. Apparently Republicans have a 75,000 voter reg advantage in an electorate of around 400,000 and they've either lost or narrowly won a special election when as we all know turnout is all. Obviously you're right about the economy being the transcendent issue but I wonder if you're wrong about some of the social stuff....maybe more people are questioning the eternal verities. Maybe they are starting to wonder whether torturing people only makes them tell us what we want to know or whether the literally hundreds of people released from death row or long prison terms because of DNA evidence may be causing some rethinking about the perfection of our criminal justice system. Maybe there's just a lot more self questioning going on about a lot of things besides economic truths. I have to agree Daniel. Apparently Republicans have a 75,000 voter reg advantage in an electorate of around 400,000 and they’ve either lost or narrowly won a special election when as we all know turnout is all. Obviously you’re right about the economy being the transcendent issue but I wonder if you’re wrong about some of the social stuff….maybe more people are questioning the eternal verities. Maybe they are starting to wonder whether torturing people only makes them tell us what we want to know or whether the literally hundreds of people released from death row or long prison terms because of DNA evidence may be causing some rethinking about the perfection of our criminal justice system. Maybe there’s just a lot more self questioning going on about a lot of things besides economic truths.

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