http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/07/14/a-response-to-matt-barganier/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-response-to-matt-barganier Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/07/14/a-response-to-matt-barganier/comment-page-1/#comment-523 John Lennon Said “Sell It Like People Sell Soap Or Soft Drinks” « Around The Sphere Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:07:32 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=575#comment-523 [...] Hawley responds: Having also been “born into” this audience, I am less convinced that a good portion of the Ditto-heads cannot be convinced by anti-war arguments. I just think they must be framed correctly. There may be a “Reasonable Right,” as Barganier says, but it will never be a major force if we do not at least make some inroads into the Limbaugh-listening community. Perhaps I’m mistaken that many Fox News fans can be brought around. Unfortunately, if I am  there will never again be a politically-significant anti-war Right; the “Reasonable Right” will forever be drowned out by the millions of talk-radio fans united in their belligerence. [...] [...] Hawley responds: Having also been “born into” this audience, I am less convinced that a good portion of the Ditto-heads cannot be convinced by anti-war arguments. I just think they must be framed correctly. There may be a “Reasonable Right,” as Barganier says, but it will never be a major force if we do not at least make some inroads into the Limbaugh-listening community. Perhaps I’m mistaken that many Fox News fans can be brought around. Unfortunately, if I am  there will never again be a politically-significant anti-war Right; the “Reasonable Right” will forever be drowned out by the millions of talk-radio fans united in their belligerence. [...]

]]> http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/07/14/a-response-to-matt-barganier/comment-page-1/#comment-499 Ike43 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:01:16 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=575#comment-499 We could also try to convince them through the money issue. I'm sure some of them understand that soaring defecits, trillion dollar debt, and our dependecy on foreign capital don't make for a strong national defense. We just have to connect that with billion dollar embassies that we can't afford in Afganistan, and Pakistan, and the costs of runnng 700 bases worldwide. If that doesn't work.....well there's always the liberals. We could also try to convince them through the money issue. I’m sure some of them understand that soaring defecits, trillion dollar debt, and our dependecy on foreign capital don’t make for a strong national defense. We just have to connect that with billion dollar embassies that we can’t afford in Afganistan, and Pakistan, and the costs of runnng 700 bases worldwide. If that doesn’t work…..well there’s always the liberals.

]]> http://www.theamericanconservative.com/postright/2009/07/14/a-response-to-matt-barganier/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Matt Barganier Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:07:49 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/postright/?p=575#comment-493 You make some good points. But I'd like to ask those who take the "ungrateful welfare queens" approach to at least start with <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/06/09/anti-americanism-in-israel/" rel="nofollow">some people the term actually fits</a>. You make some good points. But I’d like to ask those who take the “ungrateful welfare queens” approach to at least start with some people the term actually fits.

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