Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 2149 Editor's Choice: 7
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I hope your wrong....
[Read the article: The great right-wing fraud to repudiate George W. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Specifically when you say outside of a handful of honest conservatives too small to merit much discussion
As someone who's first priority is to see America stop pretending that it owns the world and can kill people with impunity just based on their being situated in a geologically inconvenient spot, I'm quite happy to watch as movement Conservatives throw Bush under the bus. Of course trying to relabel him as "liberal" because he doesn't hate brown people sufficiently is just as dishonest as you depict it so I won't argue that point.
What I would like to point out though, is that there are a lot of well meaning decent people who nevertheless self-identify as Conservatives and they're in dire need of some leadership at this point. What I sincerely hope is that tiny subset of Conservatives that you describe as "too small to merit much discussion" can actually grow to the point where they actually help frame the debate within Republican circles to include discussion of what's in our actual national interest as opposed to simple reflexive hatred of anyone "outside".
PS(If anyone cares to argue with me, I hope they will at first try to figure out what I just said...I'm not so sure myself!)
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Conservatism is as conservatives do
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Language evolves and words only mean what the person using them means at the time. Unfortunatley during the transition confusion can arise. While its useful to use terms like authoritarian or fascist to describe to current RW political movement, the fact remains that they choose to call themselves conservatives. It looks like it will be up to the paleo's to coin their own term if they want to differentiate themselves.
"True conservative" is being hijacked by the RWA's as we speak.
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What's this "someday" of which you speak?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]One day a charismatic leader may arrive who having learned the lessons of the "empty suit" will require his followers to take actions which will tie them to him for fear that those actions be exposed.
I believe you have just described in vivid detail, the reasons the lapdog press STILL lives and breathes White Hopuse talking points. The "actions" in question have alreadty started a needless war and cost tens of thousands of lives while at the same time led to the abandonment the justified battle against the terrorist threat personified by OBL and his henchmen holed up in Pakistan. That the TV press bears significant responsibility for the current mess, is a large part of the reason that they have been successfully blackmailed into submission.
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So how do we fix it.....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]As long as I've been alive, conservative in this country has been a code-word for racism, misogyny, sexual repression, greed and self-righteousness in general, Saints Goldwater, Reagan and Buchanan included. A plague on all their houses
So how do we deal effectively with the fact that a large portion of the country thinks that racism, misogyny, sexual repression, greed and self-righteousness is just peachy?
As I mentioned early in the thread, my strongest antipathy is for the exceptionalism that leads people to think that the world is ours for the taking and that everything we do is OK as long as its us that's doing it.
That's the problem. There are people who go to church every Sunday, know the Golden rule by heart, would help a stranger in a heartbeat and are reasonably pleasant to be around who nevertheless have empowered the US to invade a foreign nation (a process that involves tons of explosives and plenty of randomly sown death, destruction and misery) and are able to pretend that there's anything remotely "Christian" about the process.
So how do we fix it?
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@adnoto
[Read the article: The great right-wing fraud to repudiate George W. Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's all about placement. I am thoroughly familiar with the contents of the Bible even though I don't believe in very much of it. Why? Because if your arguing with someone who DOES believe in it, it's pretty useful to be able to point out how what they're saying doesn't comport to the beliefs expressed in the book. Same deal with conservatives. By pointing out that torture and wiretapping and premptive warfare runs up against conservative principles, your in a much better position to sway someone who calls themselves conservative but doesn't examine their own belief system carefully.
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No...not the grammar police....
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Speaking as someone who know well the difference between its and it's and principle and principal and effect and affect, I nevertheless object to an overactive police presence on this thread? Because for the life of me, I never know how to spell beleif or belief or piece or peice and even if I DO know how to spell what I want to say, I ALWAYS find that my fat fingers have gotten in the way, always AFTER I've hit publish.
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The last word...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]with apologies for being O/T
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/affect.html
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Liberals and the 4th amendment
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The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. Two hundred years of court decisions have stood in defense of this fundamental right. The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights
John Ashcroft - objecting to the Clinton clipper-chip proposals.
Of course you can argue that Clinton was the least objectionable Republican President but he still qualifies as more liberal than John Ashcroft - don't we think?
The fight to maintain individual liberty and privacy will need to continue, no matter who wins the White House in 08.
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The bland, intentional spin, wonk-speak
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The thing about bland wonk-speak is that it makes it surprisingly refreshing when someone cuts through the BS and says what's on their mind.
For reasons that I can't fathom, the press still credits John McCain with this ability.
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verbs
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]After all, "finger" has been a verb for a long time, now. Why should the fingernail be left out?
Nailed has been a verb forever now as has hammered.