Letters to the Editor
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republicans will win again
Reading the letters here, I realize the GOP is heading to a victory. The letter writers are deciding what conservatives are like by looking in the mirror and listening to their own echo chamber.
Hey, I can make up definitions and comparisons also!
Democrats are sweetness and light. Through their relentless efforts they make the world cleaner, happier, and just darn better. Not only that, democrats love people - especially children. Democrats pad carefully in moccasins made from soft cruelty free hemp so that the earth welcomes their foot steps.
Republicans are unthinking jackbooted thugs. They have short attention spans except when drinking cheap beer while watching nascar. Their rage is unending, yet unfocused by their small hardened brains. Republicans line up to crap in the fountain of hope. Republicans are so ignorant and base that evolved minds recoil in disgust from them.
By not understanding republicans, you make things harder on yourselves.
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Oh Puh-leeze!
Excuse me, but your bias is showing. If you think the Democratic candidates are filled to the brim with nuance and truth-seeking, you apparently live in a different dimension from me. These are politicians we're talking about!
The Democratic candidates danced just as fast as the Republicans. Yes, the Republicans want to present a father figure and the Democrats want to be Mommy Dearest. Obama is a very charismatic candidate, but right now he's more like a blank page that we can put our own impressions onto. Hillary's record is dismally similar to the average Republican in every way.
I'm no fan of either of the Dems or Reps, but you could at least give a little nod to substance. Ron Paul made some good points about America's place in the world and ended strong with a promise to not abuse habeas corpus -- something I've heard no other candidate, Dem or Rep, do. And Paul has the record to back it up. Where have Hillary and Obama been in relation to Gitmo, rendition, domestic surveillance? They appear to have been sitting on their thumbs.
You like to rant about this ridiculous and awful war, but you failed to mention that Ron Paul voted against it and is alone among the Republican candidates in calling for us to extricate ourselves from it ASAP.
You could also have mentioned the sad spectacle of several candidates raising their hands to profess that they didn't believe in evolution.
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Understanding "Conservatives"
Tyler_Mason raises an interesting point about not understanding republicans, but seems to have a biased perception (as we all do in one direction or another).
Looking at the feedback on the Democratic debate, I am not exactly seeing tons of blind love for the left. There is plenty of talk of sound bite nonsense, a lack of depth and a short-changing of 2nd tier candidates.
Hhhhmmm sound bite oriented "policy" statements, a lack of depth and short-changing of less electable also-rans? Sounds a lot like this column.
The thing I don't understand about the so-called Conservative movement is its abandonment of core principles under the leadership of "Social Conservatives".
Interventionist foreign policy (especially promoted by social conservatives in lands which have both oil and biblical significance) leads to a bigger military, requiring a bigger government, requiring more money, requiring more taxes. Anti-abortion policy require government intrusion into women's privacy and medical records, while restricting the rights of individuals. Even things like Anti-Gay Marriage require the federal government to dictate to whom churches can and can not offer sacraments. Any time our secular government talks about "sanctity" it should make religiously devout people and secularists alike bristle. It seems the only sector of society that the "Conservative" movement wants to keep big government away from is the Corporate sector.
Yes the Democratic candidates tend to glad hand each other and smile too much. Sure, they all come off as wanting to buy the world a Coke and keep it company. Their inherent faith in the goodness of mankind can come off as naive. However, this kind of ideological fluffiness is in keeping with certain core philosophies of government as a philanthropic and equalizing force in society.
Yes, the Republican candidates tend to beat their chests and sneer too much. Sure, they come off as wanting to open a can of whoop-ass (sp?) on the world and keep it in line. Their inherent faith in the goodness of rich people in large numbers can come off as naive. And their actions over the last 27 years have spiraled the size of our government and our national debt to crisis proportions.
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Are you saying they are macho
because they want to be? Or are they macho because it is demanded of them?
The difference is huge.
The former implies they CHOOSE to be macho, therefore in feminists minds, seeing this going on, this behavior justifies their own selfish behavior.
In the latter, the men act macho because it is demanded of them, therefore they are not doing as they want, but are merely serving the demands of the market.
I ask this because I have noticed women seem to pick on men for things like being macho on the one hand, but then the women only chase the macho men and only consider macho men to be REAL MEN and therefore candidates for dating or marriage or sex. It is a FAUX choice on the part of the men, they are compelled to it by the demands of women and the market.
It is similar to what women would do to serve men's demands if the women wore hoochie outfits and jiggled. Men are still stuck in JIGGLE MODE.
This distinction is important and one that is deliberately overlooked by feminists because it would demolish one of their key arguments for how they behave and what sort of choices they avail themselves of AT THE EXPENSE OF SOCIETY AND OF MEN.
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1 republican and 9 psychos.
Ron Paul was the clear winner last night. He has no chance but standing up and laying out the real republican platform is something a serious republican should cheer him for.
They make claim to fiscal responsibility, smaller government and protecting civil rights but only Paul can lay claim to actually believing the platform.
Last night was billed as a republican debate but the only true republican was all alone with 9 candidates from some other fringe party yet to be named.
If Eisenhower were there last night he would shake Paul's hand and spit in the face of 9 pretenders.