"Ignoramus20172" wrote in message
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On 2008-10-28, Larry Jaques novalidaddress@di wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:47:24 -0400, the infamous "Ed Huntress"
scrawled the following:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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Just as you will be responsible for what your candidate does if he is
elected. I believe you have the heavier burden there, Ed.

It wouldn't matter who was elected, he's in for a hellish time. It would
be
worse for McCain, with a Congress trying to pull in another direction.

Perhaps, but I was thinking about how the fit's gonna hit the shan
when Obama's projects end up costing us more than the war has.

The hope is that there is some benefit from these projects, unlike
from the war.

If the party takes the high road, that'll be good. But if they revert
to their lower selves and turn super-conservative and moral-majoritize
(like my new word?) it again, they're in for real trouble, as they
should be.

I think that the Republican party is becoming marginalized.


"Radical conservatives in this country have an interesting time of it, for
when they are not being suppressed or mutilated by Liberals, they are being
ignored or humiliated by a great many of those of the well-fed Right, whose
ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that
one cannot exaggerate infinity."

Fast-forward half a century, and the old is the new.

Radical conservatives are still having an interesting time of it, though
these days they are being mutilated by fellow "conservatives." The well-fed
Right now cultivates ignorance as a political strategy and humiliates itself
when its brightest sons seek sanctuary in the solitude of personal honor.

The truth few wish to utter is that the GOP has abandoned many
conservatives, who mostly nurse their angst in private. Those chickens we
keep hearing about have indeed come home to roost. Years of pandering to the
extreme wing -- the "kooks" the senior Buckley tried to separate from the
right -- have created a party no longer attentive to its principles.

Instead, as Christopher Buckley pointed out in a blog post on
thedailybeast.com explaining his departure from National Review, eight years
of "conservatism" have brought us "a doubled national debt, ruinous
expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack
Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of
breathtaking arrogance."



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JC