It’s a Trap!!!!!
by Leigh ScottIt’s a Trap!!!
Admiral Ackbar is one of my favorite characters in the Star Wars franchise. He still looks more real than any CGI character today despite being brought to life by 1982 technology. He also has the immortal line, “It’s a Trap,” when the rebels discover that the Death Star is “fully armed and operational.”
In case you missed it, here’s Ackbar reacting to other “traps.”
Conservatives have walked into a trap of late, or as Michael Steele might say, “have stepped in it.” Why should the liberals, with their rogues gallery of freak shows and incompetents, even sweat it when the Conservatives are too busy fighting with each other? How much time on blogs, cable news, and Sunday talk-shows is dedicated to Conservatives arguing about the direction of the “party” or challenging each other on the authenticity of their Conservative credentials?
There are really only two core beliefs that you need to be considered a Conservative in my book. One, as I’ve stated before, is the conviction that personal liberty is paramount. Two, you don’t look to your enemies for validation. Unfortunately, a few “Conservatives” fail the test. These types somehow believe that in-the-tank media reporters and their liberal opponents must validate their beliefs in order for those beliefs to become viable and understandable. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. It’s a trap! You follow that line of logic and the next thing you know, you’re staring at your own robotic hand over a crippled Darth Vader with the Emperor cackling in the background.
I threw up in my own mouth several times watching Conservatives squirm as reporter after reporter asked them to disavow Rush Limbaugh over his completely legitimate, completely American, and completely logical “I hope he fails” comment. How many liberals were asked to disavow Perez Hilton for calling a woman a “c*#*t” onYouTube? Crickets. Crickets. Crickets. Nada.
Here’s how it should go down: The Conservative should say “Well, (Anderson Cooper, Larry King, David Shuster, Chris Matthews), Rush Limbaugh can say whatever he wants. This is America. What I think of the comment is irrelevant. See, when you have a political movement based on personal liberty and independent thought, people speak their mind. Unlike our opponents, we don’t all take our marching orders from the same source. We are not the Borg. Our solutions and ideology are a bit more advanced, intelligent, and intricate than our opponents. I don’t expect you to understand, because I don’t think you’re that smart or intellectually capable.” Smack! Booyah! The media would stumble back like the Iron Sheik after an Atomic Leg Drop from Hulk Hogan.
You can’t build a house with just a hammer. You can’t fight a war without air support. You can’t make a movie without lights and a camera. There are a million analogies I can think of to say the same thing: you need a lot of tools to get the job done.
There are various categories of public Conservatives. They all serve a different function. No one is right. No one is wrong. As long as we all focus our arguments within the context of personal liberty and anti-statist ideology, we will pick up Independents and bring some sanity back to our country.
We need axe men like Cheney and Limbaugh. We need Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck. We need Dennis Miller and Greg Gutfeld. Nobody should be packing his or her bags. Disagreements between each other are great, but they should be reserved for internal debate and shouldn’t be moderated by a hostile talk show host to the glee of David Axelrod.
Imagine this match-up in large debate hall. In the audience sits every Independent voter in the country. On the one side heavyweights like Limbaugh, Cheney, Coulter, Larry Elder, Hannity, O’Reilly, Beck, Malkin, Dennis Miller, Penn Jillette, John Stossel, Greg Gutfeld, Andy Levy, Laura Ingram, Mark Levin, Thomas Sowell, Prager, Lynne Cheney, Tammy Bruce, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Steyn, John Ziegler, and Andrew Breitbart. On the other side, in slumps Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Janeane Garofalo, Sean Penn, David Shuster, Chris Matthews, Maureen Dowd, Arianna Huffington, Larry King, Joy Behar, Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart, Anderson Cooper, Perez Hilton, Al Sharpton, Barney Frank, Barbara Streisand, and Al Gore.
Look at that fight card. What are we worried about again?
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Good points.
Thanks, I enjoyed.
I have been amazed at the embarassing lack of support for Cheney & Limbaugh. I've never been a Limbaugh listener, but he seems to be one of the only consevatives with the guts to stand up against the vast left wing cabal in this country. Cheney has been an absolute God send in these past few weeks and should absolutely keep it up. The Repubs got there asses handed to them in Nov. and '06 because they refused to defend many of there policy decisions. We have to fight extra hard now with the DeFacto Gov't run media.
You're completely right. I think conservatives have been playing into the liberals' hands with all this soul searching and public arguing. Rather than working together to improve their country's prospects and defeat the Democrats, they are squabbling with each other. I'm sure the Dems and Obambi are doing a little jig at the sight of the GOP tearing itself apart. Why can't the GOP have many different types of people? It should be one more thing that makes it better than the Democratic party, which never tolerates dissent.
Mr. Scott is correct when he states that "you need a lot of tools to get the job done", unfortunately, there are quiet a few tools posing as conservatives these days, present company excluded of course.
The problem that we're having has to do with how we perceive winning and losing. This isn't just a Republican problem. Dems do it too. What we think is, when we win, it's always a victory for our ideas. When we lose, it's because we failed to "get our message out" in the face of superior branding.
It amazes me the number of real people that look like Adm. Akbar! I chuckle every time I see someone that reminds me of him!
The problem isn't the media trying to stir things up.
The problem is a RINO like Colin Powell taking shots at Limbaugh. There truly is a battle going on over what it means to be a Conservative or Republican. This happens from time to time and it's up to the grass roots to stand behind those who aren't afraid to criticize the Dems.
We tried a squish with McCain, and it took Sarah Palin to even get him into the game (actually got him into the lead).
NO MORE SQUISHES!
I believe its was Thomas Jefferson who said something to the effect of "Revolution is necessary for the soul of Democracy, as often as every thirty years or so" Perhaps if we change the wording to replace Democracy with Republican Party, we get a better view of where we are today.
Outstanding analysis and analogy.
I diasagree though that the Republican Party is tearing itself apart. While there is a retrenchment, losing Specter and Powell was really no great loss. Both actually left the party years ago.
What the Republican Party lacks is a leader. Steele isn't it. Limbaugh certainly isn't. He or she will rise in due time. In the meanwhile, conservatives merely need to reorganize their ideologies and core values. They are as valid today as when the forefathers committed them to paper, but they are also under attack as never before.
And this time, the enemy is "us".
Mr Scott, I really like your line of thinking and analysis. With your emphasis on freedom and personal liberty applied to many arguments, it is a great way to trigger a persons subtle, inner, mildly emotional response, of "yeah….freedom……that's what it's about…..I agree with that, cool" , and it is always hard to rebut that emotional arousal of freedom in a person. You use it well when making conservative arguments. Please keep it up.
Leigh, I totally agree. Espouse conservatism and people will follow, plain and simple. Not to belabor the point but to use empirical evidence, Ronald Reagan. He was pummeled from the Republicans and Democrats (Washington leftist), George H.W. Bush, in reference to tax cuts, “voodoo economics.” Jimmy Carter and his leftist droids, “he’s a war monger, to old, hateful, racist, homophobe,” and on and on. Reagan was hated by most of the MSM, it didn’t matter he connected with the American people, who like their freedoms, and a winner. We as conservatives need to embrace our similarities and love of freedom, and we win, hands down.
gee, i just posted a comment and it appears to have been deleted. so much for the first amendment…
It's hard for conservatives to go up against master MIND manipulators such as this administration. They've got all their henchmen behind the scenes pulling the strings. obama doesn't even need to strain his little brain one iota because his think tank is doing it all for him. Even as I type they're priming his teleprompter for what he'll tell his wife tonight.
Well, that fight card would be just that, except the Liberal way is to shout down. It's been around for as long as weak ideas have: if you can't win an argument on the merits, just keep droning louder and louder until your fellow weak-sisters cheer. It's like American Idol has taken over politics.
To form my own methaphor: This is no time for squishy, expedient blinders. If you got a horse in the race, let it run, unfettered and all-out. If you are trapped at the rail of "moderation", make an opening and don't apologize.
I totally agree. I too have never listened to Limbaugh, but for someone who has an audience of about 7% of the country he is sure treated like an Enemy of the State. I guess he must be doing something right. As for Cheney, I believe he puts this country above all others. The same can't be said about many liberals, who are too busy trying to blow the UN, Europe, the Ice Caps, Illegals, Iran, and the list goes on and on.
Amen!! I am so sick and tired of hearing the words, "Who is the leader of the Republican party?" WTF? Just b/c libs need one person to fall in step and be led by the noses doesn't mean conservatives do. The diversity of ideas is, imho, the best part of being on the right. Not to mention the only diversity that should count.
Oh, not to worry, it happens to better comments than yours. Post it again, if you think it was worthy. If you suspect it was just a piece of vile crap, then why encumber the Intertubes with it?
Look, I think there HAS to be a debate on "Republicanism", and I think it should be public!
We have to be able to demonstrate in front of the world that THIS party actually has the ideas, that it tests them constantly, accepts those that work, rejects those that don't, and constantly re-assesses them for relevance. Far from the "mind-numbed robots" we are portrayed as being, we are dynamic and intellectual, and don't fear wading into conflicts with our opinions, to sink or to swim.
We DO need to cool it with the overheated rhetoric, (except for the attack dogs and commentators, Cheney, Hannidy, Limbaugh et. al), and when we engage each other in the enemies camp, we turn as one and smoke the moderator when he plays one conservative off the other for his own aggrandizement.
Right now, the debate should focus almost exclusively on fiscal responsibility, and we should be extremely aggressive on that. Joe Sixpack may be a Union member, and a heavy Dem voter, but he is seeing how the wind blows when the nutcases are running the asylum, and to borrow your analogy, THIS is the time to "turn him from the Dark Side".
Sarah, Mitt, and anyone else who might want this job in 2012 should be making the rounds to push that fiscal conservative message. We need Powell and Spector and the RINO's having to face again and again people who aren't afraid to stand their ground and shove the RINO's ridiculous ideas into the white-hot glare of public opinion to see if they can swim, or if they'll sink into irrelevancy.
Correct. Colin Powell is an embarrassment to nature, much less the Republican party, of which he is not a member, no matter what he says.
As I was saying, if you're not writing to your representatives demanding they follow the constitution, then you are merely a spectator and therefore not worthy of the gift of liberty. Write, email or call them. Tell them, don't ask. If they do not, tell them you reject thei authority. What have you got to lose, other than being branded a right-wing reactionary by the idiot, J edgar Napolitano.
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A great post, Leigh. It is all about defining the terms of the debate. Conservatives and, more generally Republicans must do a better job of doing that. You don't even have to insult the lib media types no matter how easy or inviting it would be. Simply stating the case for individual liberty and the need to keep government out of social policy gets it done. A couple of earlier commenters mentioned they don't listen to Rush. I really recommend at least listening to the first hour. It is usually quite informative. Rush does a lot of leg pulling and entertaining but the guy is extremely perceptive at taking the issues of the day and getting to the root of the matter. Plus, he REALLY knows how to push the lib's buttons.
Well we evolved from fish.. I think we all look like fish and I think it's funny too.
The first thing that has to be done is to quit letting them frame the argument. These idiots that keep going on Mathews' show so he can twist them around until they admit some failing in the GOP make me sick. Secondly, Steele needs to grow a pair and pick who the RNC supports better if he ever wants me to donate to the RNC again. Until then, I will continue to donate directly to the candidates I support. I don't care how many shiny cards you send me. Finally, quit bringing up William F. Buckley Jr. please. Yes he was smart. But how did his run for office go? Exactly.
I'm amazed at how much time and effort the MSM has spent talking about "what will save the Republican Party" as if they care….this is all just distraction from having to report on the reality of the failure of the Obama administration.
I'm amazed at how much time and effort the MSM has spent talking about "what will save the Republican Party" as if they care….this is all just distraction from having to report on the reality of the failure of the Obama administration.
The left is identified by those who became aroused when Obama spoke. The right composed of those who didn't hear anything. I said it before and I'll say it again; an empty suit, a flim-flam man, a carnival barker, huckster, snake-oil salesman, a wizard of worthless and empty platitudes. Only problem is half the country voted for him. What's that say about them? "Beware stupid people in large numbers".
This article is right on. I can't tell you all how many times I've said to myself "It's a trap" while watching righties interviewed by Lefties and MSM'ers. Liz Cheney gets it…more often than not she'll start her responses with variations of "I don't accept the premise of your question"…bingo!
As stated in the article, "What I think of the comment is irrelevant" should be a running theme with interview responders when asked about other Repubs. I'm surprised that Conservative commentators aren't seeing that they are being divided and conquered.
If the sum total of someone's beliefs is to the right of center, then let's not beat 'em up, let's bring them in for the topics that they are needed for, otherwise it seems wise to apply "the 11th commandment".
If you want more embarrassement, just watch the current flap between the NRSC and their backing of Crist v. the base and the blogosphere and their backing of Marco Rubio in Florida. Rubio is the real deal for conservatives who side with people like Limbaugh and Cheney. Crist is the country club sort like McCain. Cornyn apparently made some comments over his support of Crist at RedState, and the you can see the anger of the base in the comments.
I think Limbuagh could be if he wanted to be, but that's not who he is or what he's about. Limbaugh is also wise enough to know that he'd be shredded over his past even more than he already is if he tried.
I wouldn't say that half the country voted "for" him. I think you can break that half into those who honestly voted for him and those who voted against Bush. The trick is finding out what those proportions were. The part about "beware stupid people in large numbers" is spot on. If you simply voted aginst Bush without being sure that what you were voting for wasn't going to be worse than what you were voting against, then that is my definition of stupid … add that to the simple fact that Bush was nowhere in the race, and you have definitely gone beyond stupid.
It's also time to realize that you cannot win with the Left especially if you are trying to seek their approval. Never, ever couch things in such a way that you seem to be apologizing for anything. And never be dismayed that when you bring out the truth, they can't handle it. I was shut down just yesterday for daring to explain the reason for the 3/5 language in the COTUS. The leftie in question couldn't wrap his head around the truth that at the time of the Founding, forming the nation was the paramount importance, and allowing the slave owners to count their slaves as whole people while not allowing them any political say whatsoever would have ensured political dominance by the white, slaveowning class in the new nation. The Founders punted the question of slavery to a later generation in favor of forming the nation trusting that slavery would be abolished by the freedom loving poeple that Americans were, but they knew they couldn't achieve it at the time.
I was appalled when the country elected this rookie in the first place, and now that he is playing Chicago politics, should we be surprised at all with his underhanded race based efforts? I think not… In fact, there will be many more traps in the future, it's how he rolls…
It's not a "think tank" – it's a "feel" tank.
The blogger lists about forty people in some imaginary matchup of cultural forces. The problem? with the exception of about 4, these are celebrity talking heads rather than actual politicians. What is this debate about? Winning cable TV ratings? Or winning at the polling booth? Whether you are talking about Olberman on the left, or Hannity on the right – at a certain point they both represent hot air. What a political movement needs are electable leaders that are going to do something. It doesn't seem that this article is concerned with that.
Problem is, people are confusing Republican with conservative, and when the Republicans go on "listening" tour and report they heard a smorgasbord of different ideas everywhere they went the media all touts the story that conservatives are in disarray. While there is some dissonance over abortion and other cultural issues, the existential threat to our freedom is far too important to let that divide us. Whether we can retake the Republican party or we have to go outside, we conservatives must unite and bring the battle to the enemy, on our terms.
A conservative idea that is one this is neither hindered by the left nor assisted by the right. Logic and truth need no justification, they speak for themselves. All that is needed are courageous people to act as a catalyst and carry the momentum.
Exactly!!!!!!!!
I believe we, the Conservatives, need to better explain what RINO means. The Left has couched the RINO revolt as if we are trying to get rid of those in the party who do not lean more towards the social con right. And that is not it at all!
The deal with the moderates, or RINOS is purely based on the fact that these two groups are not really Republicans and will not stand for anything when it comes to taking a stand for the country or preserving freedoms for all Americans. Presto one Colin Powell! All the man has done is slime the GOP and not proposed any answers which would include the Conservatives/Base of the GOP. He, along with others have made it very clear they want us OUT of the party. There is no compromise with the likes of Powell and McCain.
As Rush says, "When have you read a book called, Great Moderates in American History?" And RINOS stands for Republicans in NAME ONLY. Translation, these folks would be Democrats IF they could have won their current political position as a Democrat, and they only ran as a Republican because the Democrat competition was too tough. They are political animals like Arlin Specter, and not men or women truly seeking a political position to represent the people of their districts and their interests. In other words, most Conservatives object to RINOS and moderates in the party because they obstruct what real Republicans and most Libertarians stand for, and that is freedom for all and support of strict Constitutionalists when it comes to judges.
I also thought you could not win a land war in Asia. Loved the article!
I'm sorry. Hannity and O'Reilly? Heavyweights?
Seriously?
Obama and his puppeteers were planning an assault on this country even before he ran for Senator. All the programs he is now putting in place were outlined long ago – and, the financial down-turn happened at just the right moment. Gee, sounds like a conspiracy.
The RINO's have been in control of the Republican National Committee for some time & in the Congress; therefore, most of them will have to be purged in 2010. The RINO's will gladly be the Dems' doormat just so they can say they are bipartisan. Moving to the center is what has killed the Republicans in 2006 & 2008.
yeah, and like the other J Edgar, this new J Edgar also likes to sometimes dress like a woman.
Stop sucking the donkey's d**k!!!
Right. And thats why people like Powell and kiddy McCain are really `plants' who need to be weeded out of the conversation.
Great article! Sometimes we all need to be snapped back into reality and realize that it's NOT so bad.
File this under: we've been down soo long that it looks like up to me.
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"As long as we all focus our arguments within the context of personal liberty and anti-statist ideology, we will pick up Independents and bring some sanity back to our country."
Excellent.
Fantastic piece! You're spot-on, Mr. Scott. I think your point is even in that Leftist book, Rules For Radicals. I.e., keep your opponents bickering among themselves, while the Left and their cronies do whatever they please.
ALL CONSERVATIVES NEED TO BE AWARE OF THIS THESE DAYS. Because we can expect more of the pathetic same.
Conservatives walk into trap, Big Failywood columnist boldy begins chewing own leg off
You had me at "Admiral Ackbar." By far my favorite Mon Calimari, although to be honest, they all look alike to me.
But yeah, you're right. The Republican party is so screwed if they keep falling for the same old traps. I often think: do major Republican/Conservative politicians read blog comments from people like us? Or are the lot of them too old and out of touch to play with the Internets? Idiots.
Been waiting to use that for a while now, huh?
Weak
Dear Leigh Scott,
you kind of stepped into 'it' yourself — by mentioning all mediocre talk show hosts and omitting Michael Savage. It is difficult for me to believe that a nationally syndicated show with over 8 mil people doesn't get mentioned by accident.
I'm a charter listener to Rush(1988)listening via medium wave,rack mounted gear.He has NEVER wavered.Liberalism is the most gutless,easy thing to do.The "neocons" you reference,I hope,are diversions,while liberals are being given valium laced hamburger balls so we can storm their compound and destroy their machines.(See,I could write in Hollywood!
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Limbaugh gets it: If James Carville, or Anderson Cooper, or Colin Powell tells you that your shouldn't do something, DO IT NOW AND DO IT OFTEN.
When Republican "leadership" grows the cojones to write their own script instead of accepting the one written for them by their enemies, we might just start getting somewhere.
In my humble opinion the argument shouldn't be Republican or Democrat, it should be Constitutional. We are a Republic because of the Constitution. You show me someone who is going to defend the Constitution against the damage BOTH parties have done to it in recent years, I'll show you someone with the desire to return our nation to what it once was. That's who I want to see run the Republican party. Those are the people who I would like to see in Congress and the Senate. If it takes voting out all incumbents to find those people so be it. And please let us stop trying to find someone "electable". I heard that through the campaign last year and what we got was a pseudo conservative (I voted for him anyway because I didn't want O).
In my humble opinion the argument shouldn't be Republican or Democrat, it should be Constitutional. We are a Republic because of the Constitution. You show me someone who is going to defend the Constitution against the damage BOTH parties have done to it in recent years, I'll show you someone with the desire to return our nation to what it once was. That's who I want to see run the Republican party. Those are the people who I would like to see in Congress and the Senate. If it takes voting out all incumbents to find those people so be it. And please let us stop trying to find someone "electable". I heard that through the campaign last year and what we got was a pseudo conservative (I voted for him anyway because I didn't want O).
There seems to be two wings of the republican party these days. Either the 'Limbaugh/Cheney' wing and the 'McCain/Powell' defeatest wing. The LC wing believes it's better to lose fighting than it is to give up with dignity (like McCain did in the General Election).
I'm sick of the deafeatest attitude. I thought that Michael Steele would fight the dems with the same vigor (if not venom) that Howard Dean did as the head of the DNC agains the GOP. But his first fight was against Rush. And when the MSM and their useful idiots say that Rush is being mean. There is no lack of RiNOs to tell Rush that he doesn't represent 'real' republicans.
No, Limbaugh is the heart and soul of the party! Powell and McCain do not represnet 'real' members of the GOP.
The Mushy-cons are trying to say 'can't we all get along' after they spent McCain's campaign being positively abusive to anyone who pointed out the weakness of their position. Well, we were right, and they were wrong. Again.
Lincoln got rid of McClellan. We need to remove the RINOs from the seats of power, and put in the natural leadership of the party, the socons aka Standard Conservatives. If we continue with McClellan, we will continue with failure.
What did the RINOs expect? Lose and lose and lose, and people eventually get tired of it, and demand a new football coach.
When I read this article, I see a charming guy. I also see behind him a bunch of really offensive moderates who tried real hard to kick the conservatives out of the party, and now those moderates are reaping the whirlwind. Now they have been driven back from their recent position of defense, and they are hastily trying to build another one which is practically the same as Old Loser #2 Line of Defense (OL #1 was the one they used before their guy McCain lost.) Its a detergent with the same ingredients but a new add campaign….. Lets Be Moderately Clean, but Now With 70% Less Arrogance!!
Look, Moddies, you don't have to publically admit what we all know, but you need to realize that you can't be in charge anymore. And if it takes some public dressing downs, or some other form of inter-party civil war, well, just remember, you started it by nominating Sen. McCain.
The Republican Party is an *organization*, whereas "conservatism" is not. Conservatives called the Republican Party "home" for a time, but there's less and less real estate in the intersection of that particular Venn diagram. The support of conservatives came to be taken for granted by the Republican Party, to the point where every pol with an "R" after his name proclaimed himself to be "conservative" – regardless of whether the label fit. The term was watered down nearly to the point of being meaningless, sometimes by hostile Dem libs who wished to equate ALL Republicans with conservatism (because they felt it an easy road to electoral victory), and sometimes by well-meaning – but ultimately, more *damaging* – Republicans who courted conservative voters but couched their shame in qualifiers like "compassionate". (Guess who?)
Conservatism needs a structure of some sort, a platform with planks, like any other "party". I'm tired of people telling me that they're conservatives, when they're in the last position to be able to do so. I'm tired of the media telling me who's a conservative, when they're so far to the left that they think Arnold Schwartzenegger, Rudy Giuliani, Charlie Crist, John McCain, Colin Powell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck are conservatives…
Elizabeth Hasselbeck came to mind because I was thinking of "Survivor". As in, "vote 'em off the island". Yeah, I think we deserve the Right of Refusal. The right to stand up publicly and collectively and say:
"No, sir – you are not a conservative. I don't give a crap what *you* claim to be or that Katie Couric says you are. You are NOT."
When we can define our own ranks, we'll get somewhere…
Tear it up Tennwriter we deny conservatism and relegate ourselves to backbencher also-rans. These are Bob Michaels kind of Republicans content to be losers.
10-4 Stergeye! It amazes me that these idiot Republicans give a damn what any of these talking heads have to say, especially Colin Powell, he endorsed Barry for God’s sake. I guess Washington Republicans will have to get kicked in the jewels to recognize the enemy.
Well writ.
The picture I see in imagining your great debate however,
is of our heavyweights being ambushed on the way to the ring by our 'moderates' and
RINO's while the slumping statists stagger in like the Borg – incapable of independant thought ,
but convinced of the inevitability of their assimilation.
When I worked with the party in 2008 here in Enchantment Land, I met a fella running for a judge position. He carefully ran down the list of conservative ideals, but then BANG, hung himself up on the 2nd Amendment.
I very carefully explained to him the importance of it, why we had it, that criminals already committing gun crimes weren't about to pack it in just because someone added a new rule. He nodded sagely and said he'd review his stance.
I walked away KNOWING he wasn't about to reassess his stance because of my advice, and I knew he was going into the wall in turn three on election day. I was right on both counts.
We need candidates who FEEL the Constitution in their soul, who can look at issues and instinctively know whether its right or not. Candidates who can speak passionately from the heart and soul how freedom makes kings of us all, who knows the shining city on a hill is a reality, and we can all see it, touch it, and pass our lives there in equality and freedom, and that the city is everywhere freedom and restrained government exists.
The key is someone who can see that, explain it to people, and say, "Please, come with me; I want to bring you to a place where what you work for belongs to you, not some micro encephalitic policy wonk in Washington who has never met you, couldn't point out on a US map where you live, and has no idea who your best friends first name is, but is absolutely sure he can spend your own money better than you can."
Well said. I agree. Anyone who runs for office, but has to tell you "I'll review my stance" on an issue like the Second Amendment is lying to you because they know their position isn't popular. That's not someone you can trust.
Not only did you wonderfully articulate very solid and ever-so-true arguments…but you managed to slip in Star Wars, Star Trek…AND Worldwide Wrestling Federation references in the SAME POST! Major kudos to you, sir.
So Congress made a law forbidding you from posting here, or did it vanish into the ether?
Btw, I've seen several comments here from known trolls like antifascist show up as "deleted by administrator" so I have a feeling yours probably vanished into the ether. Even if you do make enough of a nuisance of yourself or post something that the admins delete it, whinging about the "first amendment" is futile. Their blog, their rules.
Admiral Ackbar???
I thought that was Henry Waxman!
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