Below the fold, you’ll find (in three parts) the speech syndicated columnist George Will gave to CPAC on Friday. While Glenn Beck and Mario Rubio gave the two most celebrated speeches at the conference this weekend, it was Will who did the best job of laying down the intellectual underpinnings of modern conservatism…
This post was written by MacAoidh on Sunday, February 21, 2010, 12:13. MacAoidh has written 706 posts on this blog.
“We will probably hear leaks about an undisclosed Romney ailment — only to wonder why Obama, alone of major candidates in recent decades, has never released his medical records. We should expect to hear that Romney got a B or C in some college course — only to remind us that Obama, alone of major candidates, does not want anyone looking at his college transcripts. Do we really wish to hear how an admitted prep-school serial use of beer, marijuana, and occasional coke, and a history of skipped classes, translated into admission into Occidental and then Columbia? We will hear another 19th-century Romney family polygamy story only to be reminded of a 20th-century Obama counterpart. We will be lectured about a fiery Mormon bishop only to hear it trumped by another racist rant from Jeremiah Wright.”
It's all talk.
It's all talk.
Thin about it. Why do we now have obama? obama is the pres because of so-called republican conservatives. Liberal vs conservative is just another term for democrat vs republican, not much difference.
It is wrong to suggest there is no difference between what is known as "liberal" (which is a misnomer; such people should be called Progressives or Statists) and conservative (properly explained, many of today's conservatives are true classical liberals in the sense of America's Founding Fathers). In fact there are two very different philosophies at work; one seeks to expand the power of the government and the other seeks to minimize it.
Thin about it. Why do we now have obama? obama is the pres because of so-called republican conservatives. Liberal vs conservative is just another term for democrat vs republican, not much difference.
It is wrong to suggest there is no difference between what is known as "liberal" (which is a misnomer; such people should be called Progressives or Statists) and conservative (properly explained, many of today's conservatives are true classical liberals in the sense of America's Founding Fathers). In fact there are two very different philosophies at work; one seeks to expand the power of the government and the other seeks to minimize it.
Think freedomist, not conservative.
Think freedomist, not conservative.