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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Fad Politics

From time to time there come about certain fads which we partake in, only to find evidence of it years later which appalls us. “To think I once wore that!” ...and so forth.

The center-heavy, uni-branch, Mao-style government that has been ‘all the craze’ of late is one phenomenon I count among these ‘fads’. Imagine a few years down the road, the silly things one gets tricked into saying. View the slippery slope towards Mao-style government that Bush has brought us down. Is this something that ‘conservatives’ (little ‘c’wink will just miss, absorb, move on from. Can you guys really rationalize the Bear and Stearns thing as just market maintenance? How far must we pound out our definitions to convince ourselves this is ‘conservative’. Market maintenance or moving towards Mao? What is quasi-public? Is little ‘c’ conservatism still viable? If only the hardworking rural folk weren’t working, if only they could take some time off. They wouldn’t even have to spend as much time in the mirror looking at themselves as all politicians doubtlessly do… if we could get them to remind us once again what matters. Its rapport with your neighbors, so that when a cow dies you can call them and have em dig you a big hole with their backhoe on the cheap before it starts to stink…

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I don’t know what you’ve been smoking, Sparkie, but no conservatives consider bailouts to be anything resembling conservatism.


John McCain is bad for America.

robert108 on April 8, 2008 at 11:08 pm

So, Bush is a Marxist? Does that make your hero Hillary some sort of American? Your so full of shit your breath stinks.


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2Hotel9 on April 9, 2008 at 03:56 am
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Its (sic) rapport with your neighbors, so that when a cow dies you can call them and have em dig you a big hole with their backhoe on the cheap before it starts to stink…

Could you call your neighbor and have him bury your post before...Too late! Never mind!



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Proof on April 9, 2008 at 04:27 am

Personally, I have never much worried about the urgent possibility of disposing of a dead cow carcass before now, but I am quite sure that those of us who live in urban or suburban areas will take all this good advice about dead cows under advisement.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on April 9, 2008 at 05:50 am

Thanks Bat.
Also, hotel, I don’t count her among my heroes.
I’m just wondering when you ‘conservatives’ are going to call bullshit on all this rapid change.

Maybe we’ll just have to wait ten years. Is it just a lack of choices in candidates?

I think GMO food and end of life rights are ideal issues. You guys do not support a ‘conservative’ policy on these things. I can multiply the list. When one company controls everything you are able to eat, will you begin to feel duped? When someone in Washington controls your ability to die with dignity, will you not feel duped? When someone campaigns on cutting spending and the absurdity of international authority/intervention and then proceeds to reverse EVERYTHING campaigned upon, will you not feel duped? When you are convinced to spend 3 trillion removing a petty dictator on a case built with lies, will you not feel duped?

Also, with regard to the upcoming election, I am fairly indifferent to the results. As I see it, McCain will probably pick the least corrupt cabinet. That’s about it. We’ll have to see what kind of bullshit FAD we will have all latched onto when the election rolls around. All I can pray is that the distribution of power returns and the uni-prong gov’t we have been experiencing falls by the wayside. I can’t help but notice a similarity in the between the Bush White Houses’ policy and the infamous Mao quote, “Power comes from the barrel of a gun”.


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Sparkie Arbuckle on April 9, 2008 at 06:10 am

Sparkie,

Could it be considered a “fad” that you are suddenly enamored with the term “fad”?  Just curious.


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Personally, I have never much worried about the urgent possibility of disposing of a dead cow carcass before now,

I get more traffic from the black SUVs with the Jersey plates coming to borrow my backhoe! Didn’t realize there were that many dairy farmers in New Jersey!



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

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you only see that in mass, rhode island, ny, nj, conn, and pa. i know what you mean. either that or its, “can i store my backhoe on your land until tomorrow?”


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Sparkie Arbuckle on April 9, 2008 at 06:28 am
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GWB is of the ‘compassionate conservative’ or ‘neo-conservative’ ilk.  That is to say somewhat conservative in some ways but with lots of programs and safety nets.  I’ll grant that he’s on the road towards Mao communism but at a slower pace. 

Is your problem with him that he’s headed the wrong direction or just going to slowly?  (Where am I going?  Why am I in this handbasket?)

FlyOnTheWall on April 9, 2008 at 08:56 am
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going too slowly.

FlyOnTheWall on April 9, 2008 at 08:57 am

I’ll grant that he’s on the road towards Mao communism but at a slower pace.

Pure insanity; on the other hand, the Dems are already there.


John McCain is bad for America.

robert108 on April 9, 2008 at 09:17 am
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Pure insanity;

Most descriptions of me end in the word ‘hole.’ Your use of ‘Pure’ is almost cute by comparison.

on the other hand, the Dems are already there.

Government has had a steady increase in size under GWB.  That voting for Hillary or Obama would mean an exponential increase in guvmnt size does not negate the size increase under GW.  For his faults, if he ran for a third term I’d vote for him, far better than any of the lineup out there.

FlyOnTheWall on April 9, 2008 at 11:51 am

Government has had a steady increase in size under GWB.

That is the nature of govt, unless the voters rein it in.  It does not in any way indicate that President Bush is, as you said, “on the road towards Mao communism...”.  That is a matter of quality, not quantity of govt.  President Bush is decidedly not totalitarian, while the Dems keep promising to run our lives “for the common good”.  Like I said, pure insanity to compare President Bush to Mao in any way whatsoever.


John McCain is bad for America.

robert108 on April 9, 2008 at 12:25 pm

BTW, Fly, “pure insanity” denotes insanity undiluted by any vestige of sanity.  If you find that “almost cute”, it reveals more about you than you might prefer.
Res ipsa loquitur.


John McCain is bad for America.

robert108 on April 9, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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government is full of people who sell us out daily to foreign interests for cash.  it should be frightening but so far it’s business as usual.  Is the price of gas or food that canary in the coal mine they have always told us about?  Or is the fact that 20 million people have illegally invaded our nation and driven our wages down?  We are all frogs and the water is getting warmer....

poetryman69 on April 10, 2008 at 04:06 am

Is the price of gas or food that canary in the coal mine they have always told us about?

Gas prices and food prices are the result of govt bending over for the environazis.  This “alternative energy” crap is jacking up both the price of gas and the price of food.


John McCain is bad for America.

robert108 on April 10, 2008 at 10:01 am
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