Free enterprise can not coexist with national socialism. It's impossible to compete with the government in business when they can legislate the rules YOU have to go by while exempting themselves. So we must content ourselves with widening national socialism and more government interference with our lives - or we must stand against the ObamaNation - against collectivism, and in favor of free-enterprise.
Enterprise happens to be the name of many famous US Naval warships. Today an aircraft carrier (CVN-65) carries that name with pride. There was a day, once, when free enterprise meant something to Americans. Somehow we've lost our way and it means a great deal less than it did. 2010 will tell the tale. I think it's the single most important election that most of us will face in our lifetimes because this country is at a crossroads and we will either take the high road or we will follow the ObamaNation deeper into the morass of unrestrained public debt - generated with the hope of "changing and rearranging" American society along a National Socialist model.
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I agree LL and it scares me to death to think that the direction of our country hinges on just one election - 2010. I fear, hopefully misguidedly, that conservatives will be unprepared for that test. I fear that even if we are prepared, the ideological choices we will have in terms of the candidates will be radical progressivism vs. moderate progressivism. We lose either way! We need true conservatives to get into the battle at the candidate level. Unfortunately, many of those who could do so are too busy running their small businesses or trying to make a living and raise a family to even think politics is a noble profession for them. And so, the progressives will continue to populate and dominate both political parties, and the country will continue to spiral down into the abyss. That's my fear. Someone please explain to me how/why I'm wrong!
Wake Up America!
They say they're not afraid of the voters. If the Democrats lose a few seats in the house, it won't matter if you look at the whole picture. Their agenda will be law, and all will be great!
I believe there is one thing they're not seeing in all of this. The leadership that is saying this might not be back after 2010. Harry Reid is up to his ass with unhappy voters and stiff competition. Nancy Pelosi's competition is going to see an endless stream of money from all over the country. And her own voters might not be as liberal as she thinks they are.
I'm going to steal the political cartoon; what's the old line, a picture is worth a thousand words.
LL, by credibility you mean believe-ability, and that's our problem.
The Left is overflowing with theoreticians, who can advance their causes by, first, understanding the popular mind, and then by twisting and exploiting it.
When we can figure how the left established a sense of injustice and entitlement in the most material-rich population in history, we might have a clue as to how to make our truths believable.
We don't know how to do that because we think that what we believe is self-evident and always present as an individual ambition. Instead, romanticism and fantasy are the moods of the age.
This can be changed if we had tacticians who understood human society rather than politics and elections. When Newt is the house intellectual, you're in trouble.
"This can be changed if we had tacticians who understood human society rather than politics and elections. When Newt is the house intellectual, you're in trouble."
Oh, so true.
Odie, the Democratic leadership can be removed from at least the House in 2010 with conservative victories. The Senate may be a harder nut to crack. But it would end the ObamaNation's agenda and we could complete the process with an electoral scalpel in 2012.
In all this we need to see some conservative leadership - and I'm not saying "Republican" leadership unless the Republicans can clean their house and decide whether they want to be Constitutionally based or whether McCain-style Republicanism is more to their liking.
The Republican leadership must go. New insight and vision must be recruited from our youth. Those kids who went after ACORN are a perfect example. The jackasses who could do nothing better than front Dede Scuzzyhawhaw for NY's 23 CD have to be spanked hard and made an example of.
If, and that's a big IF, we can drive the liberal demon majority out of Congress we must never fail to practice due diligence in keeping them the HELL out of there. Go after these liberals and don't stop. Emulate Rosie O'Donuts latching onto a full frontal nude shot of Carrie Prejean if you know what I mean.
Don't ever let up. Once they are down, keep stomping. Doesn't matter if you don't see them scurrying around the cabinet mopboards - keep spraying.
Couldn't have said it better, if as well.
Aw, but Rhod you know better. Newt is a good thinker, but we don't need thinkers. We need courage and common sense. It's not hard. It's a matter of will. There I go again ...
Sig, I agree to a point. NY 23 is a perfect place to get after leadership, but these battles are to be fought first and foremost at the primary level and then you work out.
If we let the Obamas and Co. run wild until we get things perfectly in order on our side, we will have no country left.
DC, Newt jumped on the ant-talk radio "civility" silliness, and even nuzzled Nancy Pelosi when it was convenient.
If he was an intellectual - he's a creative thinker - he would be above that.
Free enterprise. A dirty word in Obama's world. Entrepreneurs are made for their taxing pleasure.
Look to the bleak world of the former Soviet sphere of influence to see where those attitudes lead.
Rhod, I know Newt's a politician, but we need to resist the urge to find the perfect candidate. For instance, I wish Sarah Palin could articulate herself like Newt can.
They all do silly stuff. We could tick off a list of horribles for all of them.
Even so, here is my main point. I could give a damn about intellectuals. When did we start revering them? Obama is probably considered one, and that cast of fools who is in his economic team surely are.
We need common sense and cajones. Period. Reagan was no intellectual. But he was a conservative, and he got after the other side. Palin is as close to that (probably) that is out there.
You're right, DC, but "the vision thing" is necessary. Mitch McConnell might have common sense and cojones, but would you follow him to the end of the room?
That's it ... vision. I completely agree with that, Rhod. I left that off. I would argue that Newt certainly has this. Always has. Sure, he does goofy stuff. I remember when he was palling around with Hillary talking about health-care reform stuff.
I think he is working and angling and trying to position himself in the arena of ideas or to get elected. We can certainly debate how much of this is necessary.
Some folks (I know are not saying this) would argue that Newt and Co. should be having fistfights with Demos every time they meet instead of even talking with them.
Me? I'd find places to get some common ground to show I didn't have three heads (though I do) to neutralize the opposition, as well.
DC, in my opinion we should not be looking for common ground with progressivism! How much common ground can there be between conservatism and progressivism? Seems like it would be a small plot of land to me. Trying to find that ground is what's gotten us into this mess, and why now I just refer to the Republican Party as "the right-wing arm of the progressive movement". That's where talking has gotten us - further and further from our conservative values and principles. And further afield from the greatness America was! In my view, the time for talking has come and gone. That "experiment" has proved disastrous. We are just too close to the precipice...
Blind,
I have never urged seeking common ground with progressivism, never. If you have read only a little bit of what I have written here (and elsewhere) you would know that.
I advocate winning ... in the way that Ronald Reagan did, and also in the way the Newt and Co. took back the House ... with ideas, and with a smart communication strategy. You've got to be winsome and realize that several different audiences are watching the same actions.
If you don't talk, what do you do ... leaflet people, fight with them, drop bombs on them.
Read the comments above the very last one. Invest 5 minutes before you accuse me of something I have never advocated in my life.
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