The political hiatus on FUSA

I only write this because Don threw out the aside in another thread that he is the 'new a-politcal' HatterDon.

Elsewhere I've mentioned I'm not posting much on the news because it's so more worse than I ever feared it would be. I could have immediately posted that the international, just this side of legal, financial manipulator Soros has made a Billion, so far, on our backs. Of course then I would point out that Obama would never have been elected if it werent for Soros' efforts in the media and mainly on the 'net.
I could point out lie after lie proved by resulting action counter to the promise.

But what pains me most is this has to be laid -albeit indirectly- at the feet of the GOP. The Contract with America was whittled away to nothing with many or most of the bright conservative stars of the nineties giving up and going back home in weary defeat because they couldnt stomach what went on in Washington.. or they drifted over to the side of corrupt beltway politics.
Some... such as Newt Gingrich were hounded out because their human foibles/imperfections were exposed and unlike Democrats, who everyone expects to have 'blemishes' were held to higher standards for what they professed in their political creed.
What you are seeing now, folks, is the slide of our great country into a cynical National-Socialist paradigm on the model of Chavez and Mussolini.

And some will say: "I hope he makes the trains run on time" After he makes most of us NEED the trains, of course.

Nothing about Pettyfog's ideals and view have changed. And my not posting on every little thing is more from lack of energy to do so, than my giving up on America.

We will brook no Mussolinis in our country. I have faith in that.

 

By no means apolitical, but highly educational.

Also worth noting, there ain't many around like that. Everyone wants the government to save them at the end of the day, Republicans included.

Sigh.

 

That is a good read. Sadly for the GOP, there aren't any Goldwaters around these days. As the GOP is digging a thousand five foot holes searching for their direction, a good place to start might be with Goldwaterism.

 

You said it. He's the closest thing to a modern day political hero that I have. His influence is exactly zero in the GOP today.

I've cited passages from his chapter on education in my ed classes three times. A check to the Deweyism of the ivory tower set.

 

RE: Re: The political hiatus on FUSA

Fog, please don't take a hiatus. As long as well all admit we have hypocritical tendencies when it comes to politics, nobody should get too offended by differing opinions, me included.

 

Young?!? Me?!? The check must have cleared.

You are right -- I don't expect a statesman like him to come along for a long time. All the GOP needs is someone to listen to what he had to say, and turn off that blowhard syndicated radio gasbag.

 

Well, I had decided to not jump in on the Goldwater issue but, while I deplored Dems taking Barry's remarks out of context to paint him as 'Nuke Happy' he was no real hero of mine.

As with Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul, I can agree with many of his precepts but he was an old school conservative... the sort that people like Meghan McCain like to deplore.

The reason many young people seem to like him is he was a de-facto isolationist... just like many on the left, esp Left-Libertarians, claim to be.

One thing, though. At the current time, if we had a Goldwater-ite, there wouldnt be any black humor like...

"President seeks dialogue with moderate pirates!"

- heh, go you one better. Somali Pirates Seek Bailout