Comments on: What the Republican Party must do now http://www.bloggernews.net/118501 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:57:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: ALLA SNAKBAR Ummah Gummah http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-1448454 ALLA SNAKBAR Ummah Gummah Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:04:27 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-1448454 Hey Ovari, I warned you to stop spouting your aisle-crawling nabobity of defeat all over the place! Since you insist on posting where you are not welcome please allow me to return the favor... Hey Ovari, I warned you to stop spouting your aisle-crawling nabobity of defeat all over the place!

Since you insist on posting where you are not welcome please allow me to return the favor…

]]> By: Ed Scott http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-819296 Ed Scott Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:25:11 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-819296 Michael: Conservatism may not be dead but it appears to have seen its shadow on Groundhog's day and thus will lie dormant for sometime to come. Perhaps the best that conservatives do in this environment is remember to put country first and lend their considerable expertise to nudge the government into making less poor judgements about the economy. The time may also have come to decouple conservatism from militarism inherited from the cold war and begin to see that that 'defense' spending is just another government entitlement (Eisenhower's admonition). Conservatism does deserve blame for where the economy is today. It aligned itself with ideo-loons and islamophobes from the far right who maintain a worldview based on conspiracy. The Party kowtowed to the most base anti-intellectual elements until expertise itself was eschewed in favor of tribal rhetoric. Conservatives allowed their principles to be hijacked by allowing the marginalised to move into the center stage. Civility and logical discourse is now shouted down from within and thus the voice of fiscal moderation is drowned. Michael:

Conservatism may not be dead but it appears to have seen its shadow on Groundhog’s day and thus will lie dormant for sometime to come.

Perhaps the best that conservatives do in this environment is remember to put country first and lend their considerable expertise to nudge the government into making less poor judgements about the economy.

The time may also have come to decouple conservatism from militarism inherited from the cold war and begin to see that that ‘defense’ spending is just another government entitlement (Eisenhower’s admonition).

Conservatism does deserve blame for where the economy is today. It aligned itself with ideo-loons and islamophobes from the far right who maintain a worldview based on conspiracy. The Party kowtowed to the most base anti-intellectual elements until expertise itself was eschewed in favor of tribal rhetoric. Conservatives allowed their principles to be hijacked by allowing the marginalised to move into the center stage.

Civility and logical discourse is now shouted down from within and thus the voice of fiscal moderation is drowned.

]]> By: Matt Carolan http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-753598 Matt Carolan Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:33:45 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-753598 Hear, hear. Well said - except for, perhaps, judging Obama on his character. I don't think the American people really did that. But in any case, a return to bedrock principles is in order. Hear, hear. Well said - except for, perhaps, judging Obama on his character. I don’t think the American people really did that. But in any case, a return to bedrock principles is in order.

]]> By: OK http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-742288 OK Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:13:15 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-742288 OK, I think you have the right Idea. I might have voted for the pro nuclear energy McCain, but your waco anti-education, anti-science, prayer in school freinds, headed up by VP nominee Sarah Palin, scare the hell out of me. When it comes to spending, If my choice is too have my money given to Haliburton or to poor people, I'll choose the poor people. OK,

I think you have the right Idea. I might have voted for the pro nuclear energy McCain, but your waco anti-education, anti-science, prayer in school freinds, headed up by VP nominee Sarah Palin, scare the hell out of me.

When it comes to spending, If my choice is too have my money given to Haliburton or to poor people, I’ll choose the poor people.

]]> By: Michael Avari http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-741451 Michael Avari Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:48:28 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-741451 Thank you both for your kind comments! - Michael Thank you both for your kind comments!

- Michael

]]> By: mggonz64 http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-740545 mggonz64 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:18:52 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-740545 Outstanding commentary! I am pleasantly surprised to agree wholeheartedly with an avowed Democrat on the fact that the Republican party is in dire need of an ideological enema. We must stand back and assess the damage done, come up with fresh ideas and leaders, reach across racial divisions and make the party more representative of what America looks like today, and then move forward agressively with a renewed vigor. Outstanding commentary! I am pleasantly surprised to agree wholeheartedly with an avowed Democrat on the fact that the Republican party is in dire need of an ideological enema. We must stand back and assess the damage done, come up with fresh ideas and leaders, reach across racial divisions and make the party more representative of what America looks like today, and then move forward agressively with a renewed vigor.

]]> By: psburton http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-740379 psburton Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:01:57 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118501#comment-740379 a very well written post. Republicans or for that matter conservatives need to cultivate skills to better communicate their ideology, The Era of Reagan is long over, simply attempting to repackage Karl Rove cut throat politics will not work. a very well written post. Republicans or for that matter conservatives need to cultivate skills to better communicate their ideology, The Era of Reagan is long over, simply attempting to repackage Karl Rove cut throat politics will not work.

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