Anchoress stealing AJ’s shtick is not cool…I just realized that you are using his very line, “Goldilocks conservatives” without attribution? Not that he wouldn’t be ok with it since he has been railing against conservatives long before the election.
Why the anger? Are you trying to convince or just fanning the flames?
I also can’t help noticing how many are so quick to be offended that they don’t seem to have even followed the gist of the piece. It wasn’t about whether or not you should vote for John McCain…it was about the extreme intemperance of the far-right, who – in separating themselves as “true conservatives – have revealed themselves to be the true “RINOS” who need to create a party that will serve them, if they are ever to be happy – or to prepare candidates of their won that they will actually vote for.
You know what else in that long article you didn’t cite one example…why not? You must have hundreds of examples to back up the drivel you are selling. Ask AJ to help.
Yes yes we know Bush is great, McCain will be just as great.
Extremism in the pursuit of justice is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of freedom is no virtue.
You know when I quoted that line to you it was apparent that you had no idea what I was talking about. You even had the audacity to suggest that extremism in any case is a bad thing. And we are supposed to take this sort of thinking seriously?
There is nothing wrong with being extreme in the pursuit of justice and there is absolutely no virtue in pursuing freedom moderately. When you understand that you will understand conservatives.
I know that you have stated repeatedly that you came to the Republicans from the Democrats. So having you explain how conservatives should act is laughable. We kick, fight, scream, argue, debate, refuse to talk to each other but in the end our ideas blossom and we are the party with new ideas because we are always debating them and it takes a leader to unite us. That is what Reagan brilliant, he knew how to appeal to us all. Btw Bush did a lot to stifle new ideas by raising up the big government fools inside of government.
Btw that quote is from Barry Goldwater and it is the distilled essence of conservatism.
