Comments on: Sorry, No Bikini Girls

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:33:06 +0000

…although, speaking as someone with some social-con sympathies, I don’t regard that, nor most of the crap Huckabee favored as a presidential candidate, legitimately part of a social-con agenda. They were nanny-state ideas that happened to be proposed by men claiming to be conservative, but that doesn’t make them social-con.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:30:49 +0000

what nanny state from the right?

Medicare prescription benefit. Biggest new entitlement program since LBJ.

By: bgates

bgates — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:35:14 +0000

Those of us who are FC finally got fed up with the nanny-state from the right.

Look, I’m one of those Republican voters who’s got no problem with gay marriage, pot, or molecular biology, but – what nanny state from the right? What did W do for social cons? It looks to me like he threw out fiscal conservatism for the sake of Wilsonian democracy-spreading, and he managed to keep the social cons pretty much by having all the right enemies. Plus maintaining all the same retrograde, neofascist, etc etc policies wrt to marriage and drugs that Clinton had and Obama has.

By: rbj

rbj — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:36:45 +0000

To an extent, it is true that W. has wrecked the social conservative – fiscal conservative alliance. Those of us who are FC finally got fed up with the nanny-state from the right. It does mark an end to the Reagan coalition.

Sarah Palin might be able to reforge it on differing grounds. She’s ok with teaching contraceptives in school (unlike W.) and not teaching creationism. So there might be a smaller government coalition, where we can agree to disagree with our private beliefs.

I just hope this is the high water mark for the liberal left.

By: frank martin

frank martin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:20:29 +0000

Well if its dead, then its corpse is blocking the entire liberal yellow brick road. If you’re a “progressive” and you thought that the election last November meant that you were finally going to see your agenda put into place because all of those damnable republicans were out of your way, you have to be pretty disappointed.

Lets check the scoreboard and see how its all turning out:

…With both houses of congress and the executive branch in the hands of liberals, moderates and downright socialists were still have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Guantanamo is still open, Health Care is still in the hands of blood sucking insurance profiteers and worse, the whole concept of a single payer public plan has been so soundly rejected that the whole plan for ‘health care reform’ is now redefined to mean something else altogether; ‘cap and trade’ is suffocating while it sits under the humid butt cheeks of the Senate and worst of all, the new messiah has become a laughing stock( laughed at by congress, on live TV, in joint session. ).

Short of an outright coup, there just isn’t any way for the left to get control of more of the government and yet here we are in virtual stalemate. This was not supposed to happen and yet, here we are. Its quite an accomplishment if you think about it and there’s only one reason for it, conservatism still exists and it exists in the right place, in the public itself. I don’t for a second think that conservatism is at work in the halls of government, but I am certain that a large number of the 4th branch of government, (the voting populace) have now rediscovered the simple joy of human liberty and are acting accordingly.