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My Republican Party
This is my Republican Party. Trump and Nixon are missing. Is that Coolidge between Lincoln and TR?
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I resemble that comment! Definitely not a conservative but rather an ant-leftist. Voting Republican for me has been a simple exercise in pragmatism.
Fair enough , but its that increasing lack of conservatism in the younger generations that empowered our common enemies and got us to where we are today (and to be sure, the Boomers deserve blame for raising the Millennials, and my generation deserves blame for raising Generation Tide Pod).
Says the guy who was “anti” Republicans keeping the House.
Amusing. (Hope you enjoyed your faux impeachment.)
Nice try. You ignored arguments and points being made loooooonnnng before your curtain call.
Which is your typical style.
He’s catching a flight to Dallas.
YOu know,
THe current Democrat party should hate that picture of the Democrats more than we do. Lots of bad white guys in it
The respondents here are definitely not Ricochet members…
I’ll bite. What’s a “boomercon”?
Boomer Conservatives who are Bulwark types, National Review types, and/or Dispatch types…
Tongue in cheek from my perspective.
Perhaps what I used to call “9/11 Conservatives.” Liberals who ran to the right when the country was attacked, and have gradually drifted back to the left ever since.
Upon refection, their rightward shift may simply have been an acknowledgement that that’s where the public was at, and they needed to shift their own rhetoric if they wanted to continue to grift. Plus, of course, war profiteering.
I stepped away from this post at comment #323 after the comments had degenerated. Two days ago I wrote at comment #348:
“I note that a couple of people have chastised me for not responding to them. Three hours ago I took my leave writing in Comment #323:
“‘We have long ago left the purpose and theme of this post and have degenerated into “Anti-Anti-Trump” and “Orange Man Bad Bad.” It is time for me to take my leave.’
“A cursory glance at the last 24 comments reaffirm that I made the right decision.”
A cursory glance at the last 48 hours of comments reaffirm that I made the right decision both at comments ##323 and 348. But feel free to keep speaking among yourselves.
How can you keep claiming you’ve stepped away if you keep stepping back. Is that sort of like claiming you quit smoking every time you crush out another stub in the ashtray?
Comment from another thread referring to this one:
http://ricochet.com/769422/five-years-ago-june-16-2015/comment-page-4/#comment-4820824
Hey, quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it dozens of times.
@garyrobbins, you are not dealing with the fact that you, as per usual, were ignoring and not responding to comments long before you stepped away the first time. And even most of your responses are non responses. If I’m being generous, I would label them as attempts at deflection.
I don’t know how Flake would have voted for impeachment, since his ass got drummed out of the Senate well before the house ever took impeachment up.
How many people in Gary’s pick nominated judges who turned out to be traitors?
As Gary argues, black lives matter. But Black Lives Matter?
Fighting Marxism is what got Ronald Reagan into politics. Fighting Marxists who were undercover as something else. Reagan may have been fooled by false branding at first, but he didn’t stay fooled.
To be fair, Trump was a lifelong Democrat. But I believe in redemption and second chances, and he is doing his best through both faith and works. Don’t you believe in personal reformation? ;-)
For that matter, Reagan was a Democrat too, early on.
At a certain age, I don’t hold much truck in D vs R. My parents were both life-long democrats but were very conservative in their beliefs and values. Were they have ever been in a position of power, I am sure they would have ruled conservatively. They sure did with their five kids …
But if “Conservative Democrats” (if such even exist now) still vote for Democrats NOW, they’re definitely not supporting anything conservative.
Agreed.
Unlike the current BLM folks.
Redemption and second chances are what let nations heal after severe conflict, either external or internal. Think the Marshall Plan after WW2 or even the process to return states to the Union after the Civil War.
More recently, you can point to the Truth and Reconciliation commissions in South Africa following Apartheid.
Today, however, due to our feckless leaders, we are learning that those attempts at reconciliation come with an expiration date.
That is a bad thing.
Goes to the modern technology and the current massive availability of alternative news options while still attempting to claim it’s the 1930s through the early 1990s, where news options were narrowed by technology. We’re back to the pre-broadcast era of multiple newspapers in a community, all with their own political slant, and where customers came to them knowing that was the case. But in 2020, we’ve got big newspapers and the TV networks claiming to still be seeking the widest audiences possible, but which are actually now niche outlets that target their content to try and attract a hardcore following of upper middle class urban progressives with disposable income, because that’s how they see themselves (or at least, that’s how they aspire to see themselves, even as they pretend they’re at the barricades with the proletariat).
They like to say Fox News started it, but Fox still splits their coverage into the morning show and the three hours of prime time that caters to the right, then everything else. The other news outlets — as the Times’ Tom Cotton freak-out, NBC’s effort to cancel The Federalist, and the WaPo’s Halloween Party purge showed — want no diversity of opinion at their sites or elsewhere, but still want the public to believe they’re covering the spectrum of acceptable opinion. You can’t help but get demonization, because they’re catering to people who want demonization.
Except he endorsed McCain and Romney. His donations to Republicans far exceeded what he gave to Democrats. He fought Democrat Mayor Koch. Sure he paid off Democrats in order to do business in NYC and Vegas, but ideologically he’s always leaned right. Capitalism, individual freedom…
Well, I could easily see endorsing McCain and Romney as being negatives, but I see the point.
~snort~
John McCain thought he was a statesman. But he regularly ignored us
Marianne Jennings, opinion contributor Published 6:23 a.m. MT Sept. 7, 2018 | Updated 6:26 a.m. MT Sept. 7, 2018
Opinion: John McCain delighted in embracing the other side in defiance of those he represented. Maverick was his label, but duplicity was his specialty.
The flag-draped casket bearing John McCain is prepared to leave the National Cathedral in Washington on Sept. 1, 2018. (Photo: Jasper Colt, USAT)
“Never speak ill of the dead” echoed in the mind of a minister, charged with conducting an infamously wretched man’s funeral. Unable to offer any kind words, he asked the few in attendance to offer some thoughts.
A man in the back rose and said, “His brother was much worse.”
Sullen and mute are the apt adjectives for many Arizonans during the week of U.S. Sen. John McCain’s funerals. When the media are your constituency, you get the Princess Diana treatment. Manners and respect for the military and the dead found us biting our tongues.
They used the funeral to slam Trump
However, by service No. 3 or 4, two former presidents and a petulant McCain daughter crossed a line. The three used a funeral service to slam our current president.
Senator McCain, through the conduct of those chosen to speak at his funerals and the insulting language and parting shots in his final book of pettiness, gave up the shield of “speak no ill.”
Many of us have the same difficulty with Wrong-Way McCain (a moniker for his votes and his record as a pilot) that the late John Lennon presents. Lennon lectured us “to give peace a chance” but could not get along with the three lads who took him to fame, fortune and Yoko Ono
Senator McCain lectured us on the importance of reaching across the aisle. Yet, McCain rarely put a hand out on our side of the aisle.
McCain routinely betrayed the GOP
Senator McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts and was among the fiercest of President Bush’s critics. He had his kindest words for his opponent in his failed presidential bid — President Obama.
McCain-Feingold campaign limitations were an affront to the First Amendment, something the U.S. Supreme Court found in striking down portions of it. He was on the other side of the aisle on immigration reform and ignored letters, calls and pleas for help.
With the Gang of Eight, he thumbed his nose at voters in this border state.
His list of other legislation co-sponsored with Democrats is long, but not distinguished. A senator from Arizona sponsoring gun control legislation?
In his last re-election campaign, he duped us on repealing Obamacare. Without prior disclosure, he gleefully gave a thumbs down on the Senate floor, tanking repeal in a blatant betrayal.
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