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You know I keep wanting to get off of the Bainbridge topic…

Posted: August 5, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news, politics, tea parties
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…really I do, but the news of the day doesn’t allow it. Example from Ruby Slippers:

An early look at Schneller’s nominating petitions, which are still being reviewed by pa2010.com iin full, shows that Schneller couldn’t have gathered the required 4,200 signatures without help from Democrats. Schneller himself collected only about 3,200 signatures. Almost all of the remaining 4,800 signatures were gathered by registered Democrats, many of whom have clear ties to Lentz. Many of the Democrats who circulated petitions for Schneller are party insiders and activists who would surely find Schneller’s political beliefs to be distasteful at best. Schneller is a staunch conservative who has dabbled in the so-called “Birther” movement that questions President Obama’s signature.

The Tea Party has in fact endorsed republican Pat Meehan and has no interest in Schneller but as politico reports this would not have been possible without the Lentz campaign:

The Democrats who helped gather the signatures include Colleen Guiney, the chairwoman of the Swarthmore Democratic Party and a Lentz supporter; Nicholas Allred, who works for the Swarthmore College Democrats and Rocco Polidoro, among others, according to secretary of state filings.

National review calls it a stench in Pa-7. Actually this is a very old political hardball tactic, not much different than Limbaugh’s “operation chaos“.

If you are going to run for office, particularly if you are threatening the use of the Treasury as a piggy bank to buy votes of course you are going to get people using any legal tactic to stop you and you’d better be ready to fight fire with fire. Why the RNC isn’t getting Naderites on the ballot all over states like Calif and MA is actually beyond me.

memeorandum thread here

The only good conservative is a dead conservative

Posted: August 5, 2010 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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…so explains the liberal view by Jonah Goldberg:

Let’s start with the left, which certainly has different motives than Klinghoffer’s. The urge to lament how far today’s conservatives have fallen from the “golden age” of Buckley & Co. is a now-familiar gambit. You see, this is what critics on the left always say: “If only today’s conservatives were as decent or intellectual or patriotic as those of yesteryear.”

The best conservatives are always dead; the worst are always alive and influential. When Buckley and Kristol, not to mention Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, were alive, they were hated and vilified by the same sorts of people who now claim to miss the old gang. The gold standard of the dead is always a cudgel, used to beat back the living.

What hath Bainbridge wrought?

Via Glenn who really isn’t interested in the topic, honestly!

Generally I think it takes two generations

Posted: August 5, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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For ideas bad or good to have their consequences.

For example the reason why affirmative action was necessary at the time it was introduced was Black America was held back for generations. But by the second generation 30 years or so, you not only had employers in the habit of not looking at race but you now had families that were in a better position to advance.

On the other side you had the removal of prayer from schools and with 30 years you had the divorce and drug rates skyrocket and more and more people seem to have less and less meaning in life.

There are many other examples of the same.

So when people say Gay Marriage has no harm to society, take it with a grain of salt.

Now I have one thing final thing to say, people have the right to be wrong, If Gay Marriage can actually WIN a vote in a state then that state can have gay marriage and the consequences thereof. Until that changes I have very little respect for the arguments of the other side on this issue.

Update: No you didn’t

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