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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

Following up on my Instalanche of yesterday…

Posted: August 4, 2010 by datechguy in tea parties
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It’s worth quoting Glenn making my point for me:

Buckley was charming because he had to be. He got a lot of attention because it was a time when liberalism was at its zenith, and so was its control of the media. Liberals were secure enough to let guys like Buckley on, but only guys like Buckley, whose I’m-a-member-of-the-club aristocratic credentials made him seem safe. And only so long as he was sufficiently nonthreatening.

As long as the right knew their place and didn’t threaten the left’s gravy train they didn’t mind if a republican minority got their share.

A question for the “Let’s get out of Afghanistan” Crowd

Posted: August 3, 2010 by datechguy in Afghanistan war
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on Morning Joe and elsewhere.

If we hadn’t stayed in Germany, Japan and South Korea for decades after World War II (and Korea) how long would we have had to wait for the next major war?

How many years would it have been before either Russia, China or North Korea conquering the weakened powers, or from rearmed Japan or Germany culturally unchanged and rearmed decided to reassert themselves?

Take your time, my K of C thing isn’t till later tonight.

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