Comments on: Kesler: “What McCain did Right and Conservatives Wrong”

By: emdfl

emdfl — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:39:36 +0000

McCain’s biggest problem was that he was running against another democrat. Hard to do that with an “R” behind your name. Can’t wait to see him join the rest of the RINOs who got thrown out in the Northeast. They, Bush, and McCain can all go sit in their rocking chairs at the Bush ranch and say, “Well, we coulda”.

By: fiona

fiona — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:42:13 +0000

Talk to a couple of the “youth” who voted for the big O 2 to 1 – no mystery there. The past does not exist, the President determines the economy and GWB is a big meanie because I don’t have a good job and enough money to pay my (enormous) car loan. I borrowed money to pay for my college education and now I can’t find a job worthy of my talents that is interesting and pays for all the goodies I deserve. Where have these peoples’ parents been? The sense of entitlement is breath-taking. coin toss between the rotten educational system and the media. On the other hand, the educational system produces the perfect audience for the media, so maybe that works.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:00:07 +0000

Assuming Obama wins, I’m not sure this Obama electorate actually understands that they have, on paper, elected a social democrat. If Obama had, from the beginning, made it clear he was running on a platform of:
(a) the most aggressive “cap and trade” program going (you know, the one that will “bankrupt” coal companies and send electricity costs “soaring”);
(b) the goal of a national single-payer (government) health care program;
(c) slashing our nuclear arsenal and defense spending, generally;
(d) increased taxes for those making more than $250k, . . . $200k, . . . $150k, who knows, and
(e) “tax refunds” for people that don’t pay taxes, just to name a few

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:08:32 +0000

I oscillate between

-McCain is the end game after too many years of “compassionate conservatism,” big govt spending and Republican moral confusion

and

-The electorate has passed a tipping point where too many voters have no memory of the evils of totalitarianism and leftist big-govt excess, weren’t taught history in school, or are on the take from govt.

American conservatism is doing OK, it’s the Republican Party that has problems. It’s going to keep having problems even if McCain wins. But a Democratic win today doesn’t insure Republican reformation. The decline and stagnation of the British Tories should give us pause.

I suspect that history will judge W kindly, despite his blunders, for his handling of the war that began on his watch. But we probably won’t know for many years.

Most of the conservative pundits are weak sisters who will be swept away by the technological tides that daily erode the old-media businesses that publish their columns.

By: Lexington Green

Lexington Green — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:10:34 +0000

Word.

By: morgan

morgan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:33:26 +0000

I suspect, but can’t prove, that a lot of the new conservatism, for lack of a better term, will come from the Ron Paul phenomonon, especially his individual liberty and free market ideas. Of course, there are aspects of the Paul agenda that will not fit such as his foreign policy. In this golabized world his policy recommendations will not be that applicable. Be that as it may, the old conservatism arose out of the Goldwater defeat. The new must arise out of the current mess conservative got themselves into and if conservative don’t roll up their sleeves and get to work we can look forward to a period of growing Democratic socialism, to the detriment of all, except those in power.