Ingraham 9am-11am
Rush 11am-2pm
Savage 10pm-12pm
Medved 12am-2am

Who has the bigger audience?

I don’t share your strict libertarian views, but I respect them.

Thanks Danish,
You are up early.

I haven’t thought of myself as a strict libertarian. I don’t attend services or anything. Nor have I been a subscriber to the Ron Paul newsletter. I probably see more practical uses for government in terms of infrastructure, efficiency, safety and security than most libertarians do.

My conservative views seem better reflected by what Buckley and Goldwater were saying in the 60′s than some of what is being focused on today. I favor a country with a strong defense that secures our rights, allows individuals to care for their families, and choose their churches and communities. People rather than the elected government should be the vessel for nurturing and passing along values.

dedalus on January 23, 2008 at 1:13 AM

Gotcha.

Johnson was a disaster and we’re still trying to undo his Great Society programs. (Which is one more reason why we cannot forget that elections matter). Who knows what Clinton would have done if the Republican Congress had not been there to rein him in, particularly with the influence of his wife as part of the co-presidency none of us voted for. Certainly HillaryCare was a Big Brother nightmare.

I don’t share your strict libertarian views, but I respect them.

Well that quote is Buckley not Goldwater.

You’re right. Sorry. However, I don’t see humor in it. I’m not denying that Buckley had a wonderful, sardonic sense of humor – just don’t see it in that particular paragraph.

Well that quote is Buckley not Goldwater. And it is not angry…in all the years of watching Firing Line he didn’t get emotional. Taught me one of the most important lessons of debating. Never. Get. Angry. Get sardonic, sarcastic, and use humor to destroy your opponents.

Basically what is called Conservative these days is nothing of the kind. Bush is no conservative neither is McCain. Conservative isn’t a bunch of positions scrabbled together but a principled stand for freedom, life and liberty.

Going from presenting the issues to encouraging abandoning the party is only understandable from a marketing perspective.
Simply put, if the Republicans win talk radio loses listeners since the goal is achieved. Limbaugh used to have a television program but after the 94 elections it didn’t last long.

Talk radio fans like to go on about the “sheeple” but defending the hubris of these guys and gals is the very hallmark of one of the herd.

At least McCain has said he heard everyone when the bipartisan flood of rejection hit DC from all political stripes demanding defeat of the stealth comprehensive reform bill.

As BikerKen pointed out, this is just a temper tantrum by Medved that means nothing at all.

Read the exit polls people, they actually will tell you a whole lot if you follow the trends.

Tell me your exit question is tongue in cheek or are you just that uninformed?

Florida is the other Dem Penalty Box state, they are not even allowing campaigning here, only fund raisers (which strangely are getting a little on the large size for classic fundraisers).

Since we are in the dog house with the Dems all the game playing rules from Michigan are on the table.

Also Florida has a history of like since there was dirt of uncommitted and opposite party people crossing over for registration during the primaries to support or throw monkey wrenches into the game and then switching back for the general election.

This time with the penalty box in effect will only make that worse.

Polls are being scammed if you look at historic voter patterns here. What they gonna do arrest you for giving false information to a pollster?

The test will be election day and close reading of the exit polls when that is done.

Until then its just spinning wheels and shiny toys.

For Reagan to pass the amnesty bill back then pretty much, if I’m remembering it correctly, got a reaction that pretty much was equivalent to “Meh”.

No, people were very upset. But, Reagan got it through because no one really cares about the opinions of people who have to pay for the cost of amnesty. Reagan also promised enforcement of the laws but it never materialized and I doubt he ever intended for them to be implemented.

As for Goldwater, in those days the Democrat Party was not the Leftist cesspool it is now.

By the time Goldwater ran in 1964, the Democrats were beginning to see the federal government as the panacea to an increasing number of social problems. I’d argue that the Johnson administration was far more ambitious (and worse) than the Clinton administration in expanding the role of government. After Reagan was elected in 1980, Goldwater became uncomfortable with the social conservatives (specifically Fallwell) and felt that the GOP was heading away from his core beliefs. The paragraph I quoted above is from Buckley, not Goldwater–though undoubtedly Goldwater would have agreed.

To have a government with the military strength to protect our rights, one that ensures the honest operations of our market places, but one restrained enough to allow us to perfect ourselves in our own way according to our beliefs and family values rather than in cooperation with public policy, that is a flavor of conservative thought I can abide by.

I suspect his real problem is that he is jealous of Neal, Sean and Rush, as their success has left him in the dust.

I’m glad to hear you’re not a fundamentalist. You seem very nice. :-)

dedalus on January 22, 2008 at 10:46 PM

That’s a first! Many regulars here have reached the opposite conclusion.

As for Goldwater, in those days the Democrat Party was not the Leftist cesspool it is now. JFK could almost be a Republican (although his brother Ted is another story altogether) so it’s kind of strange to see Goldwater so angry in that paragraph you cited. I don’t know that much about him, but he was probably talking about Joe McCarthy’s Communists, not your average Democrat. That would explain the defiance, and dare I say, rage, in his tone – which is something I can’t relate to, at least not vis a vis General Motors. Replace GM with “commie bastards” or “Islamofascists” and I might it :-)

Didn’t Goldwater become more and more of a libertarian as he got older? Liberals think he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread now, but they sure hated him way back then. Things have shifted quite a bit since that time, but Reagan probably took the best of it and discarded the worst.

Good night. If you want to respond, I’ll check in in the morning.

The only good thing Medved has ever done.

So, let me get this strait…having said what you said…
Do you think everyone at the Eagle Forum is a nut case?

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