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Despite some conservative leanings, GW proved he was a standard progressive in a conservative suit. He and his ilk are freedom vampires, slowly sucking the life blood out of this country by dancing along the fence that divides conservatism and liberalism, blurring the definitions and paving the way for a big-eared statist freak to take power.

patrick neid on May 29, 2009 at 8:47 PM

I just saw your comment. I don’t know if you’ll be back here or not, but I’m glad you were encouraged. I know I was when I read about George and his work. There are still leaders in this country! Godspeed to Robby George and his colleagues!

Even if you figure the pendelum has to swing sometime and having two succesive generations of neo-liberalism and multiculturalism foisted upon us and a false sense of security under the Reagan years, you knew it had to happen sooner or later.

Also information is now moved about quite freely. Whenever information gains speed political freedom is sure to follow. The internet is having the same effect on politicis that the printing press had.

Gun laws have been moving toward the liberal (old school freedom type liberality) for some time. Polls are now confirming this.

Gay marriage, despite the rhetoric has always been a political loser. Even Howard Dean was remiss to have his state described as having gay marriage, when pressed he clarified forcefully that CT had civil unions not gay marriage.

Culture, black people have moved away from some of the more vile rap and r&b artists. Their sales plummeting the industry shifted from the Tupac/Biggie thing to more party and dance type music.

Education, a neo-liberal stronghold is now seeing competition from it most devoted voting block. Black parents are frustrated with two generations of awful education with only empty promises to show for it.

Their are many signs that conservatism is one the comeback and has many ways to become the domiant political philosophy in the country.

As Obama burns it down we nee real leaders to build it back up. The real conservatives of the Republican party must be promoted via primaries.

He lost this Texan voter next round(unfortunately not until 2014)
I keep hearing “A conservative can’t win in X district or state”. How do we know this is true when the R party hasn’t supported a conservative in those areas for decades. All they ever do is try to run moderates and they keep losing ground. They need to separate themselves from the democrats yet they keep moving to the center left. Right now they are the most moderate group of politicians that I remember (in my limited lifetime). Yet they keep talking about moving to the center left. And they keep losing more ground.
Hey, let’s try a new route. Run conservatives in EVERY district and state race for the next three election cycles and then if they lose I will listen to you when you say conservatives cannot win in those liberally screwed up areas. We did the opposite for the last three (possibly more) election cycles and lost.
Hey, we can’t do much worse than the moderates are doing.
A leader does not follow the conventional wisdom of the day. They don’t govern by polls. They stand on principles and do what is right – not follow the Washington crowd so they can be liked inside the beltway.

Corsair on May 29, 2009 at 2:04 PM

Ostermeier’s data suggests that the way forward for Republicans isn’t to find people who will meekly acquiesce to Obama’s fiscal policies, but to find candidates willing and able to express and defend conservative principles.

Well said. It conforms to the ideas of Quint Hillyer in the article linked at the top of the HotAir home page which can also be found at the following address.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/29/no-patty-cake-please

I can’t tell you how excited I am to see that Robert George has started this group. Here’s an article on him:

Conservative Heavyweight: The Remarkable Mind of Robert P. George

INC on May 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM

Finding out about him through your links has made my day/month/year. I had given up. If the Repubs in DC had a clue they would bring him in once a week to give them a lecture on ethics, spending and small government in daily life.

I know, I need to put down the bong.

Thanks again.

If every action produces an equal and opposite reaction, Obama’s radical restructuring of the American economy gives conservatives a great opportunity to take seats in Congress at the midterms.

Opportunity? Yes, but I can’t take it for granted until the 2010 election returns are officially in. The 1994 Republican sweep proved that Bill Clinton was not immune to certain political considerations that forced his hand in welfare and government spending reform.

Somehow, at least in the media, Obama seems absolutely innoculated to these concernes. All we can do is cross our fingers and hope like all-get-out that the media’s spin doesn’t reflect electoral reality…this time.

…Paulsen cruised to an easy victory despite because of his unapologetic embrace of conservative principles, especially on fiscal policy.

Self-identifying conservatives have reached their highest levels in at least four years…

Where are these conservatives coming from?

If they are like me, they’ve learned in the last few years that they are conservatives, NOT Republicans, so this may not be good news for the Republicans since it’s a division of their voting base.

If the Republicans run conservative candidates I’ll be happy to vote for them, if not, I feel no need to vote for “moderate” Democrat-lite rinos.

So yes (to continue the weather metaphors), that storm is coming. And we conservatives will be the lightning bolts that knock them on their a$$es in the next election.

UltimateBob on May 29, 2009 at 4:06 PM

I need an umbrella. It looks like rain.

elduende on May 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM

Thank you. Those who’ve been there recognize the scenario.

Conservative Revival in the U.K.

…Also note that if you add the result for the U.K. Independence Party to the Conservatives’ numbers in the EU elections poll (the elections are next week, on Thursday in the UK’s case) you get to 49%. As UKIP self-identifies as a libertarian party, this demonstrates that solid, identifiable conservatism is back with a vengeance over there. My long national nightmare may soon be over . . .

I just read that today and sent an email to the HA tips!

It was quite eye-opening for a Russian to say what he did about what is going on here.

I disagree. The MSM and Obama have done a superb job of blaming Bush for the economy. Even when the economy was good, most people thought it was bad thanks to the MSM.

angryed on May 29, 2009 at 3:57 PM

I really think the “blame Bush” strategy has a limited shelf life, but only IF the GOP puts up an effective opposition and alternative. That’s a huge “if”, though.

patrick neid on May 29, 2009 at 3:54 PM

I can’t tell you how excited I am to see that Robert George has started this group. Here’s an article on him:

Conservative Heavyweight: The Remarkable Mind of Robert P. George

…George’s classes on constitutional interpretation and civil liberties are huge by Princeton standards and always jammed despite his reputation as a tough-grading GPA-wrecker.

George is that oddest of odd ducks on an Ivy League campus — especially in the politics department: a conservative…

…During regular duels with secular opponents, he delights in sending philosophical wrecking balls through flimsy claims that secularist ideology — feminism, multiculturalism, libertinism — is the only “reasonable” position and that Judeo-Christian moral teachings are simply an irrational set of prejudices. In fact, George asserts, Judeo-Christian teachings are rationally superior to secularist moral teachings. Arguments like these make George Princeton’s conservative foil to pro-infanticide, pro-euthanasia, pro-bestiality bioethicist Peter Singer, whose campus offices are within sight of George’s.

…George’s no-nonsense style and love of fiery debates made his lectures “the only ones at Princeton that kept me awake each week from start to finish,” Hess adds.

Students are not the only ones being jolted awake by George. He’s one of the key figures — probably America’s most prominent — in the revival of natural-law theory as an approach to ethical and political issues.