Monday, August 1, 2011

Newt Gingritch, Really?

Most americans legal immigrants included hold conservative values. The problem in the paradigm is party loyalty. When we ran paul rodriguez for congress against nydia velasquez we asked ten questions of most of the constituents we met. They were issues questions regarding family values vouchers etc. Positions that were supported by conservatives, yet they were too tied to their party identity to vote for a conservative candidate. Most people respond to cliches rather than reasoned arguments and that is dilemma we are facing. The elites in this country have figured that out and are playing the public like a fiddle. Conservatives must realize they belong to a movement. They have invested emotionally in political parties and that is the paradigm that we must deal with. There are conservatives in the democratic party, as independents and the vast bulk in the republican party. The republican party was never a conservative party. It was just a party where most conservatives found themselves. We need to learn the lessons of this experience. Our problem in the political landscape arose when political office changed from a civic duty and obligation and became a career.
2 - the only way to make a point, that we shouldn't listen to jim mcdermott on the issue, is to say that the act of warrantless surveillance is illegal and wrong. Which makes mcdermott's point for him.
Newt gingritch are not reactionary men, these are men who have thought long and hard about this issues; something else was going on here. Now it makes perfect sense to me, if the right can frame this as ww iii, that lets them off the hook in iraq. They want to frame iraq as a one battle within a larger war with islam. They have already succeeded in connecting al queada to saddam perception wise, now they want to widen that connection to iran, syria, palestine, and hezbollah. The farther they can go towards bunching these muslims together the less iraq looks like a drastic isolated failure and the more it looks like just one necessary battle in a larger inevitable war. I see a funny parallel between the kim jong july 4th fireworks and the supposed ã¢â‚¬å“shock and aweã¢â‚¬? of the iraq war. Both were executed with the intention of flexing muscle and both have fizzled out miserably. More weaknesses have been exposed than strength displayed. I look at the pictures of gw at the g8 and i see no humility. He has managed to create a disaster in iraq, ignore a disaster in new orleans, and he looks every bit the cowboy and the fraternity bully. We hear him tell blair on the microphone – i might have kofi go talk to the syrians hey, i have an idea, why can't you go talk to the syrians.

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