Okay, so I paraphrased. But you get the idea.
Honestly, guys. If you don’t vote GOP and you don’t support the conservatism putatively at the Party’s ideological heart, then from an ontological standpoint I’m not quite sure what it is, exactly, that allows you to claim yourself a “Republican” to begin with?
What? The No Labels Party not exactly catching fire like you expected? No populist uprising for your sort of squishy, pragmatic, status-quo “compassionate” nannystatism? No room left in the pundit pool for yet another self-professed “centrist” Democrat pretending to be a conservative?
Pity.
But seriously. What are you people still doing here?
Maybe this will explain it.
Maybe not. But I can’t hear his name without giggling like a schoolgirl.
STOP LABELING THEM!
“Nappy Meal” is sooooo racist, LMC.
Isn’t a basketball for miles, Slart. I’m in the clear.
Related on McCain.
When Carl Levin, John McCain and Lindsey Graham on one side and the ACLU, Dick Durbin, Patrick Leahey, Diane Feinstein, and some conservatives on the other I wonder what’s really in this thing?
Colin Powell is a whore. A deeply racist whore. What’s with his weirdo adulation of slavery compromises?
He’s as bat-shit crazy as his wife I think.
Is Powell so dense that he doesn’t understand the distinction between law-givers founding a Constitutional Document agreeing as to ends and law-makers working under that Constitutional Document disagreeing as to means to achieve those ends?
Yet, the compromise on offer today is a compromise to extra-Constitutionally subvert the very Constitutional foundation he lauds, a new compromise with progressives, proposed to re-make the ends the Constitution set out to secure. It is simply, as has been noted over and again, an ends versus means distinction.
So either Powell is dense and doesn’t understand the question before the people, or he chooses to elide the fundamental question at hand. Once again — just as with Obama — generating a weird “stupid or lying?” sort of juxtaposition.
Oh. For a minute there, I thought you meant this staunch conservative opinion leader.
Shorter media: “NOOOOO! The BLUE pill!!!”
To be fair, Andrew Sullivan is correct that the GOP is not conservative. Meanwhile, to posit himself as conservative is silly.
I like the comment “if you leave the party, you’ll be out of a job the next day, because the media needs fake Republicans”…
But seriously. What are you people still doing here?
The pie. It’s always about the pie.
Though I wouldn’t complain if you mixed it up a bit with some cake.
It’s so much easier to emote than it is to reason. Emotions come very naturally to humans, reason requires discipline.
Hence, what we have now.
The GOP isn’t. But that’s why conservatives should either fight to make it so or finally leave it. No more voting against our own interests for the lesser of two evils. To do so is to grant legitimacy and permanency to that choice set.
Ya know what you get when you choose the lesser of two evils?
Evil.
I think I’m at the point that I’m only supporting people who will work for the TEA Party Budget and everyone else can pound sand.
Frank. Frum. Froomkin. See a pattern?
I don’t think Powell ever got over the mean things people said about him for saying Saddam had WMD.
He’s desperately trying now and forever to win the back the favor of Washington elite types.
It’s sad.
Is it better to be revered or pauled?
Powell’s douchebaggery is legendary. The husband knew him in Vietnam and Colin was a douche even then.
Nah. He made up for that by having his flunky shaft Scooter.