Railing against the nihilism of the Socialists and Communists who infest American government -- the people who think America is arrogant and not worthy of its own success
For what it's worth, Colin Powell represents the kind of Republican and Conservative leader I'd hoped we'd get one of these days. Too bad that not only does he feel alienated by the Republican Party, but the party seems to want to disavow him as well.
I think he reflects the same views as the vast majority of people in the middle, the so-called independents, conservative democrats, liberal conservatives, moderate republicans, and the like, that form the "swing" vote that get congresscritters and presidential teleprompter readers elected to office.
And they're all thoroughly alienated from the Republican doctrinaire drum-beaters, and getting more so every day. I mean - would you *really* want to vote for Darth Cheney, or someone who sounds like him?
It's conservative organ-grinders like these hacks that offer nothing, which is to say NOTHING, for anyone to identify with except obstinate contrariness and negativity - and a blood-pressure raising loud chant of discord and dislike of anyone and anything that disagrees with them. Their discourse lacks reason and logic, and substitutes low-brow emotion and combativeness. Fun stuff, driving sales in "the conservative industry," as it has been called. Their splatter stinks up the microphone shields, but it's fun. If you like that sort of thing.
But the people they're demonizing - Powell, moderates of any sort - continue to be shut out of the mainstream party. And it suffers because of it.
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For what it's worth, Colin Powell represents the kind of Republican and Conservative leader I'd hoped we'd get one of these days. Too bad that not only does he feel alienated by the Republican Party, but the party seems to want to disavow him as well.
I think he reflects the same views as the vast majority of people in the middle, the so-called independents, conservative democrats, liberal conservatives, moderate republicans, and the like, that form the "swing" vote that get congresscritters and presidential teleprompter readers elected to office.
And they're all thoroughly alienated from the Republican doctrinaire drum-beaters, and getting more so every day. I mean - would you *really* want to vote for Darth Cheney, or someone who sounds like him?
It's conservative organ-grinders like these hacks that offer nothing, which is to say NOTHING, for anyone to identify with except obstinate contrariness and negativity - and a blood-pressure raising loud chant of discord and dislike of anyone and anything that disagrees with them. Their discourse lacks reason and logic, and substitutes low-brow emotion and combativeness. Fun stuff, driving sales in "the conservative industry," as it has been called. Their splatter stinks up the microphone shields, but it's fun. If you like that sort of thing.
But the people they're demonizing - Powell, moderates of any sort - continue to be shut out of the mainstream party. And it suffers because of it.
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