What I’m reading today
Bookworm on Mar 05 2009 at 11:39 am | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
It’s a new vote at the Watcher’s Council today, and these are the submissions:
Council Submissions
- Soccer Dad - Puncturing Peretz’s balloon x 3
- The Glittering Eye - The Sleight of Hand Man
- Rhymes With Right - The Arrogance Of The White Liberal
- The Colossus of Rhodey - How did I get a bad grade? I was here!
- Mere Rhetoric - The “Iran Lobby” Moves Into The White House Moves
- Right Truth - Republicans Drinking the Kool-Aid
- Cheat-Seeking Missiles - Class Warfare
- The Provocateur - Reporting From Chicago’s Chicago Tea Party
- Joshuapundit - Obama…Wading In It Hip Deep
- The Razor - Pandora’s Box Opened by Democrats, Obama
- Bookworm Room - The codependent liberal party
Non-Council Submissions
- Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Random Thoughts - Israel on College Campuses
- Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – Michael J. Totten - Christopher Hitchens and the Battle of Beirut
- Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – GayPatriot - The Prejudiced Minds of Those Who Call Us, “Self-Hating”
- Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – The Sundries Shack - A Tale of Two CPACs
- Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – Wall Street Journal - Obama’s Intelligence Choice
- Submitted By: Right Truth – John Christian Ryter - What happens when the entire economy sinks underwater?
- Submitted By: Cheat-Seeking Missiles – Dr. Sanity - The Neo-Marxist’s Modus Operandi: Redistribute The Wealth And Enslave The Human Mind
- Submitted By: The Provocateur – New York Post - The War on Prosperity
- Submitted By: Joshuapundit – The Nose On Your Face - Stimulusol XR
- Submitted By: The Razor – Stop the ACLU - A New Judicial Absurdity
- Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Melanie Phillips - Liberal Derangement
- Submitted By: The Watcher – Gateway Pundit - Figures… Team Obama Blames Bush For Their Trillion Dollar Spending Binge
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Here’s one you should read, in which Rick Moran declares war on social conservatives:
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2009/03/03/rush-vs-newt-game-on/
Do you remember a single Reagan speech in which he did not touch upon conservative social themes? Me neither. As you read that article, note how Moran tries to claim he’s speaking for Reagan in today’s “tripartite conservatism” : Democrats, Independents, and Republicans. And he still has never listed what his form of conservatism would consist of. He fears it would be seen solely as Democrat-lite, and you know what, he’s right. Because that’s exactly what it would be.
I’m sure I’m the pot calling the kettle black. I haven’t outlined many particular positions myself. I don’t really care which of my personal opinions are part of the winning coalition compromise. I simply know that without that compromise package between the freedom-libertarians and the responsibility-social-conservatives, whatever form the compromise package takes, we lose.
I’ll probably shut up (for awhile) in my calls for conservatives to spend equal time discussing both individual freedom and individual responsibility, as the true cornerstones of conservatism both in liberty and in economics. (I leave foreign policy aside, because I think we’re all mostly in agreement there.)
But if you think you can throw social conservatives under the bus and still win this nation back from the Democrats, you’re crazy. Economic conservatism cannot stand alone. A sole focus on individual freedoms alone will not create a country that you will love. And now, for some number of months, I’ll step off this soapbox.