On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:46:32 +0100 (BST) =?iso-8859-1?q?Simon=20Huxtable?=
<jetfromgladiators at yahoo.com> writes:
> I know Doug says that we should take the right wing
> seriously and all. God knows, I try; I read all the
> debates and articles about Strauss posted on this list
> and more.
> But surely I'm not the only one who finds it hard to
> take comments such as this one very seriously.
I guess when Doug says that we should take the right wing seriously, he thinking back to his days at Yale when he and fellow members of the Party of the Right, would sit around reading the collected works of Bill Buckley and Russell Kirk, and ponder the relationship of conservatism to the libertarian thought of people like Hayek or Rand. The problem is that all that has only a tangential relationship with actually existing right wing politics in the US today. To understand that, one is better off looking at Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. Not very appetizing IMO.
> --------------------------
> "So you are just part of the enemy.
>
> You are a traditor.
>
> Monitor do you job and deep six this trash.
>
> We the troops do not need this crap thrown in our face
> every day.
>
> If he outside the US leave his crap there.
>
> Don't bring it into our camp.
>
> Got it!!!!!"
> --------------------
> Five exclaimation marks!!!!!
>
> I can't see how this rather tame (and, let's face it,
> pretty useless) analysis has got these guys so
> red-faced, but, I don't know, maybe they have a lot in
> their lives to get red-faced about and they're just
> letting off steam.
>
> Maybe Adorno covered this in The Authoritarian
> Personality?
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> > From: "Grant Lee" <grantlee at iinet.net.au>
> > Mackerras's Law, named for a conservative, but
> > usually reliable, Australian
> > quantitive political scientist, is:
> >
> > "The party that loses the 'unlosable' election wins
> > the next one, under a
> > different leader."
> >
> > I don't know if Malcom Mackerras has actually
> > applied this law to the US
> > presidential election, or if it should be applied to
> > a presidential system.
> > (Maybe the 2000 election was never considered
> > "unlosable" for Gore?)
> >
> > Nevertheless, Mackerras's prediction in February
> > that Kerry will win, with a
> > "landslide" swing of 1.9%, appears to have caused
> > some enoyable angst at
> > FreeRepublic:
> > http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1080540/posts
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > If a foreign pundit makes a dumb prediction and no
> > one listens, does it make
> > a sound?
> >
> > 1 posted on 02/18/2004 9:00:24 AM PST by GiveEmDubya
> > [ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]
> >
> > To: GiveEmDubya
> > A prime example of how political partisans are
> > liable to believe their own
> > propaganda.
> >
> > 2 posted on 02/18/2004 9:02:12 AM PST by Seruzawa
> > (If you agree with the
> > French raise your hand. If you are French raise both
> > hands.)
> > [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]
> >
> > To: GiveEmDubya
> > Kerry is first going to have to get by the one that
> > calls himself "A Regular
> > Guy".
> >
> > 3 posted on 02/18/2004 9:04:20 AM PST by Semper
> > Paratus
> > [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]
> >
> > To: GiveEmDubya
> > Pure flatulence; nothing but hot air, stinking of
> > ignorance and liberalism.
> >
> > 4 posted on 02/18/2004 9:04:34 AM PST by theDentist
> > (Boston: So much
> > Liberty, you can buy a Politician already owned by
> > someone else.)
> > [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]
> >
> > To: theDentist
> > I was awestricken when I saw it. I would have
> > laughed if you told me Kerry
> > would get 290-300 electoral votes at this point, but
> > OVER 300...when half
> > the country doesn't have a clue who he is.
> >
> > Unbelievable filth. Maybe he should stick to
> > Australian politics.
> >
> > [etc. etc.]
>
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