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His Majesty's Loyal Opposition [Mark Steyn<%6d%61i%6c%62ox%40stey%6e%6fn%6c%69n%65%2e%63%6fm> ]
The phrase is apt, I think. Congratulations to President Obama, as we must come to think of him. I agree with Jonah. He fought a brilliant campaign, beginning with his total befuddlement of the supposed sharpest operators in the country, the Clintons. Where's the old politics of personal destruction when we needed it in the snows of Iowa, eh?
As for us losers, there's no point going down the right-wing version of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Any shrill vicious ad hominem invective would be much better directed at each other. The Republicans lost this election. I disagree with Lisa. I think we are near a point at which America joins the rest of the west as a center-left society — that's to say, a society whose assumptions about the role of government and the size of the state are far closer to Continental social democracies than to the Founding Fathers. In a grim media-cultural environment, the temptation for American conservatism is to be seduced into becoming one of those ever so mildly right-of-left-of-right-of-left-of-center parties they have in Europe. We should have the fight about conservatism's future vigorously and openly — perhaps at Bud's Roadhouse out on Route 137 in lieu of All-Girl Mud-Wrestling Night. ===
huh-whaaaaa?
a somewhat more satisfying little snot-nosed symposium at nro here: <
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see mark steyn's comment htere about "why americans are so hot for this hope'n'change mush," as if reagan offered anything more substantive in 1980 . . .
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Damn, it's going to be entertaining to watch the right go nuts. An early
> taste:
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> Sour Loser [John Derbyshire]
> Just watched Wonder Boy's speech. Hmph. "Callused hands?" When did he ever
> have callused hands?
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> All right, I'm sour. The most liberal member of the U.S. Senate! And that
> shakedown-artist of a wife, with the permanent frown! And Joe Biden! …
>
> I'm sour about the GOP too. What did it all get us, those 8 years of
> pandering and spending? If GWB had turned his face against new entitlements,
> closed the borders, deported the illegals, held the line on calls to loosen
> mortgage-lending standards, starved the Department of Education, and
> declined those invitations to mosque functions, would the GOP be in any
> worse shape now?
>
> What won this election was the packaging skills of David Axelrod, the
> swooning complicity of the media, the ruthless opportunism of Barack Obama,
> and the unprincipled thuggishness of his supporters.
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> What lost this election was the cloth-eared cluelessness of George W. Bush,
> the timid squeamishness of John McCain, and the deep lack of interest in
> conservative principles among Republican primary voters.
>
> Sour? You bet I'm sour. Where was conservatism in this election? Where was
> restraint in government? Where was national sovereignty? Where was liberty?
> Where was self-support? And where are those things now? Where are they
> headed this next four years? Down the toilet, that's where. Pah!
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