Comments for Conservative Cabal http://www.conservativecabal.com The Conspiracy for Freedom Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:14:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on Fighting the good fight by Clemento http://www.conservativecabal.com/2009/08/11/fighting-the-good-fight/#comment-236 Clemento Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:46:12 +0000 http://www.conservativecabal.com/?p=483#comment-236 I really like your blog and i respect your work. I'll be a frequent visitor. I really like your blog and i respect your work. I’ll be a frequent visitor.

]]> Comment on Fighting the good fight by Arsento http://www.conservativecabal.com/2009/08/11/fighting-the-good-fight/#comment-235 Arsento Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:43:17 +0000 http://www.conservativecabal.com/?p=483#comment-235 I added your blog to bookmarks. And i'll read your articles more often! I added your blog to bookmarks. And i’ll read your articles more often!

]]> Comment on Fighting the good fight by Cornelius http://www.conservativecabal.com/2009/08/11/fighting-the-good-fight/#comment-231 Cornelius Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:06:56 +0000 http://www.conservativecabal.com/?p=483#comment-231 I liked it. So much useful material. I read with great interest. I liked it. So much useful material. I read with great interest.

]]> Comment on Strange But True by Lane http://www.conservativecabal.com/2009/07/14/strange-but-true/#comment-206 Lane Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:02:27 +0000 http://www.conservativecabal.com/?p=469#comment-206 The first solution is not to despair. Things look bad, but they looked awfully bad during the 70s, and the 1870s. Pretty soon after Toqueville's monumental volume on America came out, which early on pointed out that (paraphrasing) America is great because it is good, moralizers and doomsayers started saying that we were no longer good and therefore destined to fall from greatness. So do not despair. On most moral issues, the polls, if not the pols have been trending in the conservative direction since Clinton's Presidency. Cap and Trade and the Healthcare fiasco both look to be defeated (as the Amnesty in Disguise bill was defeated a few years ago). When the Left overreaches, America reacts, and Obama is overreaching like few before him could have imagined. The first solution is not to despair. Things look bad, but they looked awfully bad during the 70s, and the 1870s. Pretty soon after Toqueville’s monumental volume on America came out, which early on pointed out that (paraphrasing) America is great because it is good, moralizers and doomsayers started saying that we were no longer good and therefore destined to fall from greatness.

So do not despair. On most moral issues, the polls, if not the pols have been trending in the conservative direction since Clinton’s Presidency.

Cap and Trade and the Healthcare fiasco both look to be defeated (as the Amnesty in Disguise bill was defeated a few years ago). When the Left overreaches, America reacts, and Obama is overreaching like few before him could have imagined.

]]> Comment on Strange But True by Katy http://www.conservativecabal.com/2009/07/14/strange-but-true/#comment-202 Katy Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:46:58 +0000 http://www.conservativecabal.com/?p=469#comment-202 First, welcome back to the blog! Secondly, I think it is in the nature of democracies to self-destruct. Especially those that are without a moral center, which would increasingly describe the U.S., as Americans become more and more polarized between libertine libertarians and lazy let-the-government-do-its-thing-everyone-is-corrupt-anyway-whats-the-use-het0whats-on-tv-tonight apolitical folk. (And then there are the left-wing true blue (red) socialists, but they are a minority -- Obama is indeed one of them.) There's been a book published recently by Paul Rahe, professor at Hillsdale, called "Soft Despotism: Democracy's Drift". http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300144925 Yeah.. .so what's the solution? First, welcome back to the blog! Secondly, I think it is in the nature of democracies to self-destruct. Especially those that are without a moral center, which would increasingly describe the U.S., as Americans become more and more polarized between libertine libertarians and lazy let-the-government-do-its-thing-everyone-is-corrupt-anyway-whats-the-use-het0whats-on-tv-tonight apolitical folk. (And then there are the left-wing true blue (red) socialists, but they are a minority — Obama is indeed one of them.)

There’s been a book published recently by Paul Rahe, professor at Hillsdale, called “Soft Despotism: Democracy’s Drift”. http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300144925 Yeah.. .so what’s the solution?

]]> Comment on Amateur Hour at the White House by Katy http://www.conservativecabal.com/2009/03/07/amateur-hour-at-the-white-house/#comment-154 Katy Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:12:55 +0000 http://www.conservativecabal.com/?p=430#comment-154 The DVDs were an especially poor choice not only because of region 5 versus region 1 or whatnot, but also because Gordon Brown may be losing his eyesight: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3178318/Gordon-Browns-eyesight-is-causing-concern-among-aides.html Way to rub it in, Mr. President! But as someone said to me today about this -- "who CARES? These gift exchanges are pretty silly." Well maybe this tradition is silly, but the symbolism is not. Traditions are significant because of their cultural pointers, and the historical memory they represent. The DVDs were an especially poor choice not only because of region 5 versus region 1 or whatnot, but also because Gordon Brown may be losing his eyesight: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3178318/Gordon-Browns-eyesight-is-causing-concern-among-aides.html Way to rub it in, Mr. President! But as someone said to me today about this — “who CARES? These gift exchanges are pretty silly.” Well maybe this tradition is silly, but the symbolism is not. Traditions are significant because of their cultural pointers, and the historical memory they represent.

]]> Comment on More Santelli Excitement by Ayla Johns http://www.conservativecabal.com/2009/02/23/more-santelli-excitement/#comment-153 Ayla Johns Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:00:30 +0000 http://www.conservativecabal.com/?p=418#comment-153 bravo. i appreciate that you've pointed out that the right, much villified of late, is expressing concerns not just over its pocketbook but the unprecedented turns this country is taking. that message needs to get out so that we can have a healthy debate going forward. bravo. i appreciate that you’ve pointed out that the right, much villified of late, is expressing concerns not just over its pocketbook but the unprecedented turns this country is taking. that message needs to get out so that we can have a healthy debate going forward.

]]> Comment on Gregg Withdrawal and the Census by Auto Industry Bailout » Blog Archive » What Can We Learn From Judd Gregg? « Braingold http://www.conservativecabal.com/2009/02/14/gregg-withdrawal-and-the-census/#comment-152 Auto Industry Bailout » Blog Archive » What Can We Learn From Judd Gregg? « Braingold Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:05:02 +0000 http://www.conservativecabal.com/?p=405#comment-152 [...] Conservative Cabal » Blog Archive » Gregg Withdrawal and the Census [...] [...] Conservative Cabal » Blog Archive » Gregg Withdrawal and the Census [...]

]]> Comment on Shame on him, shame on Illinois voters by Lane http://www.conservativecabal.com/2009/01/29/shame-on-him-shame-on-illinois-voters/#comment-135 Lane Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:13:44 +0000 http://www.conservativecabal.com/?p=386#comment-135 Yes, he's out, but shall we ever be rid of him? I worry that he will somehow escape conviction on any serious charge and will then emerge, vindicated in his own mind and land a job with MSNBC or some other hack network and we'll get to hear his nonsense ramblings for years to come. Fitzgerald hasn't demonstrated the ability to really land the big fish. He hooks them for sure, with his indictments, but when it comes conviction time, he is sorely lacking. I mean, how much time is Rezko doing anyway? Here's hoping I'm wrong and Blago gets a nice healthy sentence which prompts him to turn on all the other politicians in this state and out of it :-) Yes, he’s out, but shall we ever be rid of him? I worry that he will somehow escape conviction on any serious charge and will then emerge, vindicated in his own mind and land a job with MSNBC or some other hack network and we’ll get to hear his nonsense ramblings for years to come.

Fitzgerald hasn’t demonstrated the ability to really land the big fish. He hooks them for sure, with his indictments, but when it comes conviction time, he is sorely lacking. I mean, how much time is Rezko doing anyway?

Here’s hoping I’m wrong and Blago gets a nice healthy sentence which prompts him to turn on all the other politicians in this state and out of it :-)

]]> Comment on QOTD by Katy http://www.conservativecabal.com/2009/01/29/qotd-17/#comment-134 Katy Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:47:52 +0000 http://www.conservativecabal.com/?p=387#comment-134 Nice! Nice!

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