Comments on: Focusing Conservatives

By: resh

resh — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:27:00 +0000

The gospel on conservatism’s sustenance never fails to amaze. Of the purist, breath one is often a wistful rhapsody and breath two an over-sought bereavement.

Comes now Obama, it is said, acting like some split-personality prince of darkness and prince of peace, ready to invite the latter and to incite the former. Tears of sorrow to be followed by tears of joy. Need we count the ways.

Except the political equation-the political ambience- is not, shall we say, so black and white an issue. No man, no moment, dictates the fabric of our (hard-right) political soul. It is not subject to piracy. Need I remind you of J.Sobran’s brilliant musings (from “Pensees”) that it is the gratitude of things (more than the platitude of things) that account for conservatism’s core. Or let him speak for Burke who said (to instantiate the point) that “a constitution ought to be the subject of enjoyment rather than altercation. ”

Indeed, the hallmark of true conservatism, unlike the vacuity of liberalism and bubblegum GOP conservativism, is that it transcends the vicissitudes and fashions of the day. Constancy and tradition defines legitimate conservatism, and no amount of well-oiled, snake-oiled slogans on change will disturb that axiom.

Please disabuse yourself of the notion that new-age GOP conservatives McCain and Palin or activists Obama and Pelosi dizziness are needed for conservative revanchism. The cause is merely on pause for a hiccup, for a schtick that allows the huddled masses to rediscover their grounding.

In short, Obama stands athwart from conservatism’s ineluctable destiny and design.

Praise the lord.

By: Dedalus

Dedalus — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:47:22 +0000

Nice article. The problem though with your analysis is that Reagan was able to do what he did because it was 1980. There was still some fight left in us. Almost 30 years later and Whites have allowed themselves to be beaten senseless by Political Correctness. Obama can be seen as a symptom of that.
Today, there are less Whites, we’re mostly older, and many just do not care anymore.
Fact is, we’re in the process of being bullied to death. Literally. And we seem to think that if the bully would just listen to us then we could talk some sense into him and things would change.
But the bully is having far too much fun knocking us senseless and won’t stop until we’re dead. In the meantime we have become the inverse of fanatics who gladly go to their death for a cause. We just lay there and take it – and probably will until we’re dead.
Actually, I say “we” out of politeness. Personally, I have no intention of taking what is most definitely coming lying down.

By: PaternalistMonkey

PaternalistMonkey — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:35:16 +0000

The “leave us alone coalition” is often described, but rarely seen in the wild; we’ve become a nation of pussies.