The single biggest ally conservatives have to help us on our road to recovery is Barack Obama. Unfortunately, He will make such a mess of things that it will take years for the country to recover. Conservatives will find opportunity in the rubble of Obama’s economic and foreign policy disasters – just as Ronald Reagan did.

This President has achieved a remarkable number of foreign policy failures that threaten world peace. (for a list of His top ten foreign policy failures achieved thus far, you can visit:
http://firstconservative.com/blog/political-humor/foreign-policy-house-of-cards )

Conservatism must be prepared to shine light on these failures when they produce the inevitable and sometimes horrible results. Staying on offense as Rush urges, is indeed the key.

…I would suggest that both right and left should be unafraid to criticize their own. This doesn’t have to take the form of “they’ve left the party!” or the enforcement of some monolithic point of view. I know conservatives who take issue with some parts of the overall “conservative platform” and/or its spokesmen, just as I know some liberals who criticize the actions of extreme elements like Code Pink or ANSWER.

The problem is that, in an America electorally dominated by political independents (does anyone dispute that after the last few elections?), both sides have circled the wagons and created checklists of “what makes a good [insert our name here]“. In reality, there are fiscal conservatives who are social liberals, just as there are social liberals who are moral conservatives. (I’m pretty much a centrist in this respect.) The right did their laagering first, I think; the Democrats managed to hold a “big tent” together longer, and reaped the electoral rewards. You’ll notice that, just in the last few months, that “big tent” is fraying a bit as the different constituencies on the left register their disapproval with their bits and pieces of opinion on Administration policies/actions.

I don’t know that America is still a right-of-center nation, particularly where the younger generations are concerned. If anything, that group of voters has a stronger sense of “hey, that issue is no skin off my back – leave it alone” than any of its predecessors. The conservative movement is not going to attract that generation of voters with a monolithic checklist; they’re going to have to acknowledge that we’re becoming a more generic constituency.

By the same token, there’s nothing to be gained (by either side) in picking some particular element and extrapolating its position(s) to “all the wingnuts” or “all the moonbats.” Most people realize, without being told, that no one person (or one person’s thought; shades of Mao Zedong!) embodies the whole of conservatism or liberalism. I don’t hold all conservatives to Limbaugh’s comments, nor do I hold all liberals to Rachel Maddow’s.

Finally, we all need to remember that neither the media nor the Internet are representative of voters or their opinions. There are, quite literally, millions of American voters who don’t have the time, inclination or resources to sit around and pontificate on blogs all day long. *chuckle*

indeed have the “moderates” denied WE the Conservatives, WE the Social Conservatives, WE the fiscal Conservatives all in the name of “big tent”. I only wish I had the wisdom you have to have seen that this is exactly the Peter Principle!

There is true tolerance, in which we dislike the foibles of others but like the person.

And then there is the left’s version of tolerance, called partisan tolerance. They tolerate anything from someone of the left, and nothing from someone who is not of the left. Thus, a leftist judge can make racist statements and belong to an organization called THE RACE and nobody on the left even bats an eye. But a conservative judge happens to be Latino and is targeted precisely because of his heritage, and is even accused by a Dem Senator of being dishonest to play off the racist stereotypes. See how it works? This perverted version of tolerance used by the left needs to be called out every time we see it.

Partisan tolerance is tribalism, nothing less. And we should not tolerate it, for it is intolerant and it corrupts the debate.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” –Alexander Hamilton

Study at Redstate University

Are you seriously quoting the Bible in an attempt at justification?

Are you seriously saying that everyone sins, so when a conservative spokesperson does it, we shouldn’t take it so seriously?

I know you didn’t just imply that everyone who has a problem with Levin, etc, is left leaning. Because that would be ridiculous and illustrate a willful ignorance of their position.

The point is Mark Levin does a hell of a lot more for the cause than pretty much anyone asking the question, so shut the hell up and leave him alone.

This comment, however, cracks me up. And not just because of the images of Chris Crocker that come to mind.

You disagree with me so shut the hell up.

You don’t have your own radio show, so shut the hell up.

But please remember to vote conservative next election, thankyouverymuch.

When it comes to some of the people you mentioned, I enjoy the entertainment they provide, and sometimes the good points they make. A few of the people mentioned (and probably intended) are simply bully-heade, and instead of taking on the left, they’ve decided to take on people on the right- for whatever their various reasons. Tell me now- what does that accomplish and how will it help us in 2012?

Trent Lott tells the NY Times, 6/15/07:

* “”“Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.””

He was upset amnesty for illegals wasn’t passing and blamed talk radio. Mark Levin for president.