Comments on: Quote Of The Day http://www.redstate.com/pejman_yousefzadeh/2009/02/26/quote-of-the-day-14/ Thu, 14 May 2009 16:10:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: robmikpet http://www.redstate.com/pejman_yousefzadeh/2009/02/26/quote-of-the-day-14/#comment-4094 robmikpet Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:21:52 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/pejman_yousefzadeh/?p=1249#comment-4094 How about "A movement confident in its majority would not have ATTACKED a simple plumber even going so far as using government agents to release private personal information". That's what the left did. Someone came close to "telling America what Obama was up to" and they used government power to try and discredit and destroy him, anyone care about that. The long quote in this post IS PURE CRAP! Another "so called" conservative that says we have to be Democrats. It is condesending and puerile at the same time. So if I wear a "Jefferson was a patriot" button I live in the past and don't get it, what a disgrace. Why not just add "The Constitution is soooo old I mean the men wore wigs back then" This country is still right of center. What the left has done in the last two election cycles is go to war against us and we are still playing nice. With the help of the media we are fighting against a strong popular culture current. It may be easier to JUST GIVE UP to the left, not me I am in it to win it! Thank God WWII is long in the past, because giving up to the Nazi's would have been easier to. Quit being cowards and fight like your freedom depends on it.......cause it just might. How about “A movement confident in its majority would not have ATTACKED a simple plumber even going so far as using government agents to release private personal information”.

That’s what the left did. Someone came close to “telling America what Obama was up to” and they used government power to try and discredit and destroy him, anyone care about that.

The long quote in this post IS PURE CRAP! Another “so called” conservative that says we have to be Democrats. It is condesending and puerile at the same time. So if I wear a “Jefferson was a patriot” button I live in the past and don’t get it, what a disgrace. Why not just add “The Constitution is soooo old I mean the men wore wigs back then”

This country is still right of center. What the left has done in the last two election cycles is go to war against us and we are still playing nice. With the help of the media we are fighting against a strong popular culture current.

It may be easier to JUST GIVE UP to the left, not me I am in it to win it! Thank God WWII is long in the past, because giving up to the Nazi’s would have been easier to. Quit being cowards and fight like your freedom depends on it…….cause it just might.

]]> By: ZootSuit http://www.redstate.com/pejman_yousefzadeh/2009/02/26/quote-of-the-day-14/#comment-4093 ZootSuit Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:42:18 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/pejman_yousefzadeh/?p=1249#comment-4093 I do not think Patrick Ruffini was saying tha the problem is with "Joe the Plumper." He is saying, quite correctly, that the problem is with us. I do not think Patrick Ruffini was saying tha the problem is with “Joe the Plumper.” He is saying, quite correctly, that the problem is with us.

]]> By: ZootSuit http://www.redstate.com/pejman_yousefzadeh/2009/02/26/quote-of-the-day-14/#comment-4092 ZootSuit Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:40:18 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/pejman_yousefzadeh/?p=1249#comment-4092 Pejman, from the way you write your commentary I do not know whether you agree with Patrick Ruffini.or not but I musr say that he is absolutely, spot-on correct. Conservatives -- not just Republicans and not just RINOs and "so-called" conservatives -- do not seem to have any true faith in their ideas. Not that they don't believe their ideas themselves but that they have to somehow camoflauge them to make them acceptable to Americans. An example of what I am trying to say is that George W. Bush had to sell his conservatism as "compassionate conservatism." Now I have said that I believe that George W. Bush was a pro-life liberal, pure and simple but even aside from that there is the issue that the idea of "conservatism" had to be modified as "compassionate." Why was that? Liberals would never think to describe or modify their liberalism as "compassionate liberalism" because they make the assumption that their liberalism is compassionate. They assume (erroneously in my view but still) that their liberalism is by its very nature "compassionate." What we conservatives need to do is start making the argument that "conservatism" is by its very nature (and unmodified by adjectives) "compasionate." And that's just the idea of "compassion." As Patrick Ruffini wrote, it goes to a whole host of other ideas. Conservatives seem to be petrified by the idea that their ideas do not resonate with others. Consequently, we seem scared to sale them. Pejman, from the way you write your commentary I do not know whether you agree with Patrick Ruffini.or not but I musr say that he is absolutely, spot-on correct. Conservatives — not just Republicans and not just RINOs and “so-called” conservatives — do not seem to have any true faith in their ideas. Not that they don’t believe their ideas themselves but that they have to somehow camoflauge them to make them acceptable to Americans.

An example of what I am trying to say is that George W. Bush had to sell his conservatism as “compassionate conservatism.” Now I have said that I believe that George W. Bush was a pro-life liberal, pure and simple but even aside from that there is the issue that the idea of “conservatism” had to be modified as “compassionate.” Why was that?

Liberals would never think to describe or modify their liberalism as “compassionate liberalism” because they make the assumption that their liberalism is compassionate. They assume (erroneously in my view but still) that their liberalism is by its very nature “compassionate.”

What we conservatives need to do is start making the argument that “conservatism” is by its very nature (and unmodified by adjectives) “compasionate.”

And that’s just the idea of “compassion.” As Patrick Ruffini wrote, it goes to a whole host of other ideas. Conservatives seem to be petrified by the idea that their ideas do not resonate with others. Consequently, we seem scared to sale them.

]]> By: uma_richie http://www.redstate.com/pejman_yousefzadeh/2009/02/26/quote-of-the-day-14/#comment-4090 uma_richie Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:29:31 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/pejman_yousefzadeh/?p=1249#comment-4090 Frankly, almost everything I read about here -- personal responsibility and freedom, strict interpretation of the Constitution, minimizing the role of government, etc -- is common sense. We may be on the right of the academic political spectrum, but I think our views fall near the "median" of adult American citizens. We're the moderates. Those other people are the radicals and the out-of-touch elites. Frankly, almost everything I read about here — personal responsibility and freedom, strict interpretation of the Constitution, minimizing the role of government, etc — is common sense. We may be on the right of the academic political spectrum, but I think our views fall near the “median” of adult American citizens.

We’re the moderates. Those other people are the radicals and the out-of-touch elites.

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