Comments on: ‘Crunchy Cons’ Rod Dreher Thinks Republicans Will Lead Populist, Anti-Business Revolt?

By: peg_c

peg_c — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:45:47 +0000

The crunchy-con thing was really annoying. I fit a lot of the definition and I reject it utterly because of the vapidity and stupidity of the argument. I’m a conservative. Dreher wants to redefine conservatism. Well, he doesn’t get to do that.

We may or may not know what Palin’s policies are, but I’ve listened to her enough to know that I agree with her to a greater extent than anyone else who was involved in the campaign last year except for FRED! FYI, Fred supporters are Palin supporters, so far, by and large. We are also Jindal supporters. Dreher has nothing to say to us. Into the Parker round file he goes!

By: JDidSaint

JDidSaint — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:17:21 +0000

…the revolt isn’t against Wall Street and business in general but instead is against unions and conglomerates?

The UAW nearly destroyed GM and Chrysler last year. Without more bailout money, they will likely doom the companies. With a Chicago politician as president appointing labor friendly cabinet members who are working on labor friendly card check legislation, etc. the unions won’t be hunkering down for the recession – they’ll be taking all they can.

All of that seems ripe for a revolution against the outdated labor system. As companies begin to vote with their feet, the locals will feel the sting of that missing revenue and begin to cry, “Foul!” It nearly happened with big auto as a majority of Americans emphatically said, “No bailout.” Can’t it happen again?

By: icbm

icbm — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:00:06 +0000

is with the quote at the end by the newly elected attorney general of Jefferson County, Kansas:

“My message would be a simple one,” he says. “Stand up! Stand up on your own two feet. Stand on your own ground, with your own family and culture to love and care for. And if anyone comes to take that away, you give them hell!”

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:51:55 +0000

Hey, don’t yell at me, HE was the one that said anti-Wall Street and anti-corporation. only to sort of soften and forget about it by the end of the piece.

By: bk

bk — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:49:58 +0000

By: Princeliberty

Princeliberty — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:45:42 +0000

No he has a very valid point. Big Business has been great huge amounts of taxpayer dollars from the farm subsidies to the Bankers bailouts.

He was not talking about bringing down business. Its about smaller government and opposing both the left’s and big business’s drives to expand government.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:41:17 +0000

But if the GOP just offers Democrat lite, they will get trounced again.

By: bk

bk — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:47:07 +0000

In all seriousness though, I agree with much of what you say. If the GOP had any balls, it seems they could line up to portray the Democrats as the disciplines of bureaucracy – biggest government ever, more of your taxes getting wasted, unions taking over everything and bloating it beyond recognition, states rights and some civil rights getting trampled, etc. More like a people vs the government battle than people vs wall street.

In 2010 the Democrats could be walking on thin ice with the voters.