So we now have a right to force other people to pay for something we think we need. Yay.
We need a national point of order on exactly what a “right” is. We have a lot of “slavery is freedom” going on.
If you think you have a right to a job, food, and a place to live, slavery does provide all of that.
Rights do not evolve. Making rights ephemeral like that is a great way to lose them.
If it’s a right today, it would be a right a thousand years ago and a right you’d have alone on a deserted island.
I’m at CPAC, but I’m in disguise with a giant mustache and cowboy hat.
If we get a brokered convention, what the chance we’ll get an awesome ticket versus getting the RINOiest ticket ever?
“So, do you think Chuck Hagel would still want to run as a Republican?” #BrokeredConvention
“Great news! We’ve gotten Arlen Specter to rejoin the GOP. We’ve also picked a nominee. These two items are related.” #BrokeredConvention
“We’ve dubbed our current choices ‘The Three Musketeers.’ There’s a moderate, a different kind of moderate, and a westcoast liberal.” #BrokeredConvention
Today at CPAC, I’m wearing a disguise so I look exactly like Jonah Goldberg. If you see him, it’s probably me. I won’t drop character.
In a perfect world, this would be on bumper stickers and protest signs everywhere.
Hey, look! It’s Jonah Goldberg in a giant mustache and cowboy hat!
Heard a podcast of Laura Ingraham interviewing Paul Ryan. He’s one guy she doesn’t walk all over. With every word out of his mouth, came closer to falling off the Nordic Track, weeping, gnashing teeth, and saying, “Why is he not running, O Lord? How long will you torture us?”
FrankJ:
No thoughts on Ricky? You have been complaining for months about Kerry being a fake conservative, and here finally comes along a REAL Conservative, who is able to win three states in the American Heartland, and you leave him hanging in the wind? You can’t be bothered to take the time to check out the cut of his jib?
You can’t say he has not been consistently against the right to abortion. Heck, he believes every sperm is sacred!
He helped enact welfare reform.
He is against amnesty for undocumented workers.
He is a hawk on Iran.
He calls climate change “junk science.”
He wants a Balanced Budget constitutional amendment.
I mean, he is PROUD to wear a sweater vest, for goodness sake.
What is holding you back FrankJ? Does he need to fly and shoot lighting bolts out of his butt?
He might not be the perfect candidate, but I would think you would find him a major, major upgrade over our current “incompetent” president, and over the “moderate, progressive” you do not trust.
And he needs your help! Have you seen his website? Really needs an upgrade.
But maybe you are just all talk and no action. You hold no real courage in your convictions. If the Republican Establishment is ok with Romney, then so are you.
Just another right-wing sheep, willing to let a real conservative get crushed by the elites’ money machine. Sad.
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
P.S. By the way, given your unwillingness to stand up for what you truly believe in, I am curious — when you play Skyrim and the Dragon attacks, do you run away?
Your thoughts on ‘rights’ are not random and strung together represent a cogent argument. I want my money back.
“…versus getting the RIONiest ticket ever?”
You mean the RONINiest ticket ever? That won’t happen until 2016.
Frank J, were you referring to the little tidbit I picked up on Rush yesterday? The government has a program that provides a free cell phone with 250 minutes/month for anyone receiving any type of government assistance. The bonus is a literal bonus in that if you refer someone to the program, you get an additional 100 free minutes and the person you referred gets an extra 60 minutes for one month.
But as for the Three Musketeers, you might want to rethink the label. Musketeers had actual muskets for junk musketing. At best, these Three have candy bars with rich nugat-ty centers.
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Jonah Goldberg is asking around to find out if anyone has seen his hat.
Speaking of rights, what about the right to a college football playoff?
The difference between slavery and socialism is socialism gets better P.R.
“If you think you have a right to a job, food, and a place to live, slavery does provide all of that.”
The problem with that is the 53% that work and pay taxes become the slaves to the 47% that do nothing and get the entitlements.
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
― G.K. Chesterton
Why am I working my ass off if I can get a free cell phone, free this free that, free free free? I think I’m a sucker! I think it’s time I belly up to the collective and start suckling off the tit myself!!! Free, free, free for Usssjimmycarter!!! Yay!!!
A ‘right’ is always dexter, never sinister.
Cheers