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Topic: Losing Can Be Liberating |
Losing Can Be Liberating
Weekly Standard, by William Kristol
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 11/12/2012 9:23:32 AM
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| After his defeat in Britain’s 1945 general election, Winston Churchill’s wife Clementine consoled him: “It may well be a blessing in disguise.” Churchill replied, “At he moment it seems quite effectively disguised.” As do any blessings to be found in last Tuesday’s election result. The country faces four more years of Barack Obama in the Oval Office, with an increased Democratic majority in the Senate, as a debt crisis bears down upon us at home and our enemies ramp up their efforts abroad. One hopes, for the sake of the country, that on some key issues the president can be persuaded to do the right
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Really?? This is the last thing I feel right now. I know what´s coming from this criminal enterprise of the 0bama regime. And it´s certainly not liberation.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
God of Irony, 11/12/2012 9:52:36 AM (No. 9008685)
The only thing that will be liberated is wealth out of the private economy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sickened, 11/12/2012 9:55:19 AM (No. 9008696)
Kristol is part of the Republican Establishment. They brought us to this point. By stiff-arming the broad based Tea Party movement at the GOP convention, they managed to lose a very winnable election. When Boehner and his followers give in to higher tax demands, the Republican Party will begin to disintegrate. And good riddance!
Now it is time for Tea Party leaders to consider registering a new national Party, and why not just call it the Tea Party. One dedicated only to fiscal issues and the size of the federal government, as the Tea Party movement has done all along.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pgvoisin, 11/12/2012 9:56:01 AM (No. 9008697)
Let Progressive leadership play out over the next two election cycles (2014 & 2016).
If they come up with solutions, Bravo!
If they don´t, "They ´Built´ that" with the votes of 28% of the America people.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 11/12/2012 10:02:20 AM (No. 9008716)
When one has hope one is always on edge, always trying. When one sees that the worst is going to happen and there is nothing to be done about it, resignation sets in and the uneven struggle ceases.
We can no longer believe that if we only try hard enough we can save our Republic. Or, I can´t anyway. For me, all responsibility now rests with the Democrats. There is a certain amount of liberation in washing one´s hands and turning away. I´ll be 91 next month. Time to give up.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 11/12/2012 10:04:36 AM (No. 9008724)
I suspect Obama knows what the "right things" are but that he is psychologically incapable of doing them. The only "right thing" is whatever he thinks it should be. He´s a true psychopath.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
addicted_to_coffee, 11/12/2012 10:07:21 AM (No. 9008730)
fta: "... and it’s not just conservatism that’s in trouble."
What a heaping pile! Tell me how long ago we had a conservative Republican running for office? Compassionate Conservative is CRAP
I´m sick to death of these big government faux conservative politicians.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoPack, 11/12/2012 11:11:39 AM (No. 9008894)
I´m sick of people telling me the Tea party is part of the solution: they foisted a bevy of idiots on us that cost us the senate: McDonnell, Mourdock, etc. They are the perfect illustration of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sunhan65, 11/12/2012 12:18:28 PM (No. 9009025)
#2, call it the Liberty Party. It contains TEA party as a sound but evokes a wider political heritage.
#4, I understand your position. If you will permit me a purely selfish observation: I have benefited from your wise posts over the years, and it would please me greatly if you were to remain among us as a contributor on this site.
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