tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post5074462661283047574..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: TRUE CONSERVATISM HAS NEVER BEEN THE POINT FOR MUCH OF THE TRUE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENTSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-85780508980939945872016-05-04T20:39:21.478-04:002016-05-04T20:39:21.478-04:00Okay. Cruz and Hillary are the...same?
Interestin...Okay. Cruz and Hillary are the...same?<br /><br />Interesting. <br /><br />You may have a point about TAC. You have none with regard to Cruz and Hillary. That is just unserious.jsrthetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09471258641340325875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-29710810379133439712016-05-04T20:23:12.353-04:002016-05-04T20:23:12.353-04:00You don't know what you're talking about, ...You don't know what you're talking about, Jeff Ryan. TAC is Trump/Buchananite non-interventionist populist conservatism.<br />National Review is Elitist imperialist/interventionist conservatism.<br />Cruz had no real supporters in TAC. His wife is Goldman Sachs, has more in common with Hillary, both being free traders, etc.KenRighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02861276158382647529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-88422749973274955442016-05-04T18:06:02.634-04:002016-05-04T18:06:02.634-04:00Touche! Well played, good sir!Touche! Well played, good sir!jsrthetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09471258641340325875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-84560982531494790672016-05-04T17:37:45.394-04:002016-05-04T17:37:45.394-04:00OK, Mr. Ryan. I've lived in Texas, and outside...OK, Mr. Ryan. I've lived in Texas, and outside (way outside) Austin, for 60 of my 64 years, so I know perhaps almost as much about the place as you do. Women's hairstyles and men's headwear are no doubt significant points for discussion, and lord knows we've managed to elect some yo-yo's (and to foist a couple of them on our betters to the north - must have been sunspot activity, I suppose). But when we look at the presidential contributions made by, say, California (Nixon, Reagan) and the ones being bestowed unto us in a bipartisan kinda way by the Empire State this very year, distinguished by nothing so much as their abysmal favorability/unfavorability ratings and poor reputations in general, I fear my benighted home state faces some stiff competition. <br /><br />Just for the record, Lyndon generally wore a Resistol, not a Stetson, and very possibly wore one on the occasions when he signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Ann Richards was guilty of really big hair. Quel gaucherie, as they say in Arkansas.CHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15409212720220729669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-36445810476093438562016-05-04T17:31:08.943-04:002016-05-04T17:31:08.943-04:00Maybe they didn't go for Cruz simply because h...Maybe they didn't go for Cruz simply because he's such an asshole. mathguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02591559181439884572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-67044143495303603892016-05-04T16:00:31.545-04:002016-05-04T16:00:31.545-04:00Once it was stated that "conservatism will wi...Once it was stated that "conservatism will win if you run a true conservative," I knew Cruz was doomed. "True Conservatism" is popular with people who read NRO, and The American Conservative online, but in reality don't get out of doors too much. <br /><br />Out here in the real world, they don't exist. There's plenty of people who claim to be conservative, but they just want free stuff for <i>them</i>, not those "other" people. You know, the "takers." Being an angry, resentful white guy does not imbue one with a reasoned, if internally fanciful, worldview. It just means the world is changing, as it always has, and Opie's directing movies now and a n**gger is in the White House and it sure ain't right.<br /><br />The "True Conservative" philosophy has always been dishonest and morally bankrupt, and not anything anyone with a modicum of consciousness couldn't see through once they stopped to examine it. "True Conservatives" are nothing more than culturally deaf people like Cruz who actually think anyone outside of Texas politics actually gives a shit about. Texas itself is in many ways a museum of a non-existent past, one where the women still have big hair and the men still wear those ridiculous Stetsons and JFK got what was coming to him for being in bed with the Jews and "those people." A harsh judgment, I know, and there are certainly some really fantastic people there. But spend time outside of Austin and tell me anyone there has jackshit in common with the rest of the country. Hell, Arkansas is the Left Bank in comparison. (I admit I do like Arkansas.) <br /><br />No one is ever going to elect a "True Conservative" as president (Reagan was no more a "True Conservative" than Velveeta is "True Cheese") because it is a belief system dependent on the perception that anything that is fun or enjoyable is evil, and, guess what? Life's too short for that shit.<br /><br />Cruz wasn't a "True Conservative" anyway. He just wore the pin because it served as a flag of convenience for his overweening ambition. His real problem is that he is a creepy guy, not his politics, which were ludicrous to start with. He was the perfect foil for Trump, who understands that ideological purity don't mean squat if you can harness plain ol' rage. And if you can pants a guy, you're a stud.jsrthetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09471258641340325875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-62785475246248964192016-05-04T15:05:57.476-04:002016-05-04T15:05:57.476-04:00Full Frontal ✔ @FullFrontalSamB
Shouldn't #Te...Full Frontal ✔ @FullFrontalSamB<br />Shouldn't #TedCruz have been forced to carry his unviable campaign to term?<br /><br />Nuff said!Gerald Parkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14086005170803865460noreply@blogger.com