Response to AI

never spewed andything except honest commentary. Keep up the good work. Let the original onservatism of Burke, Kant, Henry and Adams rule.

I sounds as if Al has a different agenda. The former successes of the GOP are due to having a leader who understands that the GOP is a coalition and not a single entity.

The GOP was a principled minority for decades focusing on defense and fiscal restraint but it was not until the all out attacks on religion, particularly Christianity, began that Ronald Reagan was able to bring the Christian right out to the polls.

Bottom line: The GOP doesn't win the WH when one of those groups is left out of the candidates message.

If Al isn't comfortable with our 1st amendment then he needs to think about becoming a democrat. They share his fear of religious people.

The dirty little secret that neo-cons like Al don't want to come to grips with is that we need the christian right in the GOP.

Good post.

Stop by my place to see if you'd like to sign up to our easy acces TH Bloggers list. We could use the voice of socialism experience. Let me know if you're interested. We'd love to have you.

Bobbie

Good post.

Stop by my place to see if you'd like to sign up to our easy acces TH Bloggers list. We could use the voice of socialism experience. Let me know if you're interested. We'd love to have you.

Bobbie

once again, "Well said!" I love the way you've put it:

Liberals will do it for you/ and / don't apologize for conservatism.

I think it is the American ego and the American insecurity that leads us to try to perfect what has already been shown overwhelmingly to have failed.

Thanks for the invite, but I'm not sure I should really take part given that I'm from the UK.

Plus, I don't have the same knowledge that you will have of internal US affairs.

However, I have visited your site, and I shall continue to take part in TH discussions on this website.

The UK is a free country, and it's not a socialist dictatorship yet. However, that doesn't mean that there aren't issues worth discussing:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/3453628/Britai ns-healthcare-system-worse-than-Estonias.html

Stop by my blog if you get the chance...

...I'm not sure, but AI (or is it Al, as in AL?) does not seem to have a very firm grasp of his vocabulary since "spewing" and "drivel" do not at all describe what you post here. Your perspective is always refreshing. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for stopping by.

Excellent post.

Stop the d*** apologizing for principles....and stop compromising them.

If I wanted a Conservative to agree with a democrat's agenda, then I would vote for the democrat.

Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year as well.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you as well.

Greg

http://www.conservapedia.com/Thanksgiving

A couple of weeks ago, I helped a library customer who hails from East Anglia. I was proud of myself: I asked him what part of England he was from. He said that most Americans mistake his accent for Australian. I thought he spoke too slowly to be from Australia. He seemed very laid back and I figured he must be from the countryside.

I love accents of all kinds and try to figure whence people come. English accents are a challenge for me. I know the Beatles had the Liverpool accent and I can recognize East Enders but the rest is just fun to figure out. Some English sound Scottish to us Americans;) Now I can add the East Anglia accent to my knowledge base.

I'm fine with any accent so long as I can understand what someone is saying.

If I try hard, I can tell if someone is Canadian as opposed to American.

....wasn't it Greg?

"That last line was a joke... wasn't it Greg?"
I don't know what you are talking aboot ...

Actually, whilst I hear a number of distinctive North American accents, there aren't many I can locate.

I have heard parodies of Californian accents, but I don't know if they are really parodies of a particular Hollywood set.

I've been to quite a few places in the States in my life:

Kentucky, Tenessee, DC, West Virginia, California ...

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
marge

Thanks, and Happy Christmas to you too.

not an echo. In 1964 Goldwater campaigned on not merely being warmed over liberalism. He lost, but that's not really the point. A conservative party can never hope to out-liberal the left--a conservative party won't have the experience or track record. The challenge is to stand for something--and as you point out, Hayek, and the U.S. Constitution are good places to start.

Anglo North America really has too many accents to easily ID someone as U.S. or Canadian--there is so much "linguistic sharing". Some locations--the deep south, Boston, New York have distinctive accents, but others, such as North Dakota, share much in common with our neighbors to the north (and don't get me started on the sub-accents just in North Dakota alone).

Thanks for visiting. I appreciate all the differences between the North American accents even if I can't always locate them.

I haven't worked out yet what to say about the inauguration, but I will give it some thought.