Fat chance
Buchanan also wants the troglodytic, isolationist Right to "take back" the conservative movement from those with at least a nodding acquaintance with reality.
Not gonna happen- and the day it does, conservatism will cease to be a force worth noticing in American political life.
HT: Real Clear Politics
Not gonna happen- and the day it does, conservatism will cease to be a force worth noticing in American political life.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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One comment has as much place in the Twenty-First Century- and the world of political reality- as the other.
Pit or flush toilet. Tom would still need to use the facilities.
Doesn't that illustrate how things stay fundamentally the same even when technology changes around you?
P.S. I'm "non-interventionist".
doesn't necessarily make sense in ours. Or in this case that what might seem wise for a weak republic isolated by two oceans from the major powers of the world might well be the most patent possible nonsense when predicated of the most powerful military and political power in human history, to which the entire human race looks for leadership and stability.
In other words, to quote Jefferson in this regard is just plain silly.
Anyway, I think it is profoundly silly to say that the entire human race looks to the US Government for leadership and stability. I don't even look to the US Government for leadership and stability anymore. I can think of very few people in other countries who do. You live in a fantasyland.
I realize that the Federal Government is, in fact the leadership.
Just wanted to make that clear.
You- of all people- are in a poor position to accuse anybody else of living in a fantasy land! And that is especially true if you don't recognize the position of responsibility the status of the United States as the world's sole super power puts us in- a situation in which even our enemies (with the possible exception of some of the more whacked-out Islamofascists) look to us to fulfill as the major guarantor of world stability- in fact, the only nation on Earth with the resources to fill that role.
If you really don't recognize that most basic fact of international life, your contact with political reality is even more tenuous than I'd assumed.
Like Pat Buchanan, you simply live in the 18th Century, apparently in the realm of international relations as much as domestic ones, and simply can't be bothered with the 21st!
And somehow I don't find your rather extreme attitudes toward much of anything very convincing evidence of what anybody else believes!