Friday, December 10, 2010

4 comments:

The Ghost said...

to call Brooks serious conservative may be a stretch ... more of a moderate ... just becasue he gets labeled "conservative" by the NYT hardly is a ringing endorsement ...
If you ask the folks at NRO they would never call him as serious conservative ...

The Ghost said...

sorry for the poor spelling ... haste makes for a poor editor ...

Stuart Schneiderman said...

Point well taken. I agree that Brooks is barely a conservative, but I stretched the issue because it served the purposes of the counterpoint....

Anonymous said...

Obama's error was that he compromised with evil.

I have, after years of scratching my head over the antics of liberals, concluded that they view themselves as the most righteous of humans. When someone, like maybe a conservative, begins to analyze a liberal's proposal, the very fact of not immediately accepting the goodness of the proposal exposes the conservative's evil. "The bastard does not see me as the good person I am for having good thoughts." So, the liberal hears the argument but does not really listen and absorb the content. He takes the criticism as not well meaning. As a result, there is and can be no real communication between true liberals and otherwise sane people.

Obama is a true liberal. When he is forced to deal with Republicans he feels in his heart (and it is evident from his body language and facial expressions) that they are evil and stupid. They are stupid for even questioning his good proposals. The very idea that one can be dismissed as stupid for asking questions begs the point. The liberal is driven by emotions and not objective reality. How dare they question the economic impact of MY health care plan?

To put the lie to the goodness of liberals one only has to ask why they never clean up their messes. But, this also misses the point. Liberals live in the moment and demand to be adored for their having the ability to think good thoughts. They have no past and refuse to acknowledge the damage they cause. The excuse is always something like, look who was put in charge, or we did not spend enough, or similar tripe. Unless Obama has one of those revalatory moments, where he actually questions his motives and begins to understand that not all he proposes is sweetness and light (which will not happen) he will remain constitutionally incapable of compromise.

Good article.

Steve G