“…and rightly so.” A preview of the response to tonight’s presidential speech.
2 thoughts on ““Republicans Lost Your Trust””
Violates one of Ann Coulter’s rules about talking to a liberal, which is to never apologize, as what you think ends the conversation about what you did wrong he thinks just begins it.
In this case, I think she’s right. I would cut that part of the speech out. No honest man actually gives a damn whether Medicare part D or NCLB was a good idea or not, eight years ago, and in the present gloomy mood no one is going to pick a war leader who begins by shuffling his feet and apologizing for being unfair in drawing up KP duty rosters last year.
Team Obama is proposing enormous changes. Are they good ideas? Americans have serious qualms. They’re definitely open to contrary arguments, forcefully and unapologetically presented. There’s no need to anticipate the other side’s snarky sniping (“Oh yeah? But look what Boooosh did! Hypocrite!” yadda yadda) because if the argument is persuasive the people won’t give a hoot about that kind of penny ante garbage.
Honestly, the Republicans suffer more from having been successfully deballed by the mainstream culture and media than anything else. Their sins are fairly venial, and they could easily be forgiven them if they put their boots on and started standing up tall for sound traditional principles of liberty and opportunity.
No honest man actually gives a damn whether Medicare part D or NCLB was a good idea or not
Well, I guess I’m “dishonest,” too, then.
As are a lot of Americans.
There’s no need to anticipate the other side’s snarky sniping (”Oh yeah? But look what Boooosh did! Hypocrite!” yadda yadda)
You miss the point, Carl. Those remarks weren’t directed at Democrats. They were directed at those of us who still believe in limited government and are skeptical that either party shares our values these days.
Did you notice that Jindal criticized both earmarks *and* big government spending in general? You must see the significance of that, since you told me so emphatically that *everyone* in both parties agreed that there was no budget pork except for earmarks.
That’s what many Americans want to hear. “Change.”
Violates one of Ann Coulter’s rules about talking to a liberal, which is to never apologize, as what you think ends the conversation about what you did wrong he thinks just begins it.
In this case, I think she’s right. I would cut that part of the speech out. No honest man actually gives a damn whether Medicare part D or NCLB was a good idea or not, eight years ago, and in the present gloomy mood no one is going to pick a war leader who begins by shuffling his feet and apologizing for being unfair in drawing up KP duty rosters last year.
Team Obama is proposing enormous changes. Are they good ideas? Americans have serious qualms. They’re definitely open to contrary arguments, forcefully and unapologetically presented. There’s no need to anticipate the other side’s snarky sniping (“Oh yeah? But look what Boooosh did! Hypocrite!” yadda yadda) because if the argument is persuasive the people won’t give a hoot about that kind of penny ante garbage.
Honestly, the Republicans suffer more from having been successfully deballed by the mainstream culture and media than anything else. Their sins are fairly venial, and they could easily be forgiven them if they put their boots on and started standing up tall for sound traditional principles of liberty and opportunity.
No honest man actually gives a damn whether Medicare part D or NCLB was a good idea or not
Well, I guess I’m “dishonest,” too, then.
As are a lot of Americans.
There’s no need to anticipate the other side’s snarky sniping (”Oh yeah? But look what Boooosh did! Hypocrite!” yadda yadda)
You miss the point, Carl. Those remarks weren’t directed at Democrats. They were directed at those of us who still believe in limited government and are skeptical that either party shares our values these days.
Did you notice that Jindal criticized both earmarks *and* big government spending in general? You must see the significance of that, since you told me so emphatically that *everyone* in both parties agreed that there was no budget pork except for earmarks.
That’s what many Americans want to hear. “Change.”