1251785 Editor's Note: Okay David, lets look at that then... Since Reagan who has come and gone? Newt Gingrich is one, George Bush (both of them), who else?
My point is not who, but how the political party reacts. After Reagan we had Bush Sr who was much more left leaning than Reagan, and he had one term and the base didn't support him for a second. Newt? I like his ideas most of the time, but he was rejected too and for similar reasons in that despite handing the GOP the first majority since Truman, he was deemed not conservative enough and damaged political goods to a candidate that has to appeal to values voters because of the sorted details of his affair with who is now his current wife. When have conservatives been rejected for not being conservative enough? Not farther to the right, conservative. Can you explain the difference to me what the difference between right and conservative is?
Editor's Note: Sorry about the confusion Will
This is typical right wing logic and I shouldn't be surprised. You take an event and apply all kinds of twisted explanations and then wrap it all up with a "therefore, the left is warped and the right is a model of decency and morality" (actually that game is pretty common on both sides of the political aisle when it comes to pundits and bloggers so you're not breaking any new ground here).
And the ironic thing is Zjabs hit the nail on the head, during my time here I saw more right wing commenters and writers quit because the room became "to liberal" for them. Explain that away if you can. Editor's Note: If you're bored then so like the rest of do every so often... take a break. And explain what away AC? I'm not saying that conservatives can't act like liberals when acting like a spoiled brat and leaving because it became challenging. I'm saying that liberals can't handle the loss of consensus, that it drives them in ways that few conservatives actually understand. We don't get the consensus changes truth thing because we don't believe in or practice majority based values.
This hardly opens the door to rational discourse. But I think you like preaching to the choir. Soon there will only be sycophants. Good, right?
And the 'breaking your arm' to slap yourself on the back routine wears thin. As I said, personal myths are just that: personal. No one else shares them. Editor's Note: and here you are
# 1. 4/28/12 3:24 PM by Zjabs
Ummm...throughout the years, haven't a lot of people on the Right also come and gone? Ummm...to be consistent, wouldn't it also be that they were living a lie and now have retreated to websites where they find agreement? Or when a Righty leaves...is it (gasp) somehow different?
# 2. 4/28/12 6:02 PM by Will - Greece
I sense a little misunderstanding here between Zjabs' comment and your reply. I think he was referring to WOTL'ers who have come and gone, which is what your reference to AC was all about. A little confusing. :-)
# 3. 4/29/12 8:53 AM by AC
You really are living in a dreamworld Pete. Did it ever occur to you that I'm just bored with WOTL? I mean it's the same old people with the same old arguments over and over and I'm just not excited about it anymore. People change, they develop different interests and they move on.
# 4. 4/30/12 10:06 PM by northern
Your personal myth aside for now, most people stop responding to columns you write simply because they find the strident one note dimension both frustrating and yes, extremely boring. You manage to insert your ultra-conservative views {i.e., liberals=communists/socialists} into your dialogue, both in column and commentary ad nauseam no matter the subject.