Casual Observation

8 Comments

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   MikeInOhio on October 29, 2013 at 1:45 pm

   The last paragraph has to be the most ironically hilarious things I have read in a long, long time.

   In short, there is plenty the conservative movement can do better or do differently, but the incentives must change for candidates. The great compromisers, the bipartisan deal makers and the savvy legislators and executives get a lot of grief from opinion-makers and outside groups. To be bombastic and extreme, on the other hand, gets you plaudits from radio talk-show hosts, conservative blogs and outside interest groups. There have to be reality-based voices to push back and to encourage those figures who might actually appeal beyond the base. However, the first step – as Ponnuru and Lowry ably do — is to recognize the problem and refuse to encourage acts of folly.

   I generally have a significant degree of empathy for fellow humans.  But after reading this, I am ROFLMFAO.

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     Stephen Stralka on October 29, 2013 at 2:21 pm

     Shorter Ponnuru and Lowry: “Oops.”

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     Geov Parrish on October 29, 2013 at 2:58 pm

     The lack of self-awareness in that passage is remarkable.

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       MikeInOhio on October 29, 2013 at 3:11 pm

       It’s as if her Romulan ship has been adrift in space for centuries. It crash landed on this planet, she stumbled across a few recent Politico headlines and projected those as the current state of affairs on this new civilization she has encountered. Then she sat down and wrote this article.  It is that far detached from reality.

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       Frank Schnittger on October 29, 2013 at 3:31 pm

       Nah – just an awareness that most readers have short memories and that you can always claim that everything you write is right at the time you wrote it. Journalists like to hold politicians to account for their “record” and any inconsistencies, but it is unfair to hold journalists and “opinion-formers” to the same standard. After all, they are subject to editors and editorial policy might have changed. You are talking about mercenaries rather than people who are accountable to anything other than their pay check…

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   boran2 on October 29, 2013 at 1:56 pm

   They need to become the party of big tent biggots.

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     Frank Schnittger on October 29, 2013 at 2:10 pm

     Isn’t there already a party largely made up of big tent bigots?

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       clif on October 29, 2013 at 4:47 pm

       You mean the one home to the Birthers, oathkeepers, KKK, Birchers, Etc.