tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post5446181297537774597..comments2023-10-30T07:54:27.317-04:00Comments on Allegiance and Duty Betrayed:: Election Year WisdomFrom William F. Buckleyjoaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11914891807184694081noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-91614901779186627782008-03-05T11:46:00.000-05:002008-03-05T11:46:00.000-05:00Well said as always Joanie. I share your disgust....Well said as always Joanie. I share your disgust. Our choice in November will be a dismal one and God help our country, no matter who the next President is. One thing for sure: He/she won't be fit for office.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-73277615278471961202008-03-05T11:45:00.000-05:002008-03-05T11:45:00.000-05:00What an excellent article Cooper! I've saved it t...What an excellent article Cooper! I've saved it to my hard drive and sent it to a bunch of conservative friends.<BR/><BR/>This is so tragic especially:<BR/><BR/><B>In the 2008 primaries, conservative voters were so divided between numerous candidates that they were unable to coalesce around a single conservative. By Super Tuesday, before most conservatives had any say in their party nomination, the most liberal Republican candidate had emerged as the party nominee, even though more than 65 percent of Republicans voted against him. The 65 percent agreed only on opposing John McCain, but not on whom else to run in his place.</B><BR/><BR/>Thanks for posting this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-61413427228094023282008-03-05T08:25:00.000-05:002008-03-05T08:25:00.000-05:00I highly recommend this article: To Be Conservativ...I highly recommend this article: <A HREF="http://www.jb-williams.com/" REL="nofollow">To Be Conservative in America</A> by J.B. Williams. It begins...<BR/><BR/>~~~~<BR/><BR/>America’s conservative party, the Grand Ole Republican Party, is so fractured down ideological lines that it has not been able to advance a real conservative candidate in a quarter century, since Reagan won re-election twenty four years ago in 1984.<BR/><BR/>In the 2008 primaries, conservative voters were so divided between numerous candidates that they were unable to coalesce around a single conservative. By Super Tuesday, before most conservatives had any say in their party nomination, the most liberal Republican candidate had emerged as the party nominee, even though more than 65 percent of Republicans voted against him. The 65 percent agreed only on opposing John McCain, but not on whom else to run in his place.<BR/><BR/>After years of reader mail and surfing dozens of high traffic conservative blogs reading thousands of “conservative” comments concerning who or what is or isn’t “conservative,” it is clear that Republicans no longer agree on what the word “conservative” means.<BR/><BR/>Unless conservatives can agree on what it is to be “conservative,” the conservative movement in America will remain fractured and powerless.<BR/><BR/>~~~~~<BR/><BR/>I agree that unless it can agree on some fundamental principles, the GOP is history. The essay continues...<BR/><BR/>~~~~~<BR/><BR/>Isn’t America an idea, a concept of social order, based on certain specific principles and values? Is it the geographical longitude and latitude or the many sizes, shapes, colors and ideologies of its 300 million people that define what America is? Or is it a specific set of foundational ideas, principles and values that defines what America is, has been and should always be?<BR/><BR/>America is founded on a very simple set of concepts recorded for all posterity with the opening words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” Beyond this opening line is a brief but very specific list of those basic “truths”…<BR/><BR/><B>*</B>That our individual rights as Americans were endowed by a Creator, not granted by man. That these individual rights are unalienable by all men (or women), no matter the impact on the greater communal good.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B>That the right of individual liberty can not be trampled on by the communal body, even for a greater common purpose.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B>That all men are Created equal and free, regardless of race, creed or color.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B>That every individual has the right to define and pursue (earn) his/her own happiness.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B>That the very first American unalienable right is to Life itself, without which there can be no individual liberty, happiness, social decency or humane justice.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B>That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B>That these men/women and their governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B>And that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (these concepts), it is the Right (and obligation) of the People to alter or to abolish it.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B>That the power in America rests in the individual, not in the special interest organization or self-serving politician.<BR/><BR/>~~~~~<BR/>JB Williams is mostly unknown, but very, very good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-27232434165862525102008-03-05T02:53:00.000-05:002008-03-05T02:53:00.000-05:00"We're navigating in very dark waters. Those who r..."We're navigating in very dark waters. Those who refuse to look beyond rhetoric, and who have no knowledge of the consequences of misplaced trust, might do well to take a few steps back, silence the 'party unity at all costs' mantra, and consider how the survival of the American republic will be affected by incessant compromise -- granting credence and privilege to those who have no respect for our Founders or the original blueprint of this republic, and who view our God-given liberties as expendable."<BR/><BR/>I have nothing to add. It just needed repeating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-63170507855260626822008-03-05T01:00:00.000-05:002008-03-05T01:00:00.000-05:00God bless William Buckley.He already has, many tim...<I>God bless William Buckley.</I><BR/><BR/>He already has, many times over, and no doubt is right now. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-50313673046496404842008-03-05T00:33:00.000-05:002008-03-05T00:33:00.000-05:00God bless William Buckley.God bless William Buckley.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-89173420774106636122008-03-04T19:15:00.000-05:002008-03-04T19:15:00.000-05:00Thank you for this.Thank you for this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-58197826424424457112008-03-04T17:11:00.000-05:002008-03-04T17:11:00.000-05:00A beautiful quote, Mr. Buckley.A beautiful quote, ...A beautiful quote, Mr. Buckley.<BR/><BR/>A beautiful quote, Ms. Rand.<BR/><BR/>Thank you, Joanie and John.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28785049.post-56442889698141163742008-03-04T16:39:00.000-05:002008-03-04T16:39:00.000-05:00"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrif..."In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours."<BR/><BR/>--Ayn RandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com