Comments on: [politics] Will the real conservatives please stand up? http://www.jlake.com/2009/10/15/politics-will-the-real-conservatives-please-stand-up/ Jay Lake's Official Web Site Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay http://www.jlake.com/2009/10/15/politics-will-the-real-conservatives-please-stand-up/comment-page-1/#comment-6619 Jay Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:50:13 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=9999#comment-6619 The politics of fear is certainly something I touch on from time to time. I should definitely come back to it. An entire political generation on the Right has come to power and stayed there on a negative agenda driven by fear - that can't be good for our culture or our country. The politics of fear is certainly something I touch on from time to time. I should definitely come back to it. An entire political generation on the Right has come to power and stayed there on a negative agenda driven by fear – that can’t be good for our culture or our country.

]]> By: Rob Darnell » Blog Archive » Conservatives and Liberals http://www.jlake.com/2009/10/15/politics-will-the-real-conservatives-please-stand-up/comment-page-1/#comment-6617 Rob Darnell » Blog Archive » Conservatives and Liberals Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:50:54 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=9999#comment-6617 [...] This comes in the light of Jay Lake’s blog entry Will the real conservatives please stand up? [...] [...] This comes in the light of Jay Lake’s blog entry Will the real conservatives please stand up? [...]

]]> By: Meran http://www.jlake.com/2009/10/15/politics-will-the-real-conservatives-please-stand-up/comment-page-1/#comment-6615 Meran Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:21:40 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=9999#comment-6615 Hear hear! ( thunderous applause ) glad to see you back in discussion in full form Would love to hear your take on Fear Politics.... That's been my perception of what drives politics here in Oregon (and, I'm sure, many other places) Hear hear! ( thunderous applause )
glad to see you back in discussion in full form
Would love to hear your take on Fear Politics…. That’s been my perception of what drives politics here in Oregon (and, I’m sure, many other places)

]]> By: tetar http://www.jlake.com/2009/10/15/politics-will-the-real-conservatives-please-stand-up/comment-page-1/#comment-6614 tetar Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:00:51 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=9999#comment-6614 Excellent commentary, Jay. Bravo. Excellent commentary, Jay. Bravo.

]]> By: Steve Buchheit http://www.jlake.com/2009/10/15/politics-will-the-real-conservatives-please-stand-up/comment-page-1/#comment-6612 Steve Buchheit Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:13:39 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=9999#comment-6612 It's the knee jerk reaction to "We stood on the mountain all weekend, why didn't God end the word, Pastor Miller?" The answer is invariably, "Because we didn't believe in it hard enough." The conservatives are trying to console themselves that they lost and it appears their policy adherence may have created bigger and longer lasting problems in the sobering light of the morning after. So the question comes down to should they change (as some moderates have suggested), or find out what went wrong. It's easier to do the later, and the easiest answer is that Tinker-bell didn't come back to life because the audience didn't clap hard enough or fast enough. So they ditch those who were their standard bearers as either not promoting the True doctrine, or for not believing in it hard enough and try again with True Believers. At least that's my humble opinion of what we're seeing. Of course it could also be us nasty leftists are so clever we've tricked everybody into believing the sky isn't blue even though we can't even get 60 cats in a line to vote for health-care. It’s the knee jerk reaction to “We stood on the mountain all weekend, why didn’t God end the word, Pastor Miller?” The answer is invariably, “Because we didn’t believe in it hard enough.”

The conservatives are trying to console themselves that they lost and it appears their policy adherence may have created bigger and longer lasting problems in the sobering light of the morning after. So the question comes down to should they change (as some moderates have suggested), or find out what went wrong. It’s easier to do the later, and the easiest answer is that Tinker-bell didn’t come back to life because the audience didn’t clap hard enough or fast enough.

So they ditch those who were their standard bearers as either not promoting the True doctrine, or for not believing in it hard enough and try again with True Believers.

At least that’s my humble opinion of what we’re seeing. Of course it could also be us nasty leftists are so clever we’ve tricked everybody into believing the sky isn’t blue even though we can’t even get 60 cats in a line to vote for health-care.

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