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Conservatives Jump Ship: Kathleen Parker, Take 2
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 01:00 PM CDT
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by David Safier
What, I'm quoting conservative columnist Kathleen Parker again? Favorably? We
live in strange times, my friends.
Today, Parker, who earned a truckload of virulent email for saying Sarah Palin
is not fit to be VP, is now defending her fellow thoughtful conservative,
Christopher Buckley, for saying he's voting for Obama. Listen to her in today's
column:
What does it mean that the right cannot politely entertain dissenting opinions
within its ranks?
[snip]
The well-fed Right now cultivates ignorance as a political strategy and
humiliates itself when its brightest sons seek sanctuary in the solitude of
personal honor.
The truth few wish to utter is that the GOP has abandoned many conservatives,
who mostly nurse their angst in private. Those chickens we keep hearing about
have indeed come home to roost. Years of pandering to the extreme wing -- the
"kooks" the senior Buckley tried to separate from the right -- have created a
party no longer attentive to its principles.
[snip]
Republicans are not short on brainpower -- or pride -- but they have strayed
off course. They do not, in fact, deserve to win this time, and someone had to
remind them why.
They, meaning Republicans (note she doesn't say "we") do no deserve to win this
time, according to Parker. Be still, my heart!
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Fretting Over the Propositions?
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 11:33 AM CDT
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BlogForArizona/~3/423859701/fretting-over-t.html
by David Safier
No normal human being can possibly figure out the ballot propositions without
help. I include myself as one of the befuddled homo sapiens. So it's helpful
that the Pima County Democratic Party's Executive Committee has put together a
list of recommendations on the propositions, with reasons for its choices.
The Committee didn't give a recommendation on Prop 202 relating to employment
of undocumented workers. I'm voting NO, with the feeling that it's better to
vote against a Prop if you can't be sure what it will do. Unintended (or
hidden) consequences are difficult to correct for the reason stated above the
Pima Dem recommendations:
Note that all statewide propositions passed by the voters can only be changed
significantly by another statewide vote, or under certain conditions by a
supermajority of the legislature, making it difficult to modify them. If you
do not understand all the wording in a proposition or disagree with parts of
it, consider voting NO and working for change within the Legislature.
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