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Conservative, Tea Party, And Republican Are Not Synonyms

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Here’s the headline from the magazine post: “Why the Tea Party Can’t Govern.” Here, let me give you the tease, “Something is seriously wrong with conservatism.” Let me stop right there. Damn skippy, yeah! Hello!? Conservatism is an advertising slogan. That’s what’s wrong with it. Anything that becomes an ism, you might say, is probably, going back to Frohnen’s post about “What is this […]

November 12, 2013 23

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Party Politics Get Stronger And Stronger, Leaving The U.S. Vulnerable To Warring Factions And Separation

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What has party affiliation and partisanship gained us? It has gained us what James Madison would call factions. What are factions? They are anathema to self-government and republicanism. Now that we have factions, this is why it’s almost impossible to get anything done that you or I would think is positive, politically speaking. You’re not going to be able to win in this hyper-charged […]

November 5, 2013 1

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Senator Mike Lee, Talking True Conservative Sense And Reason

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This story here in The Atlantic, Mike Lee, talking about how the GOP has got to part with spin and personality. Well, now, Lee is wise to say this because spin and personality are what? What is that? That’s sophistry. It means nothing. All it does is allow people to use the term “conservative” to personally and monetarily benefit from it. In other words, […]

November 5, 2013 5

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It’s Not Left-Right, Red Sox Vs Yankees! It’s Conservator Vs. Liberator

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "It's not Red Sox Vs Yankees, it's Conservationists Vs Liberationists." Conor Friedersdorf has an interesting post at The Atlantic website. It operates under the title, “What Parts of the New Deal Do ‘True Conservatives’ Want to Scrap?” I can answer that question in three notes. How about the whole thing? How about we start with Wickard v. Filburn? How about that, Conor? If we […]

November 1, 2013 6

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Andrew Sullivan’s Take On Conservatism And Whether It Can Be Saved

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Well, open today’s Pile of Prep and you will find a link and a quote to a blog post written by Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan writes at The Dish, which is a website that he -- he used to write for The Atlantic. He went out on his own. He’s one of these guys that’s trying to be an independent and not have to work […]

October 31, 2013 6

Project '76

The Old Jacobins Nearly Killed Thomas Paine; The New Jacobins (mistaken) Patron Saint

Mandeville, LA - From one of my [r]epublican Thought of The Day entries. "My [r]epublican Thought Of The Day. Imploring today's Jacobin-like "conservatives" to hone their manners, read Livy or Cicero and ignite the pursuit of civic virtue provokes profanity-laced reactions that you would expect from "liberals". One should read the tale of Thomas Paine's nearly fatal effort to convince the original Jacobins of France with similar sentiments." The following […]

October 30, 2013 8

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If You Want Demagoguery And GOP Party Lines, You Won’t Get It With Mike Church

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – One of the notes I got yesterday was just hysterical. I want to spend the first segment of the program here, the first couple moments, discussing not Senator Cruz but what it is that we’re doing here on a daily basis and how it applies to you. The perception out there -- I don’t seem to be able to control this. I don’t want […]

October 24, 2013 10

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So Conservative Hysteria Is Good But Liberal Hysteria Is Bad?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I think part of the conservative exercise ought to be contemplation. Think about this. We derided and stood steadfastly against, mocked and impugned, and called every name in the book that we could to those “liberals” who promoted the hysterical idea that I talked about yesterday on the show and talked about three years ago on the show, that we had to have this […]

October 23, 2013 8

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Community Is Necessary To Be Conservative And [r]epublican

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – That’s another thing that is encouraging out there. There are a lot of younger people, younger than I, which doesn’t take very much anymore. I’m going to be using wheelchair ramps soon, I feel like. Many younger people are involved in and directly hands-on involved in trying to save their country. This is what is encouraging. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

October 23, 2013 11