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UNDER FIRE

By Charlie Sykes

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New column by MU Law Prof Rick Esenberg debuts in Wisconsin Interest. Conservatives are uinder fire, he says, but how should they respond?

It is our burden to adhere to first principles while the ridicule of the cognoscenti is buttressed by electoral success. But we need to think about what they mean today. While conservatism in 2009 certainly can’t resemble the liberalism of 1979 on offer from Obama and the Democrats, it is these underlying principles—and not their particular application in 1980—that are important.

No surrender, but no stagnation.

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  1. Liberal - Jul 14, 2009 9:17 PM

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    Conservatives are under fire because their ideology failed and dragged world wide capitalism down with it. They are under fire because they ate the own, tossing aside leaders like Mary Panzer with the epithet "RINO." That's not "ridicule"; it's fact.

  2. Leo of the Bohicans - Jul 14, 2009 10:06 PM

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    The heat must be kept on Pres. Baracko, of the New Marx Brothers, and his legion of neocoms and to keep others aware of the most basic of freedoms now under attack; private property, expression and association. We will prevail!

  3. Optimist - Jul 14, 2009 11:24 PM

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    Carter led to Reagan. Obama will lead to ...? Obama's ratings keep falling as the unemployment rate and our National Debt rises astronomically

  4. Jeff K. - Jul 15, 2009 9:22 AM

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    It will be very difficult. Liberal elites have seduced so many with the slavery of government dependence. Why would they embrace economic freedom when it requires personal responsibility. They would rather vote themselves more scraps from my table.

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