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Jul 14, 2009
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Jul 14, 2009
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.
Thursday, Jul 16 at 10:38 AM Mombo Napolitano wrote ...
Barney “I Luv Fannie” Frank and “Countrywide” Chris Dodd sort of interfered in that market magic Mr. Liberal.
26191849 Flag for moderationWednesday, Jul 15 at 5:19 PM Liberal wrote ...
Sorry Mombo, but the "let the market do its magic" is what collapsed capitalism. Unregulated marketoligists said credit default swaps would "price" risk efficiently (that's the neo con ideology), and it failed. Catastrophically.
26146949 Flag for moderationWednesday, Jul 15 at 9:23 AM Mombo Napoliatno wrote ...
"Liberal" spending and "liberal" lending dragged world wide capitalism down Mr. Liberal.
26112039 Flag for moderationWednesday, Jul 15 at 8:22 AM Jeff K. wrote ...
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.
26107314 Flag for moderationTuesday, Jul 14 at 10:24 PM Optimist wrote ...
Carter led to Reagan. Obama will lead to ...? Obama's ratings keep falling as the unemployment rate and our National Debt rises astronomically
26085296 Flag for moderationTuesday, Jul 14 at 9:06 PM Leo of the Bohicans wrote ...
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!
26081689 Flag for moderationTuesday, Jul 14 at 8:17 PM Liberal wrote ...
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.
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