The Children Of The Right

Stacy McCain links to a bit of would be wisdom, more measured in tone, than actual thought in my opinion, via Rick Moran at The Next Right. As I understand it, they are trying to control who does and doesn't get to attend CPAC, along with wanting to cause other organizations to abandon World Net Daily as a way of drying up any income they may have. 

I'm hard pressed to understand how the advocates of such tactics suddenly turn on a dime, insisting that it is they who are somehow being purged? It just doesn't make any sense to me, especially as I've yet to see anyone call for a similar measure against the site, or any of its posters. Frankly put, there seems to be something disingenuous about all that.

Nor should we count on the self destruction of the opposition which, at this point, seems well underway. What we do when we achieve power is as important as how we get there. For that, Jon Henke, Patrick Ruffinini, and others like them should be heard out and their call for a return to reason heeded.

As near as I can tell, Obama's poll numbers are sinking, the Democrats are in something of a dispute with themselves and everyone else. So, what wisdom is it that would decide it's the perfect time for the Right to go to war with itself?

After a nearly 40-day recess that was anything but restful, House Democrats are returning to work Tuesday still unsettled over pending health-care legislation and sure only that the people have had their say.

They are in almost the exact position they were in when they left the Capitol in late July. Conservatives are still leery of supporting a government-funded, or public, insurance option. Freshman lawmakers from suburban districts remain fearful of increasing taxes for their wealthy constituents to pay for the new measure and await alternatives from moderate Senate Democrats. And progressives, who are demanding the most far-reaching reform since the Great Depression, are still threatening to bring down the legislation if it does not contain a robust version of the public option.

As to the folks involved, until I can determine what of significance they have ever accomplished for conservatism, or as political careerists, other than perhaps re-purposing web content for pay for some mostly Republican establishment politicians, I'm hard pressed to see the basis for any alleged wisdom they possess.

Certainly they are entitled to their thoughts and opinions, but were I interested in those, I could always follow them on Twitter where they seem to twitter away most of their time talking to one another about the great ideas they have.

I think for now, I'll ever so politely pass. 

Comments

[syn]

"I'm hard pressed to understand how the advocates of such tactics suddenly turn on a dime, insisting that it is they who are somehow being purged?"

Honestly, the stuff Moran and Henke at The Next Right are doing and saying eerily remind me of all the things Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs said and did over the last couple of years. I stopped reading LGF after their paranoia over Europeans who happen to have white skin raising their arms or happen to stand before a cross then deeming them NAZIS!!!!! while at the same time Lizards split their juicy spleens over some woman on TV (Rachel something) for wearing a scarf which Lizards deemed to be supportive of Jew-haters.

Now look at the Lizards, all twisted up every which way-ie., Truthers Lie EXCEPT for the Truthers Charles Johnson believes and if you dis-believe you'll be banned!

I do not think I want to participate in The New Right, I just experienced that madness with Little Green Footballs and have no interest in returning to those weird ways.

[Paul Zummo]

I'm hard pressed to understand how the advocates of such tactics suddenly turn on a dime, insisting that it is they who are somehow being purged?

Not to pimp my own blog, but I pondered this very thing last night. Moran writes as though it's the "ideologues" who are pushing for radical change when it's the New Majority and Next Right crowd that is trying to transform conservatism. We're the ones fighting the rearguard action trying to defend traditional conservative principles.

BTW, I wish these guys would stop making references to Burke and Kirk when they're doing everything in their power to spit in the legacies of those two great philosophers.

[gary gulrud]

This 'counter-insurgency' effort, the New Right, is way too obvious. Conservatives are smarter than farm animals, aren't they? CPAC told Coulter she was persona non grata last time, what could they do to move more to the 'center'? Endorse Durbin?

[Huey]

And, not so "politely..."

Hey, pundits...the U.S. is a TWO PARTY SYSTEM.

Count 'em. Two.

Of the two parties, the one with the most votes wins. The side which wins controls the government.

Accordingly ... any desire to drive out portions of the Republican party, a party which is ALREADY the number two party (out of two), is beyond absurd...it's INSANE.

You don't drive out the loons. You nod at them. Wave. Talk about the weather. Give them a seat at the table. Throw them scraps.

Otherwise, they're going to vote for SOME OTHER GUY.

You don't have to accept their positions. You can even (respectfully) DISAGREE with their positions, noting the 999 of 1,000 positions there IS agreement.

What you CAN'T do (and survive) is RUN VOTES OFF!!!!