Posted by
cornpone on Friday, February 08, 2008 4:37:42 AM
What conservatives and democrats alike do not seem to understand:
Americans are not ideologues, who look at each public issue or problem
(or proposed solution) through some kind of philosophical filter.
Alas, If only the conservatives were as wise.
Indeed, a foolish insistence on ideological purity is mindless, and foolish.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once put it is this way:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind"
Most conservatives either do not understand or else refuse to a
ccept that the average American voter is not ideological.
And they are seemingly unaware that most Americans *rightly*
believe in a social safety net,and with good reason.
Indeed, Many people would be in dire staits today without the
much maligned (in some extremist quarters) social security or medicare insurance.
HOWEVER: These same generous Americans cannot stomach
the democrats' position in favor of abortion on demand and gay rights.
And these two isssues are what keep the democrats from perpetual power.
Someday, maybe in another 20 years, the democrats might just wise up
and abandon their abortion on demand and gay rights, and ant-gun positions.
And when, or should i say IF they do; they will never lose another election.
Why? Because, most Americans also can't stomach these far right extremists
in our party who are so rigid ideologically that they would even oppose
a 1% tax increase to support a guaranteed cure for cancer-becaus
e "taxes are not a *conservative* idea!"
Fools! These doctrinaire anti-government extremists are killing the GOP.