Barack Obama, our next President

[Tenzing]

Sister Kathryn Lust wrote:

<quoted text>Allow me to introduce myself. I am Kathryn, a conservative, and I own and operate a home-based business. I employ no one else, overhead is low, and business is great. Nice to meet you.
:)

Nice to meet you. In an earlier post you were talking about a law that allowed pharmacy employees to refuse to sell contraceptives. I agree with your take on it but I'm unfamiliar with the law, where was this passed?

[John Galt]

OldRaider wrote:

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We may have reached some common ground here. I hope all Republicans are as comfortable as you are with losing. I think I can speak for most Democrats in welcoming folks with "menial" jobs into our party to help put progressive candidates in office.

Sooner or later the mob will turn on you when you fail to produce.

[Tenzing]

John Galt wrote:

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What is your point in continually linking to a liberal site with a misleading name?

You goobs out in right wing nutjobland are not conservatives and don't hold forth with any truly conservative principles.

[John Galt]

sonicfilter wrote:

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The Conservative Future
By DAVID BROOKS
If you listened to the Republican candidates this year, you heard a conventional set of arguments. But if you go online, you can find a vibrant and increasingly influential center-right conversation. Most of the young writers and bloggers in this conversation intermingle, but they can be grouped, for clarity’s sake, around a few hot spots:
Paleoconservatives. The American Conservative has become one of the more dynamic spots on the political Web. Writers like Rod Dreher and Daniel Larison tend to be suspicious of bigness: big corporations, big government, a big military, concentrated power and concentrated wealth. Writers at that Web site, and at the temperamentally aligned Front Porch Republic, treasure tight communities and local bonds. They’re alert to the ways capitalism can erode community. Dispositionally, they are more Walker Percy than Pat Robertson.
Larison focuses on what he calls the imperial tendencies of both the Bush and Obama foreign policies. He crusades against what he sees as the unchecked killing power of drone strikes and champions a more modest and noninterventionist foreign policy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/opinion/bro... ;

So you respond by quoting an opinion piece from another liberal site.

[sonicfilter]

The Conservative Future

Lower-Middle Reformists.

Reihan Salam, a writer for National Review, E21 and others, recently pointed out that there are two stories about where the Republican Party should go next. There is the upper-middle reform story: Republicans should soften their tone on the social issues to win over suburban voters along the coasts. Then there is a lower-middle reform story: Republicans should focus on the specific economic concerns of the multiethnic working class.

Salam promotes the latter. This means acknowledging that working-class concerns are not what they were in the 1980s. The income tax is less burdensome than the payroll tax. Family disruption undermines social mobility. Republicans, he argues, should keep the social conservatism, which reinforces families, and supplement it with an agenda that supports upward mobility and social capital.

Similarly, Henry Olsen of the American Enterprise Institute has argued for a Republican Party that listens more closely to working-class concerns. Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review has argued for family-friendly tax credits and other measures that reinforce middle-class dignity. Jim Manzi wrote a seminal article in National Affairs on the need to promote innovation while reducing inequality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/opinion/bro... ;

[Sister Kathryn Lust]

John Galt wrote:

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That is different, and illegal.

Irrespective of legality, how is it different?

Religion is not a shillelagh to be used against others.

[shinningelectr0n]

RealDave wrote:

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I get it.
According to you, Paul Ryan has no voting record and he never voted for those things?
That record is fact. Not opinion.

Links.

[sonicfilter]

Burkean Revivalists.

This group includes young conservatives whose intellectual roots go back to the organic vision of society described best by Edmund Burke but who are still deeply enmeshed in current policy debates.

Yuval Levin, the editor of National Affairs is one of the two or three most influential young writers in politics today. He argues that we are now witnessing the fiscal crisis of the entitlement state, exemplified most of all by exploding health care costs. His magazine promotes a big agenda of institutional modernization.

The lawyer Adam J. White has argued for an approach to jurisprudence and regulatory affairs based on modesty, but not a doctrinaire clinging to original intent. Ryan Streeter of Indiana champions civil-society conservatism, an updated version of the Jack Kemp style.

By and large, these diverse writers did not grow up in the age of Reagan and are not trying to recapture it. They disdain what you might call Donor Base Republicanism. Most important, they matured intellectually within a far-reaching Web-based conversation. In contrast to many members of the conservative political-entertainment complex, they are data-driven, empirical and low-key in tone.

They are united more by a style of feedback and mutual scrutiny than by a common agenda. Some politically unorthodox people in this conversation, such as Josh Barro of Bloomberg View, Meghan Clyne of National Affairs and Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute, specialize in puncturing sentimentality and groupthink.

Since Nov. 6, the G.O.P. has experienced an epidemic of open-mindedness. The party may evolve quickly. If so, it’ll be powerfully influenced by people with names like Reihan, Ramesh, Yuval and Derek Khanna.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/opinion/bro... ;

[OldRaider]

Old Crazy Goober wrote:

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Hehe...
A pansy like you can't run anyone off.
Hehe...
Cowards like you that shoot defenseless animals are just cowards.
My guy was Gary Johnson, idiot, so yer barkin up the wrong tree weenie boy. Senile old goober.
Hehe...

How you doing old goober. I can always tell you're back on Topix even before I get to your post because the Judge-its numbers go into the teens with your multiple sign-ins.
So you're distancing yourself from Romney as of Nov 7?? Something tells me an insecure moron like you that signs in under multiple avatars just to stroke himself would be riding the Romney train today if he would have won.
Interesting that you call me an idiot for supporting Obama and you threw your vote in the shitter for Gary Johnson. How did that work for you?
Hehehe

[Carter]

Tenzing wrote:

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The facts don't change no matter how long you sing that old Fox tune.

The facts don't change no matter how many terms Obammy makes history...his incompetence will always prove to redistribute his failure throughout the nation and its economy, whether or not you and Chris Matthews continue to have MSNBC tingling leg syndrome.

[Tenzing]

John Galt wrote:

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The housing market is slow here because of limited availability and upward price pressure. Many homeowners are underwater and waiting out the market.

People I've talked to have led me to believe that they believe prices will go back to pre-crash days someday. To me, current price levels seem pretty natural and I would expect future appreciation to out-pace inflation very little if at all.

[Realtime]

John Galt wrote:

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The housing market is slow here because of limited availability and upward price pressure. Many homeowners are underwater and waiting out the market.

In Temecula, just down the street from Lake Elsnore???

[Alloramadai]

dem wrote:

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Hi gunner

Dem.....you quoted that mess? WTF!

[shinningelectr0n]

Sister Kathryn Lust wrote:

<quoted text>Tell it to Chick-fil-A. Ask Papa John, in about a year. And don't ever try to tell me that morality, and voting with one's wallet, are mutually exclusive.
Some of us stick by our principles, and some of us "don't give a damn."

If you tried sticking to your principles, you'd get arrested.

[Chicagoan by Birth]

dem wrote:

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Daley isn't mayor anymore, gramps.
You need an updated playbook.

Oh, that's right it's another Demorat leech, Rhambo ain't it? It makes no difference, its still the same game, "Pay at the Demorat window?.. Rhambo now wants drivers licenses for 'illegals''Such a deal He gots for you'??

[John Galt]

Sister Kathryn Lust wrote:

<quoted text>Papa Murphy's will happily serve those who no longer wish to subject themselves to Papa John's.(Also, Murphy makes a superior pizza.)
Win-win.
:)

Never heard of Papa Murphy's, so went to their site.

The "take n' bake" concept is a tough sell for many and the menu may not appeal to pizza traditionalists who dislike vegetables on their pizza.

But to each his own.

I prefer independent local pizza joints over most chains.

[Sister Kathryn Lust]

John Galt wrote:

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Conservative in what way?

Damn nearly every way. If you missed the post where I described what 'conservative' means to me, go back about 30 pages.

It's in there.
Next.

[proud2bwhite]

lily boca raton fl wrote:

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why are rightwingers so damn dumb?
Imagine I am a pharmacist, and you waddle in with your prescription for viagra and I say, "it's against my religion to fill this prescription"?
or
you waddle in with your prescription for insulin, and I say "It's not my problem that you have abused your body and have diabetes, I refuse to fill this"
or
You waddle in, writhing in pain, with your prescription for painkillers, and I say "it's not my problem that you're in pain, it's against my religion to fill this"

simple answer.go to a divferent store thzt serves your needs.
Is there no end to the democrat tyranny?

[sonicfilter]

John Galt wrote:

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So you respond by quoting an opinion piece from another liberal site.

Brooks is a conservative.

So what excuses have you thought up for the Republican attacks of Romney's 'gifts' BS?

[shinningelectr0n]

Sister Kathryn Lust wrote:

<quoted text>Allow me to introduce myself. I am Kathryn, a conservative, and I own and operate a home-based business. I employ no one else, overhead is low, and business is great. Nice to meet you.
:)

Meth Labs are illegal.