tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post3130668543813447000..comments2024-03-19T01:48:39.709+00:00Comments on Power and Control: The Shrinking Social ConservativeM. Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-49637530447280746952008-12-03T23:00:00.000+00:002008-12-03T23:00:00.000+00:00Conservatism is shrinking due to a misguided liber...Conservatism is shrinking due to a misguided liberal reputation that has been projected upon the republican party. The republicans trying to center themselves with the lilluminatis have only caused tension in their own party. Conservatives must take the republican party back to its true roots and Americans will eventually focus on what has been important to the republican party from the start.Will Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11670590901174701604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-32288907221315466752008-12-03T22:54:00.000+00:002008-12-03T22:54:00.000+00:00I think a bigger issue is that the Democrat party ...I think a bigger issue is that the Democrat party is in danger of becoming the party of "Retirement for Old Folks, Taxes for Young Folks". <BR/><BR/>The strangest shift in this election was that more voters trusted the D's to manage the economy than the R's. After thinking on that for a while and taking a look at some opinion polls, I'm of the opinion that this shift was largely the result of baby boomers who trust the D's to pay any price (as long as the money is borrowed), levy any tax (on someone else), in order to protect their retirement.<BR/><BR/>Bailing out the UAW pensions, bailing out the govt. employee pensions, attempting to maintain Social Security, maintaining Medicare and even expanding it by forcing younger workers into it. All to the benefit of baby-boomers and the detriment of the young. And all doomed to fail anyway.<BR/><BR/>In the end, the government will default on these obligations, one way or another. But not until after the D's have wrecked the economy trying to retain the status quo. If the Republicans can figure out how to hang that failure around the Democrats' necks, it'll be two generations before the D's are allowed to run the government again.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01039999711990701720noreply@blogger.com