Comments on: Welcome to the Club http://www.leanleft.com/archives/2008/12/17/7036/ The View From the Sinister Side of Life Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:59:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: J. Richardson http://www.leanleft.com/archives/2008/12/17/7036/comment-page-1/#comment-620865 J. Richardson Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:51:28 +0000 http://www.leanleft.com/?p=7036#comment-620865 Hey, I'm with you on this view. It's unbelievable that Gerson can write this with a straight face - then again, maybe he doesn't. See my post at Global Investment Watch on this: http://globalinvestmentwatch.com/2008/12/17/compassionate-conservatism-huh/ Hey, I’m with you on this view. It’s unbelievable that Gerson can write this with a straight face – then again, maybe he doesn’t. See my post at Global Investment Watch on this: http://globalinvestmentwatch.com/2008/12/17/compassionate-conservatism-huh/

]]> By: John Lofton, Recovering Republican http://www.leanleft.com/archives/2008/12/17/7036/comment-page-1/#comment-620859 John Lofton, Recovering Republican Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:59:40 +0000 http://www.leanleft.com/?p=7036#comment-620859 Forget "conservatism," please. It has been Godless and thus irrelevant. As Stonewall Jackson's Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago: "[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It .is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth." Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2). John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com Recovering Republican JLof@aol.com Forget “conservatism,” please. It has been Godless and thus irrelevant. As Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:

“[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It .is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth.”

Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).

John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com

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