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2016-12-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by badanov 2016-12-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Sykes seems to think that conservatism is all about good manners.

I'd love it if we lived in a world where sweet reason was always the best way to persuade people -- but we don't.

If rude and crude is what it took to stop Hillary, then so be it.

Ultimately, Trump will be judged -- by honest people anyway -- by results, not by how gracious he was to the people who are trying to crap on him and the country.

I had enough of that with the Bushes, Maverick and Romney.

Posted by charger 2016-12-17 00:18|| 2016-12-17 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Wars are about disciplined and systematic Violence.
There is no way to be "nice" in a war.

Plus, in the final analysis you have to send in the Infantry and their job is to shoot people and bayonet them.

There isn't ANY other way to win a war. THAT is WHY they call them Wars. In a war there is a winner and a loser. There is NO future in losing a war.

Cultural wars are no different. There WILL be a winner and there will be a loser. The dead don't complain and they don't write the history. Too bad for the dead. Forget what you can. Live with the rest.

Posted by Slaise Bourbon9007 2016-12-17 03:39|| 2016-12-17 03:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Broken?
Senate + President + House?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-12-17 05:18|| 2016-12-17 05:18|| Front Page Top

#4 By trying rational arguments on irrational people?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-17 05:51|| 2016-12-17 05:51|| Front Page Top

#5 g(r)om, you know what they say about teaching pigs to sing ...

Posted by Spike Glineque6123 2016-12-17 07:44|| 2016-12-17 07:44|| Front Page Top

#6 The question was "Where the Right Went Wrong"

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-17 07:59|| 2016-12-17 07:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Too many 'conservatives' are ideologically locked like their socialist counterparts. I suspect a good number of true believers stayed home on election day only to see their numbers swamped by Reagan democrats at the poles. Both sides of the political party spectrum forgot the contract begins with 'We, the people...'

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2016-12-17 08:16|| 2016-12-17 08:16|| Front Page Top

#8 [Mr. Trump] won big margins in rural, blue-collar counties and won the pivotal Green Bay area by double digits. But he underperformed Mitt Romney in the vote-rich Milwaukee suburbs and ended up getting fewer votes in victory than Mr. Romney received in his 2012 defeat

And it hasn't occurred to Mr. Sykes to figure out the reasons?

Posted by Pappy 2016-12-17 12:42|| 2016-12-17 12:42|| Front Page Top

#9 And it hasn't occurred to Mr. Sykes to figure out the reasons?

Trump's a golfer, unlike duffer barry. It isn't always the longest shot that counts, it's the best placed shot...

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-12-17 14:57|| 2016-12-17 14:57|| Front Page Top

#10 You know what's conservative?

Not spending money you don't have.

Not paying more attention to your neighbor's doings than your own.

Not sticking your nose in a fight you have no dog in. If your dog is poorly trained, maybe not even then.

The list goes on. The common thread is a true conservative minds his or her own business unless forced to do otherwise.

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-12-17 15:17|| 2016-12-17 15:17|| Front Page Top

#11 As that great modern philosopher Dalton says, 'Be nice, until it's time to not be nice'.

Posted by Raj 2016-12-17 15:24|| 2016-12-17 15:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Hear, hear, MM!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-17 15:38|| 2016-12-17 15:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Sykes is part of the crowd that decried Reagan as being just an actor and "not very smart" while putting the Bedtime for Bonzo clip on an endless loop.

He's also a fool. This wasn't Reagan Democrats coming home, this was a revolt by a middle and lower-class dangerously angered by the long-running oppression of an overbearing government. VERY bad people come to power in these situations. I shudder to think what message the trump voters might've sent a few years hence had the Hildebeeste been elected.

Trump was a mild and best-case scenario.

Posted by Lionel Gonque2389 2016-12-17 21:42|| 2016-12-17 21:42|| Front Page Top

#14 I find it funny when they call Trump divisive. He was very inclusive towards citizens, it's just that his words were endlessly spun and misquoted by folks that know better and if Sykes believed that nonsense he's a damned fool.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-12-17 22:16|| 2016-12-17 22:16|| Front Page Top

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