Rush Limbaugh went to the hospital yesterday with chest pains. One cannot help wonder what will happen when Rush dies. All of us, including Rush, know it’s going to happen one day. He might live for another year, or five, ten, twenty, or heaven help the Daily Kos–thirty. Or he might die tomorrow. But it will happen, one way or…
Conservatives
Everybody has their own definition of what the word “conservative” means. For some people it means fat, white, rich, corrupt males who want to enslave everyone and destroy the planet. For me the word means those who want to hold on to the good traditions of the past while eschewing the bad. Yes, in a lot of ways I would like our government to be more like it was 200 years ago. That is, I’d like it to be smaller, less intrusive, less taxing, and less involved in our lives. No, I don’t want to reinstitute slavery. I’m not for abolishing our government, I’m for restoring it to a small entity that focuses on establishing justice, insuring domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, in their simplest definitions.
It’s not Rush, Hannity, or Beck. It’s either Dave Ramsey or Dr. Laura. Of course this is just my subjective opinion, but my definition of “effective” has to do with changing minds. I know Rush, Hannity, and Beck change minds, but I don’t think they reach as many non-conservatives as Ramsey or Dr. Laura do. Now, you might…
Conservatism’s problem is that it generally doesn’t become majority thought except in a crisis. Conservative principles would have prevented the housing boom/bust cycle, but people didn’t care about fiscal responsibility either with their own wallets or the government’s until things got bad. Now living frugally is chic and people are saving more and paying off debts. Eventually this will spread…
