AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

all people are created equal, in that they are endowed by God with certain rights

Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

To secure these rights, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the people governed.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to secure these rights.

I think POMMIES are wrong

FROM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 2ND PARAGRAPH
WE hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, in that they are endowed by God with certain rights. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the people governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to secure these rights. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown that people are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

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Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Has the Texas GOP forgotten this clause? How do they rationalize their anti-oral sex stand?

Sorry, men from UK

As a replacement for the "Bush aftermath" thread which is drawing to a close, perhaps this thread could be a place where we could discuss where conservatives got it right, where we went wrong, what we need to do to regain the confidence of the Conservative base, and other GOP/Conservative issues.

A weird concept of life, liberty, and happiness! Just when I thought I had read the most bizarre post of all time on this forum, then pom posts another one!

Will conservatives move the Republican party properly to the right? How to deal with so called Moderates that now form the Republican establishment (Graham, McCain, Castle etc). They cannot be trusted when dealing with the left. It is not enough that they run with an "R" next to their name the last thing this country needs is another Arlen Specter or Bob Bennett.

http://www.crusader.net/texts/mk/index.html
http://www.crusader.net/texts/mk/mkv2ch01.html
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Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Volume Two: The National Socialist Movement
Chapter I: Philosophy and Party
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ON FEBRUARY 24, 1920, the first great public demonstration of our young movement took place. In the Festsaal of the Munich Hofbräuhaus the twenty-five theses of the new party's program were submitted to a crowd of almost two thousand and every single point was accepted amid jubilant approval.

With this the first guiding principles and directives were issued for a struggle which was to do away with a veritable mass of old traditional conceptions and opinions and with unclear, yes, harmful, aims. Into the rotten and cowardly bourgeois world and into the triumphant march of the Marxist wave of conquest a new power phenomenon was entering, which at the eleventh hour would halt the chariot of doom.

It was self-evident that the new movement could hope to achieve the necessary importance and the required strength for this gigantic struggle only if it succeeded from the very first day in arousing in the hearts of its supporters the holy conviction that with it political life was to be given, not to a new election slogan, but to a new philosophy of fundamental significance.

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These dictates, did they apply to every one that lived in this newly formed revolutionary colony? These high sounding ideals are not exactly the sound of freedom for all its citizens are they. They sound almost like a prayer for the selected few rather than novel ideology. Get real Americans your declaration is nothing more than club rules for the new elite. Exclusive golf clubs have more inclusive policies than this self righteous declaration. Indians , the original inhabitants, had more rights under british rule , thats why you rebelled you wanted the right to exploit . Republican right wing attitudes have remained the same ever since. The black man never recovered from this insidious refusal to accept them as equals , you still treat them through their historic disadvantages with contempt. When the vast majority of your disadvantaged are black it is apparent your bigoted right wing views are even now directed at them. No white president was ever questioned on his ability to the same degree, Obama has. Lets consider Bush and his avoidance to serve in Vietnam , I notice our propaganda fueled idiots dont remember that do they? This sickening crap I see displayed here makes me even more glad of my own left wing politics.

AH! A statement of intolerance beyond belief! An anti-life, anti-freedom, bullying profile revealed!