In Santorum, we can see that the Catholics can still produce a kind of canonical person. I find this fascinating. But it wasn't the Catholics who voted for him in Michigan. It was the evangelical eggwhites. The huge homogenization of the evangelicals has created a fiery new language at least since 1840 when they began to whip themselves into a froth over slavery. How many more wars will they win? Bush got us into a froth with Iraq and the Afghans and by God that was alarming. Bush also helped to create the country of South Sudan, also largely a creation of evangelical Christians. They are getting bombed by the north (regular Sudan) but Obama is pretending not to notice. Aren't all of our battles about what kinds of norms we are willing to accept?
The UN meanwhile tries to push together a UNIVERSAL set of human rights. And Islam is clearly on the losing end of those, since freedom of religion, and one person per marriage, is part of that new set of what's right. How long will this last? Santorum marks the return of a different kind of mint. Obama said I don't look like anybody on the coins. Well, nobody does any longer. They have whigs. A full head of hair and plus! But Santorum is bringing back his own hair, and he has plenty of it and it's black. Obama has hair loss and his hair has whitened. He went to the mountain, and the mountain flattened him. He still wants four more years while his wife skis down the other side of the mountain. The Dems can still produce chaos and sententious putdowns but in other ways they are no longer the party of Evan Bayh or Lieberman or Zell Miller. All the centrists are leaving. It's hard to do. It's apostacy and you get nearly killed by the sententious putdowns. Still, I did it, and am still alive. Hard to believe it! With the Republicans, you can still believe in God. You can still believe in America. But of course you have to commit apostacy and face the long knives of your friends and family!
In the WSJ of last night Andrew Breitbart was quoted in the Notable and Quotable:
"If the political left weren't so joyless, humorless, intrusive, taxing, overtaxing, anarchistic, controlling, rudderless, chaos-prone, pedantic, unrealistic, hypocritical, clueless, politically correct, angry, cruel, sanctimonious, retributive, redistributive, intolerant -- and if the political left weren't hell-bent on expansion of said unpleasantness into all aspects of my family's life -- the truth is, I would not be in your life" (A13).
Breitbart ends his rant by saying, "I am a reluctant cultural warrior."
Hey, me too.
So the question is what kind of culture do we want. I am still for the first amendment, which includes not only freedom of speech and freedom to choose one's religion, but freedom to leave the Democratic Party. As an apostate, one can get killed for this. I suspect that Breitbart was actually murdered. We'll see. How can someone die of "natural causes" at 43?
But if he did die for his beliefs, he won't be the only one. Wars are fought all the time for beliefs. What is the greatest number that have died in a single battle for what they believed (in a cause that you consider honorable)? I say it's Gettysburg. 30,000 died for the north in a single weekend.
Were there greater casualties in the Crusades? Did more die in battles against the Romans? Against the North Koreans? 50,000 died in Vietnam in a war that last over a decade. But more than half that number died in one weekend at Gettysburg.
This nomination fight is vicious and sometimes uncivil, but it's nothing compared to the Civil War. After the nomination is locked in by Super Tuesday (will we take the rich Mormon, the creepy guy from Georgia, the devout Catholic, or the last Austrian economist?) I suspect that the Republicans will begin to close ranks against the crypto-anarcho-Marxist, sanctimonious, controlling, pedantic, chaos-prone, redistributionists and their war on truth, justice and the American way.
God Help Us.
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Kirby, I'm sending Emmy's message on the R candidates that she wrote a few days ago on another computer:
"I'm glad Santorum is doing well. I think pretty much every Republican candidate for the nomination has done a service for the party.
Gingrich reminded us that we've gotta have the stomach for the long fight, and we have no reason to be 'afraid' of confronting Obama with his record.
Cain reminded us that simplicity in the tax code has OODLES of benefits, and some of them are social.
Paul reminded us that old people are crotchety and creepy. Just kidding. I think Paul showed us how much enthusiasm there is out there for a return to restricted federal government.
Huntsman reminded us that being buddy buddy with the MSM isn't good enough. It didn't work for McCain, and it won't work for our next nominee. Anyway, when it comes down to it the MSM will back Obama every time. There is no point in pandering, ‘cause they'll turn on you like a snake.
Romney reminded us of the many interesting uses for hair gel and mousse.
Santorum is reminding us that there's a large segment of the American population who feel marginalized because of their faith and their traditional family values, and feel assaulted by the mindless liberal culture that surrounds them.
I think if our nominee can manage to recognize these lessons, and incorporate solutions based on them, we're going to be much better off. If that means a brokered convention, so be it.
In a way, I think it would be fun to surprise the Dems by springing someone they'd never even thought of. They've had a good six months to tear up our current field, it would be fun to set them back a bit."
Leftist lies are incredibly powerful because they now control reality because they control the universities and the media. Therefre everyone has to deal with their mentality at some point in their life while no one HAS to deal with more conservative thought. You have to seek out conservative thought and dig hard in order to even find it whereas the left media is in everyones face 24/7. I wonder how many even know who the Republican candidates are or who Locke or Smith are. Everyone knows Marx's ideas because they're now everywhere pretending to be "liberal" ideas although they're far from classical liberal. People are beginning to believe that government redistribution of income is a good thing, and should be done. That was the whole point of the OWS crowd and the 1% notion. It was classic scapegoating.
What most know about Santorum is he's against birth control. About Gingrich is that he dumped his first wife when she had cancer. About Paul is that his hands shake and his voice squeaks. If you want another viewpoint you really have to search for it. While many are familiar with Obama's books and have a positive opinion of them, very few will ever read Santorum's tome or get at ll acquainted with him beyond the spin of the left media that is all-pervasive. I think Emmy should therefore say that this is what she's learned from the campaigns. I doubt if almost anyone in America has ever heard of Huntsman. I'll bet it's fewer than 1%. The knowledge crowd is very very small. The vast unwashed 99% is Marxist by default. Unless you really try to be something now you will end up a Marxist.
Kirby,
Curious photo. I recognize the site. It's the southern corner of the stone wall at the Union center at Gettysburg. It's a bit of an odd image, in that Pickett's charge hit the wall north of there, so this was an uncontested portion of the Union line.
I have a photo album up from a trip 10 years ago:
http://www.kurtz.org/Albums/2002/Gettysburg/index.html
If you look at the photos at the end of the set, you'll see some very similar photos.
Stu, your link is broken or didn't work. I tried a diagnosis and it said this address didn't exist. I'd like to look at your photos. I love your care for the minutiae of this battle. It's an important battle not just strategically but because of the Emancipation Proclamation and much else that arose from it, including the national battlefield. Marianne Moore grew up near it, and for her too, it's quite an important site. She's buried in Gettysburg. Her grandfather was a minister in Gettysburg at the time that the battle was fought there.
Kirby,
Sorry about that. I must have interchanged the URL and the link name. I've been working on a bad cold :-(
Gettysburg Battlefield
Thanks, this link worked, and I looked through them. I will look through them a few more times. I have often been through Gettysburg but have only done the driving tour. I have only the vaguest notion of where things are. I am often on my way to Virginia to see my brother when I stop in there, and have at least two sleeping kids in the car and miles to go before I sleep, so I can't afford to stay long.
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