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National Review: What Do We Need Now? More Purges!
Written By : Robert Stacy McCain

The John Birch Society announces it has paid for a booth at February’s Conservative Political Action Conference, a Pajamas Media columnist has a conniption, National Review‘s Jonah Goldberg accuses CPAC of a “big mistake,” and even NRO contributor Mark Krikorian  jumps on the dogpile.

Understand this: CPAC has scores of sponsoring organizations, who pay money to rent exhibition space, to have tables at the banquets, to host receptions, etc. These sponsors represent a broad spectrum of political opinion. If you visit the exhibition hall, you’ll see Christian conservative organizations with booths right next to libertarian organizations that support same-sex marriage and legalizing marijuana.

Having JBS at CPAC does not imply that the conference, as an organization, endorses every belief of every sponsor — which would be impossible, giving the vast diversity of beliefs among the sponsors.

This “urge to purge” reaction at National Review is not part of the solution to what ails conservatism, it’s part of the problem.

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  • http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

    I think if conservatism means “anything that gets us votes and power” we may as well just bag the entire movement.

  • rmiller

    Posted by Christopher_Taylor
    2009-12-23 19:42:45
    agreed…

  • CptNerd

    IIRC, Buckley and the others who started NR didn’t care for the Birchers back then, so it’s not a recent “purge instinct” and I’ll bet WFB wouldn’t mind giving back the Birchers’ money if he was still around.

  • GDR

    Great Essay that exposes the shady scam that is CrappyCare!:

    http://andrews.blogtownhall.co…imple_question.thtml

    “So, how do the Democrats, with a straight face, say our government will go bankrupt due to health care costs, unless we pass their plan, when their plan COSTS MORE? If we can’t afford medicare now, how do we afford it when we have more people? And how is an admitted trillion dollar expense, saving money? Especially when we know a trillion dollars in “government money” is like a year in “dog years”, probably 10 trillion or more. Add to that the fact that the government, which says people can’t afford insurance, is making people buy the insurance they say they can’t afford. Oh, they will subsidize some, but only by taxing the rest, who they say were going bankrupt anyway.”

    Does any of this make sense?

    I know the left was famous for thinking we could spend our way into prosperity, claiming taking money from business and pouring it down government sinkholes would make us rich, but this is just so absurd I don’t think anyone could believe it. If we are going bankrupt from health care costs, how does paying more stop that?

    Unless, of course, they really plan to use this as a first step to outright nationalization, followed by rationing and denial of services. Then I suppose it makes perfect sense.”

    Simple explaination really – they are arrogant elitest who feel that any means/methods justify their end game of creating a socialist utopia “for your own good”.

    In short, they are liars and fools!

    All this “static” and FAKE opposition by groups like this is a disinformation campaign by the left….

    It wants to fool the public into thinking this is a “watered down” bill when its a complete government takeover in all but name!

    Second, they want to place the seeds in everyone’s mind that when their plan implodes (and make no mistake – it designed to do that) its due to the “greed” of the “evil” insurance companies and the “failure of freedom/free markets”….when in fact its their de facto takeover scheme/government intervention that effectively ended the free market!

    But dont take my word for it, check out what the wonders of this same scheme has done in ME – in a few short years, the state went from 21 to 2 insurance companies and costs have soared!

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