Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., believes that compassionate conservatism is "an area that lacks development," The Weekly Standard magazine reported in a profile of the presidential hopeful. Brownback wants the compassion part broadened, particularly "toward the poor, in this country and internationally." To his credit, Brownback has helped draw attention to human rights abuses in North Korea, Darfur and elsewhere. But his application of scriptural commands to "love your neighbor as yourself" and to take care of "widows and orphans" and the "foreigner in the land" hasn’t always played well with the conservative base, especially Brownback’s admirable support for creating a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
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Compassionate conservatism? Oh yeah, that means they use just a dab of K-Y jelly!
“an area that lacks development” ???
How about an area that doesn’t exist?
Compassionate Conservative – wasn’t that the phrase George W. Bush used in his first presidential campaign? How many years has George W. and Sam Brownback been in office and they bring this phrase back. It must be time to vote again.
The truth is, most members of the White House staff, the Secret Service, Military aids, even the cleaning crew, like the Bush Family.It was the Clinton’s that treated the “help” like dirt.Personality alone doesn’t determine the worth of someone’s policy decisions.However, I always thought Republicans made a mistake by attacking Clinton as an Arkansas Hick.I always thought the Clintons should be attacked as elitist, out of touch, Yale snobs.Reagan could have pulled that one off, but not the Bush family, I suppose, since the Bush family also has Yale connections.Most of the people who have worked with both the Clinton and Bush Family would agree that “Snob” fits the Clintons better than “Hick.”How many compassionate snobs do you know?The Clinton snobery is an elitist, leftist snobery than assumes higher intelligence and higher worth and looks down on law enforcement and military types.The fact is, Republicans like Brownback think everyone has the capability of improving, and that everyone has value.Many Democrats believe that the “poor” can’t make it without them.The truth is, it is the Democrats that can’t make it without the poor.As a Republican, this is precisely the reason why I would love it if everyone became “rich.”
Why did I know who wrote the previous post before I reached the end to read the author’s name? Paul, you are so far out in left field that you are watching the game from the parking lot.
The only thing compassionate about Brownback is his desire to be president so that he can impose his religious views on everyone else.
We’ll see how compassionate he is when the primaries reach South Carolina and McCain is still the frontrunner. The “compassionate” tactics of the Bush 2000 campaign that started rumors that McCain had an illegitimate child will undoubtedly be dusted off, and brought back into play.
Yeah, yeah. It’s certainly time to starting fishing for the swing vote.If repugnicans became compassionate in the areas listed they would be rinos.He’s just holding his finger in the dike and trying to slow down the mass exodus away from the party.
Looks like a nasty recession is heading our way. This will put a further strain on social services. Are you conservatives ready to step up with a little compassion for the new poor?
Looks like a nasty recession is heading our way. This will put a further strain on social services. Are you conservatives ready to step up with a little compassion for the new poor?
Compassionate Conservatism is just a hidden catch phrase that really means, “bring christanity to government.”
“Compassionate Conservative?” Bush showed us exactly what that phrase means.
I honestly believe that if we get another “Compassionate Conservative” President and congress than I will see in my lifetime, and probably most of yours, a major collapse of society as we know it today.
Weather it be armed revolt or just a depression and correction in the economy, I am willing to bet that something major will happen…
Now the 2nd question will be who fixes this mas correction? will it be the religious nuts? Will it be the baby boomer generation? or will it be my younger, Gen X generation?
I think we are in the middle of a “Class” war and soon we will have a Generation war, young vs old.
Ok, lets have some fun…
Is this a joke? What in the world do republicans know about compassion. They are a demented group of sicko rich white men, that throw the word out at election time. So sick and tired of lip service from Brownback and Bush.
“The truth is, most members of the White House staff, the Secret Service, Military aids, even the cleaning crew, like the Bush Family.”
Paul, have you ever been taught the difference between fact and fiction? You DO know that just because you say it, it doesn’t make it true, right?
Most people with the tinist bit of intelligence have heard or read the stories about W’s temper and his tirades of swearing at people. We’ve even had glimpses of them, although his handlers do keep him on a really short leash, and that medication helps a lot. (Note the oft slurring of his words. Meds or booze? You choose.)
And we all know where W’s compassion comes from. Barbara taught him well. Let’s see, there’s the beautiful mind quote:”But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it’s, it’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? And watch him suffer.” And her take on the Katrina victims in Houston: “And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.” Oh, yeah, I’m sure the entire Bush family is charming. Riiiiiight.
You’re wasting your time, ours, and your employer’s money, Paul.
I don’t think America can survive another compassionate conservative president. How many compassionate wars will be started? How many compassionate layoffs will occur? Will Brownback be like Bush and use compassion to destroy social security or increase health care costs? I’m already too overloaded with compassion at a cost of $3 a gallon.
If Brownback and Bush are really compassionate conservatives this OJ Simpson really did love Nicole too much.
“Why did I know who wrote the previous post before I reached the end to read the author’s name?”
Kelly,
Other than the obvious, there’s Paul’s writing style that sets him apart from everyone else. He writes in sound bites. There’s no substance to his posts, just one-liners, probably compiled from statements made by mAnn Coulter, Rush “Drugs” Limbaugh and Bill “Phone Sex” O’Reilly.
Remember, Kelly, he has that journalism degree. ;) It makes him sooooo much smarter than the rest of us.
RD, do you mean something like this?
“I always thought the Clintons should be attacked as elitist, out of touch, Yale snobs.”
What the hell does that have to do with any of it?And may I just say this:Bill Clinton!!Bill Clinton!!
Great post Paul.Glad that’s workin’ for you and your repugnicans.
“It was the Clinton’s that treated the “help” like dirt.”
Who told you that? Rush? Mehlman?
What is admirable about giving law breaking wetbacks citizenship, benefits and affirmative action as a reward for sneaking into our country? What is admirable about turning America into the world’s kleenex by dumping useless refugees and asylum seekers upon us?
The truth is that yellowback is neither Christian nor conservative. Rather, he is merely a Soros stooge and an errand boy for the zionist NWO. In a perfect world the man would be hanging from a tree with the rest of the traitors!
Viva La Raza Blanco!!!
Tracy,
Yeah, that would be it. :)
Having known many Yalies during my time on the East Coast I learned that there are two distinct types. The ’scholorship’ ones are the ones who earned their way there – they generally were NOT snobs. The ‘legacies’ however – got into Yale because daddy went there – were ALWAYS snobs.
From what I know Clinton was a scholorship Yalie. Bush was 100% legacy.
Having known many Yalies during my time on the East Coast I learned that there are two distinct types. The ’scholorship’ ones are the ones who earned their way there – they generally were NOT snobs. The ‘legacies’ however – got into Yale because daddy went there – were ALWAYS snobs.
From what I know Clinton was a scholorship Yalie. Bush was 100% legacy.
Having known many Yalies during my time on the East Coast I learned that there are two distinct types. The ’scholorship’ ones are the ones who earned their way there – they generally were NOT snobs. The ‘legacies’ however – got into Yale because daddy went there – were ALWAYS snobs.
From what I know Clinton was a scholorship Yalie. Bush was 100% legacy.
AARGH! The dreaded multiple post!
Quiz–Which wild-eyed radical leftist made this statement?
“Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past.”
Tick tock tick tock tick tock . . .
And the answer is . . . .
Richard Milhous Nixon, running for President in 1968.
from today’s http://www.buzzflash.com
RedRad,
Here’s another one for the collection:
“When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for … years in a war … with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can’t manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, … and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration – then it’s time for new leadership for the United States of America.”
– Richard Nixon, 1968
Doesn’t it just bite when liberals quote a conservative president to back up the truth?
Except for it really doesnt match up with the truth…
Compassionate Conservatives?
Did you mean CONpassionate COMPservatives? It is more accurate!
compassionate conservative:
noun: an oxymoron
“. . .and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration – then it’s time for new leadership for the United States of America.”
A grim reminder of why a me-too pseudo-Dem ain’t gonna cut it, just as electing Nixon didn’t exactly work out (I’m deliberately understating. . .).
Ok folks it is time to ask: What EXACTLY does the Democrat party stand for???There are people in here who frequently say that Republicans are racist bigots.There are people in here who constantly use terms like “wet backs” and are obviously anti-semitic.There are people in here that want to regulate manufacturing jobs out of business and make it impossible for US companies to hire anyone.There are people in here that think Bush should have attacked Iran or North Korea instead of Iraq.There are people in here that are very friendly towards communists regimes, though communism every time it has been tried is more abusive of human rights than any democracy.All of the people, mentioned above, with diverse, mutually exclusive views, all of these people HATE BUSH.FDR was able to put together a coalition of Blacks, trade unions that were still racist to the core, segregationists, and not just a few industrialists, as well as isolationists and “war mongers” prior to WW2.Who is the “new FDR” in your party?The Democrat party is incoherent, it has no message other than “I HATE BUSH”!—Also, don’t forget, most of the wealth held by members of Congress is held by DEMOCRATS, even though Republicans are in the majority.Please come up with something other than the tired, untrue, “rich Republicans” stuff.
Paul- Is this whining because your hero the Shrubster ratings are in the crapper? Remenber, a majority of the people polled consistently think his performance sucks. The Electorate does not want any president to fail- it’s just this one consistantly does, and hence his ratings are lower than his IQ! Imagine that. His problem is that he is good at nothing, and does not learn from his mistakes, nor listen to contrary advice. Even his own father told him to stay the hell out of Iraq, to no avail.History is not going to think well of him , and sadly,not of our country and nor us.
Paul
Well Paul I’m at a bit of a disadvantage here. I can’t post links. YOU can. But after you little rant upstairs you didn’t.
I got a pal J M Walker. He had a good link awhile back about the Dem. agenda. Perhaps he or antother will post a link…..you know….like you didn’t.
I DO know that the Dems. are for an increase in the minimum wage for the first time in 9 years. I know that they are also for universal health care. Also they are for universal wi fi internet access. YOU know. So everyone can use the internet like you and I do.
Why is your Republcan party against poor people making a living wage and having health care Paul? What is your stake in that? Is it because they are supposed to suck up and sell out like you did? Why is your party not only opposed to wider internet access but currently actively working to limit that access to the well heeled? (Again I cannot post a link but certainly no one is unaware of efforts to channel and funnel the net to the highest bidder.)
Why is the Republican party the party of exploiting the poor, ignoring the sick, and keeping the capacity of citizens to be informed restricted?
gster,
Don’t worry about Dubya and history. Remember, we’ll all be dead by then. ;)