tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10559060.post111928546190295046..comments2023-07-21T11:30:53.081-04:00Comments on SkepticalObservor: Hold-On-To-Your-Wallet ModeJames Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15983017193858666436noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10559060.post-1119294086177973652005-06-20T15:01:00.000-04:002005-06-20T15:01:00.000-04:00Shaun,Thanks for the comment! Take care, though, ...Shaun,<BR/>Thanks for the comment! Take care, though, in reading my evil comments. There are some who will tell you I'm "right wing," or "far right," or "an extremist." Indeed, it is my understanding that you may have been involved with the YRFV sometime after I was (1995), which some people think I "destroyed," even though I am "irrelevant."James Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15983017193858666436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10559060.post-1119293172509611242005-06-20T14:46:00.000-04:002005-06-20T14:46:00.000-04:00Jim, great website. Looking forward to making thi...Jim, great website. Looking forward to making this a part of my daily read.<BR/><BR/>Regards,Shaun Kenneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13673381023109994807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10559060.post-1119291737658086702005-06-20T14:22:00.000-04:002005-06-20T14:22:00.000-04:00Responding to your comments:Well, I guess I'm not ...Responding to your comments:<BR/><BR/>Well, I guess I'm not sure what "moderate" means, unless it's "moderate" to tolerate radicalism as to "social issues." But to address your substantive comments:<BR/><BR/>1. Nothing to disagree with in your first numbered section, except the faint hint that it's up to fiscal conservatives to identify what's to be cut, rather than up to liberals to justify that for which government steals money from the taxpayers. Plus, they're not "services," they're "government spending." Your language -- whether intentionally or not -- already surrenders to Democrats and/or the far Left, who have heretofore been much more successful than conservatives in controlling the terms of the debate. Controlling the terms of the debate is control of the debate.<BR/><BR/>2. Frankly, this part of your comment strikes me as pretentious claptrap, to the extent that it is not justification of use of the tools of the far Left. You know, I have to wonder if you didn't sit down, couldn't come up with actual policy differences, and decided that you had to say something to justify your attacks. And the notion that you're "willing to entertain and respect anyone's views on a particular issue, which [you] consider to be a moderate or more tolerant perspective," is little more than self-congratulatory and sanctimonious. It is also belied by the nature and tone of your attacks upon me. And particularly in light of your next comment, that "What I'm seeing more and more are those members of the party that do not share that same willingness to tolerate opposing viewpoints on individual issues by other long-term Republicans." No, what you are seeing is Republican who make choices in primary contests based upon issues rather than merely upon the nice, warm, fuzzy, and non-specific label "Republican." That's what politics is about, or should be about. And what do you mean by "tolerate." What you seem to mean (at least with Chairman Sean) is "advance and promote."<BR/><BR/>And finally, let me set your "fear" aside. None of those whom you attacks holds, so far as I am aware, a "'your either with us on every issue or you're against us' mentality." That's a mentality reserved, in my observation, by those with whom you seem to associate. Of course, if you weren't guarding your anonymity, I could comment much more fully on that question.<BR/><BR/>Finally, your last section: "Like any group or political party, the GOP needs strength in numbers. If we continue to alienate those who are willing to vote for and support Republicans, the numbers eventually just won't be there." Those are motherhoods. You equate your own apparent alienation -- which seems premised more in personalities that you don't seem to like and that fact that there are leaders who have been around and been successful in PWC for far longer than you -- with that of the voters. It just isn't borne out by the electoral record.James Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15983017193858666436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10559060.post-1119291579369172662005-06-20T14:19:00.000-04:002005-06-20T14:19:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.James Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15983017193858666436noreply@blogger.com