Need to make conservativism look attractive.

Not spend our time sounding like a bunch of angry loosers.

Published on May 16, 2008 By jesseledesma In Politics

I am going to tell you what is wrong with conservatives. You do not speak with a smile in your voice when you speak.

People are not war weary. They are tired of angry complainers. I listen to Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'riely, Denis Miller, and Hanity. None of these people speak as if conservative is something good and joyfull. In my opinion, they spend their timing complaining about the democrats.

After listenning to these conservative talk radio host I want to shoot myself in the head.

I think what would help conservatives , talk show host or not, is a little better presentation. Make conservativism attractive.

Oh, and another thing. You want Obama in the White House, keep attacking him personally.

I think it would be more productive that we speak on Mr. Obama's stance on the issues.

We should be talking about how a so-called Christian believes in late term abortions, much less any abortion, for example. Christians do not support any kind of baby killing.

We can also talk about how Mr Obama does not know that the leadrship of Iran is filled with terrorist.

You did not say you would talk to terrorist. Well you said you would sit down and talk to Amadinajad and he is a terrorist, Mr. Obama.

Finally, in 2006 conservatives did not loose. Liberals disguized as conservatives won.

I think the one reason could be that many of us are making conservativism look bad.

Comments

Sodaiho

on May 21, 2008

Hello,

Thank you for this piece. I loathe the talk radio scene, talking heads on t.v., and most speakers from the pulpit. There is a clear brutishness and complete lack of civility in the air. We see it on television, on radio, and certainly on the web. And most of the brutishness is conservative.

I wonder, though, how anyone can...or more deeply, whether they should... "make conservatism look better." Dress a conservative in a shirt and tie and he or she is still a conservative. He or she will still steal your money and blame you for losing it. Its like the flag waving around war and military support, until under the cover of darkness, the soldier is wounded and diasabled, and then, screw 'em.

There is nothing "nice about conservativism, nothing compassionate, nothing that will improve anything. Conservatism is by definition a philosophy of stuckness: stuck in the same old hackneyed, sereotypic and often prejudicial, "family values", stuck in celebrating a mythic past, stuck in fearing progressive thought, change, and anything really modern, stuck in monolithic answers to life's problems (usually framed in "how to I get to keep what I have" by legislation or force.

No, there is nothing to "look good" about conservatism. The talking heads of the conservative movement are, indeed, an accurate picture of that barbaric POV.

Be well.

Gene Nash

on May 21, 2008

People are not war weary.

Yes, they are.

Laura Ingraham

I find her politics abhorrent, but I think she's hot, so I used to listen to her anyway just to be swept away.... (New To-do List item: Get a girlfriend. Heck, get two. Could always use a spare.)

Cedarbird

on May 22, 2008

People are not war weary.

Um, who have you been talking to? Like Gene said, yes, yes they are.

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