Black Conservatives Just Don’t Exist

Tom, I collapsed from exhaustion after dinner. I see you have met one of our more spirited debaters. JV’s instincts for confrontation have been honed in situations that you and I dream about in night mares.

The Liberal/Progressive tag was used by me to designate indecision on my part, since I haven’t read of your exact political position. I normally think of the Progressive as a more advanced Liberal, who is hiding his true Socialist nature under the guise of Progressivism, because at this time it is more politically expedient.

Obviously, you have almost nothing negative to say about Mr Cain other than he is a Conservative; that was what I was hoping to hear. The first time I heard him speak, I had no idea of his political affiliation, but I found myself wishing he would run for office.

As you may gather, I have almost no interest in sports unless I or someone from my family is competing; consequently, a man’s sports affiliations are unimportant to me and certainly would not affect my consideration of whether to vote for him.

Your original commentary, pointed out the fact that the NYT had Mr. Cain on the front page and that neutralized my assertion that Liberals or at least their press corps were afraid of Cain and were trying to marginalize him. I maintain that the omission was a tactical error that has extremely wealthy Liberals in my temporary work location asking Why? That amounts to a grievous error on the part of Liberals, for Mr Cain has suddenly received an inordinate amount of attention that normally would have cost hundreds of thousands, but with no guarantee of positive results. This has backfired and now Cain is in front of the literate public and people are impressed with what they are seeing. I am hoping he stands up to public scrutiny, because I admire the man and his accomplishments.

In regards to genetics and politics, I find that opposites attract and the gene pool is being continually mixed up like the water in an old-time washing machine. I wasn’t politically active from the days of Goldwater to the Age of Obama; however, I considered myself a Conservative politically, morally, and economically. I inadvertently married a Liberal for a couple of decades and believe me that there is a schism concerning the allocation of money. My children are evenly split on the political scale: two Conservatives and two Liberals. Arguing politics with the Liberals has provided the only confrontation in our lives so I refrain from political discussion in their presence. I once had an informal theory that political position was influenced by genetics and conferred with several learned men. They told me I was in danger of being considered delusional and I abandoned my soiree into the field of genetics.

Of course there are individuals who swap sides as easily as a horse swaps leads; thus, therein exists a direct contradiction to the theory of genetics as an influencing factor.

Politics must have the confrontation of ideas or the system becomes stale. Obama’s assumption of absolute power was a major part of his decline in popularity. He would have benefitted if he would have played the role of statesman rather than assuming he was granted dictatorial powers

Randy, I think the Canadians have seen the difference in the perpetual welfare state and the dynamics of a Conservative government that is moving to exploit the extreme market of the energy sector.

I love to tell my Liberal customers that Alberta, Calgary, and Edmonton are the most dynamic economies in the world with full employment. They invariably ask why and I tell them that they have a robust energy program and they are not afraid to exploit their energy resources.

My customers get this blank stare and you can see them swallow hard.

The Canadians have elected a Conservative government because they like a dynamic economy with money flowing, let’s hope their government doesn’t drop the ball.