As Greg Sargent says it's a long time since W soared to victory-with a little help from the SJC-under the banner of 'compassionate conservatism.'
Today's GOP primary voters seem to want candidates who are as mean as they want to be. Start with the very mean Scott Walker:
Here he mocks the minimum wage:
“The left claims they’re for American workers, and they’ve got lame ideas, things like minimum wage,” Walker said. “We need to talk about how we get people skills and qualifications they need to get jobs that go beyond minimum wage.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/scott-walker-calls-minimum-wage-lame-120074.html#ixzz3g9WpnZ8V
Sounds like he may also be a proponent of the skills fallacy as if all we need are more Americans in college-with more college debt.
http://boldprogressives.org/2015/07/checklist-for-debt-free-college-proposals/
Walker also thinks that all gay men are predators who can't be trusted with children.
"Responding to a question about the Boy Scouts moving to lift the ban on adults serving as scoutmasters Walker said he was opposed because the ban "protected children." The implication was that gays are predators, the ugly lie that hate groups like the Family Research Council have promulgated for decades. You'd think in 2015 this kind of blatant defamation would be banished from politics. After much outrage, even from some conservatives who support equal rights for gays, like Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, Walker ridiculously tried to walk back the comments without admitting to and apologizing for hideous, defamatory remarks."
"His campaign and later he himself claimed he didn't mean "physical protection" but rather protection from the political debate itself and the controversy. And yet, when Rubin had asked his spokesperson if Walker believed children needed protecting from gay men, the spokesperson had no comment. Moreover, if he truly doesn't believe gay men are dangerous to children, and really wants the political debate to stop being a distraction for scouts, Walker would simply support allowing gay adults in the Boy Scouts."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/how-scott-walkers-gay-bas_b_7803660.html
Nest, he wants to drug test welfare recipients.
"Sixteen years ago, George W. Bush presented to America his vision of “compassionate conservatism,” and in response he received an absolute torrent of glowing articles in the media calling him a “different kind of Republican” — conservative, to be sure, but not so mean about it."
"Well those days are long past. In the 2016 GOP primaries, it’s compassionless conservatism that’s in fashion."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/16/scott-walker-wants-to-drug-test-food-stamp-recipients-that-shows-why-hell-never-be-president/
Today's GOP primary voters seem to want candidates who are as mean as they want to be. Start with the very mean Scott Walker:
Here he mocks the minimum wage:
“The left claims they’re for American workers, and they’ve got lame ideas, things like minimum wage,” Walker said. “We need to talk about how we get people skills and qualifications they need to get jobs that go beyond minimum wage.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/scott-walker-calls-minimum-wage-lame-120074.html#ixzz3g9WpnZ8V
Sounds like he may also be a proponent of the skills fallacy as if all we need are more Americans in college-with more college debt.
http://boldprogressives.org/2015/07/checklist-for-debt-free-college-proposals/
Walker also thinks that all gay men are predators who can't be trusted with children.
"Responding to a question about the Boy Scouts moving to lift the ban on adults serving as scoutmasters Walker said he was opposed because the ban "protected children." The implication was that gays are predators, the ugly lie that hate groups like the Family Research Council have promulgated for decades. You'd think in 2015 this kind of blatant defamation would be banished from politics. After much outrage, even from some conservatives who support equal rights for gays, like Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, Walker ridiculously tried to walk back the comments without admitting to and apologizing for hideous, defamatory remarks."
"His campaign and later he himself claimed he didn't mean "physical protection" but rather protection from the political debate itself and the controversy. And yet, when Rubin had asked his spokesperson if Walker believed children needed protecting from gay men, the spokesperson had no comment. Moreover, if he truly doesn't believe gay men are dangerous to children, and really wants the political debate to stop being a distraction for scouts, Walker would simply support allowing gay adults in the Boy Scouts."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/how-scott-walkers-gay-bas_b_7803660.html
Nest, he wants to drug test welfare recipients.
"Sixteen years ago, George W. Bush presented to America his vision of “compassionate conservatism,” and in response he received an absolute torrent of glowing articles in the media calling him a “different kind of Republican” — conservative, to be sure, but not so mean about it."
"Well those days are long past. In the 2016 GOP primaries, it’s compassionless conservatism that’s in fashion."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/07/16/scott-walker-wants-to-drug-test-food-stamp-recipients-that-shows-why-hell-never-be-president/
Then there's Donald Trump who's thing is Mexicans. What all this means to me is that conservatives are angry and they want candidates who match them there. Despite everything they've said and done to Obama he is still exactly what the GOP always feared: a consequential President.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/barrack-obamas-consequential-presidency.html
So real conservatism has made a comeback which is mean not compassionate.
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