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but what i am beyond certain of
, and am regretful of, is that i can't have a fact-based, history-based, evidence-based conversation with you on this.
I don't deserve this. You may not agree with me, but all my conversations are fact, history, and evidence based.
Edit: And I rarely go ad hominem even in the face of insults like these (and others much nastier).
i don't see, in this thread, that you have much of an interest in seeing what others have to say. and, based on your reply to me that elicited my reply (that you didn't like) it seemed like you were simply spoiling for a fight. i don't really want to engage with someone who just wants to yell through his keyboard.
that said, i doubt you and i disagree on too many things. if republicanism, today, was built on a national defense foundation that fulfilled our strategic goals (defending ourselves and our allies; fighting two simultaneous wars, etc.); was built on fiscal conservatism, low debt, consideration for future generations; was science-based in its planning and execution; was built on the preeminent value of individual self-determination; was designed around the smallest possible govt while fulfilling the promise that only a federal govt can provide; that honored our natl institutions, law and order, historic processes; that was appropriately reticent to change social structures quickly; that appropriately protected our borders; that resisted foreign entanglements; i'd be a republican.
today, tho, it seems to me, as an outsider looking in (because i'm not a republican), that corey stewart won the ideologican fight and bob corker lost. all the republicans i admire (corker, charlie dent, flake and mccain, scarborough) are leaving. trump and his acolytes remain. i would like to ask bob corker wheter all this time the narrative of republicans was simply fraudulent. i don't know. i believe in a lot of what corker believes in. just, that party is dead. was it ever actually alive? in the minds of voters? or was it only alive in the minds of buckley, hitchens and george will?
if you don't want me to tell you what the evidence suggests, as to what republicanism is, fine, then you tell me.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman