Guy de Maupassant ends his great novel “Une Vie” with the statement “Life is never as good or as bad as one thinks.” Conservatives should understand that in politics, things are rarely as good or as bad as one thinks in the aftermath of an election.
Hat tip Paul Mirengoff
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
ca. 1840
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I am tired of the flip-flop comments. There hasn’t been a flip-flop in his creaer. Flip-flop suggest that you take one side only to take another and then back to the other side with changing political motives. If anything you could get away saying Romney has flipped. As with most Americans Romney has become more conservative with age and experience. Once he was pro life he remained so. How is that a flip-flop as suggested in some of these comments? A gradual trend towards more and more conservative thought is not a flip-flop.
Yup. And I think there are more like it to come,
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