02-19-2024, 07:46 PM
(02-19-2024, 06:58 PM)Dill Wrote: I very much agree with you on this.
OMG, what a shocking revelation!!!
Quote:She was a neoconservative, horrible for foreign policy (from either left or liberal perspective), and a dedicated servant of the New Right Republican party in the wake of Reagan and its Bush incarnation.
She IS, a warmongering defender of her criminal ass father, a man who should be rotting in a cell for the hundreds of thousands of deaths he caused and billions of dollars he grafted to himself and friends.
Quote:But like so many old, traditional conservatives, she had been taught that conservatism was about principles, that the US was a nation of laws built
on rule of law. True leaders were Washington/Reagan style role models, not nasty P-grabbers who publicly denigrated people they did not like and broke laws whenever they could for personal gain, vindictively punished enemies, lied about themselves to brag, insulted US military members for their loser stupidity, and changed their views to gain blocks of voters. She took that traditional view of values seriously. You see the same distrust for Trump in the old guard
(e.g., Goldwater's widow and son https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/barry-goldwater-s-family-against-donald-trump-n542506).
She knew what would follow from "doing the right thing" but did it anyway.
I can recognize, respect and honor the integrity she showed, even if I disagree with her on policy issues. I'm not going to spin up some personality deficiency to explain why she took her stand, when the simpler explanation seems to best fit the facts--she took a principled stand.
It's quite telling that in praising a morally bankrupt character like Cheney as having integrity you reveal yourself as having none of your own. I guess the hundreds of thousands who died in Iraq mean nothing now that you have a new conflict in the Middle East to at which to target your fake invectives.
