"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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"Charles Momsen" wrote in message
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I would like to point out my conservative/libertarian colleagues and
associates a liberal argument tactic used mainly by the likes of Saltydog,
Ganz and recently by Jeff.

They will argue something at length using great contortions, leaps of
faith and immaculate assumptions to no avail. They will experience a
thwarting like no other at the hands of one skilled in correct, logical
conservative/libertarian thinking.

So when they realize their case is hopeless they will roll out this one
question in exasperation:

"So what is your point?"

in an attempt to put the correctly thinking conservative/libertarian on
his heels. The proper response to such a tactic is to point out that they
have been arguing with great fury and foaming about something they
admittedly fail to see or comprehend. Those conservatives/libertarians
skilled in the art should phrase their reply to the great amusement of
fellow conservatives/libertarians and with a keen eye to further enrage
the already irrational liberal. There's nothing better than to hang
someone with their own noose.



Hoist with their own petard!

Liberals goons have been doing it for years. But I still get a good laugh
out of it anyway. To a liberal an argument is a method used to display
their real world ignorance.

Wilbur Hubbard


Right you are Wilbur, a true conservative such as yourself easily recognizes
such liberal foils and canards when deployed.

Now, my fellow Americans, the tide has been running against freedom. Our
people have followed false prophets. We must, and we shall, return to proven
ways-- not because they are old, but because they are true. We must, and we
shall, set the tide running again in the cause of freedom. And this party,
with its every action, every word, every breath, and every heartbeat, has
but a single resolve, and that is freedom - freedom made orderly for this
nation by our constitutional government; freedom under a government limited
by laws of nature and of nature's God; freedom - balanced so that liberty
lacking order will not become the slavery of the prison cell; balanced so
that liberty lacking order will not become the license of the mob and of the
jungle.

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they
regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version
of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always
create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those
who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems
from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly
understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to
the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been
so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to
despotism.

And I needn't remind you - but I will - that it's been during Democratic
years that our strength to deter war has stood still, and even gone into a
planned decline. It has been during Democratic years that we have weakly
stumbled into conflict, timidly refusing to draw our own lines against
aggression, deceitfully refusing to tell even our people of our full
participation, and tragically, letting our finest men die on battlefields
(unmarked by purpose, unmarked by pride or the prospect of victory).

Today in our beloved country we have an administration which seems eager to
deal with communism in every coin known - from gold to wheat, from
consulates to confidence, and even human freedom itself.

I seek an American proud of its past, proud of its ways, proud of its
dreams, and determined actively to proclaim them. But our example to the
world must, like charity, begin at home.

In our vision of a good and decent future, free and peaceful, there must be
room for deliberation of the energy and talent of the individual - otherwise
our vision is blind at the outset.

We must assure a society here which, while never abandoning the needy or
forsaking the helpless, nurtures incentives and opportunity for the creative
and the productive. We must know the whole good is the product of many
single contributions.

I cherish a day when our children once again will restore as heroes the sort
of men and women who - unafraid and undaunted - pursue the truth, strive to
cure disease, subdue and make fruitful our natural environment and produce
the inventive engines of production, science, and technology.

We see, in private property and in economy based upon and fostering private
property, the one way to make government a durable ally of the whole man,
rather than his determined enemy. We see in the sanctity of private property
the only durable foundation for constitutional government in a free society.
And beyond that, we see, in cherished diversity of ways, diversity of
thoughts, of motives and accomplishments. We do not seek to lead anyone's
life for him - we seek only to secure his rights and to guarantee him
opportunity to strive, with government performing only those needed and
constitutionally sanctioned tasks which cannot otherwise be performed.

Our towns and our cities, then our counties, then our states, then our
regional contacts - and only then, the national government. That, let me
remind you, is the ladder of liberty, built by decentralized power. On it
also we must have balance between the branches of government at every level.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And
let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no
virtue.