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Tis_Bearself
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Do we have to “interpret” it? Pat is an aging political commentator, not a prophet or a saint or someone from the Vatican.
I occasionally find one of his insights on the political process interesting, but I don’t hang on his every word especially when it doesn’t make much sense, as this.
I occasionally find one of his insights on the political process interesting, but I don’t hang on his every word especially when it doesn’t make much sense, as this.
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Memaw
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Would be interesting to know what he was referring to and what he said before and after this. Otherwise taking it out of context doesn’t make sense!! God Bless, Memaw
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Reepicheep
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Context? What was he talking about when he said this?
Also Tis Bearself is right. Buchanan is not a spokeperson for the Catholic Church.
Also Tis Bearself is right. Buchanan is not a spokeperson for the Catholic Church.
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Crusaderbear
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Buchanan is unimportant. Interpretation complete.
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pianistclare
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Quite right. Who cares?
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on_the_hill
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My perspective: Conservatives/Republicans lionize Reagan as the savior of post-Vietnam/post-Nixon Republican politics. In truth, he was a lot more moderate than many conservatives are today. However, nostalgia has a strong influence in how people interpret their past experiences.
I think perhaps Buchanan reminds people, at least partially, that Reagan wasn’t God.
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John_Lazarus
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That’s right. Everybody knows that’s Eric Clapton.My perspective: Conservatives/Republicans lionize Reagan as the savior of post-Vietnam/post-Nixon Republican politics. In truth, he was a lot more moderate than many conservatives are today. However, nostalgia has a strong influence in how people interpret their past experiences.
I think perhaps Buchanan reminds people, at least partially, that Reagan wasn’t God.
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Irishmom2
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Where is he quoted as saying this? I don’t see it in the link you provided.
And what does be Catholic have to do with how we interpret it?
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Crusaderbear
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Click the worded quoted in the op.
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Irishmom2
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I did, but didn’t read the footnote, where I found it this time.
For those interested, here is the footnote:
“Rail as they will about discrimination, women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.” In the same column, he makes it clear that women’s place is only in the home: “The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it shall ever be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this; God is.”
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on_the_hill
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Now I understand it and see that my interpretation was a waste of bandwidth.I did, but didn’t read the footnote, where I found it this time.
For those interested, here is the footnote:
“Rail as they will about discrimination, women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.” In the same column, he makes it clear that women’s place is only in the home: “The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it shall ever be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this; God is.”
In other words, Patty Patty Pat Pat means that we shouldn’t blame “Reagan” for Conservatives’ philosophies about the role of women; we should blame God. (I’m being facetious).
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Crusaderbear
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Updated opinion…
Buchanan is Narrow Minded and Unimportant. Interpretation amended and complete.
Buchanan is Narrow Minded and Unimportant. Interpretation amended and complete.
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Memaw
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God is the one who created men and women for different rolls in life! If you don’t believe that, just look around at what our modern “society” has done to the family, marriage and most especially our children. It has been coming on gradually I think most especially since WWII but the damage is astounding. Now we even kill our babies and think its perfectly OK. How much worse can it get before we wake up and listen to GOD!! God Bless, Memaw
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Reepicheep
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Oh my God.I did, but didn’t read the footnote, where I found it this time.
For those interested, here is the footnote:
“Rail as they will about discrimination, women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.” In the same column, he makes it clear that women’s place is only in the home: “The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it shall ever be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this; God is.”
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ToeInTheWater
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I did think he hit on a truth when he mused that not only are the social conservatives having different priorities than economic conservatives in the Republican party, that their goals actually conflict with each other much of the time. He didn’t claim this was a Catholic concept but I do think it fits.
Well, that’s one of the rare examples of the context making the quote sound worse. Not to mention scientifically inaccurate; in many bird species BOTH parents build the nest and actually take turns leaving to catch food.I did, but didn’t read the footnote, where I found it this time.
For those interested, here is the footnote:
“Rail as they will about discrimination, women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.” In the same column, he makes it clear that women’s place is only in the home: “The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it shall ever be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this; God is.”
It also occurs to me that Reagan has not actually been a conservative icon for a while and there is a lot of revisionist history that while he may have made it more chic to be conservative, he never truly shook off his Hollywood liberal roots.
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