tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post7128444660677729598..comments2024-03-17T17:09:51.505-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks: A Question of Moral Relativism driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-33448649150223922832016-02-05T13:23:54.022-06:002016-02-05T13:23:54.022-06:00Wasn't Lincoln purged from the party (as a RIN...Wasn't Lincoln purged from the party (as a RINO) during the Gingrich Revolution?<br />How progressive of the conservatives, eh?<br /><br /> Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72749134854023964662016-02-05T12:56:12.475-06:002016-02-05T12:56:12.475-06:00He does it by pretending that any outward evidence...<i>He does it by pretending that any outward evidence of the depravity of his Republican party is merely a transient, surface nuisance.</i><br /><br />To express this model in terms of Catholic theology, the <i>substance</i> of the Republican Party remains the Party of Lincoln, even while its <i>accidents</i> are a monument to moral leprosy, a cyanide-laced communion wafer that not even an Archbishop can transsubstantiate. The problem is, in this case, it's not Anthony Lilliman who gets <a href="http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-breaker-of-rules-the-last-war-in-albion-part-76-this-vicious-cabaret/" rel="nofollow">poisoned</a>; it is we the people. And the poison is fed to us, not as a punishment for actual sins, but as a punishment for what a sane world would recognize as virtues.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.com