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Interesting question for Conservatives/rightwingers.

Which thinker/Pundit has influenced you most?

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Okay with all the talk of Rush Limbaugh and such I have an interesting question(or at least I think it is interesting:2razz:) for Conservatives and rightwingers on this site.

Which thinkers/pundits have influenced you most in your thinking?
 
I can't believe Hannity, O'Reily, Limbaugh, Buchanan are on a list with Burke and Adams :shock:
 
Some guy named "Tarkan" who frequented my past forum. He changed me from a rabid Bush-hating liberal into a sensible conservative over the course of a couple of years. I would make some standard lefty comment and he would annihilate me.

After that it was Ron Paul and the Austrian Economists (Mises, Rothbard).
 
Ethereal said:
Some guy named "Tarkan" who frequented my past forum. He changed me from a rabid Bush-hating liberal into a sensible conservative over the course of a couple of years. I would make some standard lefty comment and he would annihilate me.

After that it was Ron Paul and the Austrian Economists (Mises, Rothbard).
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Find him and bring him here.
 
Arch Enemy said:
I can't believe Hannity, O'Reily, Limbaugh, Buchanan are on a list with Burke and Adams :shock:
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Well that is rather the point. I do get the unfortunate impression that too many Conservatives get a lot more exposure to the former than the latter. I wanted to see if I was correct.
 
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Find him and bring him here.
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Why? Are you fond of being perpetually refuted? Don't worry, I'll accommodate you.
 
Ethereal said:
Why? Are you fond of being perpetually refuted? Don't worry, I'll accommodate you.
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No. I am fond that if someone over the internet could change your political swagger like that then he must be a good addition to any political forum.

That's all. I get refuted enough as it is :)
 
I guess it would be paine on the origin and design of government that originally got me interested in political science. prior to reading that I had not really stopped to think about the theoretical aspect of it if you know what I mean.
 
emdash said:
I guess it would be paine on the origin and design of government that originally got me interested in political science. prior to reading that I had not really stopped to think about the theoretical aspect of it if you know what I mean.
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Interesting choice. I like Paine myself too even though he isn't generally considered a "Conservative" thinker and I didn't think he answered Burke too well.
 
Wessexman said:
Interesting choice. I like Paine myself too even though he isn't generally considered a "Conservative" thinker and I didn't think he answered Burke too well.
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well I have thought otherwise he is pretty weak actually, but I found that part of it compelling, because it was a new idea to me at the time.

and I guess you're right, he's not a conservative thinker but he had a lot to do with me being a conservative. I kind of forgot the question as I was thinking about it. :3oops:
 
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Arch Enemy said:
No. I am fond that if someone over the internet could change your political swagger like that then he must be a good addition to any political forum.

That's all. I get refuted enough as it is :)
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Indeed he would be (liberals would rue the day he showed up here), but he's very unlikely to share time between this forum and the other. He's been a member of that one since 2000.

BTW, you're a good sport. That's always a good thing...:cool:
 
Ethereal said:
Indeed he would be (liberals would rue the day he showed up here), but he's very unlikely to share time between this forum and the other. He's been a member of that one since 2000.

BTW, you're a good sport. That's always a good thing...:cool:
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Yeah, that's what my dad told me when I'd crush him in basketball :)


PM me the name of the forum if you would. I am intrigued.

Loyalty is lame :)
 
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well I have thought otherwise he is pretty weak actually, but I found that part of it compelling, because it was a new idea to me at the time.

and I guess you're right, he's not a conservative thinker but he had a lot to do with me being a conservative. I kind of forgot the question as I was thinking about it. :3oops:
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Paine could certainly be cited by Conservatives today. He is not strictly Conservative and he would perhaps have little to offer arch-traditionalists of the Continental European, "Throne and Altar" kind but he is certainly has something to offer for the Anglo-American whose Conservatism is smattered with healthy helpings of Classical liberalism. Thomas Jefferson is similar although perhaps has even more to offer.
 
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I can't think of any actual thinkers who helped shape my beliefs as they developed, but in terms of people who have helped reaffirm my positions over time, I guess I'd say Glenn Reynolds.
 
Wessexman said:
Paine could certainly be cited by Conservatives today. He is not strictly Conservative and he would perhaps have little to offer arch-traditionalists of the Continental European, "Throne and Altar" kind but he is certainly has something to offer for the Anglo-American whose Conservatism is smattered with healthy helpings of Classical liberalism. Thomas Jefferson is similar although perhaps even more so.
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wessexman, sometimes you make me feel like a moron.
 
John Locke, both philosopher and Lost badass.
 
I would have to say a combination of Glenn Beck and Michael Savage have got me out of the whole "Republicans good, democrats bad" mentality. Stereotypically republicans are generally conservative and patriotic, but that is not always true. Just look at the ones who claim to support the troops and salute the flag when they turn around and toss the salad of multinational corporations by allowing jobs to outsource,allow 12-20 million plus of people from other countries to invade our country with out even the use of a weapon, allow foreign countries and companies to run our ports and many other unpatriotic/anti-American things.
 
Since conservatism is common sense. None of the above. Its just well, common sense :mrgreen:
 
Reverend_Hellh0und said:
Since conservatism is common sense. None of the above. Its just well, common sense :mrgreen:
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Congratulations you have chosen:

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Thomas Paine!
 
Wessexman said:
Okay with all the talk of Rush Limbaugh and such I have an interesting question(or at least I think it is interesting:2razz:) for Conservatives and rightwingers on this site.

Which thinkers/pundits have influenced you most in your thinking?
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You left out the #2 in national ratings right behind Rush and ahead of Sean Hannity, btw. Just letting you know.

I've only even heard of 3 people on your list, but my answer is Glenn Beck, with Dave Ramsey a close second.
 
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Really? Beck's surpassed Hannity? That's good to hear, he's much more entertaining AND much more level headed in my opinion than Hannity...less of a douche as well.
 
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Really? Beck's surpassed Hannity? That's good to hear, he's much more entertaining AND much more level headed in my opinion than Hannity...less of a douche as well.
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I can actually listen to him with out LMAO.
 
Thomas Jefferson

BTW, Hannity is a dumbass douche bag. He never has anything of any intellectual value to say and should be ignored in all instances.
 
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