Charlie Rose and Dick Armey

Former Congressman Dick Armey was on Charlie Rose this week. His performance was a mishmash of contradictory thinking, the kind of thinking that has brought the GOP much trouble especially with independent voters who are much smarter than republicans.

First Armey tells Rose that the new GOP is interested in sticking to the Constitution and sticking to small government. Okay, that revealed everything. A true conservative isn't interested in "small" government. He is interested in "limited" government. Why? Because a small government could be a tyrannical one, just small. What a conservative is interested in is a government that limits it powers to those it is authorized to exercise.

The stupidity of men like Armey hurt the GOP for decades. And as much as he brushed off any notion that he would ever go back into politics, some citizens were jumping for joy that he won't.

Armey demostrated this stupidity when Rose asked Armey if he supported some level of federal government health care. Rose asked this question after Armey said he advocated a closer adherence to Constitution. Armey said he did support federal health care for some people (those in need, etc.).

This is impossible.

You cannot (as the Constitution is currently written) support adhering the Constitution and support federal health care. The Constitution just does not permit it as written.

This sort of stupidity continues to hurt the GOP.

At one point Rose read comments by Armey about how widespread disloyal government officials were today in D.C. These comments disturbed Rose. He suggested that it was wrong to imply that people who had other political ideas where not necessarily unpatriotic.

Yeah, the people who held Hilter's differing political ideas were not unpatriotic either? Please. This is the reasoning of a six year old!

Rose took issue with name calling. He doesn't like it.

Of course he doesn't like it, as it is a convenient verbal shorthand which cuts to the chase about how bad people are.

Evil people don't like to be called out that way.

They prefer polite happy talk which never gets to the truth.



Resources:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/dick-armey-manages-to-make-charlie-rose-lose-his-cool/