Ron Silver Passes; Conservatives Lose An Ally

Ron Silver Passes; Conservatives Lose An Ally
-By The Reluctant Republican

Ron Silver died today at 62 from a battle with cancer (full story here). Silver was a rare conservative voice in the otherwise strongly liberal Hollywood. Silver had been a long time Democrat and outspoken liberal until the terrorist attacks of September 11th. After the attacks, he registered as an independent and became an outspoken proponent of the war on terror and of George W. Bush. My personal favorite quote from Silver was in reference to Michael Moore. In an interview with the AP in 2004, Silver said, “He’s a charlatan in a clown suit.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves, Ron. Your voice of reason in the barren wasteland of political ideology we call Hollywood will be greatly missed here at Conservatism Lives.

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Sunday, March 15th, 2009 General Politics

John Lofton

Forget, please, "conservatism." It has been, operationally, de facto, Godless and therefore irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God both are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson's Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:

"[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth."

Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).

John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com

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