At least some good news today: Paul Weyrich died.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative activist Paul Weyrich, who coined the phrase "moral majority" and helped turn social conservatives into a powerful force in the Republican Party, died Thursday. He was 66.

Weyrich's death was announced by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think thank that he had helped to create.

Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said Weyrich "was instrumental in the development of conservative thought" in America.

As the first president of the Heritage Foundation and the leader of other conservative organizations, Weyrich's service "embodied and further advanced the Republican Party's core values of limited government, lower taxes and individual responsibility," added Duncan.


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Condolences to those who cared about him.

Condolences to his family, but our nation is a better place for his passing.

I'd never heard of him until about three weeks ago. Strange.

Just remember, I'm your friend!

he was pretty young, too... he looked like hell for his age. see what hatred will do to a person.

:shrug:

or loved ones.

Paul Weyrich's corpse.

Thats an Oxymoran

A wink and a nod to his adversaries.

My sympathies to his family and all who will mourn his passing.



Laura

Yes, we all die sooner or later. I'd kinda like to think that maybe my own behavior before I die can be a little kinder and a bit more compassionate than the lowest common denominator.

YMMV.


Laura

great tragedy. It's hard for those close to the deceased, and I offer them my condolences.

It's still a normal part of life, and not all of us will have as long a life or as natural a death as he had.

which can be hell.

He was the first to tell Republicans that voter suppression was a good thing, because "I don't want everyone to vote; elections are not won by the majority of Americans, they never have been and they never will."

We need a scorecard to figure out who's left.

Tick their names off as they cash in their chips.

May he rest in peace, and my condolences to his family.

me. Condolences to the family. Yaddah yaddah. Oh, and is it just me or does this guy bear a pretty close resemblance to Voldemort? I mean, politically they seem pretty close ( although Voldemort is probably a little more to the center).

*ducks*

Curiouser and curiouser.

I'm glad he's gone, because he's had a net negative effect on the world. Adios. We're better off without him.

Living a long life and having a natural death is not a tragedy, but a part of life - and he had a longer life than many will know. Still, it's sad for his family, so to them personally I wish condolences and that the loss of someone they cared about is as easy as it can be.

Tell them the world is better off without him, but extend your condolences. They, and I, would think you were off your rocker.

You are glad he's dead, you cannot extend condolences to his family.

"You are glad he's dead, you cannot extend condolences to his family."

Sure I can. I did.

con⋅do⋅lence   /kənˈdoʊləns/ Show Spelled Pronunciation Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun Often, condolences. expression of sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief.

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You are glad he's dead. That is not sympathy. It is not a condolence, it is quite the opposite.

I'm glad he's gone. It's good.

I know they're probably not happy about it, assuming they exist, so my sympathies are for THEM - for their feelings. Not for him.

I hated your dog and I'm glad it died, but I'm so sorry for you.
The world is better off without your grandmother, but let me give you a sympathetic hug.

I find it hard to believe you do not see the incongruety in your statements. One excludes the other by definition.

You are terribly confused. I'll type no more on this subject.

And you don't get it. :-)

It is very easy for most of us (I would venture) to separate our feelings for Paul Weyrich from our feelings for his immediate family. Weyrich was, as was said, a "net negative" for humanity. But I'm big enough to recognize that some people may not see things that way. Some of these people might have been amongst his immediate family. I know when someone dies in my immediate family, the rest of us grieve. We feel bad. I suppose Weyrich's immediate family is feeling the same. I can have sympathy for these people, feel for their personal suffering and wish for it to pass quickly -- while at the same time hate the life and work of Paul Weyrich.

What's so difficult to understand here?

Write, "I'm glad he's dead, you have my condolences". That is not sympathy, it's sociopathy.

So your silly idea is fallacious.

:hi:

And end it there. No person in his right mind who cared about the person would consider you sympathetic to their cause.

I'm glad he's dead.

In addition, if he has a family I expect they're sad about it, so I'm sympathetic to them.

I'd love to see it. There's no way you could escape your inconsistency.

I wouldn't, precisely because I have sympathy for them.

But I can express here and now that I'm glad he died.

If you are so able to hide your feelings, then why not send a card and say, "Your husband/father/uncle was a fine man. You have my deepest condolences." That, my friend, would be sympathetic.

in every area, every hour of every day mourning the death of a loved one.

I extend personal sympathies to those I know.

...expressing your sympathy, and all that.

It appears we are at loggerheads again, mondo joe.

Have a great day.

By you.

:-)

I would suppress my feelings about Weyrich and his life's work, and just simply express my condolences. That is not sociopathy.

Look, let's pretend Hitler had children, perhaps a 4 year old girl at the time of his death. I can hate Hitler's life and work while having sympathy for the pain and suffering of the 4 year old girl, totally innocent and unaware of the evils committed by the father. All she know is her daddy is gone.

Again, this is quite simple to see. I am puzzled why you would call this "sociopathy".

There are many times in an ordinary person's life when there is a convergence of different feelings, some of which may be hidden or temprarily suppressed.

Doesn't seem hard to understand to me.

Once enough of them die off, people forget, and can change with the times.. These reactionary deviants are dangerous, and their passing creates minimal sorrow...

and I send condolences to the people who loved him.

I am able to separate my feelings. You seem to live in a very black and white world. It sounds like a struggle. Good luck with that.

When a person you dislike dies and you are glad of it, attend the funeral and tell the family, "I'm quite glad he's dead, you have my deepest sympathies."

When you get out of the hospital, post us a line here and discuss how they took your sympathy.

No one here is saying to his family we're glad he's dead.

Silly strawman.

Oh.

?

he found out where he was spending eternity.

and he didn't find out squat because he was dead.

Pity the maggots.

:thumbsup:

that said, I'm sure his dog loved him..and maybe some of his grandkids too..sorry for their loss

my mom will be waiting there to slap him.

She was not politically active, but she hated the Moral Majority for getting Soap canceled!

I wish to sing a hymn ......

Him ...... Him ...... Fuck Him ......

Yeah, when it comes to this sort of scum, I'm cruel and heartless. So what?

An evil person dies...I have seen some good people in personal life die lately and have felt some injustice.

While this doesn't make up for that , or the injustices this man created, I now have some satisfaction knowing that hell got a little more crowded today.

Meese? Starr? Rehnquist? (Oops -- is he gone already?)

So much destruction.

I'm sure we're still missing a few...