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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 06:18 PM
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Movement Man - The scandal-plagued right-wing pioneer conservatives were glad to forget.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/26/magazine/2010lives.html?src=tptw#view=donald_lukens

WAITING TO BOARD a flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Washington in January 1991, the former Representative Donald Lukens hid in a toilet stall in the men’s room to escape reporters and photographers. It was a testament to his fighting spirit that Lukens believed he still had dignity to protect.

Buz Lukens first arrived in Washington three decades earlier. A handsome and energetic former Air Force officer, Lukens became chairman of the capital’s Young Republicans. With much of Washington and the world in thrall to liberal Camelot, Lukens plotted its overthrow.

His first triumph came in 1963 at the Young Republican National Federation convention in San Francisco. It was a mad medley of dirty tricks, as the G.O.P. establishment, which supported Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York in the 1964 presidential campaign, fended off right-wing insurgents like Lukens, who backed Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Years later, Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a delegate at the convention, recalled it as the “goddamnedist hardball politics” he had ever witnessed. On the second roll call, Lukens was elected national chairman, though the convention secretary was unable to announce the tally; she’d been shoved off the stage.

With his virulent opposition to taxes, civil rights and liberalism, Lukens was the vanguard of movement conservatism. Three decades before Fox News, he encouraged conservatives to take news media jobs in order to promote what he called “honest and accurate reporting of the Republican cause.”

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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 07:01 PM
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1. Sounds pretty typical. n/t
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 07:07 PM
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2. And them having no power makes them crave it but never satisfied.
It all makes sense. They need to control to feel they are something.

wining is not for the goal, but to achieve feeling of power, and from there they don't care what happens, since they need to feel they are somebody not actually achieve a goal, they only need to win.

I get it, they have fading things in them trying to find power not love, and the people choose not to teach or give love to help them so they fade more and more.

And that is why they have to be rescued from those types, since they do no help.

:loveya: peace and love to you, may you find what you need.

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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 07:23 PM
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3. Have you ever read Jean Shinoda Bolen's book
The Ring of Power? She discusses some of the things you're writing about in great detail, using an analysis of the Nibelungenlied as a vehicle for her study.
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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 07:46 PM
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4. never heard of any of that stuff.
Edited on Sun Dec-26-10 07:46 PM by RandomThoughts
But I did post on the 'ring of power' and the Tolkien concepts years ago.

I read Tolkien and Sword of Truth, but very little else in the last couple of decades, I found reading books was hurting ability to put thoughts together, I wanted to discuss the topics with the authors when reading a book, so it would get a bit frustrating.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 02:26 PM
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6. Tolkien borrowed extensively from nordic mythology
in his works.
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 08:49 PM
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5. Sounds like an interesting read. Thanks for posting. nt
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