Memoirs Of A Conservative Icon

[toobfreak]

You can't be faulted for never hearing of Jim Quinn. He was mostly a minor radio celebrity in local markets mostly between various cities in New York and Pennsylvania states who at his peak, was syndicated in many stations around the country. Quinn for a time even worked with Rush Limbaugh. Jim Quinn was a rabid liberal progressive though--- during his career, much of it was spent merely as a music DJ. In the early 1980s, he took up a new format called The Quinn and Banana Don Show in Pittsburgh, PA whose format between songs was highly irreverent, juvenile, cracking jokes and making fun of everything. Apparently one day, true to form, Quinn cracked a joke about the lady news director at the station there calling her promiscuous--- probably because she was a bit cold, all business, and rebuffed one of Quinn's innocent flirtings or something.

Well, she did not see the humor in it and sued Quinn and won for almost $700,000. Later, his show was cancelled. Quinn largely credits this lawsuit with inducing his conversion over to political conservatism, saying "my formerly liberal eyes were opened to the agenda of the feminists, their friends and supporters in the media." Upon that, Quinn like so many others was introduced to the true nature of progressivism and found his calling to be a conservative, and conservative he was. Over the next 33+ years, Quinn ran one of the biggest conservative radio programs in the nation, exposing the hypocrisy of everyone from the Clintons, to Al Gore, Barrack Obama and others. Quinn became a champion and pioneer for the Tea Party and I can only assume he was very happy to see Trump being reelected. I actually got to even meet him once through a common interest: we both had a thing for cigars.

Jim Quinn was actually the original pioneer of the saying that "liberalism is a mental disorder, and that liberalism always creates the exact opposite of its stated intent" and went on with what he called his set of "Quinn's Laws" to illustrate proof of everything he said. What I found interesting here was that here was a guy as progressive and liberal as they came, yet, after getting burned by his own leftist policies, he inevitably ended up thinking the very same ideals as any other hardcore dyed-in-the-wool conservative, once and for all proving that conservatism is the natural, normal state of one's mental being.

Freed of the imposed constant liberal influences, as is typical of the left in big cities, or jarred from them by social trauma, as in Quinn's case, mankind's natural state of being is conservatism.

He carried on for many years after that spreading and making the case for conservative ideals with his Quinn In The Morning show, the Quinn and Rose show (based on his affiliation with his producer), and his own version of The War Room, not to mention streaming on Sirius XM, bashing progressivism 3 hours a day 5 days a week. For years under Clear Channel radio, his program aired right alongside Rush's. Jim Quinn passed away today at the age of 82. He will be missed.

Jim Quinn - Wikipedia

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Quinn during his early liberal days and later during his conservative days.

 

[toobfreak]

QUINN'S LAWS:

QUINNs FIRST LAW: Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.

QUINN’S SECOND LAW: Liberals never understand that what they’re doing is wrong, only that they haven’t been allowed to do enough of it yet.

3 We believe the solution to the human condition is Liberty. Three hundred years of the most successful country the globe has ever seen is proof enough. No government program created this country, free people created this country.

4 America is not an Imperialist nation despite what your professors tell you. We are not shoving our way of life down anyones throats, we are shoving freedom down the throats of tyrants so other people can chose their own way of life. That is the answer to the question What is the role of the worlds only superpower?

5 Marxism is the greatest threat to human freedom and growth. It has never worked anywhere it has been tried, but it is still taught in every college. Its time to drain the swamp of these 1960s reprobates and charge them with selling a defective product. UPDATE: RADICAL ISLAM NOW JOINS MARXISM, AND LIBERALS ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO ENABLE IT. NOW THE MSA IS ON EVERY COLLEGE CAMPUS AND LIBERALS ARE FALLING ALL OVER THEMSELVES TO KOWTOW TO IT. ISLAM’S STATED GOAL IS TO DESTROY WESTERN CIVILIZATION. THAT IS WHY THE LEFT IS WILLING TO OVERLOOK ISLAM’S TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND GAYS.

6 America is not the world largest polluter because a) carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, it is plant food. b) In terms of wealth versus tons of pollution we are the cleanest country on earth because we are free and have the disposable income to clean up after our selves; something the vaunted Soviet block never had.

7 The environmental movement uses the environment and animal species as an excuse for putting the means of production (the land) off limits to the American citizen. Putting the means of production off limits to the citizen is the definition of communism.

8 We have a highly progressive income tax. The tax code rewards bad choices and punishes good ones. Russia has moved to a 13% flat tax. So we have Karl Marx’s tax system and Russia has Steve Forbes’. If you don’t see a problem here, you are probably a registered democrat.

9 Abortion is the Sacrament of the Feminist Church. It is the ultimate celebration of the separation of a woman from her nature. Feminists like this and will go to any lengths to protect this so-called right. There is no abortion argument that is not rooted in feminist rage, personal inconvenience, or self loathing.

10 The fundamental difference between Liberals and Conservatives is Liberals see every new life as a potential problem and a burden. Conservatives see every new life as a potential source of creativity and wealth. Allow me to elaborate: When your view of your responsibility to your fellow citizen is to take care of them through government planning and government force, every new person born becomes another mouth to feed another person to educate another burden on the states resources. If you are a liberal you believe that resources are limited and there is only so much to go around. You see government policy as the arbiter of who gets what. A conservative understands that new wealth is created every time human creativity acts on a resource and is unlimited. As the Zero Population movement shows, liberals have no sense of the value of human capital. To a conservative, life is a blessing. To a liberal life is a curse. (Does this clarify their love of abortion, euthanasia, and Single Payer?))

11 There is no conclusive evidence that humans have caused global warming. It is the hoax of the century, and it makes a lot of people a lot of grant money. It also makes a convenient excuse for putting a global governor on capitalism to make the world fair for dictators and socialist welfare states, and make the looters very rich. Every claim of settled science the warmists make is based on computer models that do not work. The approaching Solar Minimum and it’s impact on humans IS settled science but the warmists ignore it.

12 No-one had ever died trying to paddle a rubber boat from Miami to Cuba. If America is as bad as the left maintains why would anybody risk their life to come here? And why don’t THEY leave?

13 Racial profiling is what groups pejoratively call an act of common sense when they have a problem that they don’t want to talk about. This conveniently puts the onus on you and not the perps.

14 To a Conservative adversity is indistinguishable from opportunity.

15 The United Nations is an expensive farce that allows tyrants to park illegally and pretend that they are legitimate World Statesmen. They are not, they are thugs in $4000.00 suits who see America as the biggest threat to the world (eg: threat to THEIR utopian plans to control everything).

16 Islam is a global mental illness. It is a sickness, it is a cancer and it is evil. If Islam disappeared tomorrow from the earth. 90% of all blood shed would end over night. Islam has been doing what it’s doing since before there was an Israel or a USA. So much for the argument that WE are why they’re so upset.

17 There is such a thing as Evil, and you cannot negotiate with it.

18 Common sense and government are mutually exclusive. Government is what you do when youve decided that you can’t trust the citizen to use their common sense. So, when you, as an elitist and one of our betters notices that not all of us out here are perfect, and not all of us make the right judgments about everything all the time, you then impose your bureaucratic rules upon us and we can’t use our common sense any more. Don’t ever let a politician tell you that he is going to bring common sense to government. The only way to bring common sense to government is to get rid of government and allow people to use their common sense. Another word for this is liberty.

19 Reaganomics is the only economics that works. Lowering tax rates increases wealth to everyone, including the government because there is no limit to wealth. New wealth is created where wealth did not exist before when a human acts on a resource and humans can only do that when they are free. (see: Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and Palestine) Taxes are restrictions on freedom.

20 The Second Amendment [to the US constitution] is the essential counterbalance to the fearsome power of lawmaking, and it means exactly what it says. [A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.] If you are a lawmaker and this amendment makes you nervous, good it is supposed to. As long as you stay nervous you have nothing to fear. See how that works?

21 In our Republic, God is a necessary legal concept. This is not a Democracy, it is a Representative Constitutional Republic and there is a big difference. In case you are wondering why so many of the Socialists out there want God out of everything in our public life there is a real utilitarian reason for this. It is not just that the idea of God makes them uncomfortable personally. God is a major speed bump on their super highway to their super state. Why? Because our founding documents set forth that our rights as humans pre-date the government of men, those rights cannot be abridged. They come from God and are inalienable. Drive God out of the mix and rights will flow from government. Once that happens government will cancel those rights, abridge those rights and invent new rights that burden other Americans in exchange for votes and power. Whether God exists or not he is necessary for the maintenance of freedom.

22 There is no such thing as the separation of church and state. That is a trick to intimidate people of faith. The founders feared a Church of the United States, not a manger scene outside the courthouse or red and green cookies in school. In using this canard as a tool to drive all God centered religion out of public life, the secular humanist actually establishes an official state religion. That religion is Atheism. The left has turned the 1st amendment on it’s head; from a benevolent tolerance of all religions, to a nit picky hostility toward any religion. And by the way; what ever happened to the rest of the First Amendment where it says, “or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”? I can’t find the part about ‘except on public property’.

23 Illegal immigration is not immigration or migration. It is an invasion promoted by foreign governments and welcomed by the left to increase votes and import a necessary poverty class of dependent democrat voters. GOP wants them for cheap labor. Every country on earth enforces their borders and nobody complains. When we do, we are mean spirited haters. America was built on immigrants they tell us, to shame us away from enforcing our laws. Truth is, we didn’t take in any immigrants for the 40 years leading up to 1965 and Ted Kennedy’s “third worlding of America” immigration reform. We had decided we had taken in enough immigrants and it was time for them to assimilate before we took in any more. Common sense.

 

[toobfreak]

Quinn's Rules of War:​

a. War is the only effective means for defeating evil.

b. In war there is no such thing as excessive force.

c. Using only the amount of force necessary to win, insures that you will lose.

d. The U.N. does not prevent war. It prevents war from working by stopping it before there is a definitive result. (see: Korea, Israel, Lebanon) In doing so it invalidates the sacrifices of blood and treasure and insures that war will continue indefinitely. (see Quinn’s First Law)

e. We ignore the wisdom of Sun Tzu at our peril.

IT’S NO COINCIDENCE THAT THE TWO LEADING VOICES OF THE LEFT ARE BOTH LINGUISTICS PROFESSORS.

Liberals understand that in order to transform culture you need to transform the meanings of words. Words are the way that we understand our reality. Control language and you control reality. Example: You cannot legalize gay marriage because there is no such thing. Its like legalizing the square wheel. There is no such thing as that either. Marriage as a concept was created so as to give a name to an arrangement between a man and woman that has the potential to create the lives of the next generation of citizens. If sex between a man and a woman didn’t create the next generation of citizens there would be no need for a word to describe their relationship since civilization would have no interest in it. We would just hook up with each other and when we got bored move on. Gay activists understand this and it explains the headlong plunge into gay adoption as an attempt to legitimize the oxymoron, Gay Marriage. THE INSISTANCE THAT A LEGALIZED GAY UNION BE CALLED MARRIAGE IS BECAUSE MARRIAGE ALSO HAS A SPIRITUAL COMPONANT, THAT WORD OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CHURCH AND THE INEVITABLE CHANGES THAT WILL BE FORCED UPON IT’S TEACHINGS. (SEE: CANADA) Now you see how the changing of the clear meaning of the word marriage was essential to advance their agenda. Once a word can mean anything, it means nothing.

WHITE PRIVILEGE

White privilege is a mythical advantage attributed by the Left to white people to explain away the failure of their social and economic policies to lift blacks out of poverty, and to distract from the destruction of the black community and black family as a result of them. (It all would have worked if it hadn’t been for white privilege, get it?)

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Social justice is an invention of the Left to permit them to abandon equal justice under the law in order to benefit one group and punish another based on whatever social or economic wound is claimed by each group. Basically it’s racism, sexism, and classism that liberals are ok with. Justice needs no modifier. If it has one, it isn’t justice.

The problem with the Civil Rights Movement is that it wasn’t black American’s civil rights that were being violated. It was their constitutional rights that were being violated. By introducing the concept of civil rights, the door was opened to rights (and punishments) granted and meted out by men. This facilitated the fracturing of our public life into group identity politics. Each group issues a series of demands, and labels them “civil rights”. If you take issue with their demands, you are against their “civil rights” and therefore a bigot which renders your opinion invalid. (See: North Carolina bathroom law)

America’s greatness descends from the concept that the organizing principle of a free country is the individual acting in his own self interest. This is anathema to the ruling classes because it removes them from power.

 

[JGalt]

This should be the thread of the year.

 

[MayorQuimby]

OP is actually not a lefty? Dang, why did he act like such an inimical little bitch in my thread? Now I am torn between wanting to give him a thanks and to abuse him some more.