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Watercooler 05/27/17 Open Thread: Last Week, RedState

posted onMay 28, 2017
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Article snippet: tonysc //&nbsp Posted at 4:00 pm on May 27, 2017 by tonysc Welcome to today’s edition of Watercooler: Last Week, RedState.   This WC is all about Posts, Reader’s Diaries, and comments at RedState Hot Topics Last Week: Last week was a busy one for me and I have had little opportunity to catalog the posts of Last Week at RedState but one notable post was this one by Representative Mark Meadows who graced the RedState Front Page with a post: The Importance of Distinguishing Between Media Perception and Reality Recurring Topics at RS: This piece by Jay plays to the conservative movement’s equivalent of a Search for Bobby Fisher sort of angst: The Conservative Movement Needs a Real Leader: Ben Sasse Fits the Bill   For those of us that were around RedState during the primaries and elections last year, and way before that, the search for a leader of the conservative, pro-Constitution, movement is not, well, gentle on our minds but, an ever-present, angst that gnaws at our souls so we believe that somebody, anybody, needs to save us. Laocoon and other have pointed out that leaders emerge during the right conditions that include fields of operations with enemies, enemies that provide those leaders with the boundaries and challenges required in to operate within a game.   Another way of putting the search for a savior is that we are trying to pick our champions but in focusing on those champions we are ignoring the totality of the game they’re immersed in and, conseq... Link to the full article to read more

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