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I’m Tired of Neo-Cons Being Tired of Conservatives (Rant alert)
Aw, Shucks southern News and Links ^ | 29 January 2004 | Jeff Adams

Posted on 02/02/2004 6:32:01 AM PST by robowombat

I’m Tired of Neo-Cons Being Tired of Conservatives

Okay, so George Bush has shown that his ‘compassionate conservatism’ is really socialism with conservative lip service. Bush has proven that he is a liberal with a thin veneer of faux conservatism covering the big-government, big-spending core of his true self. So what? As ‘good conservatives’ we should ‘remain focused’ and pull that Republican lever in the voting booth no matter what our lying eyes tell us? That is what establishment Republicans want their conservative base to do: “Sit down, shut up, and vote as we, the enlightened, anointed insiders tell you to.” Mind you, they don’t want you, the conservatives, the citizens that have remained true to the American Ideals of the founders, to think about how they are using you and are selling you down the river to special interest groups. The neo-cons that control the Republican Party today are hoping that rank and file conservatives will mindlessly vote for Bush, keeping their heads in the sand, until it’s too late and they’ve developed a new constituency to keep them in power. That new constituency will consist of newly married Log Cabin Republicans (gays), welfare dependents sucking up to the new government tit on the right, and amnestied illegals now eligible to vote (as well as more readily able to take your job because they’ll work for less, especially since you’re being taxed to pay their government supplementals that maintain their standard of living).

Establishment Republicans are coming out and trying to silence the uproar over Bush’s amnesty plan for illegals. The establishment types (neo-cons) are telling conservatives to keep it down and ‘look at the long view, the big picture.’ What crap! How many times do conservatives have to compromise their values, their beliefs, their standards? Why do we always have to give in but we don’t see anyone else giving in?

The latest in the string of ‘keep your mouths shut’ articles I’ve seen was on GOPUSA, by the president and CEO of that organization, Bobby Eberle. The title of his article was ‘Bush-Bashing Conservatives Should Focus on the Big Picture.’ I wrote Mr. Eberle to inform him that conservatives were keeping the big picture, that it was Bush who wasn’t. To me, Eberle’s article, along with all the other ‘hey conservatives, keep quiet about how Bush isn’t conservative’ articles are proof that conservatives and traditionalists are the embarrassing, if needed, stepchildren of the Republican Party. That in itself tells you the Republican Party is not conservative any more.

Given a laundry list of items, would any principled conservative vote for someone who: Continuously increases government spending, driving us deeper into debt; expands central government power over the states; undermines the Bill of Rights with bills such as the USA Patriot Act; cuts deals with other countries that undermine our economy via so-called free trade deals that only go one way (only out with our jobs and only in with products); wants to give millions of criminals (illegal aliens) a pass, thus not only blurring our boarder, but driving wages down and encouraging even more illegals to flood our markets in hopes of yet another amnesty a few years down the road? This is George Bush. He is no conservative. Why vote for a liberal in Republican clothing?

There was a political shift over the last twenty years in the South, as Southerners woke up to the fact that the Democratic Party had been taken over by socialists and no longer represented their interests, thus causing the huge migration to the ‘Party of Reagan.’ Southerners, and other conservatives and traditionalists, need to wake up to the fact that the Republican Party is morphing into merely an evil twin of the Democratic Party, and they need to migrate to another political entity. It could even happen this election year. The key is not which party conservatives and traditionalists are with, but that they stand by their ideals, stand on principle. The neo-cons have already shown that conservatives don’t have a seat at the table in the Republican Party, so why cast our lot with them?

Here’s something else to consider: Even if the House of Representatives kill this amnesty plan of Bush’s, and the establishment Republicans wink at conservatives and traditionalists saying, “Hey, we knew it wouldn’t pass, we just wanted to influence Hispanic votes by acting like we care,” don’t buy it. If the plan goes down to defeat this summer, once Bush gets re-elected in November you can bet it will be back with a vengeance, and the House and Senate will pass the amnesty plan. Nothing in the past 10 years, since the ‘Republican Revolution,’ shows me that the Republicans are conservative or mean anything they say concerning supporting conservative positions. No, there won’t be a socialist getting my vote this year, be he Democrat or be he Republican. As for me, I’ll be voting conservative, which means most likely the Constitution Party. I’m not throwing my vote away; Bush threw it away with everything he and the neo-cons have done for the last four years.

29 January 2004

Jeff Adams


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1 posted on 02/02/2004 6:32:05 AM PST by robowombat
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To: robowombat
But it's for the children!
2 posted on 02/02/2004 6:37:46 AM PST by VU4G10 (Have You Forgotten?)
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To: robowombat
Bush wouldn't sign Koyoto.

Bush wouldn't go for the Rights of the Child treaty.

Bush wouldn't agree to the women's rights treaty.

Bush has kept us out of the world court.

Say what you will about GW, he has (at least) kept our nation sovereign. Would Al Gore have done the same?

No, the republicans aren't as bad as the dems... yet.

3 posted on 02/02/2004 6:42:36 AM PST by Marie (My coffee cup is way too small to deal with this day.)
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To: robowombat
Jeff Adams should just vote for a Democrat, it's the same result
4 posted on 02/02/2004 6:45:01 AM PST by MJY1288 (VOTE CONSTITUTION PARTY IF YOU WANT A DEMOCRAT)
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To: Marie
Say what you will about GW, he has (at least) kept our nation sovereign.

When hundreds of thousands of illegals per year can cross our borders with impunity, our sovereignty is at risk.

5 posted on 02/02/2004 6:45:57 AM PST by kevao
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To: robowombat

You don't need to see their identification papers.

These aren't the small-government conservatives you're looking for.

Move along.

6 posted on 02/02/2004 6:48:44 AM PST by OWK
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To: shuckmaster
ping
7 posted on 02/02/2004 6:49:49 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: kevao
Millions of loyal Mexican citizens living in the United States....
8 posted on 02/02/2004 6:50:44 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: MJY1288
Jeff Adams should just vote for a Democrat, it's the same result...

As voting for Bush?

Hard to disagree.

9 posted on 02/02/2004 6:50:50 AM PST by OWK
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To: robowombat; carenot; jgrubbs; jimkress; Ricardo4CP
Bump for further review
10 posted on 02/02/2004 6:54:53 AM PST by The_Eaglet (Opportunity: http://www.peroutka2004.com)
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To: Marie
Take a good look at the front page of this website.

I was expecting the KKK to rise up out of the shadows.

http://www.shucks.net/

Don't think I would want these folks on my side. I'll just stick with the president and the people who realize he's still a better choice like Bobby Eberle.
13 posted on 02/02/2004 7:00:27 AM PST by Columbine (Bush '04 - Owens '08)
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To: Columbine
I was expecting the KKK to rise up out of the shadows.

Why?

Because the site said something you didn't like?

14 posted on 02/02/2004 7:02:41 AM PST by OWK
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To: robowombat
"I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not! But I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."
15 posted on 02/02/2004 7:06:10 AM PST by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy.)
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To: robowombat
So what's your suggestion?
16 posted on 02/02/2004 7:06:39 AM PST by Jack Black
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To: OWK
If you mean I belong to the open and full immigration Libertinian Party, you are wrong. By the way, your personal attack which defrauds the forum you are squatting on has been noted.
17 posted on 02/02/2004 7:09:34 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
By the way, your personal attack which defrauds the forum you are squatting on has been noted.

By the way, your personal attack which defrauds the forum you are squatting on has been PULLED.

(LOL)

18 posted on 02/02/2004 7:10:39 AM PST by OWK
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To: Marie
No, the republicans aren't as bad as the dems... yet.

The tired, worn out -'they're bad but not as bad' - "lesser of two evils" plea from the Republican(?) apologists. As long as you keep saying that and keep voting for them they will be (and are) just as bad sooner than you think, then it's too late.

19 posted on 02/02/2004 7:14:42 AM PST by lewislynn
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To: Jack Black
So what's your suggestion?

How about a little accountability?

20 posted on 02/02/2004 7:16:58 AM PST by OWK
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