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
Sorry for the delay in responding to you.
No, I have no bias against southern interests, perhaps you could fairly say I am not proud of the darker side of it's past. My family is from the south for several generations on both sides. I know what it was. I know what it is. I prefer the progress it has made.
Me too.
That was my point.
And between you, me, and the fencepost.... it's clear that you've adopted a policy of voting republican (and unfailingly promoting same) as the best vehicle of preventing socialist encroachment.
I (and others) happen to think that isn't working so well. (as I'm sure you're aware)
If you want to adopt a policy of "no dissent whatsoever" as what's best for your website, that's obviously your choice. It is after all, your website. But that doesn't seem to be what you are doing as far as I can tell. (as evidenced by the fact that I'm still here).
But you may want to tell that to the cadre of butt-smoochers who come running out from behind the folds of your coat to lob grenades at anti-big-government folks who hold an opinion different from yours.
Honestly Jim, it comes across as childish nonsense.
Wooohooo!
Five leftists join, for every conservative lost.
What a policy.
Maybe if you keep at it.. you'll have Kennedy and Lieberman wearing elephant jewelry soon.
Keep hope alive.
That only proves the point I've been making all along, they're Democrats in sheep's clothing.
"Bush lost because he ran a horrible campaign, and neglected to identify Clinton as a leftist."
Or, Perot supporters failed to see the obvious, as those who think getting Kerry, or Edwards, elected are failing to see the obvious.
That's right, your (and those others) tactic of losing elections to Democrats works much better, as witnessed by the tremendous gains in stopping the advance of socialism during the eight years of Bill Clinton that came about as a result of voting for someone other than a Republican.
"Honestly Jim, it comes across as childish nonsense."
Poppycock!
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Post #680 did nothing of the sort, did it Jim and Mike? You both know what it said. The poster is not a 'Bush Basher', is he?
What's the DU mantra?
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