Posted on 10/20/2003 4:53:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 10/20/2003 8:39:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I was before I found FR, but not anymore.
NOTE - See "head exploding" in previous posts.
How does this not encourage greater unaccountability?
Nope, but then practically anything is "possible". I certainly would never ever vote for an athiest.
Welcome aboard!!!!!!
Dang them all to heck.
Together, we will fight the brown-nosing vermin that seek to subvert our way of life, our VERY EXISTENCE!
Curmudgeon...?
Awwwww... I was going for "chick magnet".
Thanks for that excellent post.
You are the man.
Agree. Absolutely. It would be a step in the right direction. Then it would be on to the next step and the next step, to a truly conservative government.
Cool! I like being right - I'm married, so it doesn't happen very often ;0)
in fact, we are making very good in-roads in my district. (At least locally.)
I met the councilman you helped elect - seems like a good guy - even if the state party didn't support him...
Don't count on help from the State GOP, though. However, FReeper help - DEFINITELY!
Working on that ;0)
So, you think getting in front of a camera is the same as getting quoted in print, being put on the front page or being broadcast on TV and radio?
A dozen NOW members drive their Jaguar to a "rally", get out and carry signs for 10 minutes and then get back in their car and drive off. This makes front page coverage and is the lead off on the evening news. Right to Lifers get one million people on the mall, year after year and there is not one mention of it anywhere. The pub problem is not saying the right thing, it's getting birkenstock lefties in the media to report it without spin or derision.
That said, I must continue to evaluate whether their overall goal is to completely do away with the U.S. Constitution and install totalitarian rule. However, many of their tactics are indeed borrowed from the MOs of Soviet-style cells. I remain open to argument.
However, I see the Clintons as motivated more by power and less by ideology except as a means toward the end personally dominating the Democrat Party and by extension American politics. In my judgment, the Clintons are very dangerous to democracy.
In a shrewd calculus, the Clintons count more voters who are willing to assume class/race/gender victimhood and take from the nation's largesse than those voters who would give. We've come a long way since JFK's "Ask Not" speech.
But I see the Clintons as more pragmatic, willing to compromise principles, able to take any and all positions (even if their triangulations are contradictory), and assume any "facts" that might advance themselves. They are experienced in attacking/neutralizing/destroying all who might stand in their way. And they have the unsavory connections to enforce their way.
In the Clintons we have an excellent example of power corrupting. Power is the magnet that attracts cash. Cash strokes their egos, confirms their self-worth, ratifies their politics, and helps win elections -- as do promises of influence, appointments, contracts, retribution, and -- for the party faithful, gullible and apathetic -- promises to promote traditional Democratic values and handouts.
In the final analysis, the Clintons' overall goals are irrevelant. They are dangerous and must be opposed. Your internet website provides an invaluable forum to exchange opinions, to share and debate political and cultural ideas, to alert and unify participants, and to utilize an effective working instrument for protecting against the erosion of our Constitutional rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. In that spirit, I shall write you a check tonight and encourage others to join me.
Well put!
Keep your tools handy. I'll hold back some coal for the forge.
Yeah, the Libertarian moral-liberal agenda is despicable, as usual.
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