Posted on 01/12/2004 3:45:58 PM PST by Federalist 78
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:38:18 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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In 1990 Clayton Williams was the Republican candidate for governor in the state of Texas. He was locked in a tight race with Democrat Ann Richards but seemed to be gaining momentum in the final weeks of the campaign. Then it happened. The brash millionaire opened his mouth and inserted his foot up all the way up to his knee.
Hoping to curry favor with the press, Williams invited several reporters for some informal "off the record" time at his ranch. In casual conversation, the subject of the weather came up. Williams could not resist the temptation to play meteorologist and commented that bad weather is sort of like rape: "as long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
Compare the goals of Free Republic to The Bush Record and then to anyone of these:
Working within the party to promote change is constructive.
Conservative Battleline Online To Speak For Limited Government Conservatives Against Big Government Right
Alexandria, VA - Donald Devine, a vice chairman of the American Conservative Union Foundation, announced the publication of a new online conservative journal of opinion to be called ConservativeBattleline, located at conservativebattleline.com.
Current features include: the Republican Party as the new welfare state party, the limits of the Bush plans for democracy in Iraq, the culture wars, the GOP sell out on Medicare and critiques of National Review, The Weekly Standard and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
"The $7 trillion unfunded liability of the new Medicare prescription drug bill created by a Republican Congress and signed by President George Bush this week is the straw that breaks the camel's back, as it is the largest expansion of non-defense discretionary spending since the Great Society. We are forced to act," Devine explained. "I had written a memo to conservative leaders six months ago explaining the drift of the GOP and the need for an independent voice but hesitated to make the break. But we are forced to act or see limited government conservatism become irrelevant. So we are now going forward with the magazine."
"The vote on the massive drug entitlement had one beneficial effect. It helped us sort the sheep from the goats. While only nine Senators and 25 House member stood firm for principle, these few did make their stand and we owe them our support, especially in the face of the threats from Congressional leaders and the White House staff. But the fact that so few did muster the courage of their convictions makes a revitalization of limited government conservatism essential from our point of view. Forty-two conservative activist groups and virtually all think tanks also stood for principle on this terrible bill--and they also deserve a new voice not tied to the defeatist tone of so much of mainstream 'conservative' journalism. ConservativeBattleline will speak for them too.
"ConservativeBattleline recreates online the original publication of the American Conservative Union. It will be housed at the ACU Foundation but it will be an independent voice. ACUF and its board of directors will not be responsible for its content, which will be my responsibility alone, as editor of the new journal. David A. Keene will be publisher. Contributions will be solicited from the conservative community at large.
"Revitalizing limited government conservatism will be a long term undertaking but it might as well start now, right here in the first edition of ConservativeBattleline Online," Devine concluded.
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This is why I wouldn't mind terribly if the Democrats gained control of one house of Congress. Gridlock is often good, or at least not bad.
That was my hope, but I'm having doubts that it's possible.
This horse race will be decided on the folks that defect.
My vote is my vote; you and the GOP must earn it. I vote for the Constitution, not for whatever socialist is masquerading as a Republican.
Working within the party to promote change is constructive.
We HAVE worked within the party since the so-called "Republican Revolution" of 1994. Might as well conversate with a brick wall - The GOP continues to turn its back on the grass-roots and conservatives. Bad move, learn from history - we, not "moderates", "centrists", or whatever catch-phrase you want to call liberal Republicans -are the base.
I'll see what Bush has to offer in his SOTU address. If it's more of the same "compassionate conservatism" crap, my vote's going to the Constitution Party.
local outbreak of Bot-ulism
LOL!
Is it curable?
Really I thought it was ONLY the fringe freepers that noticed!
PS Who else can we vote for? Dean? Clark, Hillary?
The repubs have us bent over and they know it! Electoral college prohibits a successful third party.
It's our only hope. Third parties haven't succeeded in this country ever in the modern era, and even during much of the pre-modern era.
At best, they get the opposition elected.
They're like bratty kids who cry just to get attention.
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