Conservatives Contemplate Electoral Hari-kiri

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[William McKinley]

Custervatives?

[William McKinley]

Democrats will use that KY Jelly

No, the Dems will do it to us sans the lube.

[William McKinley]

Primary Numbers

[OldFriend]

Yesterday Sean Hannity was speaking with George Will.

Sean spewed out his usual criticisms of the President's policies. Too much spending, medicare prescriptions, blah blah blah, education bill, more blah blah blah and then concluded with how important it will be to re-elect the President.

With friends like Sean and certain others, who needs enemies. We are doing the job for the media and the america haters.

[OldFriend]

More FOFLOL

[WhiteGuy]

"the reason they are going to have to look overseas is because Democrats in Congress have so regulated American companies that the cost of doing business has risen."

What have the republicans done to solve this problem?

[prairiebreeze]

You're going to need a lot of that if Kerry and the RATS get elected off the "principles" of the teach-Bush-a-lesson conservatives.

Better order a truck load.

Prairie

[mathluv]

I have seen the numbers ---- on Fox.

[wgeorge2001]

I remember a President named Ronald Reagan who did not try to make the left wing part of the right wing under the foolish big tent philosophy, rather, he was a straight shooter who tried to do what was right and good and just for the people and vetoed or signed legislation as he saw fit for the continuance of a just society. He may have been the best President in my lifetime and when George Bush was elected , I was hoping he might do likewise. He didn't and is a panderer to the left and they take advantage of his foolishness and then kick him in the butt. You would think he would learn but now I believe he won't. As a Christian conservative, I and the brethren know exactly what we have to lose and what we have to gain and we do stand on the the issues that are important for peace for all of us.
We shouldn't have to put a cloths pin on our nose when we vote and we should have a right wing president who is loyal to truth, justice and the right way for all people and not just another politician. Lately, America is being destroyed by neo communist liberals who love anarchy and are alway's lying to further their agenda, who will protect us from these monsters? George Bush? I don't know.

[harbingr]

'Heck, I don't even agree 100% with myself half the time; I sure don't expect to agree 100% with the President. But I know that 90% or even less is a whole lot better than 0%, which is my level of agreement with any Dem.'...

Here it Is:...

'Why Is Bush Perpetuating Clinton Policies? - May 21, 2003

by Phylis Schafly

Why is President George W. Bush continuing policies that were initiated by Bill Clinton? The voters elected Bush to change obnoxious Clinton policies, and they don't understand why Bush is keeping the following seven in force.
One example is the Clinton Administration's abolition of the Army's "Risk Rule," which had exempted women in support units from areas that involve "inherent risk of capture." That policy change, ordered by the Clinton feminists, is the reason why a single mother of two very young children was killed in the Iraq war and another single mother of a two-year-old was taken as a POW.
When asked if this sending-moms-to-war policy might be changed, Bush said at his news conference, "That's going to be up to the generals." When Ari Fleischer fielded the follow-up questions, he accused the reporter of "dealing with a hypothetical."
But Jessica, Lori and Shoshana are not hypotheticals. They, and Shoshana's 2-year-old baby and Lori's three- and four-year-olds, are all victims of a Clinton policy that Bush could change with a stroke of his pen. But, according to Fleischer, this hasn't risen "to a higher policy level."
What's a higher policy level than defending mothers of infants against being killed or captured by the axis of evil? Keeping faith with a shameful Clinton policy? Fear of the frightful feminists who applaud our government giving Jessica, Lori and Shoshana their career opportunities on the battlefield, and who assert that mothers are fully deployable a few months after giving birth?
Why doesn't Bush terminate other Clinton rules that impose the feminist agenda on the military, such as coed basic training? The Army Training Command admitted that coed basic training, which is gender- normed to reduce female injuries, is "not efficient" and of no military value. That gave Bush a great chance to liberate the Army from Clinton's foolish policy. Without presidential leadership, the generals are certainly not going to act on their own.
Nor, without a presidential decision, will the generals overturn Clinton's convoluted "don't ask, don't tell" enforcement regulations, which a federal Court of Appeals found to be inconsistent with the 1993 law banning homosexuals from the military.
The feminists in the Clinton Department of Education engaged in aggressive enforcement of Title IX, using bureaucratically invented words and rules that were not authorized by the statute. They used Title IX to punish men by forcing colleges to abolish 171 wrestling teams and hundreds of men's teams in gymnastics, swimming, golf and even football.
President Bush appointed a commission to study the distortions of Title IX, but he foolishly gave some of the commission seats to feminists, and they used the media to grandstand for their side of the controversy. Secretary of Education Rod Paige then announced he would not implement any changes that were not unanimously recommended, so Clinton's anti-male policies about college athletics will continue under Bush.
The Clinton Administration persuaded Congress to pass a ban on semi-automatic assault rifles in 1994, and the ban will sunset next year. Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to continue the ban and, to the shock of the National Rifle Association, Bush announced that he supports the Democrats' bill.
President Bush seems to have forgotten that his steadfast support of Second Amendment rights was the main reason he carried the Democratic states of Arkansas, Tennessee and West Virginia in November 2000. If he had lost any one of those, Al Gore would be president.
Then there is the matter of Clinton sending U.S. troops to Bosnia and its relation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty which Clinton's emissaries enthusiastically helped to write and Clinton signed as one of his last official acts. Bush had a wonderful opportunity to withdraw our troops from Bosnia when the ICC impudently asserted jurisdiction over Americans even though Bush had "unsigned" the ICC Treaty.
For a brief few days, Bush stood tall for the protection of American service personnel by threatening to pull our troops out of Bosnia unless the United Nations promised us immunity from the ICC. But then he wobbled, accepting a lame compromise that left the U.S. with the almost impossible task of trying to negotiate separate immunity agreements with the 139 ICC countries, while at the same time keeping our troops on duty in Bosnia as a fig leaf to cover the ethnic hostility that is still as bitter and dangerous as ever.
Another Clinton policy, Executive Order 13166, requires all government agencies, and all entities receiving federal funds (such as doctors and hospitals), to provide their services in any foreign language demanded by a client. The perfect opportunity to rescind this costly unfunded mandate was served up when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled two years ago that no one has a right to demand government services in languages other than English.
But President Bush chose to continue Clinton's pandering to non- English speaking minorities. Regrettably, Bush breathed new life into Clinton's EO 13166 with all its follies and costs.
We're still hoping for a repudiation these Clinton policies.
Phyllis Schlafly is the author of "Feminist Fantasies" (Spence Pub. Co., 2003)

Hmmm,...must be that ivy league 'Efite Elitism'...gets them RINOs every tyme, parsley & sage...hey, wake-up GWB!, the Party's Over...time to get Conservative!

(uh,...skully & bonesy said i wouldn't haf t'worry 'bout conservatism...isnt that like roomatism?)

[mathluv]

They have cut taxes. Dubya cancelled clintoons ergonomic EO.

[Walkin Man]

They are wearing blinders that only allow them to focus on one issue.

The person(s) with the blinders on is George Bush and the Republican party.

I have to laugh (bitterly) at the fools who say that we former GW supporters are just focusing on one or two little issues that aren't important.

If I have a job tomorrow whose wages are enough for me to pay my bills, that is damn important to me and my family!

If I keep this job or it goes to a slave labor camp in Red China or a PhD in India that makes 20 grand a year, it matters to me!

If President Bush's amnesty plan goes into effect and my company decides to cut my wages and benefits in half so my job becomes a "job no American wants" and former illegals are brought in to take over, it matters to me!

If my kids have a reason to go to college with the expectation of learning a profession that will ensure a decent, better than average life, that also matters!

The Republican party is so enslaved to big business interests that it is sickening. I'm sure every free traitor, Wall Street hustler and greedy CEO scumball in the country will vote for GW. And apparently that is the one and only interest group that President Bush and the GOP care about.

I have heard many Republicans on this board say that Mr. Bush doesn't need my vote and that is fine with me.

Seeing as how GW won the first time in such a huge landslide, /sarcasm go right ahead GOP, Rove, and GW, keep kicking working white and blue collar people in the nads and you will get what you deserve on election day!

Just tell me one more time how great it is when my middle class job gets outsourced or off-shored so some filthy rich CEO can buy three or four new mansions and I end up as a door greeter at the Great Wall-mart!

Yeah that ought to do it!

At least with a demoRat president the GOP would fight against their one world, socialist, liberal policies, unlike now when their own President leads them by the nose down the same leftest path.

[P.O.E.]

Say it ain't so!

[eeriegeno]

Conservatives Contemplate Electoral Hari-kiri

Shouldn't that be 'hairy kerry'???????????

[Cronos]

Good post. Re-elect Bush and he'll tear down those Dim barriers to business. This will boos tour economy even further.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

THE CUSTER CONSERVATIVES

"... because, other than the War on Terror: Bush ain't done nothin'!"

"... because other than the War on Terror, and cutting income taxes: Bush ain't done nothin'!"

"... because other than the War on Terror, cutting income taxes and helping to make the Partial Birth Abortion Ban possible: Bush ain't done nothin'!"

"... because other than the War on Terror, cutting income taxes, helping to make the Partial Birth Abortion Ban possible and standing up to the aggressive pro-gay, anti-family lobby: Bush ain't done nothin'!"

"... because other than the War on Terror, cutting income taxes, helping to make the Partial Birth Abortion Ban possible, standing up to the aggressive pro-gay lobby and recess appointing conservative jurists to the federal courts: Bush ain't done nothin'!"

"Don't confuse me with the facts! I'M PRINCIPLED, DAMMIT!"

[HostileTerritory]

"Vote for Bush in 2004." Am I right?

[anniegetyourgun]

More like cussed (adjective) conservatives.

[Heatseeker]

Looks like I'm the one who stands corrected. :)

[reformedliberal]

I agree, but they aren't all that sneaky about it. I have banned Savage from my radio.

I have argued a lot w/the true conservtives (tm), here. I have noticed, however, that many of them will do the right thing and are, as said above: venting. I have decided that at least 10% of those posting to FR as true conservatives (tm) are really leftists trying to divide us.

If any of the trolls are reading this: I know a lot of former Gore and Nader voters who are working for the Bush-Cheney re-election and have voted Republican in 2002 and will continue in 2004 and probably 2008.