I know a lot of republicans and not one single one is a "coward". Why doesn't Tony just shut up?
Sorry. This was posted on Saturday by by governsleastgovernsbest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533292/posts
My congresscritter is the worst kind of republican. Check out Patrick Mchenry. Hopefully a onetermer before he can get to dug in.
There aren't Republicans or Democrats anymore. There are just people who have decided to make politics a career. Therefore they must appease as many people as possible. And that means giving them money that they didn't earn.
The only difference you can make between the two parties is that at least the Reps will give us a tax break. That causes economic growth and more revenue for the government. And hopefully, that will hold off the impending economic disaster that surely must come from an $8.1 Trillion debt.
I hope I'm dead before I see the end result. Clearly no one in Washington has any intention of fiscal conservatism anymore. When George Bush goes on TV and pledges $200 billion to New Orleans and then tells everyone that the reason those people are poor is because of racism, conservatism in Washington is clearly dead.
Republicans today are mirroring the Whig Party of yesteryear; Democrats the Federalists (with a lot of kooky left-wing liberalism tossed in)...both parties wound up in the dust bin of history. I hope it happens again--Libertarianism forever!
Good article from Tony Snow - as always.
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To some degree, it's not even a matter of Republican moderates versus conservatives (I'm leaving the RINOs aside). It all boils down to that basic unwillingness to fight, on the part of almost everyone but a few exceptions like Henry Hyde and Tom DeLay. There may be a few politicians who are to the right of this pair, but they lack their willingness to stand up and fight in the crunch.
The Democrats know there is a war on, and never stop fighting. The Republicans, for the most part, never stop ducking, hiding, and feebly excusing themselves. Who would guess that they won the last three elections?
The conservative movement of Goldwater and Reagan is dead. Time for a new generation of leaders to infuse the GOP with vision and courage.
Bravo to Tony Snow for this article. He couldn't of expressed my feeling any better BUMP!
Bump for cowards.
Ping.
I find it more than a bit ironic that Snow rightly criticizes the GOP for the massive expansion of the Federal government that has occurred in recent years . . . and in the course of his article refers to the U.S. president who was probably more responsible for the rise of the Federal government as an uncontrollable institution than anyone save FDR.
Tony says it right. I get those questionaires in the mail asking what I think is important to the government and at the end they ask for money. I'm glad it comes with a postage free return envelope because I don't fill out the survey and I tell them exactly why I will not donate to a party who has left its' base and looks more and more like the democratic party every day.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Because I have actually sent money into the party in the past, I am daily bombarded by mailing and phone calls asking for more.
The nightly phone calls got so bad that I now use the answering machine and caller ID to screen calls. When they do catch me, I simply tell them I will send more donations when the RNC remembers why people like me voted for them in the first place.
As for the mailings, I mail them back with the same message in writing.
After this last election I am so disgusted with the Republican Party's behavior, that I may sit out the next election or change to an independent if it doesn't get its act together.
If any of you agree with this even slightly, then do like I did and send a fax to your senators and representatives. Let them know that you want them to have backbone. Emails work, but sending them a hard copy seems to have a little more punch. ;)