Posted on 11/01/2006 1:36:17 AM PST by goldstategop
Thank you, John Kerry, for reminding me and the rest of America what an evil alternative you and your party represent for this country.
I take a backseat to no one in my disgust for the failure of this president and the Republican Party in addressing some of the critical issues facing America – border security, controlled immigration, government spending, etc.
So disenchanted was I – and I'm sure I speak for millions of other Americans – that I have been less than enthusiastic about next Tuesday's election.
I asked myself:
Does it really make a difference which party governs?
Are the Republicans capable of operating within the defined constitutional limits of our republic?
Do we really have any choice in our two-party system?
While I still have grave doubts the Republicans will ever get their act together, I'm looking forward to voting next week – if, for no other reason, than to let the whole world know Americans reject John Kerry and his party that represents surrender and contempt for the U.S. military.
As I write this column, Kerry, still the titular head of the Democratic Party, is trying to spin his offensive remarks about our fighting men in Iraq.
But you heard him with your own ears. You saw him with your own eyes. No matter what he says today, you know in your hearts that he wasn't criticizing President Bush, he was demonstrating, once again, his lifelong loathing of the American soldier.
It's the very reason we know Kerry. It's the very reason we met him in 1972. It's the very reason he gained national attention. It's the very reason he was able to woo Massachusetts voters to send him to Congress. It's the very reason he was able to persuade Democratic voters to make him their presidential candidate in 2004.
He's not going to change – and neither is his party, any time soon.
What you see is what you get.
So, as for me, I will go to the polls Tuesday with a little more enthusiasm – a little more motivation – than I had last week.
I will vote to ensure the white-flag wavers don't assume power just because of Republican ineptitude.
All across the nation voters will have choices to make. I'm not advocating voting Republican across the board. Be smart. Be selective. Vote your conscience. But do express your contempt for John Kerry's party.
Around the world, our enemies are watching this election. They are eagerly awaiting a repudiation of those who have pursued them in Iraq and Afghanistan and right here in the U.S. They are hoping John Kerry's party will be swept into power and hand them the victory they could never win on the battlefield against American soldiers.
Don't give them that satisfaction. Don't hand them that victory.
Get angry about what you heard from John Kerry. Let it sink in and fester. And take your revenge the only way we can next Tuesday. Defeat Democrats running for Congress who have embraced him as their leader.
It won't solve all our problems. It won't ensure America gets its political priorities straight. But it will be a big step in the direction of defeating soundly an evil ideology in our midst here at home.
It will make us feel better.
It will make us more secure.
And, who knows, maybe it might lead to more political competition in the future that truly represents the American people and our own national security interests.
Say no to John Kerry. Write his political epitaph. Defeat the Democrats. Support our troops!
The Republican party still has millions of dollars to spend. They should take it national and hit every single district with the same message.
Reject Tom Kean and above all
You couldn't be a true conservative and be actively supporting the Dems crooked Bob Menendez.
Why are you posting here for?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"October and November the GOP does a very good job of explaining......"
We send these conservatives up to Washington, DC...do you think there are more than maybe ? 200 of them total? And we get upset when the liberals that live and work in DC, that were put there by over 60 years of socialist Democratic rule, that comprise the thousands of jobs in the Federal burocracy, won't allow them to do there jobs. So we out here in the real world get all huffy ......
Amen, Brother. Say it loud!
Kerry was for the "joke" before he was against it.
Tom Kean, Jr. will get my vote. I don't care what anyone here says. If you think I'm going to vote for the corrupt NJ machine, forget it.
Tom Kean, Jr. will help to elect good judges and that's good enough for me.
Mr. Goldstate isn't speaking for me and I will be hitting the booth here in NJ and with great happiness pull the lever for NJ's next senator, Tom Kean, Jr.
Great point!
As much as I can't stand it, GOP candidates in overwhelming Dem-lib states almost HAVE to say some things critical of Republicans in order to win.
Kean Jr., of course, went overboard when he called for Rumsfield's resignation, etc.
But when I study Menendez' rhetoric and ACTUAL voting patterns, there simply is no choice.
Kean Jr. must win. If not, American values takes another step into the pig pit.
Your post makes no sense. Reject John Kerry by voting in Menendez? NO. Reject John Kerry by voting for Tom Kean. A RINO's better than a corrupt liberal any day.
A sit at home vote is a vote for John F-ing Kerry's vision of America.
You are darn right it does!
This guy has done all he could to destroy the party and now he has changed his mind?
Show some stones..... VOTE RINO...
Call 'em!
Absolutely!
"The RINOs are an endangered species. They will probably be replaced with liberal Democrats. This will leave the GOP more conservative."
I think you may be proven correct in a few races, such as in RI and CT. But by and large, I don't see any sudden rush to embrace conservative values on the part of the GOP. Once the election cycle is over, it'll be back to business as usual: lots of rhetoric and little action.
I will say this to the GOP's credit, though. They are showing that they're capable of engaging in a political scrap.
"We send these conservatives up to Washington, DC...do you think there are more than maybe 200 of them total?"
Elected conservatives who actually walk the talk? I doubt that there are more than 100 of them total between the two parties. Now, if what you're talking about are faux conservatives who mouth the conservative line while doing the polar opposite, there are plenty of those.
"And we get upset when the liberals that live and work in DC, that were put there by over 60 years of socialist Democratic rule, that comprise the thousands of jobs in the Federal burocracy, won't allow them to do there jobs."
Politicians always seem to have an excuse for why they can't quite do what they were elected to do. The excuses wear thin when you consider that the party in question currently controls both the Federal government and most state governments. The bureaucracy works for the elected leadership, not the other way around.
Farah is such a freaking hypocrite. It was just the other day he was shrilling for a Democrat victory.
Welcome back, Joe... better late than never.
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