Posted on 01/08/2007 8:42:14 AM PST by jmaroneps37
The last election told us many things. One thing that stands out above all others is that the number of people who actually understand what is going on in our country today is frighteningly small.
A small group who “get it”
Just half of Americans are registered to vote, so right off, we know that half of America doesn’t care what happens to itself or the rest of us. They live in a different world. You know who they are so it is not necessary to expand on this point.
Of those who are registered, on a good Election Day, sixty percent vote. That means that only thirty percent of Americans are heard, and even a large percentage of them are ill informed or willfully blinding themselves, even as they cast their ballots.
Of this thirty percent, about fifty percent vote Democrat and by doing so show us they do not understand that the Democrats are a party bent on surrendering our security to our terrorist enemies. To be sure not all who vote Democrat want this result, most of the others vote Democrat because they want socialism, gay marriage and dumbed down schools and/or open borders.
That leaves only fifteen percent, or about 1 in 7, of Americans who understand that we are the only hope our nation has.
This bares repeating: Only about 1 in 7 Americans seems to understand the true murderous intentions of our enemies and/or the destructive nature of socialism.
Nevertheless, in the last election, a certain percentage of America’s 1 in 7 voters, people who should know better, voted in a way that showed they were willing put their own demands for single issue purity over the safety of America. This is the reality of what these voters have brought about by their foolish demands that politicians suddenly toe their line totally or be thrown under a bus along with our nation.
The ill informed nitwits that vote Democrat in a knee jerk fashion, the socialists who, though born here, hate America – they are what they are. They must be fought at the ballot box every two years. They are almost like evil little children who will be what they will be, but the, “ I’m staying home because I’m so much more conservative than you, so much smarter than you..” 1 in 7 voters must be held to a higher standard. These voters can not claim ignorance. They willfully handed the reigns of power and responsibility for America’s safety over to the Democrats. There were just enough of these willfully “blind” “single issue purity” voters to hand the Democrats 16 of their 36 victories; this figure being derived from the fact that for the want of just 63,000 more votes spread across these races, America would not now be in the danger she is in.
These people should have known better. They took their own narrow agendas with them on Election Day. They played “make believe” with America’s future and safety. The bought into the Democrat controlled media’s lies that we can’t win the war, the economy is tanking, and open borders would somehow be less threatening if only the Democrats controlled both Houses.
Now these 1 in 7 voters are trying to explain what they did by wringing their hands and complaining about not wanting to “vote for the lesser of two evils.” Apparently it does not occur to this group that the choices we have are really just the choices we have. They don’t understand that failing to vote for the “lesser of two evils” guarantees that you will get the greater of two evils.
These people fancy themselves as so much smarter and so much more conservative than the rest of the 1 in 7. They are nothing more than “conservative” useful idiots.
They, and unfortunately us, now have to live with the disastrous consequences of their self delusions that they would somehow get from a Democrat Congress what they couldn't get from a Republican congress, but that would be the only difference. We will all now have to deal with Democrats who will be as disappointing on some issues, but terrifying on other issues, lots of other issues.
These are a series of headlines. This piece is not written to anyone who needs to have them explained. It is written to the “conservative” useful idiots among us who have joined the fools and socialists to “teach” someone a lesson. Here’s the first week’s “lessons”.
January 1, 2007 to January 8, 2007:
"Dems Prepare Slew of Oversight Hearings"
"Democrats push for Alaska drilling ban"
"Pelosi, Reid Oppose Iraq Troop Surge (Letter Sent To Bush!)"
"New Muslim congressman avoids loyalty questions"
"Socialism on the move: Edwards pushes Universal Healthcare"
"SEARCH ON FOR TOUGH NEW WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL; expected avalanche of congressional committee investigations..."
"Pelosi's new image as Italian Catholic mom -- more than a 'San Francisco liberal'"
"'IMPEACH!' is message at Nancy Pelosi beach (San Fransicko Alert)"
"What Americans MUST Know About the Incoming Senate Intelligence Chairman"
"(Mother") Sheehan Right to Demand Democrats Act on Iraq (Susan Estrich Barf Alert!)"
"House rules change clears way for tax increases"
So, you want people like me to leave the GOP? Typical RINO recipe for electoral success there...LOL...
Feel free to petition Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid for your wishes and leave the grownups alone.
That would be about as effective as expecting a reasonable conversation with you.
Please put VANITY in your titles so those of us who don't want to read crap don't click on it.
No. I don't support liberals.
Png.
Already here, see 51.
Man, you got their screeds down cold.
"IMO, any FReeper who is pushing this "blame conservatives" meme is deeply suspect. What they betray is a deep dislike for conservatism. Personally, I'm sick of it."
Many "Republicans" do not trust, nor really like, conservatives.
What they learned is that people in this country are more left leaning than they thought. So we will end up with an even further left leaning Republican party. (What else are they to 'learn' when the Democrats win?)
Sorry if you couldn't get yourself to the polls without hand holding.
Really? When?
...you failed big
Wrong. We stayed steadfast for conservative principle and won every statewide and federal election in my state. After trouncing the RINOs in the primaries, that is.
...and now we Republicans aren't going to listen to you anymore.
As if your kind of "Republican" listens to anyone...
My vote and contributions were based on the "lesser of two evils" principle. Like it or not, the GOP has not appealed to economic conservatives nor to those who want more vigorous action to protect our borders and defeat radical Islam. Factors in American conservatism include limited government and protection of national sovereignty. The rapid expansion of Federal spending in the last six years, application of the Democrat "limited war" approach that failed in Korea and Vietnam to Iraq, and minimal effort to control the influx of illegal aliens clearly are not conservative. On a national basis, the Republican Party has been successful when it has advocated conservatism. It fails when RINOs and country clubbers push for moderation.
Then my point is simply this: Sometimes (most of the time) there will not be a pureblood conservative candidate, so we must make the best decision based on the choices available to us. If the only choices are 1 kick in the head versus 3 kicks in the head, you better believe I want a say in the matter. Neither is desirable, but one is better than the other.
Why should they. It was the "true conservatives" who put nancy pelosi in power.
That is the key fact that the "teach 'em a lesson" ideologues always refuse to acknowledge.
But Republican leaders and conservative tax-cut advocates said it opened up a huge loophole in a Republican-imposed rule drawn from the Republicans' 1994 Contract with America, which requires a supermajority, or three-fifths vote, to raise taxes.
These people have nothing to complain about. The Republican leadership in Congress (and the current administration in the White House) did something even worse than this -- by incorporating sunset provisions in its own tax cuts that enable Congress to raise taxes WITHOUT EVEN CASTING A VOTE AT ALL.
I worked twenty hour days throughout the election cycle to elect Republicans. You and those around here who spend more time attacking conservatives than in attacking Democrats are living in fantasy land.
Get to the true root causes. It was the failure of GOP politicians to vote conservatively while in office that led to the debacle of Nov '06. I won't vote for Dem-lite, period. Don't like it? Too bad. My vote is not yours to bully or take for granted.
So when do the 100 hours end?
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