Posted on 02/11/2007 6:00:59 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
First, it's coming down on homeless window-washers, then it's smoking in public, then it's using cell phones in cars and while walking, and then, down the road of a liberal dem OR a liberal RINO presidency...
we're no better than many euro Nanny/Police states where we can't exercise our 2nd Amendment rights or right to self defense, use bb guns or knives, have toy guns, etc.
It doesn't end with these types of big-government jack-booted-thugs.
Maybe they do this because they can. Maybe they can because the American sheeple are fat, stupid, lazy, immoral, and content to be house slaves.
See my remarks above, though, about a liberal Republican's potential to split the party.
Too, what you have to watch out for in the general, is not the GOP'ers who would stay home, but as 2006 pointed out, the MOR indy swing voters who, confronted with a choice between a Republican who sounds more liberal than a Republican and a Democrat who is identifiable with the liberal party, tend to drift away from their "Reagan Democrat" voting pattern and just go with the 'Rats.
That's what Rahm Emanuel's strategy was all about last fall with the "conservative" Democrats he ran. (Interesting how he wound up being the kingmaker in all those local Democratic nominating races, yes? -- nobody's screaming in the MSM about "King Rahm", though, they way they do about Rove, are they? And that raises another question: If Rahm was doing all that, and Rahm is an old Clintonista........then was he working for Bubba the whole time????).
The entire point is that when the contest's between a 'Rat playing middle-of-the-road (lying her ass off, IOW) and a Republican who sounds MOR, the Reagan Democrats vote 'Rat.
Can I make this point loudly enough? Liberal Republicans are a Bad Idea.
The sky is falling?
Similair things would have been said if anyone had said before 9-11-01 that terrorists would hijack airliners and fly them into buildings killing thousands.
Who would have believed it could happen?
Who will believe that if we let up on the War on Terror (This includes Iraq!) this will enable them to attack NYC with an (Iranian?) WMD?
The sky is falling? Are we THAT comfortable and complacent now?
So, we are left with his stated intention to appoint a certain type of judge. If he is true to his own stated position on Roe, I don't see how that bodes well for conservatives.
Do you know of any sites with side by side comparisons for the Republican choices? I've been trying to study each one individually, but it would be easier if I had a basic chart to start with.
Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.
Sorry, I don't, but if I find one, I'll let you know.
He was only chairman for 3 years.
No he hasn't. This is a silly assertion without any evidence whatsoever to support it.
He started out with moderately centrist positions on some issues and moved right.
Just like Reagan.
No flip. No flop. Just strong rightward movement.
What's wrong with that?
Thanks, It is just so difficult this time around isn't it?
Rudy was enforcing the gun control laws. You know, the ones written and supported by Republicans in Congress when big cities such as NYC was giving the 2nd Amendment the middle finger.
Not to mention, Clinton didn't have a Perot to syphon votes as before.
The MSM (drive-by media) will determine who gets to face Hillary in '08. To use a Superbowl analogy: the socialists have already checked into their hotel and will be first on the field. The non-socialists (well, sort of) are still having their luggage checked by the TSA. Go Bears.
Rudy cut taxes and took on the city's entrenched liberal sacred cows. To me, that means he's man enough to take on SS/Medicare/Medicaid and the rest of the big government programs.
Don't you see that a sin of 'omission' is equal to a sin of 'commission'.
Sitting out a vote is putting a mark on the DEM ballot. That's a fact. None of the DEM candidates have a better position on abortion than the worst RINO. That's a fact.
An empowered DEM president with a DEM house and senate will do a litmus test on all judicial appointees. The courts are where this matter will be won or lost. That's a fact.
Let's not shoot our unborn babies 'in the foot' with highly principled, but logically bankrupt voting.
Yes. He's unsuited for the Speaker's job, or rather the Speaker's job doesn't suit his strengths, but he needs to be in leadership somewhere because of the good work he proved he could do up to 1994.
If he couldn't handle it before, why do you think he could handle it now?
He should never again allow himself to be put in a position where he can be personally charmed and manipulated the way he was by Clinton. Think about it. Why did Clinton want to meet with Dole and Gingrich? To screw them. Why did they agree to meet him? Because Slick was the President of the United States, and they couldn't very well say no, although they should have. Gingrich should never again allow himself to be put in that position, of negotiating with screwover experts like Bill Clinton. But that doesn't mean he shouldn't ever be in leadership of the congressional GOP. He has many abilities, just not that one.
He resigned from the Speakership and basically walked out on his House seat.
He resigned from the Speakership because (correctly) he had concluded he was no longer effective, he had lost a lot of traction with the House Republicans he was supposed to lead, and the MSM were closing in on him with "ethics" issues. They were trying to hang him, and they were doing a good job of personal destruction.
He could have remained in his seat, but he'd have just been taking up space (I gather he concluded) and, as he said at the time, needed to go off somewhere and retool and recharge, away from the MSM's constant demands that he square accounts with the rest of humanity by committing suicide.
When was a movie star elected President?
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