I voted for him too ROJ. I voted for him too.
I bought that notion that "anybody better than a Dem".
Somebody tell me how....
How is having Mike Castle vote, first for federal funding of STEM CELL research, let's not forget this little tidbit...than for a non-binding piece of crap that essentially spits in the eyes of our military, BETTER than having a Dem vote for the same thing?
Way I see it, elect a Democrat and the money stays in the pubbie coffers until a REAL Conservative comes along.
The battle lines are being drawn - and America is, in my view, moving towards an acute political crisis. Take this to the bank, critics: We will not back down. We will not, as it were, ignobly allow you to engineer American defeat as we did back in 1975. We are in this to win. Period.
To clarify - we did not "go to war" in Iraq: Iraq is a campaign in the larger War on Terrorism, which began when 3,000 Americans were murdered on 9/11. This is a war we did not start, but we will finish. Furthermore, we did not lie to get America involved in the liberation of Iraq; we have conducted ourselves in this war in a more humane manner than any other war of the past; we are not in this fight at the behest of Israel, in order to enrich defense contractors, or to steal oil - we are in this war because we must fight those who seek our destruction.
There is no substitute for victory - if you are not working for victory, then you are working for defeat, which is precisely what the enemy wants to do to us...and that, of course, means working for anything other than victory is to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
The only reason I can see, Pat, to keep voting for a RINO instead of a dem, when the RINO votes just like a dem, is:
The RINO keeps the Republicans in power. As long as that power is wielded by the conservative side, then the RINOs vote matter much less.
When the dems get into power, as they are now, we see stupid legislation like this non-binding resolution to pull out of Iraq, which at its best means nothing but at its worse means our enemies are emboldened and will now fight harder (as victory is only a few short months away in their eyes). No doubt some of our boys will die because of it, and others horribly maimed for life. Now we have Pelosi and Murtha saying that bill was not the end, they'll next seek to actually withold funding....
The power to block legislation from the minority, to keep in committee bad liberal law, to keep power out of their hands, is a mighty power we've lost much to the detriment of our nation. Some say we can survive the liberals in charge, it will only show the rest of the country how bad they really are, and lead to victory in 2008. I'm not sure.
I've said before that the DBM has soldily backed the dems these past few years and worked to sell the dems to the country. I'm not sure we'll ever get it back, at least in a form we'd recognize. Next year's going to be hard.
Pat,sorry was away for awhile. I also let him know that my son is a recruiter in the Army and just got stabbed in the back. My son asked me how is he to answer if someone says to him Why join the Army and when things get tough we get no support?
It's worse when a Republican does it because that gives the Democrats political cover - i.e., "bipartisanship." All the news reports are now saying "a bipartisan" resolution.