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To: RGSpincich
The main difference between President Reagan, whom I voted for, on who's second campaign I volunteered and whom I have most admired over the years and President Bush is us, the voter.

We're spoiled. We want instant gratification and we want it NOW, and anyone who doesn't give it to us NOW, will REALLY be sorry because we'll hold our votes until we're blue in the face.

If we can't have a wall, we refuse to compromise and build a fence.

If we can only get a couple of hundred miles of fence at a time, we refuse to vote for those incrementally trying to get that fence built.

If we can't have a candidate who's "conservative enough" and President Bush campaigned as a moderate with very conservative values about some issues, then we must self flagellate at the alter of "pure conservatism" by voting Democrat.

It was "conservatives" voting "the bums out" that got us a Democrat controlled House and Senate, where NOTHING we want will be accomplished.

President Reagan would disagree with these practices. He would have compromised and he would have kept pounding away until he got all or as much as possible of his and the voters' will accomplished. He wouldn't have recommended a public hanging.

109 posted on 01/26/2008 6:58:51 AM PST by cake_crumb (Even if you're unable to FIGHT to save your country, you CAN vote to save it.)
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To: cake_crumb
It was "conservatives" voting "the bums out" that got us a Democrat controlled House and Senate, where NOTHING we want will be accomplished.

Wrong, it has been proved and is a matter of record that the Democrats went out and recruited candidates that were sort of conservative and they run to the right of the republicans. But you already know that, however it would not fit in your spin.

153 posted on 01/26/2008 8:31:18 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: cake_crumb
Perfectly said. I agree with you 100%. The dems have been successful in the past by using small incremental pieces of legislation to achieve their means, we on the other hand are ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater because we didn’t get 100%. Look at this presidents accomplishments and you can not in good conscience call him a failure. The conservative movement is not monolithic each of us have our concerns some vote on life issue only, some on economics, some on 2nd. amendment rights and some on immigration and trade policies and isolationism. How does any candidate appeal to all these issues, when we don’t agree on many of them.
156 posted on 01/26/2008 8:34:03 AM PST by mimaw
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To: cake_crumb

BTTT for everything you said.


178 posted on 01/26/2008 10:00:09 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Algore - there's not a more priggish, sanctimonious moral scold of a church lady anywhere.)
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To: cake_crumb

Well said and spot on!

I think even Rush has lost sight of the fact of what politics is and what it accomplishes (or not).


221 posted on 01/27/2008 5:54:10 AM PST by fightinJAG ("Tell the truth. The Pajama People are watching you.")
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