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It occurs to me you embody why the libs can get away with marginalizing the republican party as extreme. You talk without thinking - and doing so make it harder for those of us who actually do things accept that any ideas you might have would have any value.

Let me make a few things clear for you: I am a vet who served my country in the gulf war. My father was a vet who served in vietnam. His father was a vet - and so on - you get the picture.

I have been involved in the republican party for my whole adult life. I have donated time to state and local republican candidates and donated to my party the legal limits in all presidential elections since my business became successful enough to allow me to do so.

Now - you don’t understand things. A smart man learns to ask why, a foolish man just talks. You have already demonstrated which group you fall in - but since I believe that in education lies freedom, let me pretend you asked “What do you mean? I don’t understand.”

Here’s your answer.

My comment on Saudi Arabia was predicated on our SHARED belief and ideals - not a blanket approval or an endorsement to all things arabic. The comments was an attempt to understand how the Saudi’s were being cast in the same group as the libs - when the Saudi people and goverment are anything but liberal in any way, shape or form.

So, to clear it up for dense people like yourself - let me point out what we share:

Saudi Arabia is socially conservative. They believe in a government and private life in close alliance to god. They don’t go for the evolution crap, they don’t go for drug use, they don’t go for abortion, they don’t go for feminazis, they don’t have gays, period, let alone gay marriage. There society is orderly and stable. They don’t overly regulate their businesses - they don’t see successful people are merely cows to milk for the benefit of the poor. They accept what life hands out and go with it - poor and rich alike. They are charitable - and they are good businessmen.

Now - that isn’t an endorsement of islam. As an evangelical christian, it saddens me when anyone chooses to ignore jesus’s grace. So I support mission trips through my church - and when I was in Saudi Arabia - I did what I could to witness.

It isn’t an endorsement of monarchy. As a conservative - I know that democracy will eventually come to Saudi Arabia, when the Saudis decide as a people to reach for their rights. Until then, they get the government they deserve.

What I was trying to say was that I do not see them as “partners” of the libs - they have nothing in common with them at all. They are social conservatives by definition of the word - and would find Obama to be abhorrent, to a man.

They have long donated through various companies to Republican causes - not to mention the royal family and the bush family have been friends and business partners for my entire lifetime. King Fahd friggin kissed W, and the two held hands from the copter to the white house.

Now do you understand why I questioned? And why I can’t reconcile Saudi Arabia and Barack Obama?