Posted on 01/07/2014 7:08:34 AM PST by SoConPubbie
A lot of the big business donors in Texas are behind Rick Perry’s pandering to illegals and getting the legislature to give tuition to illegals.
Bob Perry passed away before he could fund Rubio’s amnesty plans.
The only thing regular working people will credit the GOP with is stopping amnesty. They didnt stop Obamacare or stop the quota queens getting on to SCOTUS.
With all respect, I wish I could agree with you.
There **IS** a segment of the conservative movement which is actively talking that way.
A segment of that segment is afraid of total collapse and preparing for survival in a SHTF situation (not necessarily a bad idea, though not for the reasons they state — it doesn't take a revolution to recognize that we're now greatly dependent upon an infrastructure that is subject to all kinds of problems, ranging from major natural disasters like earthquakes to terrorist attack).
An even smaller segment of a segment of a segment has, I'm afraid, crossed the line from preparing for a worst-case nightmare to preparing for actual armed revolt.
We live in a constitutional republic. We have votes. We need to be using those votes now — and that goes ten times over for the people who are afraid that voting won't solve our problems. For those who really do feel that way — and there are a fair number on any major conservative website — do what you can now via voting to prevent ever needing to face a worst-case scenario.
I've been around the political world for a long, long time. Frankly, I think the conservative movement is in far better shape now than it was in the 1970s, and we're in a better position to win than we were for much of the 1980s. Those who think all is lost need to go back, look at our history, and realize just how bad things were back in the 1970s when even a solid conservative like Ronald Reagan was pressured into accepting a liberal running mate in his 1976 attempt to defeat Gerald Ford.
I'm not minimizing our problems. They're serious. But Reagan didn't give up in the dark days of the 1960s and 1970s, and he had much more reason to give up in that era than we have as conservatives today.
Preparing for disaster is scriptural. Only a foolish man would not store up and prepare for hard times.
With that said, you're right that there are certain segments preparing for the so called “SHTF” scenarios. I bet though, if asked, they'd prefer to be left alone to live out their lives w/o gubbamint constantly pressing in. Then a nutjob or two out there that set themselves as guerrilla liberty fighters.
Point is, the overwhelming majority of people don't want some sort of armed conflict. That same majority have never experienced death and destruction in their backyard.
Now to the vote. Hate to be so cynical, but integrity within our election process is now in serious question. This is not about the individual vote, it is about how to circumvent the individual vote by use of intimidation, hoards of cash, power.
It has been documented on several occasions, particularly under Slick Willey and Obozo of foreign cash being solicited during their campaigns.
Then the subject of voter intimidation. One such case was “True the Vote” here in Texas. I believe her name is Kathy Inglebreck of the King Street Patriots Tea Party group just north of Houston.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/13/IRS-Scandal-Facts-Suggest-Other-Gov-Agencies-Involved
Obozo sic’d the IRS, ATF, EPA and the FBI on her and her husbands private buisness, King Street Patriots and True the vote in an all out attack to suppress the conservative message she and many tried to get out before the presidential election. This is ONE case...there were literally hundreds. Targeted to alter the election in favor of Obozo.
American conservatives have to contend with the enemy within their own party as well. Referred to as RINOs, they attempt to squash any conservative message and keep the status qua in D.C.. Imagine that, Republicans attacking republicans. Conservatives must also battle a litany of liberal, socialist, communist groups vying for those same seats.
All the while, the feds refuse to enforce immigration laws, deport illegal aliens, quasi amnesty until they pass full fledged amnesty that will bring on board millions of potential democrat voters and place this nation in further financial jeopardy. Even the RINOs are behind the push.
Uncle sugar is stocking up on ammunition and supplies. They purchase millions of rounds of the same in an effort to deplete the market so law abiding citizens are left without. Sends a pretty clear message to those preppers...they prepare, they deny!
On the same side of that token, Uncle Sugar is doling out hundreds of millions in DHS grants to militarize local law enforcement. Grants for domestic surveillance drones, webs of cameras installed everywhere, ALPR’s along roadways and mounted on patrol cars to track folks movements. NSA spying on electronic communications, credit card transactions and so much more.
They themselves are giving off the impression that the American citizen is the enemy and is to be controlled and watched. I'm thinking, wow, no wonder there are so many out there that are preparing...they are scared for this country, for the future of their children.
Are their children going to live in a country without the freedoms we older folks realized? Will our society morph from individual liberty to a behemoth state controlled society?
Cast your vote? Yea, I believe it is your civic duty and the peaceful solution. In the end though...our vote seems only a demonstration of what once was.
Sorry for the length.
TEA is days away from the beginning of this year’s fight.
God be with us!
I concur. Let’s give it all we got.
The problem is that the people of TX don't know that.
Greg Abbott seems to be following the Cuccinelli playbook too; that silly Davis woman could surprise us all.
Take it elsewhere. We’re about to mow down like Toro.
We’ll get to you RATS once we get past our OWN rats, which will happen this year, be patient, TEA is only 3 years old.
Then we come for you.
Everyone I know....knows that.
Everyone I know, voted for Ted Cruz as well.
It’s up to us to spread the message.
Maybe you’re right—wait out the two elections.
I would hate to bounce the number of good guys in the GOP on their heads right now.
On the national level, groups like the Chamber of Commerce have indicated they are about to spend $50 million to try to destroy the Tea Party, largely because the Tea Party opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants and the corporations that have broken federal immigration laws to hire them.
This has been the center of gravity for Old Guard (old money) domination of the GOP since the death of Lincoln. Rank-and-file Republicans, "Main Street Republicans", who opposed these crony-capitalist moguls and their political henchwhores, have been pilloried ever since then as "Mugwumps" (as in, <sneer> "heap big mugwump, he thinks thinks he's actually somebody!"), as "Bull Moosers", and more recently identified as "Taft Republicans", "Goldwaterites", "Reaganauts", and now "Tea Partiers".
As "Goldwaterites", we were also denounced to our faces on national prime-time TV, during our own 1964 national convention, as "Nazis" and "fascists" by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, R-Plutocracy.
Karl Rove is the new Nelson Rockefeller henchman. Wish I knew the names of the men he's working for these days. Back when, it was "Poppy" Bush, but I think he's working for someone else now. Who-NWO-ever they are.
Reaganauts
Humph. That last word, “Reaganauts”, was floating in the comp window ..... didn’t see it. Ignore, it’s a floater edit-error.
They call it preaching to the choir. But I have never undrstood Cornball’s appeal for any office for which he ran.
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