Ushering in a Republican age

Orlando Sentinel ^ | May 10, 2003 | Benjamin Shapiro, 19, is a junior at UCLA

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Here's an amusing but insighful read:

Beat Bush: But don't lose your sanity

[RipSawyer]

"IF the economy tanks, Dean will be our next president. That's a guarantee. If the economy improves or stays about where it's at,"

In the land where I currently dwell, which is outside of LaLaLand, the economy has tanked long ago. Meaningless official pronouncements laid aside, the economic future looks gloomy indeed. I only hope that you are wrong about Dean being president because the economy here will have to turn up to hit bottom.

[RipSawyer]

"The vast majority send their children off to government ran, NEA controlled brainwashing academies."

I really believe there was more interest in classical education, (history, the arts, geography, etc.) among farmers plowing mules fifty years ago than among most of the young people I know today. When the older generation dies off the only ones who know anything about the true history of this nation will be gone and it will be left to those who believe the official leftist revisionist version. Woe unto our descendants then.

[jude24]

The vast majority send their children off to government ran, NEA controlled brainwashing academies.

Not so.

I graduated from a public high school 3 years ago, conservative as any on this board. Now I attend a public state university. I know a lot of people who are perhaps less conservative than we are on this forum, but more so than any other generation in a long time.

And this is in NY.

[Susannah]

Unless somebody moved UCLA out of California, the writer of this article is a campus rebel. The Marxist faculty of UCLA almost unanimously voted opposition to the war; and, even after the war, they voted again to condemn it.

As far as minorities and welfare recipients staying away from the polls...it won't happen in California because anyone can vote by mail with voting materials available in 7 languages. Given the fact that California sends 60 representatives to Congress and only 20 are Republican, guess which party helps the unknowing voters?

In Wisconsin, my brother said, "The only way a Republican can win in most districts is when the Democrats activists fail to bus their welfare clients to the polls."

[KeyWest]

McCool
Since Mar 6, 2003

And you called Clinton to be pres way back in 1990. Hmmm. Gotta check the FR archives.

But you might be right since I have called every pres, Kentucky Derby winner and Super Bowl since 1865.

[SamAdams76]

Yeah, then 1976 brought us Jimmy Carter.

The good ole days...

[Cincinatus]

IF the economy tanks, Dean will be our next president. That's a guarantee

The only way that a leftist loon like Howard Dean could ever be elected to anything other than state dog-catcher of Vermont is if the entire fabric of spacetime as we know it were ripped into shreads and we experienced the heat-death of the universe, in which case who's President would be the very least of out worries.

Good day to you, troll.

[buckalfa]

The GOP has the tendency to squander opportunity
and good fortune. The average working stiff is more
interested in job and economic security rather than
about social issues. Yet the GOP controlled congress
may well be more concerned over legislating their view
of morality instead of working on issues that could
put the American economy on the road to unparrelled
growth. Returning morality to the nation's culture
is important, but that issue is best served by our
leaders demonstrating morality in public and private
life rather than passing divisive legislation. Bush
may survive re-election, but I fear the Rats will take
control of Congress in 2005, preventing a golden age
for the GOP from taking fruition.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bush is real good but he doesn't walk on water, at least not yet. Bush is mushy on some conservative issues (especially the Mexican invasion), and a new Buchanan who addresses these matters charismatically could wreak havoc, especially if Nader or equivalent doesn't run again.

[Miss Marple]

Howard Dean is the most arrogant, self-righteous, humorless person I have ever see run for public office. He smolders with suppressed anger and has an absolutely fake smile. I don't think he even likes people. He is a true poster-child for the left, and only in Vermont, a state which thinks Jim Jeffords is a statesman, could Dean even have run for office, let alone get elected.

[Susannah]

Hey, Jude...conservative students in NY? That's great news. Apparently there may be some schools where students are allowed independent thinking; or, perhaps some students decided they didn't have to follow the views of their academic leaders.

Note to anyone in NY: If anyone has articles relating to "funding of anti-war groups" that appeared in the New York Times, please let me know. I have the links to articles from other newspapers, but there are some people I know who will only lend credit to the NY Times.

[George W. Bush]

Immediately after the 2000 election, Al Gore seemed like the sure bet for 2004. But then the word came down from on high: Gore had to go. And go he did, announcing his intention to drop out of the presidential race and opening the door for a slew of lesser-known candidates.

Actually, the Dims made a mistake. They should have retained Gore, a far more credible and attractive candidate for Dims than what they're currently offering.

[George W. Bush]

I graduated from a public high school 3 years ago, conservative as any on this board. Now I attend a public state university. I know a lot of people who are perhaps less conservative than we are on this forum, but more so than any other generation in a long time. And this is in NY.

My observation as well of the younger generation. They're simply not susceptible to Leftist causes like their predecessors. From abortion to environmentalism to affirmative action to perversion, they don't buy it. And they're sick of being lectured about it.

The Dims' only hope is unregulated borders and cultivating race conflict and scaring old people and trying to hold onto the union vote, especially among government workers.

[quebecois]

"The Dims' only hope is unregulated borders and cultivating race conflict"

Unfortunately, that is a potent "only hope". If you look at the demographics and voting patterns, it will essentially be impossible for a Republican to win the presidency by 2008. We should enjoy W's time in office, because it may be generations before we see a Republican there again.

[boris]

"Ushering in a Republican age"

The author forgets:

-Vote Fraud;
-Dead people voting;
-The illegal alien vote.

We are hardly at the beginning of a new "Republican" age.

--Boris

[ijcr]

How about another if? If Usamma Bin Laden and/or Saddam is
captured in 2004 where will the Democrats hide?

[going hot]

didn't the author take a risk calling Al Sharpton a "dark horse?" hahaha!

Yeah well, he IS a democrat, and their icon is a donkey, so he is more appropriately a dark A$$.

[jocon307]

"The liberals are self extinguishing. Between abortion, zero population growth and homosexuality, they have chosen the way of extinction."

GOOD NEWS! I hope your prognosis proves correct. And as for the French, are those bounties for white French only, because I don't think the immigrant Muslims need any encouragement?