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The Party of Death vs. The Party of Slow Suicide
Washington Dispatch ^ | 9/14/03 | Patrick Rooney

Posted on 09/15/2003 8:01:17 AM PDT by Mark Felton

Once upon a time, there were essentially two political parties in America—the Democrats, the party of the blue-collar man; and the Republicans, the party of the white-collar man. Two parties, two visions, yet both American. Today, there are still two major parties in America—the Democrats, the party of death, and the Republicans, the party of slow suicide. The names may have remained the same, but the times, they have a--changed.

My parents were “New Deal” Democrats—they believed that Franklin Roosevelt and his big government helped get us out of the Great Depression. While that point is certainly debatable, it is certainly true that Franklin Roosevelt wasn’t Howard Dean.

My folks were hard working, bill paying, church-going people. They sacrificed and sent their kids to Catholic school, so we could get a better education than they themselves were able to get. My dad was a combat Vet, and proudly flew the colors at all appropriate holidays. He would not have recognized John Kerry. My mom was a “homemaker” when the word wasn’t considered an insult. Trust me, she wouldn’t have recognized Hillary Clinton.

Viewing today’s Democratic Party is mind numbing. The party’s total degeneration is now complete. And all the old rules of civilized discourse are gone. We have Bill Clinton and his Jim Jones followers to thank for that. His behavior in office hit new lows, and he pulled a whole political party down with him.

Now it’s considered okay to lie, to cheat, to steal in order to “win”. To rip the Commander In Chief while the man is leading a war for our nation’s survival. To blame the man for his “failure” in the war on terror when everyone knows liberal Democrats have been terror’s best friend. The leadership of this party is wicked to the core, and following them leads to certain death.

Unchecked abortion, revolving door immigration, rampant homosexuality, backbreaking taxes, crippling regulation, the rise of the U.N. and N.E.A., the shredding of the Constitution—the list goes on ad nauseam. This is the legacy of the modern Democratic Party.

The main alternative is the Republican Party. A party that accomplished some remarkable things over the years, like freeing the slaves and winning the Cold War. But something has happened to the Grand Old Party.

Many of the GOP’s positions will bring us to the same destination (death) as the Democrats, only slower. Example: immigration. Where the Democrats seek to destroy the United States with open, uncontrolled immigration, the Republicans apply window dressing, yet keep the borders open, in an effort to win votes and not offend Hispanics.

The Republican strategy appears to be to win now and to hell with the succeeding generations. It’s kind of like the late Washington Redskins’ coach George Allen’s “the future is now” strategy.

Republicans who follow such a strategy are ensuring the eventual demise of their own party as the more illegal immigrants they allow in, the worse their chances become of winning office in the future. This ain’t hard to figure out, folks.

On many other issues, the Republicans’ strategy of slow strangulation is evident. Take the growth of government itself, which was once considered a great evil. Ronald Reagan himself said, “Government is the problem.” Now Republican leaders are all too happy to grow the government, thereby increasing its power to enslave the average American.

Republicans are happy to let organizations like the NEA grow in power, as they preside over the brutalizing of our children’s minds, spirits, and sometimes bodies. When will the people realize that they cannot take back their culture while the NEA maintains control over their children? Remember the words of Hitler: “When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already.”

Republicans cannot even muster enough strength to stop the obvious brutality of partial birth abortion, or object when the left removes the Ten Commandments from a state courthouse, or speak up when “apple pie American” groups like the Boy Scouts are preyed upon by homosexual activists and traitorous judges.

The only viable alternative for those of all political persuasions is a strong stand for truth which would bring life and hope to this nation. While the current Democratic Party is by far the larger evil, choosing the big lie or the smaller lie both lead to death at varying speeds.

This is not a call for the abandonment of the classic two-party system. But it is a call, to either choose the speed of this nation’s death, or demand a better set of choices from your party. I recommend the latter.

Patrick Rooney is the Director of Special Projects at BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, a nonprofit organization dedicated to “Rebuilding the Family By Rebuilding the Man.”


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To: truthandlife
bump and read
21 posted on 09/15/2003 8:53:48 AM PDT by krunkygirl
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To: staytrue
The article is stupid. If the republicans do not pander to the center, then the democrats will pander to the center and win all the elections.

Disagree. You might want to read this for some history:

Secrets of the "Reagan Democrats”

 1980   1984   1988   1992   1996 
Voting age population in millions 157.6 172.8 180.7 185.6 194.8
Democrat votes in millions 35.5 37.5 41.8 44.8 45.6
Percent of Democrat votes 23% 22% 23% 24% 23%

The fundamental reason for the victories of Ronald Reagan (1980 and 1984) and George H.W. Bush (1988) is that they ran on a solid conservative agenda that was easily understood, and believed, by conservative base voters. Both President Bush (1992) and Bob Dole (1996) lost because their campaigns lacked conservative credibility, resulting in fewer Republican votes as the conservative base abandoned them by either staying home or registering a protest vote for Ross Perot.

22 posted on 09/15/2003 8:56:21 AM PDT by truthandlife
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To: r9etb
"That's a nice thing to do, all right. But it's overly simplistic. The problems with public education are a symptom, not the head of the snake."

really?

That I can provide you an end objective with which you agree in the space of a short posting is remarkable.

But now you also expect that I lay out a grand battle plan that would accomodate all the public schools? That misses the original point.

The moment that individual communities believe they might be able to regain control of their own schools will be the moment in which a thousand viable solutions will begin to precipitate.

As for me I have several specific ideas. I have presented them to my Congressman. I have held press conferences. I have worked within the system and without. I now homeschool. My ideas may not be the best, but at least I am thinking and willing to act, and that is the real hurdle we face.

Our schools have bred out the can-do attitude. They have convinced average Americans that there is no real solution, except the status quo.

Sounds like the culture of the USSR at it's most defeatist.

PS: One idea I like is paying the schools the way we pay contract engineering companies. They are paid an hourly rate $80-125/hr for each billable teacher hour. From that income all expenses, textbooks, admin, building healthcare, etc must be paid. Rates will be negotiated based on objective standards of performance for the students and productivity of the teachers. Rates are negotiated between members of the community (elected parents, county officials) and the school district management. Hiring/firing authority rests with the community members. [there's far more to it all of course, but I don't have the time or incliniation to elaborate here just now, perhaps later]

23 posted on 09/15/2003 8:59:52 AM PDT by Mark Felton ("All liberty flows from the barrel of a gun")
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To: r9etb
You may want to check out this blog, which seems to be right up your alley (I often post there):

http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/

As a sample discussion item, the linked article ties in nicely with the current Freeper discussion:

http://www.brothersjudd.com/blog/archives/007931.html

24 posted on 09/15/2003 9:19:08 AM PDT by NukeMan
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To: steplock
LOL!

You're right. The correct answer is not an option.

25 posted on 09/15/2003 9:40:38 AM PDT by Mark Felton ("All liberty flows from the barrel of a gun")
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To: general_re
"The problem with all these "let's fix the political system" articles, as you so astutely recognize, is that they're all predicated on the implicit (or explicit) premise that what's happening is somehow being imposed on an unwilling populace by a gang of Dick Dastardlys, twirling their moustaches and secretly plotting the downfall of the Republic. But I think we both know that nothing could be farther from the truth - not only do the American people not see a problem, but they're generally pretty happy with how things are these days. This is what they want, and any "solution" that doesn't take that into account is doomed to failure, because it really will be an attempt to impose on an unwilling populace. "

Very good point. Most people want the government to protect them from the bumps in life; some to more of a degree than other. However, to a degree powerful interest do trump popular will. Take proposition 187 in Calinfornia. It was overwhelmingly approved by the populace (approved even by Hispanics IIRC), yet Governor Davis sued to get it invalidated. Take school vounchers. Something like 80% of Black people want their kids out of failed, crime-ridden inner city schools. However, the teachers unions manage to any voucher programs watered down to the point of silliness. I think there's an element of both in modern American politics.

26 posted on 09/15/2003 9:49:32 AM PDT by jjm2111
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To: Mark Felton
The final assertion in the posted article is contradicted by your Jeffersonian quote! Agenda?
27 posted on 09/15/2003 10:00:58 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN
"The final assertion in the posted article is contradicted by your Jeffersonian quote! Agenda?"

I side with Jefferson.

All free political bodies will naturally split between conservatives and liberals.

However, currently both parties are not motivated by liberal or conservative philosophies. While they each have elements of liberalism and conservatism ultimately they are dominated by simple greed.

I would like to see a re-alignment of those parties. There are conservatives in both parties. I would like to see the conservatives in the democrat party re-align themselves with the conservatives of the Republican party, join forces and establish a new party that will excite the displaced masses.

28 posted on 09/15/2003 10:10:31 AM PDT by Mark Felton ("All liberty flows from the barrel of a gun")
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To: Mark Felton
Republicans cannot even muster enough strength to stop the obvious brutality of partial birth abortion, or object when the left removes the Ten Commandments from a state courthouse, or speak up when “apple pie American” groups like the Boy Scouts are preyed upon by homosexual activists and traitorous judges.

I think this is a valid point. The Republicans have not been effective in curbing even the most egregious examples of politically-inspired culture rot.

29 posted on 09/15/2003 10:58:36 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: truthandlife
I think reagan won because carter was an imbecile with 20% interest rates and 10 percent unemployment. Reagan won reelection because incumbents are hard to beat. Bush won because Dukakis was a short weenie who took a tank ride. Bush lost in 92 because of the recession and hostile media. Clinton won in 96 because before the convention, Dole had no money and Clinton probably had about 100 million to spend and there was peace and prosperity. Bush won in 2000 because there was no incumbent running.

Bush may lose in 2004 because of a recession.

The rule is incumbents usually win unless the economy is bad. If no incumbent is running then the election is close.
It has little to do with conservative or liberal. You have to win the center.
30 posted on 09/15/2003 11:57:56 AM PDT by staytrue
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read later bump
31 posted on 09/15/2003 2:57:20 PM PDT by Pagey (Hillary Rotten is a Smug, Holier - Than - Thou Socialist)
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To: r9etb
You missed the point of my article. There is a solution, and it's called "truth". Telling it, and living it. Using it to change your party so they represent something American again. So we can find life as a nation, not death. There is no other solution. There never has been.
32 posted on 09/16/2003 8:09:28 AM PDT by rebuildus (Choose your speed or demand some new choices!)
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To: staytrue
Your reply sounds intelligent for a minute, until examined a bit closer. So you're saying that allowing our country to be destroyed and our security threatened via illegal immigration is okay, as long as it helps you "win the center"? Think before you react.
33 posted on 09/16/2003 8:15:29 AM PDT by rebuildus (Choose your speed or demand some new choices!)
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To: rebuildus
You missed the point of my article.

And you missed the point of my reply. We can tell the truth all we want, and should do so. But until the nation decides to listen to and live by the truth, our talk will come to nothing.

34 posted on 09/16/2003 8:26:43 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: rebuildus
Think before you react.

I suggest you do the same. The conservative purists would ditch the middle and lose the game. The rinos want to win the middle, hold on, and then slowly advance the ball down the field. The conservative strategy in football terms, means going deep on every play.

35 posted on 09/16/2003 8:27:09 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: Mark Felton
"This is not a call for the abandonment of the classic two-party system. But it is a call, to either choose the speed of this nation’s death, or demand a better set of choices from your party. I recommend the latter."

Sadly, it's too late. The Second Civil War is coming and the resulting breakup of the country is inevitable. The best people will be able to do is prepare and try to survive the blood bath. I wish this weren't so but you need look no further than at whets happening in Kalifornia to see the handwriting on the wall.

36 posted on 09/16/2003 1:46:08 PM PDT by Desron13
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To: madprof98
BUMP
37 posted on 09/29/2003 7:17:46 AM PDT by truthandlife
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To: Mark Felton
I appreciate the fact that Dennis Miller had a 9-11 inspired personal epiphany. He has become the pro-American Mort Sahl, but someone in the GOP needs to look at the guy's views on drugs, gun control, abortion, etc., and some of the details of the guys personal life (which the Democrats will surely attempt to exploit) before they present him as a candidate for national office. That having been said, it would be fun to watch him deflate that pompous old windbag Feinstein in a debate.
38 posted on 09/29/2003 7:57:24 AM PDT by pawdoggie
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