"A HOUSE DIVIDED" - Pukin's FReeperversary Rant

[BlueStateDepression]

You pose a good point there jackson. Many of our elected officials obstruct using various tactics and then scream to high you know what when nothing gets done.

Maybe someday they will be held to account for that action.

[Toby06]

People have gotten banned for not being bushbots,plain & simple. They had conservative idals, and opposed the presidents policies as too liberal. That's one major reason the post volume on FR has decreased by a third in 2 months.

I know it's a private entity. I understand arguing with mods isn't bright, but to get kicked off a conservative site for espousing conservative ideals is ridiculous.

[RegulatorCountry]

"Name a "good" Dem and you can't use Zell Miller, he's gone and you can't you Joe LIEberman, because he stinks!"

I remember watching the Dim presidential nominees "debate," and I recall thinking that it was pretty darned scary when the only one making any sense whatsoever was Al Sharpton, who was only intermittently intelligible.

[nopardons]

I think I did a pretty good job, on clean-up; however, I might have to come back, yet once again and beat the ashes, a bit more. :-)

[Protagoras]

I'll see your Souter and Kennedy and raise you Roberts and Alito.

The problem for you is that my two are in the present and your two are in the future.

My two are definitely liberal and your two are perhaps conservative.

[F.J. Mitchell]

This act of Kindness by Reagan, Amnesterizing three million illegal aliens, begat us twelve million illegal aliens a mere 20 years later. Considering that twelve million is four times three million, amnesterizing this twelve million, should begat us forty eight million for the 2026 amnesty.

A little understanding of basic math, would be very beneficial in waking up the "what's the big deal about a few million more amnesterized illegal aliens?" dodos.

[GretchenM]

BTW, I'm sure Rod Parsley forgives ya.

Thanks for the great anniversary rant. Too many favorite lines to requote the ones I liked the most.

[Pukin Dog]

People have gotten banned for not being bushbots,plain & simple.

That is your opinion. I think the mods asked you to prove it, did they not?

[nopardons]

BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO! Your editorial is perfect and has long needed to be said!

[JRandomFreeper]

Y'all cant read that fast

We don't move our lips when we read silently.

Speeds up the reading about %300.

Good rant. And yes, I read it all.

I voted for Browne in both general elections. I never voted for our President. (I'm from Texas... I knew my vote wouldn't do anything but send a message)

I voted for Keyes in the primaries. To send a message.

My simple message is: "It's about guns and babies."

Babies need to stop dying in the womb. American citizens have the right to bear arms. Period. Paragraph. Turn the page.

I will not vote for anyone that thinks that killing babies is ok, nor will I vote for anyone that wants to relegate the 2nd amendment to duck hunting.

I will work with the machine when their candidate supports those two big-ticket items.

Otherwise, I support the candidate that supports my views.

All of the forgoing applies, and I have great respect for our President. I want him back as Lt. Gov. here in Texas, when he gets paroled from that big white house up north.

/johnny

[Becki]

The victory of conservatism won't come in my lifetime, but it's defeat could if we let it.

Excellent perspective, Slim. This country was built with an eye always to the future. We need to remember the ramifications down the road.

If the Constitution were written to satisfy just the needs of the day, it would never have lasted beyond that generation.

Becki

[MissAmericanPie]

"Some of you might argue that George Bush is not representing Conservative values to your liking. I would remind you that the first thing Bush said upon taking office, is that he was going to be President of ALL the people, not just some."

Perhaps if he had been honest and up front and said this before the election he would never have had his hand on George Washington's bible.

One other thing, that isn't parsley on your plate, it's globalist nation killing, I would throw out the parsley, the steak, the waitress, the cook, and bull doze the cafe rather than eat one bite.

I have no intention of staying home from the polls, but there will be a lot of blanks or write in's on my ballot. I'm not going to lose Senators or congressman from my state with good grades, but again, that may depend on their vote for this amnesty. Because once passed it's all over anyway. As for voting for a President in 2008, the Republican Party better come up with a candidate for President that is right of Attila the Hun, who prefers tents made out of hide.

The truth is the enemy we are fighting in the Republican Party are the party elites at the top. They are neither conservative, patriotic, or America firsters, they are globalists. And if they continue their hold on the party, we are not members of a conservative party, but a globalist party. You can kill the messenger, but there it is, the bald, unflinching, truth.

[nopardons]

A PETA member are you?

Actually, it is chickens, whom the PETA folks talk about as you have beef and it is chicken factories ( Tyson ), which is connected with hiring illegals.

And no, "our health" is NOT "failing"! We, all of us, are living longer, healthier lives than people 100 years ago.

Facts matter..............learn some.

[RushCrush]

I agree with that. It's just the extremes that I could do without....but you're exactly right about peeling away the reasonable from the wacky. It's been kind of a blood letting on our side to get there, it seems.

[Publius6961]

The attack on Laura Bush made me realize I have been too quiet while the trolls took over. I will no longer be silent and let those threads go on and on with their mindless, unopposed degradation of everyone in this administration.

Welcome back Miss Marple. Just to shed a little light on the subject of this thread, and to validate my usually accurate "gut feeling", were these attacks made and sustained by genuine Freepers of a few years' standing?
Or flash-in-the-pan legends in their own minds?

I suspect that we may be giving the trolls way more attention than they deserve, and their message exposure that it would not get otherwise.

I've always been of the opinion that banning the little darlings, and ignoring their message is the best tactic.

[nopardons]

Your tinfoil hat isn't working; perhaps it's time to graduate to a tinfoil full body suit!

Your conspiracy theories are just that.

[JRandomFreeper]

we are the people who eat the stuff that is factory farmed and our health is failing because of it

I'll give you a quarter if you purchase a clue with it.

I live in cattle country. There ain't no factories around here, churning out cattle. Bunch guys in gimme caps trying to break even at the next auction.

You know... those people that built, take care of, and feed most of the world.... us down here in fly-over country.

The only thing that your post inspires is that if Atlas does Shrug, you won't be bothering the internet.

/johnny

[AntiGuv]

I used Starr County because it's the most Latino county in the nation, so you pretty much have nothing but a pure Latino vote when you look at the returns. It's also a border county, and the question at hand is how new Latino citizens vote, not how just any Latino citizens vote. It's well-known that later-generation Latinos vote more GOP than do first & second generation Latinos (Cubans excepted, where the opposite is true).

Moreover, the Census figures do not translate well into voter breakdowns, because the Census also counts non-citizens who can't vote. So, the drop-off in the Latino proportion of the vote is exponential to the drop-off in the Latino percentage of the population.

Whatever the case, here's how the top 20 Latino counties in the U.S. voted in the 1996 presidential election:

1 Starr County TX: 86.94% Clinton; 10.41% Dole
2 Maverick County TX: 80.58% Clinton; 15.94% Dole
3 Webb County TX: 76.67% Clinton; 19.02% Dole
4 Brooks County TX: 84.43% Clinton; 11.84% Dole
5 Zavala County TX: 82.32% Clinton; 14.50% Dole
6 Jim Hogg County TX: 79.30% Clinton; 16.94% Dole
7 Hidalgo County TX: 66.49% Clinton; 28.84% Dole
8 Duval County TX: 84.94% Clinton; 11.65% Dole
9 Zapata County TX: 72.90% Clinton; 21.27% Dole
10 Willacy County TX: 70.02% Clinton; 24.62% Dole
11 Cameron County TX: 61.76% Clinton; 32.63% Dole
12 Presidio County TX: 70.22% Clinton; 22.32% Dole
13 Dimmit County TX: 74.96% Clinton; 20.19% Dole
14 Santa Cruz County AZ: 64.17% Clinton; 27.62% Dole
15 El Paso County TX: 62.33% Clinton; 32.11% Dole
16 Mora County NM: 68.76% Clinton; 23.43% Dole
17 Guadalupe County NM: 69.59% Clinton; 25.12% Dole
18 La Salle County TX: 69.69% Clinton; 26.10% Dole
19 Val Verde County TX: 53.05% Clinton; 41.10% Dole
20 San Miguel County NM: 72.51% Clinton; 20.09% Dole

You'll likely dispute my use of 1996 instead of 2000 or 2004, but most of these are in Texas and GWB had a strong home-state effect. If it makes you feel better to go with 2004 though be my guest..

[VRWC For Truth]

Isn't it time for another Opus from you?

[nopardons]

And what happens, after that fence is built and the tunneling becomes more rampant?

I'm not saying that I am all that much against a fence; however, that alone, is NOT the answer; neither is pulling our troops home and stationing them on the Southern border.