Posted on 08/27/2006 7:01:21 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
The 'base' is what it is in the GOP, and her comments were an attempt to appeal to it. It doesn't matter if she ends up alienating those with a secular view of government - some who may be fiscally conservative (like me). As Rove has illustrated in his recycled southern strategy tactics, religious conservatives consistently show up at the polls. Appealing to the small conservative secular population isn't important if she can get five times the voters to take their place. I personally don't like her message, but I can't fault her tactics.
In New York, Huguenot-descended John Jay argued unsuccessfully in the provincial convention for a prohibition against Catholic officeholding. In February 1788, however, the New York legislature approved an act requiring officeholders to renounce all foreign authorities, "in all matters ecclesiastical as well as civil," an obvious exclusion of Catholics from holding office.
The Constitution of New York : April 20, 1777
XLII. And this convention doth further, in the name and by the authority of the good people of this State, ordain, determine, and declare that it shall be in the discretion of the legislature to naturalize all such persons, and in such manner, as they shall think proper: Provided, All such of the persons so to be by them naturalized, as being born in parts beyond sea, and out of the United States of America, shall come to settle in and become subjects of this State, shall take an oath of allegiance to this State, and abjure and renounce all allegiance and subjection to all and every foreign king, prince, potentate, and State in all matters, ecclesiastical as well as civil.
Your reading comprehension is abysmal. The more you post, the more idiotic you sound (and that's not easy for you).
You mean to tell me that the fact that other idiots did not comprehend the simple words "Supreme Law of the Land" is your excuse for making the argument that "Supreme Law of the Land" means just that?
I wasn't the one sleeping
Premature push on the "Post" button correction.
LOL! You're absolutely impervious, LG!
Yes, "other idiots", like Confederate general Lewis Armistead [whose uncle who defended Fort McHenry during the war of 1812, and that he was therefore regarded as the guardian of the original star-spangled banner]:
Col. Freemantle, it does not begin or end, with my uncle or myself. We're all sons of Virginia here. That major out there, commanding the canon? That's James Deeran, first in his class at West Point, before Virgina seceeded. The boy over there, with the color guard? That's private Robert Tyler John. His grandfather was President of the United States! That colonel behind me? That's Colonel William Ailen. Now, his great-grandfather was the Virginian Patrick Henry. It was Patrick Henry who said to your King George III; "Give me liberty, or give me death." There are boys here from Norfolk, Portsmouth, Malhamlet, Long James River. From Charlottsville, Fredericksburg, and the Shenondoah Valley. Mostly, they're all veteran soldiers now, the cowards and shirkers are long gone. Every man here knows his duty! They would make this charge even without an officer to lead them. They know the gravity of the situation, and the metal of their foe! They know, that this days work will be desperate and deadly. They know, that for many of them, this will be their last charge. But not one of them, needs to be told, what is expected of him! They're all willing to make the supreme sacrifice. To achieve victory, here, the crowning victory, and the end of this war. We're all hear, Colonel. You may tell them, when you return to your country, that all Virginia was here this day. - (from the movie Gettysburg)
Those men were closer to the thought of the Founders than you could ever be - and braver and more intellectually honest. Yet you denigrate those who dared "the Angle" as "idiots".
It's pretty easy to sit at your keyboard nearly 150 years later and call guys who were brave enough to charge into Minie balls and cannon fire for their beliefs "idiots", ain't it?
Well, I guess after you kill them, you can mock them at your leisure. Oh, hang on a sec - YOU didn't kill them - OTHER guys killed them - and THEY were too honorable to mock a worthy foe...
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