Posted on 10/17/2013 4:26:57 AM PDT by don-o
Bottom line snip
Friends, do not be discouraged by the shenanigans of D.C.’s permanent political class today. Be energized. We’re going to shake things up in 2014. Rest well tonight, for soon we must focus on important House and Senate races. Let’s start with Kentucky – which happens to be awfully close to South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi – from sea to shining sea we will not give up. We’ve only just begun to fight.
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as long as she fights, so will I.
an inspiration
I just don’t see much future for republicans, especially outside of the south. We just need to be split into two separate countries.
Oh will you damn crybabies just shut up!
And to think that some of you have the nerve to pretend that you have anything in common with the founding fathers! Hell, your average gay man activist has more political stamina than so-called conservatives.
OK. That was once. I want her in Tennessee at least ten times between now and August. Does that make me greedy?
That will PREACH!! Right on Right on Right on.
Why is everyone forgetting that Sarah Palin backed McCain in his reelection bid? She is a blowhard. I am sorry for the dash of cold water, but that is a fact. I am sick of the infighting. Ronald Reagan—remember the 11th Comandment.
Yeah, but now the south has more guns.
But stupid people can still count the money in their pocket. I believe that will be our ultimate winning argument.
Ronald Reagan is my hero.
Disconnect much?
-——Oh will you damn crybabies just shut up!-——
For some, the doom is palpable and real. That is in fact true for those in California or anywhere north of the Mason Dixon Line
Mr. DICKINSON had a very different idea of the tendency of vesting the right of suffrage in the freeholders of the Country. He considered them as the best guardians of liberty; And the restriction of the right to them as a necessary defence against the dangerous influence of those multitudes without property and without principle with which our Country like all others, will in time abound. As to the unpopularity of the innovation it was in his opinion chemirical. The great mass of our Citizens is composed at this time of freeholders, and will be pleased with it.Universal suffrage combined with deficit of wisdom ALWAYS results in collapse of free society. The US will become similar to one of several historical examples.Mr. GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. He had long learned not to be the dupe of words. The sound of Aristocracy therefore had no effect on him. It was the thing, not the name, to which he was opposed, and one of his principal objections to the Constitution as it is now before us, is that it threatens this Country with an Aristocracy. The aristocracy will grow out of the House of Representatives. Give the votes to people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich who will be able to buy them. We should not confine our attention to the present moment. The time is not distant when this Country will abound with mechanics and manufacturers who will receive their bread from their employers. Will such men be the secure and faithful Guardians of liberty? Will they be the impregnable barrier against aristocracy? ---He was as little duped by the association of the words "taxation and Representation." The man who does not give his vote freely is not represented. It is the man who dictates the vote. Children do not vote. Why? because they want prudence, because they have no will of their own. The ignorant and the dependent can be as little trusted with the public interest. He did not conceive the difficulty of defining "freeholders" to be insuperable. Still less that the restriction could be unpopular. 9/10 of the people are at present freeholders and these will certainly be pleased with it. As to Merchants, etc., if they have wealth and value the right they can acquire it. If not they don't deserve it.
Mr. MADISON. the right of suffrage is certainly one of the fundamental articles of republican Government, and ought not to be left to be regulated by the Legislature. A gradual abridgment of this right has been the mode in which Aristocracies have been built on the ruins of popular forms. Whether the Constitutional qualification ought to be a freehold, would with him depend much on the probable reception such a change would meet with in States where the right was now exercised by every description of people. In several of the States a freehold was now the qualification. Viewing the subject in its merits alone, the freeholders of the Country would be the safest depositories of Republican liberty. In future times a great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of, property. These will either combine under the influence of their common situation; in which case, the rights of property and the public liberty, will not be secure in their hands: or which is more probable, they will become the tools of opulence and ambition, in which case there will be equal danger on another side. The example of England had been misconceived [by Colonel Mason]. A very small proportion of the Representatives are there chosen by freeholders. The greatest part are chosen by the Cities and boroughs, in many of which the qualification of suffrage is as low as it in any of the U. S. and it was in the boroughs and Cities rather than the Counties, that bribery most prevailed, and the influence of the Crown on elections was most dangerously exerted.
The right of suffrage is a fundamental Article in Republican Constitutions. The regulation of it is, at the same time, a task of peculiar delicacy. Allow the right exclusively to property, and the rights of persons may be oppressed. The feudal polity alone sufficiently proves it. Extend it equally to all, and the rights of property or the claims of justice may be overruled by a majority without property, or interested in measures of injustice. Of this abundant proof is afforded by other popular Governments and is not without examples in our own, particularly in the laws impairing the obligation of contracts.
A principled vote is useless, because principled votes are outnumbered by the votes of the needy and dependent class.
"We are a democracy" indeed. And that is emphatically a bad thing.
God hath placed us here for a destiny to fulfill, a designed purpose only God’s knows and so shall reveal to each and every one of us in it’s proper season.
You are so right. Hey GOP, if you are not fighting the socialist rats, and I mean fighting Cruz style not just with a few soft words at a cocktail party, don’t expect our support. In fact, we’re coming for you too, see you in the primaries...
You wouldn't happen to be one....Would'ja?
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