Posted on 03/16/2002 10:01:26 PM PST by StopDemocratsDotCom
It took a while for Bush to win over Conservatives who now support him all way. That's why I hate it when the word RHINO is thrown left and right when talking about a Republican who may do something that seems out of step with what we agree with and we don't realize that politics is all about winning and looking like a "centrist"
Check out this 1999 Article:
Conservative talkmeister Rush Limbaugh blasted away at George W. Bush with both barrels today, stoking a possible clash between grass-roots conservatives and the front-running candidate who is already pursuing a centerist general election strategy.
"He's really wandered off the reservation here lately folks," Limbaugh intoned, before making the case against the recent Bush positioning.
"In my mind," he told his listeners, "no conservative running for president would make the kind of statements that he's made. No conservative running for president would leave his philosophical brothers and sisters dying on the congressional battlefield the way Bush did with that EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) thing. And now he's done it again with the speech at the Manhattan Institute. He's done it twice in seven or eight days time."
"This obviously is a carefully crafted strategy." Limbaugh continued. "What it means is that solid conservatives from Tom DeLay to Dick Armey, who are doing all they can to eke out small majorities and beat back Clinton and all his Big Government schemes-issue after issue-end up being emasculated by Bush's comments."
"Who wants a Republican moderate as president?" Limbaugh asked, a question the Bush camp must hope that other conservatives don't begin asking.
Good point. There was a post I read where this was brought up before. One Freeper pointed out that our officials are always voting away our rights using a previous rights-trashing event as an excuse, and that when the next big-brother scheme comes up they'll use the current passed rights-trasher as the excuse.
Then another Freeper chimed in "the slippery slope".
C.H.
Thanks for your post.And I agree, President Bush is a moral GIANT compared to the true EVIL one Clinton.
He has a listenership and a following.
I myself am not among them.
I suggest you turn the dial and find yourself a nice Bush-Right-Or-Wrong talkshow host if you're going to get yourself in a snit with one of Rush's rare disagreements with our President.
Not to worry, there are PLENTY of them out there.
FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court. That is unforgivable. He recognized the Soviet Union. He signed the first nationwide gun law. He called Stalin his friend. He pushed for BROAD EXECUTIVE POWERS. He made it illegal to own gold. He wanted to be a dictator. He was the most power hungry president in history.
The only good thing he did was let prohibition die out.
He better find a way to keep West VA, or take Michigan or Penn or both.
But while Bush has been in office, he's supported the Patriot Act, let President Fox pretty well off the hook about supporting his OWN citizens, stated in his campaign website that he would SIGN A BILL if passed for mandatory gun locks (or Safety Restriction Devices, as I call them), supports environ-MENTAL-ist provisions of CARA, et c.
And Campaign Finance Reform.
If he passes that, would you support him in 2004?
What happened to the Incremental Shift To The Right that the Bush presidency guaranteed us, according to his hardcore supporters?
That DOESN'T mean signing a token tax refund while ignoring other issues. It isn't ALL about $300 to some of us.
The Constitution and my rights mean more to me than a $300 check.
And anyone who sees that $300 as justification for everything else Bush does that is most definitely NOT conservative...well, let me put it this way...that's an awfully cheap price to sell out your freedoms.
Oh, there's lots and lots wrong with Libertarians and most of their positions ( not to mention their attitude ! ), and when you grow up, maybe you'll figure it all out. : - )
The question being...who was it, exactly, that introduced Dubya and "brung" him in the first place?
Those are the ones he'll dance with.
That will reveal a lot.
It wasn't just the " NO NEW TAXES " speech, and nobody believed that X41 was all THAT Conservative, to begin with.
Hell, why don't you post some of Carol Ward's lates stuff. If you won't, I will, and sign your name on it.
I know people who THINK they know my positions will just drop in a faint, but I pray for our President continually.
And it is our DUTY as FREE CITIZENS to correct our Administration when we believe it is doing wrong, and to use our Constitutional rights AND our power as a voting populace to register our disapproval.
Does a loving parent give a child anything they want?
It might come as a shock to people...but WE are the loving parent, not the President.
As I've said, I have MANY Bush-supporting close friends! I certainly do not call them "Bushbots", nor do I call anyone that except those who will not tolerate debate on his decisions one iota without a flamefest.
Granted, there are some dissenters like me who are more provoking than thought-provoking.
But then again, we're not the ones running around here trying to paint everyone who disagrees with the President as a traitor.
Gets hairy.
But as always...I hope for the best, and expect the worst.
Keeps me from going extreme OR burying my head in the sand and pretending that a President with an (R) designation after his name means everything's just gonna be okay from now on. **g**
And I hope NOT.
Readers tell me what a slaggard I've been lately. It's true. But I've been busy making readers proud in other ways. I've been agitating the Jews in my realm. I regard with disfavor however, the burden of polite company that necessitates certain disclaimers each time I confront one in public.
I find acute pleasure in reminding the Jew - especially when he's being Jewish - that somebody out here really hates them. And I beg them to ask me why... I want so badly to be able to tell them why. Up close and personal.
I'm really tired of sniveling documentaries about pogroms and ghettos. They've made me weary, even of violins. And they're positively delusional about anti-Semitism. What -- you think they dash to and from their home and car casting an eye for lighted broomsticks and pitchforks everyday? So when was the last time somebody stormed a suburban patio hollerin "We know you're in there? send out the Jews!!" --- [an awful thing to say, you think reflexively]
But what of all that I've lost of who I used to be?
Once you experience Jewish morality, your own is lessened. Your humanity is diminished by any measurement of goodness. I was a better person before I found out the most dangerous people I would meet in a day weren't those in darkened car parks. The most menacing people I met in life were the men and women of contract law. And they were Jews. They set the standard within any industry they soil. Anyone care to wager how many Enron parachutes had a Star of David on em??
Anyway... I don't apologize for my many letters, notes, calls to talk radio and C-Span. And I hate it when readers tell me I would be more effective if I would only...yeah yeah blah blahh
I love what I do. And I don't apologize for it. After what these creeps have put me through in life - no, make that -- after what they put EVERYONE through in this life -- and that means even the lowlife Jew whose only crime is ignoring the lowlife practices of their lowlife kin. That's the Jew I most despise... the public servants and governors who conspire for their own, and hide their allegiance with standard cover -- average white American. You know, the Jewish Jones who writes an independent op-ed piece on the "Evil of Islam", or the stealth Jew posing as the Average White administrator.
Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz said he will probably hang a portrait of a black person or a woman in his office in place of the country's first president, while moving the Father of Our Country elsewhere in Borough Hall.
"I respect history . . . but there has to be a recognition that this is 2002," Markowitz said. "There's not one picture of a person of color, not one kid, not one Latin. Borough Hall should reflect the richness of our diversity."He added, "I wasn't trying to say there's anything bad about all white men. I'm 56. I guess you'd call me an old white man."
I love activist Jew bashing. I love to write editor's letters that are undiluted Jew loathing. I tell em upfront. I confess. I'm an anti-semite. Well, actually no, I don't think Arabs have done anything to be lumped in such company. It's Jews I hate. - you know, the Jewish kind.
My mass mailing to Middle Eastern publications -
Sirs/Madam:
Ongoing calls for the extermination of Jews are really quite upsetting. You simply must make peace with them. I know, I know... countless civilizations have tried and failed to modify Jewish perversions of commerce and contracts. But we must exercise vigilance, with new methods of persuasion and communication.
And no more talk of "driving Jews into the sea", because there's little chance you'll get all of em, and the rest of us will be sentenced to another 5 decades of holocaust film.Carol
I especially love to torment them in public. You know they deserve it. Not long ago I was in a museum bookstore when a pushy, solipsistic - I know it's redundant - Jewess crashed into the front of the checkout in front of me and plopped down cash - yammerin the whole time to her equally noxious spawn. I looked at the cashier, then at the woman and said,
"Okay, so you're a Jew? Let's make this learning experience. It could save lives. Think of this as a millennial epiphany -- You know how you're always asking, yet never seem to grasp why people hate you? Well today - drum roll - you've demonstrated one teeensy reason why. See the end of the line? Go back and wait your turn - and be quiet."
I concluded my business with a blushing cashier, and when I turned to leave, all eyes in the quiet room were looking up over spectacles and from behind books and candles -- each staring in disbelief, for what seemed longer than the few minutes it took for the horror to spread across the face of the offending Jew. I nodded to others as I made my way to the door. - I said "See, no need to kill em. They can be trained."
That's how you deal with the little fuckers. In museums, at streetlights, school board meetings and over contracts. Explain to them that there would be fewer calls for their extermination if they comported themselves in a more user-friendly fashion.
Once, I was looking for a street address in a neighborhood of immaculate little patio homes, I stopped to ask a woman for directions. At just that moment her Scotty dog took a dump in her neighbors flower garden. Rather than clean it up, she continued talking to me and moving on. I said "Oh, my God, another Jew", just under my breath, but loud enough for her to hear. [Her accent betrayed that special brand of New York imperiousness.]
"WHAT are you doing to your neighbors yard?" I asked. She seemed a little embarrassed, but of course not enough to alter her behavior. I ended the frank encounter by shaking my head and saying "And you want to know why the world hates you?"
The police showed up at my door the next day. She took my license number and called the cops. [Do ya love it?] I was somewhat perplexed when the officer told me he had received a complaint about me. "What kind of complaint," I asked. He said I had made "racial" remarks to someone. "I did?" I asked with incredulity. Is that a crime?
The officer didn't really know what to say. I asked him if there were charges filed against me and he said no, but---.THAT's --as far as he got. "If there are no charges, why are you here?" I said. Then he got testy [of course] and persisted with "We got a complaint about you".
"Have I broken some law?" I asked again.
"Did you attack a Jewish woman yesterday?" he was getting serious now.
"Attacked?" I repeated, with my best wide-eyed look of incredulity. Then I began to laugh. "Officer, I think we are done now, because I'm getting angry with you, and YOU have no business -- with ME. It's time for you to leave."
Of course I drove right back to the neighborhood at 7:15 the next morning. There she was with her defecating little hairball. I couldn't stifle myself. I rolled down the window and got her attention. Clearly shaken, she yelled, "Leave me alone you anti-Semitic bitch!"
I laughed and whispered very loudly "next time -- REAL ovens? larger ovens."
Lettuce Roll!!
Violence is out. Activism is in?
So many people want to express their hatred for all things Jewish, but they don't have the spine, or they fear for their reputations. I've discussed this with perfect strangers in line at the deli. Woman asks waitperson if Baklava is Jewish. ... I'm also standing in line and blurt "Oh gosh no. Here's a test for you. If you've eaten kosher food, you'll develop an irrepressible urge to short-change a blind newsboy." Then from the back of the line came -- "or raid the pension fund".
I was electrified. People are eager to display their disdain for the disdainful... they just need an opportunity. I got an email the other day about a huge dust up in a Korean store in Bel-Air ... Jewess told store owner he was anti-Semitic... To which he said? " I have no plobrem wif Alab, I no like Juu like you."
Try it. It's exhilarating. All you wussies -- do it in a neighborhood where nobody knows you. Use any opportunity to let em know they are reviled.
My Amazon.com reader review of "The Diary of Ann Frank". "It's the feel-good book of the century. A fantastic opening and a great and joyous ending that'll leave you wanting more!"
That felt so good. ®
And mainly because those who are trying to make excuses for the President's Gore-like accession to the Democrats' vision of "compassion" DO believe that President Bush walks on water...and not because he can't swim...if you catch my drift?
We shouldn't be excusing the passage of such a horror simply because "we're already abused by RICO".
I've NEVER believed it should be too much to ask of Bush supporters (and even Bush cynics like me) - conservatives, generally - to HOLD THE PRESIDENT'S FEET TO THE FIRE on issues.
It is NOT "anti-American" or "Bush-bashing" to call him to task when he's issuing bad judgment calls.
Read post #82.
C.H.
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