Posted on 06/18/2002 9:57:13 AM PDT by jimkress
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Who do you think was voting for him in 2000? Who do you think was at Cheney's House protests? Who do you think was protesting at the Dade County closed-door recounts? Squishy moderate RINO's?
Who do you think votes at the midterms? Hardcore partisans, or relatively uninvolved voters?
Oh well, I know when your mind is made up. There's not much point in arguing it with you.
Lemme get this straight. You further legislation that tramples the amendments to the Consitution mentioned above, so you can fix it later. I think I'm getting this stuff.
It's all part of the big plan. To avoid the appearance of behaving as Constitutional Republic, we need to pass unconstitutional laws.
We also need to spend our people's money like a Kennedy on Methamphetamines so we can elect a few more RINOs to the Senate. This way the real GWB can emerge from the closet and reveal himself as the small government, "strict constructionist" who told us "it's not Washington's money, it's the people's money" a while back.
One question. You think he'll figure out a way (genius that he is) to undo his signature on the billions upon billions of our money he's already spent and the damage that's been done to our founding documents?
Gosh, that's an intelligent approach. If you don't get what you want then pack your bags and leave. Boy will that solve the problem! NOT!
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."
The left will have it be left wing dictatorship but as Pinochet showed in Chile it does not have to be so. Freedom and capitalism can be saved( as opposed to democracy which has nothing to do with freedom) but it can only be done if we are willing to do what it takes to crush the left.
The "voted for Gore" group is a red herring. No matter how much someone protests that they are indeed conservative, voting for Gore indicates that they are either lying or not paying attention.
The third party voters should indicate that Bush's campaign alienated at least some of the base.
However, the vast majority of true conservatives I know voted for Bush.
Again, if the conservative stayed home, voted 3rd party, or voted for the more liberal candidate, then why isn't John McCain President?
Better yet, explain what campaign tactic Bush employed to win the SC and CA primaries, which pushed him on to nomination.
Fair enough...but things like farm subsidies, unconstitutional campaign finance reform, and now home down payment GRANTS for minorities is not even attempting a "turn". Yes, I admire most of his foreign policy; yes, I think he's prosecuting the war correctly; yes, I'm glad he's told the UN to shove it a few times; and yes, he's done some good domestic things. But he's also helped further the socialist agenda in a number of cases. I can understand not having a radical agenda, but could he please stop giving so much away?
In 2004, Bush could run on making the temporary cut permanent-- I am just spiffballing here as an armchair politician, but I can think of other issues like telecomm and biotech deregulation.
Marty Meehan, even here in Massachusetts, cannot afford to stand opposite Bush on the progress of those New Economy verticals.
In attempting to authenticate this figure, I scrolled through your responses on this forum for the last few days. I cannot find where you sourced this figure. Do you mind authenticating this figure for me?
As an aside: You are actively campaigning for the ignoring of the Conservative vote henceforth. This is certainly not conducive to the dominination of Conservative ideas and ideology, don't you agree?
How absoutly true. And you see dozens of the ineffective temper tantrums here every day.
Because I am talking about the general election, not the primaries.
And if only registered Republicans were allowed to vote in the general elections, then maybe you could point to primary results--but you can't.
Where are the men and women who want to:
1. Cut Taxes in a big way.
2. Cut Government spending and power.
3. End all abortions except when the mothers life is in danger.
4. Reject the homosexual agenda.
5. Reject environmental marxism.
6. Support Traditional Family Values.
7. Defend US borders, especially reinforcing the southern border to prevent mexicans and others from invading the USA.
8. Give back States Rights.
9. Tell the UN and Europe to take a hike. We do not need to align our country with those socialists/marxists.
10. Lend support to the First and Second Amendments of the Bill of Rights. For years, our rights have been trampled by Big Government and foolish groups that seek to ban anything offensive. Political Correctness and Big Brother can and have damanged liberty. Its time for a change.
Riiiiiiiiggghhhht....
It was the Democrat disruptors who won the primaries for Bush....
*backing slowly away from monitor*
I am a "neo-con," which makes me a spawn-of-Satan RINO to the alleged base because I disagree with some details of their agenda, and they think that I should be stoned to death.
At some point, either the base can start acting like grownups and turn a few elections, or they should just shut up.
Don't be surprised if they look elsewhere for votes when you stay home or don't vote.
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