Posted on 06/07/2008 4:11:05 PM PDT by mdittmar
Either you can’t read or you’re a plant.
The Colonel in charge of my AF reserve training detachment, back in the 80s called the DemonRats, "The Party of Treason". When not in uniform that is, I worked for the same company and on two occasions, in the same building as he did, and would often stop by his office for a chat, usually at the end of lunch hour.
Events since then have shown him to be correct, perhaps even more than he would ever have imagined. (He's no longer with us, being interned in the DFW National Cemetery, where he went out with full military honors, just wish I could have been there.) The difference is he had known it since *before* he served in the Southeast Asia War Games, where due to DemonRat political meddling with the full support of the Lame Stream Media, we took SECOND place. (He would always chuckle when he reflected on the fact that while he made O-6, Full Bull Colonel, the guy who wrote the bad OER on him that got him RIFed from active duty only made Light Colonel and failed selection to 0-6, thus getting outed rather than upped. :)
There has been the whole time...just not reported that way by the 90%+ democrat-registered and monetarily supporting members of the MSM. There is more than one head to the treason dragon. Another group is the tv-addled fools who slurp up the MSM BS like ambrosia because facing reality is too anxiety inspiring...and they are the ones who elected this Congress.
The Republican presumptive nominee knows how to not play nice...with other Republicans. But when it comes to his "friends across the aisle", he only seems to know how to play nice.
They are a Congress of professional politicians. A lot of folks (here on FR too) are perfectly happy with professional politicians.
I think that is the problem. When you have campaigns spending tens of millions of dollars to win a job paying less than 200 grand a year, that only a so-called professional politician can vie for, we have lost our way.
I agree except the part about Freepers being satisfied with them being professional politicians. I don’t believe that is the case at all.
Unless you are talking about agitators or plants or just plain nasty people.
I wish it wasn't the case, but I see that it is, particularly in threads about the recent 4th congressional district election last week in California. Local politicians dropped out in favor of the big monied professionals, Tom McClintock and Doug Ose. Both moved in from other districts to run, Ose from the 3rd district supported by Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzengroper and McClintock a termed out conservative from 400 miles away in southern California.
Both of them professional politicians. Ose is a RINO and lost fortunately, and I voted for McClintock. I am not happy about that choice, I would have preferred someone who actually has lived in the district and understands it. Not to the point of voting for the traitor democrat though.
My point is a lot of Freepers were delighted that McClintock was running, even bragging that they had contacted him, begging him to run. He is a good conservative, up to the point where he misunderstood why folks like term limits. He has had his run and needs to go home. So yes, a lot of Freepers are indeed satisfied with professional politicians in my opinion.
I wasn’t refdering to all Freepers anyway, I said ‘A lot of folks (here on FR too)’. Certainly not you my FRiend.
Misquote. Sorry.
If treason was prosecuted, the Dem Party leadership would be all serving long sentences.
But as is, even illegal immigration is prosecuted (ha!) far more vigorously than domestic treason.
Thus the reason the extremist left (now the Dem Party), is winning. They are being allowed to commit treason without prosection.
If treason was prosecuted, the Dem Party leadership would be all serving long sentences.
But as is, even illegal immigration is prosecuted (ha!) far more vigorously than domestic treason.
Thus the reason the extremist left (now the Dem Party), is winning. They are being allowed to commit treason without prosection.
The majority of those in Congress work overtime to defeat our constitution and to bring disgrace and dishonor to us all. They are idiots useful to communism.
The only way to defeat them is to turn the central government on its ear.
They proved your point just recently when they tried to vote in their Environ-MENTAL plan for a 53 cent increase on the gas tax. According to them, this would have brought the price down dramatically. And were angry with Conservatives because they stopped the bill and there fore do not care about the poor people, the economy or the Environment.
The very definition of insanity.
Read ‘Unholy Alliance’.
Treason ping
That is a problem but I think but part of that is media perception magnifying of conflict among conservations and Republicans. Part of McCain’s popularity has been his high profile criticism of his own and his opportunistic use of leftist rhetoric on occasion. That said McCain has been very hard on the left. What often happens is that we remember when we are in disagreement more than when we are in agreement. Marriages fall apart because of the phrases “You always...” “You never...”. Is McCain never a conservative because he has proposed some things that are not? The immigration reform bill which I did not support was supported by G.W. Bush and a slew of other conservatives many with unquestionable credentials. I don’t necessarily call them liberals for it, naive is a better word but then again conservatives have a tendency to be duped by the left.
Take for example the speech below where McCain skewers the Democrats:
“McCain — who received a hearty round of applause by declaring he would rather lose the presidential campaign than jeopardize the war effort in Iraq — also took a swipe at Democratic Sens. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Hillary Clinton (N.Y.), saying they were pushing for a hasty withdrawal: “Democrats have time and time again raised the flag of surrender. We’ve been able to beat that back.”
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/03/24/mccain_has_tough_words_for_dem.html
I think the McCain campaign would benefit by running ads in very red states highlighting his disagreements with the left. He really skewered Michael Moore at the 2004 convention.
The difference with McCain is that he does speak his mind whether it is in agreement or not. That may be a flaw but independence is something I can live with. It is what makes us different from the left, we are not afraid of people speaking their mind in ways that are contrary to what we believe. We may disagree and work politically for our enemies dissolution but where we excel is when our arguments are laid out in the public square. We stopped the naive immigration reform bill. The question is whether we want someone who we can stop politically in the event they stray like with McCain or if we want someone like Obama who will push the most far left policies no matter what we say.
This "treason" article is good, but it's not so special as to be the exception that should be repeatedly posted.
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