Posted on 11/15/2008 12:15:19 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Ha. We tried that in the mid 1800s, and look where it got us. I’ll never understand why when the liberals despise the conservative south and even consider us as useless in contribution to the economy, they want to keep us here. Maybe we make a convenient scapegoat,
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Ha. We tried that in the mid 1800s, and look where it got us.”
Not sure what you mean by that.
State’s Rights would be a lot better than a bloated federal gov’t like we have now.
I don’t think exposing ACORN and the MSM will get us much. Issues like that are only important to political junkies like you and me.
Most folks are occupied with trying to make sure their children are fed, clothed, and housed. We need to show them where our way of doing things makes it easier for them to get food, clothes, and shelter.
We also have an uphill battle showing them how the democRAT way makes their lives harder, thanks to the MSM misinformation machine.
Keep in mind that most of the general public still goes into the voting booth, and pulls the lever next to the name they’ve heard most often.
Jonah is right, but his piece is a little dry, IMO.
Our leaders in both parties are wrong. Most young people want sexually confused richer folks to stop using social programs to hurt working class families and using brainwashed American mothers and third-world hordes to cheat working class families in business.
The rhetoric about majorities wanting more feminist policies and other libertine policies is contrived by those of both parties who cheat their own neighbors to keep the potential domestic competition from rising.
The manipulative garbage on television and in public schools doesn’t form from thin air, and it isn’t sponsored by the government. It is sponsored by people in business—people who are also behind social policies in universities to the extent of having briefs filed to enforce such policies.
No, we don’t anymore. As much as I wish they hadn’t, for pragmatic reasons, I almost can’t blame the conservative voters who stayed home. Almost. It really was a question of how fast we expand government and curtail liberty, not whether we do.
I’ve often wondered that too. But a friend of mine used to say, “Never attribute to malice that which is more easily explained by stupidity”
What I mean is that I agree, I whole-heartedly support States’ Rights, but when we made the ultimate move to try to retain them, we were suppressed by war into relinquishing them. It would never even come to that these days, people won’t lay their lives on the line for freedom(excluding our wonderful military), you can barely get them to vote for it.
I would say you’re crazy, but sometimes, their decisions are so illogical, so detrimental to the cause that I can’t dismiss your theory out of hand.
“It would never even come to that these days, people won’t lay their lives on the line for freedom(excluding our wonderful military), you can barely get them to vote for it.”
I agree, it won’t come to armed conflict (thank God) but we need to find a way to make it happen some other way.
What in the world could this journalist mean by this? Doesn't he know that the bulk of the Democrat Party is a loose alliance of Godless communists/socialists, hate America first liberals, perverts, abortionists, feminists, criminals, environmentalists, welfare parasites, and racial minorities who will vote for the politician who promises to support them and their single issue. Any self-serving politician who promises these single-issue voters that he will put their issues ahead of what's best for the country will win their vote.
There is no way the Republican party can promise any of these special interest groups that the GOP will give them preferential treatment and still retain its soul.
John McCain tried it and look where it got him.
And while they don't participate in the organization of either party, they decide the election.
Yeah, that's the ticket to success. Just drive out the 20 + million evangelicals and the millions more devout pro-life Catholics who together make up the party's largest and most consistently loyal segment, and the liberals who tell pollsters they're moderate independents but always vote for Democrats will flock to the GOP in droves.
That said, there are also many who are flaming liberals and don't have a lick of sense. They are just as likely as the average civilian to become disgruntled and want someone to give them their own piece of the pie. I work with a TSgt who is afraid of guns and doesn't see anything wrong with limiting them. Another guy (retired AF) was involved in the DoD civilian unions and thinks unions are the greatest. I bet both of them that in less than 18 months they will have to do some soul searching because Obama (their choice) is at the controls.
Thank you for your service.
I have heard tell of a discussion among a small group of junior officers who wondered if you could be a conscientious objector and refuse to come home from a war zone.....and which oath was more binding: the one to preserve, protect and defend or to obey the Commander in Chief.
The day is coming when we will all have to choose between that which is easy and that which is right.
It turns out that people who buy into the logic of social liberalism usually find themselves ill-equipped ideologically to say no to spending on causes they care about.
True. But that's the nature of our representatives. Even some who are very socially conservative find it hard to turn down spending, especially when they don't have to raise taxes to spend the money.
Well in the schools it is, but you are absolutely right. I don't know of a single show, that does not interject some snide remark, about republican. I am not positive, since they sneak them in very easily, but maybe "The Unit" has remained pretty neutral, tho of course Haysbert certainly hasn't.
Law & Order is probably the worst of the bunch.
One funny line was when Munch asked Iced Tea, if he had any other hidden secrets, he replied,"Yeah, I am a Republican. May be true since I think he performed at the Bush daughters wedding, and the pig tail disappeared after that.
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