Posted on 03/09/2009 5:24:04 PM PDT by lewisglad
Dear Republican Leaders: The Republican Party has become the party dedicated to sabotaging the American future. Check out the sermon I just delivered about the Republican Party on CNN when being interviewed by D.L. Hughley -- and/or read on.
You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. You combined the failed ideologies of the Religious Right, so-called free market deregulation and the Neoconservative love of war to light a fire that has consumed America. Now you have the nerve to criticize the "architect" America just hired -- President Obama -- to rebuild from the ashes. You do nothing constructive, just try to hinder the one person willing and able to fix the mess you created.
I used to be one of you. As recently as 2000 I worked to get Senator McCain elected in that year's primary. (McCain and Gen. Tommy Franks wrote glowing endorsements regarding my book about military service, AWOL.). I have a file of handwritten thank you notes from Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush I and II. In the 1970s and early 80s I hung out with Jack Kemp and bought into his "supply side" myth and even wrote a book he endorsed pushing his ideas.) There's more, but take it from me; my parents (evangelical leaders Francis and Edith Schaeffer) and I were about as tight with -- and useful to -- the Republican Party as anyone. We played a big part creating the Religious Right.
In the mid 1980s I left the Religious Right, after I realized just how very anti-American they are, (the theme I explore in my book Crazy For God). They wanted America to fail in order to prove they were right about America's "moral decline." Soon after McCain lost in 2000 I re-registered as an independent in disgust with W. Bush. But I still respected many Republicans. Not today.
How can anyone who loves our country support the Republicans now? Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan defined the modern conservatism that used to be what the Republican Party I belonged to was about. Today no actual conservative can be a Republican. Reagan would despise today's wholly negative Republican Party. And can you picture the gentlemanly and always polite Ronald Reagan, endorsing a radio hate-jock slob who crudely mocked a man with Parkinson's and who now says he wants an American president to fail?!
With people like Limbaugh as the loudmouth image of the Republican Party -- you need no enemies. But something far more serious has happened than an image problem: the Republican Party has become the party of obstruction at just the time when all Americans should be pulling together for the good of our country. Instead, Republicans are today's fifth column sabotaging American renewal.
President Obama has been in office barely 45 days and the Republican Party has the nerve to blame him for the economic and military cataclysm he inherited. I say economic and military cataclysm because without the needless war in Iraq you all backed we would not be in the economic mess we're in today. If that money had been spent here at home on renovating our infrastructure, taking us toward a green economy, putting our health-care system in order we'd be a very different situation.
As the father of a Marine who served in George W. Bush's misbegotten wars let me say this: if President Obama's strategy to repair our economy, infrastructure and healthcare fails that will put our troops at far greater risk because the world will become a far more dangerous place. So for all you flag-waving Republicans who are trying to undermine the President at home -- if you succeed more of our troops will be killed abroad.
When your new leader Rush Limbaugh calls for President Obama to fail he's calling for more flag-draped coffins. Limbaugh is the new "Hanoi Jane."
For the party that created our crises of misbegotten war, mismanaged economy, the lack of regulation of our banking industry, handing our country to rich crooks... to obstruct the one person who is trying to repair the damage is obscene.
Just imagine where America would be today if the 14 to 20 million voters -- "the rube base" who slavishly follow the likes of Limbaugh -- had not voted as a block year after year thus empowering the Republican fiasco. We would have a regulated banking industry and would have avoided our current financial crisis; some 4000 of our killed military men and women would be alive; over to 35,000 wounded Americans would be whole; we would have been leaders in the environmental movement; we would be in the middle of a green technology boom fueling a huge expansion of our economy and stopping our dependence on foreign oil, and our health-care system would be reformed.
After Obama was elected, you Republican leaders had a unique last chance to send a patriotic message of unity to the world -- and to all Americans. You could have backed our president's economic recovery plan. Since we all know that half of our problem is one of lost confidence and perception, nothing would have done more to calm the markets and project resolve and confidence than if you had been big enough to take Obama's offered hand and had work with him -- even if you disagreed ideologically. You had the chance to put our country first. You utterly failed to rise to the occasion.
The worsening economic situation is your fault and your fault alone. The Republicans created this mess through 8 years of backing the worst president in our history and now, because you put partisan ideology ahead of the good of our country, you have blown your last chance to redeem yourselves. You deserve the banishment to the political wilderness that awaits all traitors.
...from a person we wouldn’t p1$$ on if he was on fire...
Frank Schaeffer? Who is this phuckwit? Is this someone we are supposed to remember?
To hell with him.
Franky has lost his mind. Sad to see.
Someone clue this idiot in that HE and the DEMOCRATIC party are the CROOKS and TRAITORS.
Dear Frank, If you supported McCain, you weren't a Republican. And your rant makes it sound like you forgot to take your meds. Please go away.
Gee...I seem remember all the Dems telling people not to question their patriotism because they dissented with Bush. I guess we don’t get the same benefit of the doubt.
Frank Schaeffer
Is this another name for some Rat such as Begala, Carville, or some Rino piece of fecal matter such as Farl Dummpower.
Give us a break
Gag a maggot
Caddis the younger
Congressional Democrats Bankrupted the Nation (printed in Canada since the US press is providing cover)
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7992
and don't forget it is the left and their policies that has outright killed over 40m Americans via abortion
it is also the left that has promoted free sex and infidelity... helping to break down the American family.
the left also promotes massive tatoo'ing, drugs, and promotes crime as 'edgy' and 'cool'.
all these things will limit a person's ability to succeed... and will help drive these people into situations where they will be either in need of, or close to needing, some form of social program... which is the democrat bread and butter. (dems recognize that 90%+ of the people that use social programs will vote democrat)
the important thing to realize is this:
democrats have a VESTED interest to get people into social programs.
republicans have a VESTED interest to keep you OUT OF social programs.
now... which one is better for you and your children?
“You could have backed our president’s economic recovery plan”
And you could have backed Bush’s Iraq war strategy. Somehow, backing a president is only supposed to happen when a Dummy is in the White House.
Shaeffer is a man with serious identity and personality problems. He has gone through disturbing changes over the years. He needs help. Be kind to him and hope his head is facing in the right direction when it stops spinning around. He has serious mental issues and increasing age is making it worse.
He didn't "inherit it".
Schaeffer- Check out the state of the economy in Nov 2006 when the Dems took over...
He was part of the two years in power Democrat controlled Congress that presided over it.
It’s a HuffPoo piece. Pure idiocy, as we’ve come to expect from those unhinged moonbats...
His father Francis, was an Evangelical philosopher, who thought more of himself than he ought to have. Had a retreat in Switzerland. Was kind of out there on a number of issues. His claim to fame was a series of movies shown mostly in evangelical churches called “Whatever Happened to the Human Race” co-hosted with C. Everett Koop (before Koop became Surgeon General). It would be a stretch to say that Francis had a major role in the Christian Right movement or any Republican movement for that matter.
Frank must be like so many children of famous parents, who feels the need to go off the deep end because only in becoming extreme does anyone actually listen to them. I didn’t remember who he was until he mentioned dear old Dad and Mom. Had he not mentioned them, I would have presumed he was in Guyana with Jim Jones drinking the Kool-Aid.
We might ask Frank which of “The Architect” Obama’s policies does he like the best: the stem cell research, the federally funded abortions, or the elimination of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell restrictions in the military.
Have read some of his late father’s books, but never heard of this twit. I didn’t miss anything.
They aren't very Christian.
He is shaming his father!
Maybe a cigarette and a blindfold for his commie comrades
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