Posted on 11/06/2009 11:46:43 PM PST by neverdem
Where is the loyalty of the RINOs? Arlen Specter joins the Democrats. Colin Powell endorses the Democrat. Dierdre Scozzafava endorses the Democrat.
I'm not opposed to the Democratic Party out of some sense of style or family history. I'm opposed to the Democrats because I think they are wrong. I think the Democrats are wrong in their basic view on the role of government and my place in society as a citizen. The government isn't there to solve all my problems. I changed my political affiliation to independent ten years ago. Not because the Republican Party was too far to the right, but because the Republican Party did so little to truly implement the policies they endorsed in the campaigns. Smaller less intrusive government. Have the Republicans done anything to move the country in that direction?
I'm not Republican. I'm not loyal to the Republicans because they have no loyalty to the opposition of the lunatic left of the Democratic Party. I want smaller government. I vote against bond issues. They have all the money they need. I vote against incumbents. I vote for third party candidates. I sometimes leave a particular race blank. But I almost never vote for Democrats in a local election. And I never vote for Democrats in a national or state wide election.
Who are the lunatic fringe? I don't want to micro manage every aspect of your life. I don't ride a motorcycle. If I did I suppose a helmet would be a good idea. But I don't care if you wear one or not. I think the police have better things to worry about too. I wear my seatbelt. It seems like a good idea. I don't really care if you do. I don't care if you've put on a couple extra pounds because you have a jelly roll every morning. I don't care what you do in your own bedroom. I do care what you do in my kids classroom.
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama voted against the Baby Born Alive Act. He thought it would undermine a women's right to choose. How do you negotiate with that? There is no middle ground. There is no compromise. There is nothing to discuss. That is the lunatic fringe. It's as if someone were to say that restrictions on automatic weapons are an unreasonable infringement on the right to keep and bear arms. No, restrictions on automatic weapons are reasonable. There are some restrictions on free speech. Libel, slander, and the inciting of riots are not protected forms of free speech. That's reasonable. There are restrictions on rights that are actually in the Constitution. If it weren't for the lunatic fringe on the left, it would be possible to discuss some restrictions or parameters on a right that's not in the Constitution.
The lunatics in the Democratic Party say that if we don't do something right now, the planet is going to boil. Please, could someone give them a pill to calm down? There have been fossils from marine life found in the Himalayas. There have been fossil plants found in Antarctica. Just 10,000 years ago Yosemite Valley was covered by a glacier. Climate changes. It's always been changing, but we're not going to boil. Besides, how can burning more fossil fuels cause that much more change to the climate? I thought the problem with fossil fuels was that we were running out?
Co-dependency is not a viable political strategy. You don't get a drunk to sober up by catering to their behavior. The RINOs aren't bringing the Democrats to the center. The Democrats are pulling the RINOs to the left.
They are reasonable only insofar as until the question of ammo resupply is answered. Until then fire control discipline is needed as in well aimed small arms fire. The militia was expected to match standing armies in the quality of their small arms.
The lunatic is on the grass.
The lunatic is on the grass.
This guy pretty much sums up my way of thinking. I too would never vote for a Democrat. I don’t care how decent a person you are, if you are a Democrat than you either subscribe to the tenets of the party or you are ignorant of them. Either way, you don’t get my vote.
The label ‘Republican’ is meaningless, or worse, a near nigh guarantee of hypocrisy.
“...if you are a Democrat than you either subscribe to the tenets of the party or you are ignorant of them. Either way, you don’t get my vote.”
And you’ve hit on one big reason why conservatives so frequently lose: too many “conservatives” won’t do what’s necessary to win.
The GOP and Democrat labels mean little. There are southern and western Democrats who are much more conservative in the ideological sense than many northeastern Republicans. By this GOP good, Democrat baaaaad logic, it would make perfect sense to support Olympia Snowe over Zell Miller.
The reality is that districts are gerrymandered and in various regions of the country, a Republican isn’t going to win, period. But a more conservative Democrat at least has a chance.
Nasty Nancy and Barney Franks are never going to lose their seats to a Republican. Their districts have been carefully gerrymandered to ensure that. The only political threat that they realistically face is a primary challenge within their own party.
Dang nigh everybody is to the left of Jack Kennedy now! If JFK came back he would wonder how this socialist Rush Limbaugh got to be so popular on the radio.
Lunatic fringe...I know you’re out there.....
He’d have trouble in todays big business, big debt, big tax, big tent REPUBLICAN Party!
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