Posted on 07/07/2013 11:01:39 AM PDT by jimbo123
Former President George W. Bush today cheered on the progress in pushing comprehensive immigration reform through Congress.
The legislative process can be ugly, Bush said with a chuckle in an interview aired today on ABCs This Week. But it looks like they're making some progress.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
GOP Amnesty Day is July 10th! Call your REP!
I am now permanently cured of the lesser of two evils theory. Its keeps us on the GOP plantation just like the Dems keep the blacks on the Democrat plantation.
Same here. Never again.
It’s time for a no compromise, conservative, third party.
It would take off like a wild fire.
Some alternative. It's like getting to choose between the guillotine or the electric chair.
No, he just prefers his gay on the side.
Not sure I am. I and many others voted third party in 92. The result - Clinton was elected.
What's worse, he was elected as the economy had already recovered and the Tech Boom was about to take off, so he and the Dems got credit for all of the good that happened. That has left us at a disadvantage ever since, and may help Hillary get into the White House next. Why? Because so many of us went third party.
Pretending that this "GOPe" entity forced the primary voters to choose McCain and Romney is delusional. We keep getting RINOs because the voters elect them, and we'll keep getting them until we win Americans over to Conservative values. Unfortunately, blaming the "GOPe" is the easier way out, but all it will do is divide our vote. The result? The Democrats win.
IMHO.
The reason to pass immigration reform is not to bolster a a Republican Party. It's to fix a system that's broken. Good policy yields good politics as far as I'm concerned, he said.
"I promise to support you on ramming Amnesty down the serfs' throats at just the right time. In the meantime I'll remain as silent as a doormouse as you become Dictator and trash the country."
Sure take back your votes so we could have president Al Gore followed by president John Kerry. The mind boggles.
For the record, I will quit the republican party if they pass amnesty. Bush is a pro amnesty Texan but his quote doesn’t rise to the level of the headline.
“So W finally decides to stick his nose back into government, and he chooses this issue? .”
Why, oh why, did we ever elect this a$$hole? The only justification was that his opponents were worse, but that’s no excuse for the Republicans running this turd! He was a lousy president, and I hate to admit that those who said he was “not bright” were right. Finally, through his inactions ( he was essentially a one issue president, the war, and he failed at that) he handed the presidency to a Maxist half-breed! Way to go GOPe! And to think I sat up nights worrying that he might loose, both times.
If they pass amnesty you won’t have to worry about voting anymore.
I stopped supporting you the first time you tried to jam this up our collective stove pipe george... and I will fight you and this idea harder than I did before... and that was something in itself!
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I was a huge W fan way back when.
Boy, was I an unschooled, naive dummy.
Think of it this way. The Republican party is going hard left, and fast. Eventually sodomite marriage will be the law of the land. Do you think the GOP will still stand against it? No....too many of them are already caving. The party will give in completely and officially sanction homo marriage.
Will you still be willing to vote for a party that openly spits in God’s eye, and gives approval to what He calls an abomination?
If so, it's because the voters are going hard left. Everybody keeps missing or evading that point.
Eventually sodomite marriage will be the law of the land. Do you think the GOP will still stand against it?
That depends on whether the voters elect true Conservatives or RINOs.
No....too many of them are already caving. The party will give in completely and officially sanction homo marriage.
If/when that happens, it will be because of the leaders the voters chose.
Will you still be willing to vote for a party that openly spits in Gods eye, and gives approval to what He calls an abomination?
Depends. Give me a Conservative third party candidate that has a chance of winning, and I'm in. Otherwise, it comes down to voting for the lesser evil or making it easier for the greater evil to win. We had that choice in 1992, and we ended up with Clinton. I will NOT make that mistake again.
Not all of us, by a long shot. Even so, I'm not a lemming....I'm not going to jump on board with that garbage.
Eventually sodomite marriage will be the law of the land. Do you think the GOP will still stand against it?
"That depends on whether the voters elect true Conservatives or RINOs."
If they're going left, as you say, they won't elect conservatives. Besides, the GOP has always been moderate; conservatives' views are a barely-tolerated embarrassment.
"Will you still be willing to vote for a party that openly spits in Gods eye, and gives approval to what He calls an abomination?
"Depends. Give me a Conservative third party candidate that has a chance of winning, and I'm in. Otherwise, it comes down to voting for the lesser evil or making it easier for the greater evil to win. We had that choice in 1992, and we ended up with Clinton. I will NOT make that mistake again."
It "depends" on whether you'll sanction abomination and perversion to win elections? Well, you certainly have the right, but leave me out. There are more important things than elections. I'll never give a vote to a party which calls homosexuals' filthy, germ-ridden anal obsession "marriage." At that point, you might as well sign up and vote leftwing; there'll be no difference.
Moot point. If we don't win Americans over to Conservative values, then consoling ourselves by saying we didn't support RINOs won't change what the Dems do to our freedoms.
If they're going left, as you say, they won't elect conservatives. Besides, the GOP has always been moderate; conservatives' views are a barely-tolerated embarrassment.
They are going left, and we aren't getting Conservatives. I know that blaming it on this "GOPe" entity is easier than trying to win Americans to Conservative values, but the end result is that we'll still lose.
It "depends" on whether you'll sanction abomination and perversion to win elections? Well, you certainly have the right, but leave me out.
We have to win Americans over to Conservative values. Choosing instead to take the easy way out and blame the fictitious "GOPe" will only enable the abomination, whether you voted against sanctioning it or not.
You go ahead and hail that, G.W. Bush, and I will hell you. Go straight to hell, Mr.Bush.
No, but Bush criticized conservatives for simply bringing up the marriage issue. He said why should we heterosexuals criticize gays for a “speck” (it’s more than a speck!) in their eyes when we have a “log” in our own eye (a high divorce rate).
This was a direct slam at social conservatives. Regardless of our own sins, we conservatives have an obligation to point out what the Bible says about homosexuality. Why didn’t the Christian Bush do that?
By the way, he did endorse traditional marriage in his 2004 campaign, but very reluctantly. Meanwhile his squishy pro-choice liberal wife told social conservatives not to focus on the marriage issue in the campaign. That’s the same point as her husband is making today. Pretty pathetic.
The GOP is becoming as much of a threat to our freedoms. What's going to be left when amnesty is pushed through? Yet we see one Republican quisling after another coming out to support it. The same will be true of sodomite marriage when they think the time is right. It will be the same poison with different labels.
"They are going left, and we aren't getting Conservatives. I know that blaming it on this "GOPe" entity is easier than trying to win Americans to Conservative values, but the end result is that we'll still lose."
Who said anything about blaming an "entity" in place of espousing conservative values? That's your assumption. But I'm under no illusions about where the Republicans are headed.
"We have to win Americans over to Conservative values. Choosing instead to take the easy way out and blame the fictitious "GOPe" will only enable the abomination, whether you voted against sanctioning it or not."
You keep parroting that same phrase instead of responding to my points. Look, you've admitted that you might vote for the GOP even if the party openly supported sodomite marriage. That's your unfortunate choice, but it will never be mine. Neither will I support a party which pushes amnesty for illegals and the resulting destruction of our country. And the resulting hell I catch from folks who argue the "lesser of two evils" crap to me will be considered a badge of honor.
"the fictitious "GOPe"
(shaking head)
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