Posted on 11/23/2011 9:34:55 AM PST by ken21
OK, thanks. Doesn’t make sense to me. I fear we’re not a center right nation as much as we used to be. No, we’re not Europe yet as the election of 2010 demonstrated but we’ve raised a lot of generations on entitlements since the Reagan years and so many don’t know any other way of life. On the brighter side, there is more of a conservative media now than we had in the 80s which brings me back to the quesion, where are the conservative candidates?
No he's not, he may be on social issues but on fiscal ones he's super RINO. Remember he was the author of the prescription Drug pandering act.
But Rush is partially right, Fiscal Conservatism wins every time while Social Conservatism repels.
Example, Stem cells. In Red Missouri it was fought as a social issue and Conservatives lost, while the next year in Blue New Jersey it was fought as a fiscal issue and the result was Conservatives won.
Did you have to switch? I thought NH had an open primary.
I have family in TX that switched to vote for Hillary in Operation Chaos.
i've Been havinG thAt prOblem tOO, eVer siNce thE SHIFT Key hIt thE faN.
You can vote in either party’s primary if you are not enrolled in a party, but I was registered as a Republican, so I had to switch.
“Never did I think Barack Hussein Obama was electable.”
Nor I. His name alone (not his fault) I thought made him unelectable.
“Why aren’t sociocons rallying behind Santorum? “
They (we?) perceive him as not charismatic enough to win a national race, I think.
It is hard for me to decide who to vote for in the primary. Should I vote for the person I’d most like to see in office? That would probably be Santorum. Or should I vote for the person most likely to beat Obama? Not sure who that would be.
“while Social Conservatism repels.”
No, studies have shown there is a pro-life increment.
Those who will vote for someone because they are pro-life exceed those who will vote against them for the same reason; and those who will vote for someone because they support abortion are a smaller faction than those who will vote against them for the same reason.
Further, the majority of the states have passed laws/amendments that define marriage as between a man and a woman, in proactive defense against the homosexual agenda.
The ‘center’ is where EVERYONE on the circumference can take a crap on you...no thanks, No Mitt (just no, in general), No Newt (amnesty), no Perry (amnesty)....
Gaming the system will bite you in the ass. Despite what Rush STILL proclaims about his anti-Hillary campaign to urge voters to vote for Obama, he just plain a$$ effed up in my opinion. He’s not as smart as he thinks.
I’m for ABO. Whatever it takes.
All sovereign governments around the world have borrowed more than they can repay.
Major banks own far too much of this debt to remain solvent when the governments default.
Unions and regulation and the prospect of $15 trillion in U.S. government debt which increases by more than $1 trillion every year are keeping the b2b tier of jobs in America slashed to a minimum.
Democrats are not going to take the correct actions.
Therefore by the fall of 2012 the economy will be faring anywhere from the same to much worse.
A centrist Republican will simply oversee continued collapse between 2013 and 2016 as they try to keep both personal and corporate parasites profiting from government largesse.
The debt ceiling will be hit again in 2013. If it is increased yet again, the wheels will start coming off at some point, as U.S. dollar creation by the Treasury/Fed combo starts to spiral.
You can’t keep borrowing increasing amounts from future taxpayers forever.
A centrist Republican will simply oversee continued collapse between 2013 and 2016 as they try to keep both personal and corporate parasites profiting from government largesse.
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agree with all of your comments.
how to convince others on this forum and the country?
I. Spread small business acumen.
There are examples of small businesses all over. Small business is within reach of the poorest people. They simply need consulting. Everybody wants to succeed financially.
As people who are poor learn about how to run a small business, they need to get accounting 101 in their brain: a simple p & l and balance sheet.
1 or 2 courses at a community college, or a few nights after work with a consultant - or a mentor.
Let small business people tell tales of woe about getting into debt and bankruptcy: how did it happen.
Let small business people share tales of success: one step at a time, no flash in the pan, just hard work, some smarts, and sticking to principles. And the avoidance of using debt or equity in place of revenue.
The more solidly people understand p & l and balance sheet, the more horrifying the finances of the Federal government look.
II. Show how the Bible contains specific orders which have the effect of avoiding problems.
I won’t get “preachy”, just will assist the person who comes to me with analytically reviewing the text. let’s make a list of things I can do to mess up my life, and then find the corresponding directive from the Bible that if I had not been so boneheaded and just followed that directive I would have avoided the problem altogether. But someone has to ask me or they won’t listen to the analysis.
Not trying to convince the poor rube of anything, or force anything on them, just saying, hey, dude, if you read the manual you could have avoided that brick wall.
No other book or teaching is as helpful to the individual personally.
But they can take it or leave it.
In short, the solid foundation of Christ that America was built on is being removed and replaced with the sand of immorality. We the people - not the government - need to bring the foundation back, piece by piece, sweeping out the sand as we replace each stone. Politicians are like reeds in the wind: if their constituents consistently reject those who would destroy America and instead insist on a decent Judeo-Christian society with a government that governs least, they will grant it to them. We must speak louder - and more often - than lobbyists.
III. Study European history.
We’ve got the latest upgrades to government, with all the updates and fixes, applied to the American framework. Trouble is, we have bad data. (not enough moral people). And the framework doesn’t handle immorality in it’s people. It never has, and this latest version still does not.
It’s all been done before; clear specific examples help. I love the one about inflation wreaking havoc on the economy of the Spanish empire. And they had gold currency. Biff (the average rube) has not been told about these things in Propaganda school. European history there is limited to “white people=bad”. European history was originally a problem because there were so many Roman Catholic immigrants and Protestants going to public school, so the Reformation and early America must have been a touchy subject. Instead of refraining from pointing fingers and making a quality study of things, I guess it started to get glossed and skipped over. From the mid-1800’s on history started being slowly twisted. Now it’s avoided because the Propaganda schools are run by communists - who fear and loathe both Protestants and Roman Catholics equally (who says they aren’t fair ?). So the significance and relationship of such history as that of the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, the Protectorate, etc., are boiled down into a comic-book understanding instead of a thoughtful, thorough and honest exploration of the struggles and politics that had such an obvious and large influence on the design of American government.
So the big secrets are kept secret. Why are the 1st Amendment freedom of religion clauses there ? Because of the experiences in European history - for no other reason. But if one does not know those historic experiences one can not understand anything about the 1st Amendment. It’s like we have a fence around our henhouse to keep the fox out, but we only see the fence, we’ve never seen a fox and don’t understand the fox at all. The fence is now a splitrail fence, it’s around our house instead of the henhouse, and the gate opens only from the outside.
IV. Be the media.
Break stories like...
* the actual text of laws and regulations
* government financial information
* the actions of members of Congress
* etc.......
Short and to the point so eyes don’t glaze over.
Things that cause rubes to wake up and know that they’re being had. One of my favorites is info on how morality laws were all sneakily repealed since the 1960’s. People born after that time never really saw morality laws have any effect since they were being “phased out”, and they don’t realize that up until then morality laws kept deviant people in public office from passing laws that promoted deviancy, since those laws would have contradicted existing laws. The “phase out” of morality laws paved the way for the government to promote immorality as a right, contradicting the laws of 2,000 years of Western civilization. While all individuals were not moral during that time by any means, the laws enacted by Christian governments were aimed at Biblical standards.
Many today think we have a “new way”, “new thinking”, a “modern world”. Arrogantly and ignorantly they think this, despite some in every generation before thinking the same thing and being just as wrong. There is no “new way” when it comes to truth. Truth has been there all along and will always be there, unchanging. Working for living and not getting into debt are as timeless as 2 + 2 = 4. Social conservatives need to go forth and evangelize the huddled masses so they can get in on this truth; only then will they escape the lie of collectivism and statism to finally be free.
Show how the Bible contains specific orders which have the effect of avoiding problems.
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amen.
my wife and i read the Bible an hour per day, every day before we start our day.
thank you,
ken
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