I love you too my wittle smoochy-hoochy-woochy!
oh JAYZUS H., I lifted that pic off some fruit's website... oh well
Posted on 01/31/2004 12:41:27 PM PST by jimkress
Had dinner with an old friend last night, a long-time Republican political operative who – in 1981 – talked me into taking a sabbatical from journalism and going to Washington as a press secretary to Congressman Paul Findley.
He’s been a Republican all his life. Grew up in a GOP family. Served more than one term as a county chairman as well as a Republican National Committeeman.
So it surprised me when he opened the dinner table conversation with: “I’m not going to vote for George W. Bush in November. I may vote for John Kerry if he’s the Democratic nominee.”
Strange things can happen in this world. Joe Gibbs can come out of retirement to coach the Washington Redskins one more time. Hell, the Carolina Panthers might even win the Super Bowl. But when a lifelong Republican tells me he might vote for John Kerry, I wait for a voice to start saying “you’re entering another dimension…next stop – The Twilight Zone.”
“I’m a Republican because I believe in less government, of letting states make the decisions that affect our lives,” he said. “I believe in a balanced budget. But my party no longer believes in any of these things. I can’t be a part of what I think is destroying this country.”
His comments echo what I have been hearing after three weeks on the campaign trail. Republicans are fed up with an administration that has created the largest federal bureaucracy ever, with record deficits and with increasing federal power and control over our lives.
But they’re not just fed up with George W. Bush, they’re fed up with a Republican-controlled Congress that passed the largest, most pork-laden transportation bill in history, that abandoned its promise to impose term limits and that broke most of the promises of the 1994 “Contract With America” that gave them control of Capitol Hill in the first place.
My friend’s theory: “You know the old bromide that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely? Well, my party has taken it step further. Absolute power leads to madness. It makes me, a Republican, long for Democrats back in control. That is pure madness but I can’t help it.”
I’ve been around politics as a journalist or an operative for nearly 40 years and the dissension within the GOP is the worst I’ve ever seen. At a Republican caucus earlier this week, California Republican Congressman Chris Cox headed a group of conservative members who told Speaker of the House Denny Hastert that a GOP Congress was being undermined by Bush's actions in the White House. One member reportedly said a GOP Congress could deal more effectively with a Democrat in the White House than they can with Bush.
“At least we know what to expect from a Democratic President,” he said.
So witty and so creative, and soooo typical. I expected no less.
Richard W.
Funny, in all the years I've been posting on FR, I've NEVER done this to ANY poster.
Maybe because though I take issue with something posted, I don't take issue with the poster let alone do research on "what else" they post about.
That sounds way too personal. It sounds like stalking to me.
I think you really like Howlin. :)
Gonna be reeeeal dramatic watching the panic set in when on November 6th 2004 a Zogby poll projects Dubya on the south end of 52%-48% results. In their usual naiviety, the Bushies will be wondering just how Franken-Kerry got the numbers and lay the blame on the evil "conservative fringe."
By the way don't you wish you could post a link. Most bushbots can with training. :-)
Blame Bush.
10 MILLION ILLEGAL MIGRANTS being granted amnesty isn't going over that great either."
LOL -- I'm beginning to think there's a genetic malfunction somewhere in that family. Who advising Dubya? Is he that disconnected with the citizenry? How do average Americans -- both Republican and Democrat -- NOT strongly resent this move??
I don't do links and neither do I care to learn how to.
It's a pity that you never managed to get any higher in school, than the second grade.;^)
Pullin' for 1,000!!
Now there is your problem, you need to learn how to open your mind to new and different ways of seeing the world. That way a second rate illiterate like me won't be so easily able to out smart you.
Well it beer time, gotta go.
And where's my pound of flesh for a President making a mockery of new citizenry qualifications (a pulse), and NOT enforcing U.S. sovereignty? Who do I b*tch and moan to when my medical bills and insurance double and my taxes blown through the roof because socialism and Euro-style freebie-ism has totally infested MY country?
It's time to hold the President's feet to the fire. Draw the line in the sand. Say enough is enough. If you won't do it, fall back.
Points of light, OR illegal aliens?
I love you too my wittle smoochy-hoochy-woochy!
oh JAYZUS H., I lifted that pic off some fruit's website... oh well
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