GOP ABANDONS PRINCIPLE, ENDANGERS FUTURE

boblonsberry.com ^ | 09/19/05 | Bob Lonsberry

[shortstop]

I would have to have a gun to my head to vote for Hillary. That being said, I agree with Lonsberry that, in general, the Republicans have been a disappointment for the past few years. My specific gripes: prescription drug plan and our wide open borders. I realize this has been a hot topic on FR especially for the past few days. If anything, the President and Republican Congress' performance of late will cause Republicans to stay home from the polls, rather than cause votes for Hillary!

[Brilliant]

There really isn't a whole lot of difference between the Dems and GOP at this point.

[prion]

Unfortunately, the fact may remain that we will find ourselves so desperate that, like a beaten wife returning to her abuser, we will take the devil we know over the devil we don?t know.

Wrong cliche. It's not the devil we don't know, it's the lesser of two evils.

I'll keep voting for them, because the alternative is worse. But a savvy Republican candidate will pick up on the restlessness and disaffection of the base and play to it.

[mlc9852]

I think the biggest differences are with social issues and that will get people to the polls. I doubt Hillary will be elected president.

[2banana]

It was Tom DeLay, supposed conservative Republican leader of the House, who said that the bloated, immoral and fundamentally socialist federal budget had no more room for cuts. He said that everything that could be cut out of it had been cut out of it.

It was, of course, a preposterous statement, a sign of just how dead the Republican spirit has become.

I agree with much of this article, however, when you read the actual Delay statement, it was extremely tongue in cheek - ie - sarcasm. The author must double check his facts.

[Graybeard58]

I would have to have a gun to my head to vote for Hillary

I'd have to think about it.

What caliber are we talking about here?

[hubbubhubbub]

I agree, they both use the Treasury to buy elections. The problem is now the Treasury is full of debt rather than assets.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" I'll keep voting for them, because the alternative is worse." ........
You are absolutely correct on that.

[clee1]

Agreed. I past tired of holding my nose and voting for the lesser-of-two-evils.

If Hitlery is the Rat nominee, I'll vote against her as NOTHING could be worse for our Nation than the Clintons getting back into the White House. Otherwise, I'll stay home unless the Republicans run a real conservative.

That said, I'm starting to like Mike Pence R-IN, and would happily vote for him; or someone like him - a REAL conservative.

[TexasCajun]

I wonder if GHWB and Barbara discussed this with Bill & Hillary over dinner last night?

[MEGoody]

::::Yawn:::: Yet another whine about how no one is truly conservative but _____ (fill in name of whiner).

[Tatze]

There really isn't a whole lot of difference between the Dems and GOP at this point.

While I understand the sentiment behind that statement, I have to respectfully disagree. The GOP has certainly moved to the left and look a lot like the Dems. But the Dems have also moved to the left and are more and more becoming socialists. So there is a difference. One is far left. The other is only left.

(BTW, This is my 1,000th post!!! Yeah, me!)

[roses of sharon]

What? I thought the right was convinced that the country was mostly conservative?

We have been being told that the vaunted American public on the whole had common sense?

LOL, I hope they do vote for Hill, because in some ways, they deserve her.

[roses of sharon]

If Republicans stay home and let Hillary win, then your right, it puts the lie that the liberal media is on its way out, and proves that the vaunted American public is easily manipulated.

[Khepera]

So how would you market conservitive ideas to the liberal democratic base? Sounds like the Republicans want to stay in office long enough to at least accomplish something. In order to stay in office they must convince those who normally vote for socialists to vote for Republicans.

[Shalom Israel]

I'll keep voting for them, because the alternative is worse.

Clinton spent less than Bush. "The alternative is worse" is not true anymore.

[r9etb]

Mark my word.

Which word? "The?"

Mr. Lonsberry: if you can't even get the simplest common expressions right, why should we "mark your words" about anything else?

Just another yap-o-yawner....

[WhiteGuy]

" I'll keep voting for them, because the alternative is worse." ........ You are absolutely correct on that

I don't see how.................

dem in the WH, gop congress..............GRIDLOCK

[prion]

Clinton spent less than Bush. "The alternative is worse" is not true anymore.

If spending is the only issue you care about.