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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.

[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?

[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).

[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.

[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....

[Waywardson]

And she will have won the White House because the Republicans stopped being Republicans.

Mark my word.

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Many of us have been saying this for 5 years. It's only gotten worse not better. This stunt of putting Roberts as CJ is the last straw or the last hope. Time will tell. And time will tell us very soon, this fall even. What I mean by this is thus: If he turns out to be less than Conservative, then we have been betrayed on all fronts: Economic and Social. If he turns out to be as Conservative as some hope, and if Bush stays true to his next nomination as well, and thus if we end up with a real constitutional court who undoes the last 40 years of socialism, it will be worth whatever price economically we have to pay. It will be worth it, in the same way that the spending on starwars was worth seeing "that wall torn down". Bush is right on one thing so far: Taking the war to the terrorists. If he is right on the SC then, by default he will be right on fiscal policy and will have supremely bought us our freedom and liberty back at what history may yet call a bargin price. Time alone will tell.

[Sloth]

Except, of course, that we are simply too dumb to ever wise up. We'll keep pulling the 'R' lever like a battered wife returning to her husband, who promises he'll stop drinking so much and won't beat her anymore. Deep down we know the abuse won't really stop, but even deeper we secretly think we deserve it.

Conservatives are to Republicans as blacks are to Democrats.

[x]

The election is still two years away, and if the Republicans choose a very dynamic candidate he or she won't be in Bush's shadow. But it only takes a few Republican voters in key states staying home to give the election to the Democrats. It's not that they'll turn to the Democrats, it's just that they won't bother with the election. If you don't use ideological appeals and philosophical differences they rust away and after a while they don't work any more.