You know, it’s clear a (lot) of Republicans see what’s going on. Many are increasingly disillusioned by what’s happening.
My own revulsion toward President Bush (43) who I voted for and supported - began when he used the term “vigilante” to describe.
Me.
I think a whole lot of Republicans are adhering bitterly to “free trade” because they’ve been told it’s what conservatives should do.
Never mind whether it’s a good idea.
Increasingly the evidence is all around us, it’s not a good idea at all.
The time is ripe for some Republican with a pair to stand up in front of America and proclaim loudly and without hesitation that the “free trade” emperor isn’t actually wearing anything.
That will be the first beginnings, of a GOP resurgency.
And an American resurgency.
Time is short though. Someone needs to wake the heck up.
We are totally on the same wave length. I think ‘free trader’ is usually synonymous with rino. These are the people who are corporate shills, who will do anything that the big corporate interests want. They are on their payroll and the big money interests are their ticket to fame and fortune. When I speak of the big corporate interests I don’t mean that big business is necessarily bad. I think some big companies do good things and appear to be run fairly but some other companies have cutthroat ruthless policies, especially those who have no honor towards their American workers.
The Republican Party is supposed to do what is best for the country, it is not supposed to be the paid servants of the monied classes. We should not be anti-business or anti-corporations but we should not be ready to rubber stamp everything they want either.
Your comment about George W. Bush calling you a “vigilante”, this is exactly what happened to me. It was the illegal immigration problem that opened my eyes to the Bush/McCain brand of Republican politics. Even Arnold Schwarzeneggar made a similar comment to a citizen who asked him what he was going to do about illegal immigration. He later made some absurd comment about how shocked he was at the amount of racism there was. This was in reference to the question he got from this citizen at the town hall meeting. I was furious at him for disrespecting this woman who used a rare opportunity to speak to the governor regarding this nation-threatening issue. He just blew her off then obliquely referred to her as a nativist or racist when he was on tv the next day.
The issue of illegal immigration and free trade made me see the phoney heartless side of the rinos. They couldn’t care less if we drop dead. And that is how I feel about them. Maybe finding decent Republicans is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but I am going to keep looking until I find some. One thing that I have learned is that you cannot accept politicians at face value and you must try to find out as much as you can about them.