Posted on 06/06/2002 9:57:11 PM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99
Dear Mr. Robinson,
I have been a loyal member of the Free Republic since before the 2000 election. I have been a Conservative since the early days of Clinton. When I found this site, I thought "Thank God, people who think like me." I have continued to think this until the more recent days. Now, it seems that there are threads left and right bashing our President.
Why? There are things the President has done which I don't agree with but my loyality still lies with him. I am not sure if these "Bush-Bashers" fail to see the reality that with politics comes comprimise or it is something worse. I feel there is a cancer in the Free Republic. Some are eating their own.
I feel that some of these people are members of the dreaded democratic underground disguised as disgruntled conservatives. They are only here to stir up trouble. What's worse, they are doing just that. I am not sure what I think you should do.
As a conservative, I believe in our moral code but I also realize the reality of politics. I back our President but if he were doing something unsavory (like lying under oath,) I could not support him. This is unlike the left's clintonista dogma. What President Bush is doing is not betraying the conservative cause. He is using politics to confound the left. Those who do not understand this are either leftists themself or unable to separate themselves from their zealousness.
This is your show. You choose who gets to be a member and who does not. Those who break your rules are banished from the kingdom. I am not discouraging free speech, but this is free speech in your forum. These Bush-Bashers are brining us down. When this infighting happened in 1992, Bill Clinton got elected. let's not let that happen again.
Yours,
Big Guy and Rusty 99
I assume you would be first in line to offer your services as a Forum Czar. There may be an opening for such a job here:
So what exactly has Bush done since he's been in office to advance the conservative movement?
GWB killed the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming, for one.
GWB pulled the U.S. out of the CCCP-U.S. ABM Treaty, for another.
GWB backed and got our National Missile Defense program funded.
GWB Killed the International Criminal Court.
GWB repealed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off electricity production in California and causing electricity rates to spike.
GWB repealed OSHA's new ergonomic regulations that were about to put every home-based business in America out of commission.
GWB appointed Ashcroft and Ted Olsen, who just wrote to the Supreme Court that the 2nd Amendment is an INDIVIDUAL right, not the "collective right" that liberals have maintained for decades.
GWB signed the bill into law that gives pilots the right to arm themselves with firearms, a pleasant pro-gun victory on a national level (currently being stalled by Democratic Party holdover bureaucrat Norm Mineta in the DOT).
GWB killed the Left-Wing ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.
GWB instituted the first top-down review of our military in years, which concluded (prior to 9/11), that asymmetric attacks were our biggest future threat.
GWB killed the $11 Billion Crusader unguided munitions artillery boondoggle.
GWB killed federal funding of foreign "family planning" activities.
GWB ordered the Justice Department to finally enforce the SCOTUS Beck decision, giving union workers the right to recover any of their union dues that are used for political purposes with which they disagree.
Frankly, if you aren't aware of all that GWB has done to advance the Conservative movement (including implementing steel tariffs in order to encourage European nationalism via trade wars), then you simply aren't Conservative.
Only a liberal could be so blind as to not realize what all GWB has done for our cause (oh, did I mention that GWB got taxes cut twice, once for individuals and another for businesses - or that GWB has been OUTSTANDING prosecuting the War on Terror in Afghanistan??).
CFR as passed will do far more harm to the Dems than the Republicans, and after the SC gets thru with it, the Dems will have screwed themselves yet again. You must have missed those threads though, or were too busy being negative to understand anything, as usual.
I can't fathom how you arrived at that conclusion.
For instance, a spineless leader might lob a few cruise missiles at a few tents in Afghanistan rather than send American troops in on the ground.
A weak leader would hardly tell the UN to go get stuffed regarding their anti-Second Amendment Small Arms Trafficking Treaty, but Bush did.
Also, it would take a tough leader, someone stronger even than Ronald Reagan, to pull the U.S. comletely out of the U.S. - CCCP ABM treaty so that we could fund, test, and deploy our national missile defense system by 2004.
You just lost your fight and showed your real intent. I bet you think a vote for third party is a Dem vote also. Well lookie here what did I find in the Constitution about that very issue?
Second Article I do believe.
The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each state having one vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice President.
Where is it I can't seem to find the place that says only the Democratic and Republican Parties shall inherit the House, Senate, and Oval Office? It's not there. Nor was it intended to ever be there. IOW the Libertarians, Constitution, Reform, and yes even the Wacko Greenes have as much right to run canidates for office as does the Democratic & Republican Parties. That is good for this nation that is very good for it. It is good because it helps discourage what is happening now. One or two major political parties running a government of tyrants. If you think about it they were pretty smart to do this. They left us many means in which to change governments correction and correct wrongs. The ultimate and last resort being the very founding words themself the Declaration of Independence.
I try hard in here to respect all parties points of view and refrain from slang words for party supporters. But I will post on policies and directions I see wrong or right.
BTW I can say this as well if a GOP canidate stands on good footing I will vote for the person. If not I will look elsewhere. Now I ask you if you had a GOP canidate who was let's say the caliber of Jeffords or an Independent running for the same office who represented 85-90% of your core beliefs which would you vote for? Which one deserves your vote & support?
Broonm Hilda brought up a post about Dems being so loyal that is why they win. Maybe so. That as well serves to keep thieves, thugs, and other trash in office. That type of loyality no matter how tempting it looks is not a desirable political trait for good government. The best way to stop a person from going third party is to offer enough substance in their interest to make them stay. The Libertarians, Constitution, and Reform share enough common ground to make it possible. But for a former POTUS in a political convention to say Where else can they go is uncalled for arrogance that will make any self respecting person to tell that party to take a hike. The man deserved the canidates public rebuke. None was given. That was GOP convention 2000.
All of it. It's elitist and it would make some of us animals more equal than others. Monitoring such a program would be completely subjective at best.
Really, all of it? Why don't like that every lurker and poster could read every forum? Pleases be specific about what you dislike and why you dislike it?
it would make some of us animals more equal than others.
Do you think that the quality of a Freeper's posts that frequently attack other Freeper's is equal in quality to the posts of a Freeper's that never attacks other Freeper's? Or do you think that one is of greater quality and thus greater value to the forum than the other, if so which is of greater quality/value, the attack posts or the non-attack posts?
You might want to loosen that top button. (Oops, sorry for the personal attack). Society, and consequently FR, is messier than what you would desire. If you don't like what someone writes, either flame 'em or scroll past. Lighten up, my friend.
All of it. 523
Really, all of it? Why don't you like that every lurker and poster could read every forum?
I have some questions for you.
1. Does your copy spell it Revelations or Revelation?
2. Does your copy of Revelation(s) state the following in Chapter 1 Verse 4: John, To the seven churches in the provice of Asia?
3. In what year was Revelation(s) written?
4. Are you aware that there was an event in AD70, that fulfilled much, but not all of Revelation(s)?
5. How do you rectify the conflict of verses that say the second coming will be without sign(s) to that of supposed prophecies in Revelation(s)
6. Are you aware that there are at least 3 other views on the interpretation of Revelation(s) besides the Futurist view, and that all are far older, and don't take a Jack Van Impe to interpret, or re-re-interpret when things don't fit the previous interpretations?
7. And lastly, what verse(s) are you refering to that have to do with Christian genocide?(Answer this one, if one is all you answer, please.)
Thanks In Advance.
All that, plus the people who vocalize discontent contribute greatly to keeping our leaders on their toes. Certainly we're all pleased that our President is a good and decent man, but it also serves to remind him that while it's good to try and bring all our people together, that we have an agenda as conservatives that must be formost in his mind.
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