Posted on 02/02/2004 6:32:01 AM PST by robowombat
I’m Tired of Neo-Cons Being Tired of Conservatives
Okay, so George Bush has shown that his ‘compassionate conservatism’ is really socialism with conservative lip service. Bush has proven that he is a liberal with a thin veneer of faux conservatism covering the big-government, big-spending core of his true self. So what? As ‘good conservatives’ we should ‘remain focused’ and pull that Republican lever in the voting booth no matter what our lying eyes tell us? That is what establishment Republicans want their conservative base to do: “Sit down, shut up, and vote as we, the enlightened, anointed insiders tell you to.” Mind you, they don’t want you, the conservatives, the citizens that have remained true to the American Ideals of the founders, to think about how they are using you and are selling you down the river to special interest groups. The neo-cons that control the Republican Party today are hoping that rank and file conservatives will mindlessly vote for Bush, keeping their heads in the sand, until it’s too late and they’ve developed a new constituency to keep them in power. That new constituency will consist of newly married Log Cabin Republicans (gays), welfare dependents sucking up to the new government tit on the right, and amnestied illegals now eligible to vote (as well as more readily able to take your job because they’ll work for less, especially since you’re being taxed to pay their government supplementals that maintain their standard of living).
Establishment Republicans are coming out and trying to silence the uproar over Bush’s amnesty plan for illegals. The establishment types (neo-cons) are telling conservatives to keep it down and ‘look at the long view, the big picture.’ What crap! How many times do conservatives have to compromise their values, their beliefs, their standards? Why do we always have to give in but we don’t see anyone else giving in?
The latest in the string of ‘keep your mouths shut’ articles I’ve seen was on GOPUSA, by the president and CEO of that organization, Bobby Eberle. The title of his article was ‘Bush-Bashing Conservatives Should Focus on the Big Picture.’ I wrote Mr. Eberle to inform him that conservatives were keeping the big picture, that it was Bush who wasn’t. To me, Eberle’s article, along with all the other ‘hey conservatives, keep quiet about how Bush isn’t conservative’ articles are proof that conservatives and traditionalists are the embarrassing, if needed, stepchildren of the Republican Party. That in itself tells you the Republican Party is not conservative any more.
Given a laundry list of items, would any principled conservative vote for someone who: Continuously increases government spending, driving us deeper into debt; expands central government power over the states; undermines the Bill of Rights with bills such as the USA Patriot Act; cuts deals with other countries that undermine our economy via so-called free trade deals that only go one way (only out with our jobs and only in with products); wants to give millions of criminals (illegal aliens) a pass, thus not only blurring our boarder, but driving wages down and encouraging even more illegals to flood our markets in hopes of yet another amnesty a few years down the road? This is George Bush. He is no conservative. Why vote for a liberal in Republican clothing?
There was a political shift over the last twenty years in the South, as Southerners woke up to the fact that the Democratic Party had been taken over by socialists and no longer represented their interests, thus causing the huge migration to the ‘Party of Reagan.’ Southerners, and other conservatives and traditionalists, need to wake up to the fact that the Republican Party is morphing into merely an evil twin of the Democratic Party, and they need to migrate to another political entity. It could even happen this election year. The key is not which party conservatives and traditionalists are with, but that they stand by their ideals, stand on principle. The neo-cons have already shown that conservatives don’t have a seat at the table in the Republican Party, so why cast our lot with them?
Here’s something else to consider: Even if the House of Representatives kill this amnesty plan of Bush’s, and the establishment Republicans wink at conservatives and traditionalists saying, “Hey, we knew it wouldn’t pass, we just wanted to influence Hispanic votes by acting like we care,” don’t buy it. If the plan goes down to defeat this summer, once Bush gets re-elected in November you can bet it will be back with a vengeance, and the House and Senate will pass the amnesty plan. Nothing in the past 10 years, since the ‘Republican Revolution,’ shows me that the Republicans are conservative or mean anything they say concerning supporting conservative positions. No, there won’t be a socialist getting my vote this year, be he Democrat or be he Republican. As for me, I’ll be voting conservative, which means most likely the Constitution Party. I’m not throwing my vote away; Bush threw it away with everything he and the neo-cons have done for the last four years.
29 January 2004
Jeff Adams
I'm not amputating my foot to spite the wart on my toe.
I'd rather not sacrifice an entire generation to an avoidable war that will kill millions, whose outcome is anything but certain.
I just can't see it that way. :/
Well rub those brain cells together and tell me what percentage you support of his domestic policy?
Do you support his prescription plan for seniors?
How bout his expanded federal involvement in education?
His expansion of the NEA? do you support that?
How about his willingness to sign the nations biggest pork bill in history into law? Did you support that?
Did you support his extension of unemployment benefits in perpetuity?
How about his growing of medicare? Did you support that?
Did you support his statement of affirmation in support of assault weapons bans?
How about his massive increases in foreign aid?
His giving Clinton a pass of prosecution? Did you support that?
When Pat Buchanan or some other "paleo" wins more than 1% of the vote in a national election, page me.
I repeat...What's your suggestion?
More of that breathtaking arrogance, you guys really take it to an art form...
Someone disagrees with you on the best strategy on how to get conservative values implemented in the political arena.... so they are automatically a leftist in your mind.
Sorry, YOU are the only advocating actions and ideals that will assist a leftist in taking the White House. How quickly will Kerry shackle America to the will and whim of the U.N. and the socialists in charge?
Goody for you, you worked and campaigned... so did many of us. Not enough of us or not hard enough, because the LEFTISTS convinced more mushy middles to cross to the Dark Side and the whole country has been turning pink.
It was you who chose to be insulting.
You can live with the result.
Someone disagrees with you on the best strategy on how to get conservative values implemented in the political arena.... so they are automatically a leftist in your mind.
You are not a leftist because you disagree with me.
You are a leftist because you support the government seizure and redistribution of wealth at gunpoint.
Don't like the sound of it?
Maybe you need to rethink your position.
Stop cheerleading.
Start criticizing.
If you don't criticize it.... they think you like it.
What's that story about a spec in someone else's eye, and a log in your own
Now get yourself a dictionary and a mirror and look up the word "anal" and it will all make sense to you, in your Nickelodeon world
But when you allow that "wart" to remain, untreated, and spread to many "warts" and it soon infects your whole body and becomes much worse, then shame on you. I'm not saying to amputate...I say treat...and the treatment is uniting now and showing GWB we are serious, not forgiving. And if not heard, amputation is the next thing needed to save the body.
I will not give the Democrats the opportunity to make 2 possibly 3 appointments to the Supreme Court either, which is what your strategy of "deal with in now rather than later" will accomplish.
So, I may have a pain in my body... but I will not cut my nose off to spite my face in hopes that is the cure.
Did you see the list posted on FR last week of conservative positions Bush has taken in his first 36 months in office? I printed it out. The list was seven pages long. Seven pages of itemized conservative positions from this Administration, and you pick on what?...one or two pet peeves? You say you're tired of "neos-" attacking "conservatives", but I'm tired of people who have narrowed the "conservative" position down to one or two pet issues and positions. If you can't see the big picture, you're not much use to the conservative movement in this country.
Most of those I don't support.
I did support the changes to Medicare, but then again so did Newt.
The increases to foreign aid I support if they resulted from deals with countries that are helping us quietly scoop up terrorists (for example the base we promised Yemen).
NEA I don't like but it's a piddly amount really. I will, however, support it entirely if Bush has been planning to use that increase to the NEA as political cover to yank funding from the CPB (which looks like it will be going into play).
The more important question here which gives YOU a chance to rub your brain cells together.... how much of each item has the backing of more than half the American voter pool? THAT is political reality and THAT is where we are falling down on the job and THAT is what Bush is stuck dealing with.
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