Unlike this guy...
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 hate to tell you this: your vote's been written off. It was written off a long time ago when the GOP realized that you would NEVER vote GOP, unless the GOP ran a candidate that appealed to only 5% of the electorate. So they're not going to bother keeping you happy, except as a charity deal.
And if you're expecting to continue to receive charity, I would suggest that you adopt a more gracious manner in accepting it--or even the charity will end.
Tancredo. Paul. McClintock. Dozens of other REAL Conservative Republicans already in office that are every bit as electable and infinitely more conservative than your boy George.
If the election were held in their district, and ONLY their district, you might have a point. Unfortunately, the election will be held across the country, and McClintock's demonstrated that he simply can't run an effective campaign outside of his district. Tancredo and Paul, at least, are smart enough to realize that their electability is in direct proportion to their distance from home--i.e., the further from home they are, the fewer votes they get.
Bob Dornan's campaign would, if you were at all attuned to reality, show you what happens when one of your "other REAL Conservative Republicans already in office that are every bit as electable and infinitely more conservative" folks goes for the Presidency.
Voting for the lesser of two evils only works if the "lesser" evil actualy is the lesser. With a $2.4 trillion dollar budget loaded full of pork and not a single veto... are you sure you got the right guy?
You have a choice.
Bush, or a Democrat.
Which one do you favor?
I intend to exert my rights and vote for someone else, or no one at all.
I didn't ask you to indicate which one you would vote for.
I asked you which one of the two you prefer to see in the Oval Office on January 20th, 2005. "None of the above" is not an acceptable choice in this matter, because one of them WILL be in the Oval office.
Pick one or the other, and state your choice publicly, good sir.
Sorry, until you morons can figure out how to put up a candidate that doesn't have a "teaspoon full of feces", don't count on the rest of us getting as orgasmic as you.
Try as you may, you will never get any thinking person to agree with your childish "choice" scam.
A higher office than McClintock, Tancredo, or Paul have been elected to.
Sorry, until you morons can figure out how to put up a candidate that doesn't have a "teaspoon full of feces", don't count on the rest of us getting as orgasmic as you.
For what it's worth, I have a six-year-old daughter who's much more mature than you are. She understands that "holding her breath until she turns blue" is not a recipe for getting her way.
Until you and your fellow "true conservatives" actually win elections and put politicians in your debt, you're going to get your way only as recipients of political charity. Learn to be gracious--because even the most charitable among us don't like giving stuff away to ingrates. The GOP is going to put its neck on the line for the folks who actually vote for GOP candidates--not for folks (like you) who are very long on demands and very short on votes.
Allow me to point out that McClintock ended up not being even as electable as an Austrian body-builder/actor.
And I haven't noticed Paul or Tancredo ever attempting any office higher than where they have been for years. If you think they are so electable, then get them to run.
Excuse me, dips**t, but learn to read-a-da-f***ing EENGLEESH!
Which one--without respect to your worthless vote, which the GOP wrote off after you and your ilk no-showed in 2000--do you wish to see in the White House?
Unlike this guy...
A predictable descent into adolescent name calling.
Which one do you wish to see in the White House?
A reading comprehension refresher course might be in order for you. The question was asked and answered. Try not to hyperventilate.
My Hero's have always been cowboys
Wow... aren't you important.
You can say nasty words and everything.
You're right. I've known many honorable dips**ts.
You're just a coward.
A reading comprehension refresher course might be in order for you. The question was asked and answered. Try not to hyperventilate.
Well, coward, A question was answered.
Unfortunately, it wasn't the one asked, and the answer did you no credit.
Of course you have.
You're a republican party official.
When party became more important than principle.
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