You: False. I asked which one of the two you would prefer, without respect to your vote.
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
This is completely ignoring the question of who you're voting for (or even if you're voting at all). And since "none of the above" is not a possible outcome, you're left with the outcome of Bush or a Democrat. Which one do would you prefer?
SO, as long as you stay on the reservation, play the game the way the powers that be demand, don't question authority and by all means, don't demand people to be held to a higher standard, then the GOP is for you? You, sir, are part of the problem.
"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."
As to your daughter, do you ever discipline her? Does she ever disappoint you> When she disobeys or disappoints, do you look the other way because she does other good things, or do you get her back focused on being the person you want her to be?. Unconditional love does not work in politics...tough love is needed.
Self serving Bravo Sierra. Would could get out of it if the Republicans had the cojones to do what is RIGHT by their oath of office and the Constitution. Mature adults wouldn't have to sit there and make excuses for lame ass candidates.
49% of the voting age, and voting elligible, population STAYED HOME last election. Only slightly less than half of that elected Bush through the brilliance of the electoral college. Keep crowing about having only 25% of the population backing you.
And you wonder why the poll numbers look horrible? Don't keep making the mistake of thinking the rest of us are as dumb as you are.
True.
You asked who I WANTED to win.
False. I asked which one of the two you would prefer, without respect to your vote.
And "none of the above" is certainly a more than reasonable answer to that question.
It is acceptable only if you're a moral coward.
I want neither of them to win.
The Universe doesn't give a hoot what you want.
Kinda sucks that I've been getting more of the same over here...
You: False. I asked which one of the two you would prefer, without respect to your vote.
Which indicates that they're content, overall, with the direction the country's going. Notice that they sure as hell didn't vote for your candidate.
Only slightly less than half of that elected Bush through the brilliance of the electoral college. Keep crowing about having only 25% of the population backing you.
And you wonder why the poll numbers look horrible? Don't keep making the mistake of thinking the rest of us are as dumb as you are.
I don't think you're as dumb as I am. I think you're expontentially dumber than I am, and far dumber as you are right now than I would be if I were to suddenly get Alzheimer's or dementia.
Bush has been going downhill slowly since the neo-con takeover of his administration. He needs to lop off the heads of those who bamboozled him on Iraq and that dividend tax cuts would produce jobs.
One on one conversation too much for you?
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Unfortunately, the first thing the Republicans would have to do to make your proposed effort stick would be to suspend the Constitutionally-required elections--or figure out a way to revoke the franchise to all but their loyal supporters, of equally dubious Constitutionality.
Another coward heard from.
For those of us living in the real world, yes it is... Vote for the Oompa-Loompas if you wish, our next President will come from either the GOP or DemocRATS. If you vote for the Oompa-Loompa, that is one less vote the Rats need to take the White House. I hope you don't live in Florida.
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