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
You are confused on a great many things. No suprise considering your posting history and the politics you espouse.
And no. I firmly believe that in a free society you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard. Harsh language is no affront to me and as a former Marine I can cuss with the worst of 'em. You definately fit the bill to play the cat in the next round however.
My remark has nothing whatsoever to do with anything, other than your apparent inability to stand behind your own words.
I find it peculiar that you ping in others when you're getting spanked.
It bothers you to have others who disagree with you able to readily see your posts.
It bothers me not a wit...
Ping who you like.
It's simply funny to note that you don't have the stones to stand on your own two feet.
Does it matter?
Matter how?
Are you asking about my preference?
Childish rhetoric? Since when is sticking up for the very BASIS, the foundation of our REPUBLIC, "childish rhetoric"?
Anything contrary to the koolaid set, is "childish rhetoric".
C'mon man... you just understand.
He has to be a flaming liberal lefty now, so he can be conservative later.
Just you wait... it'll happen.
At midnight...
The Conservative Great Pumpkin rises from the leftist pumpkin patch, and leaves presents for all the apologists.
Just you wait Charlie Brown.
The sneering name-calling when they are losing a debate is what I find so vile about the left... it is particularly loathsome when we see it on the right. So many of these "purist" conservatives use the same debating tactics as the "purist" lefties... why IS that?
It still hasn't dawned on you yet, that it is YOU who represent the left in this discussion.
Probably never will.
Oh well.
Enough G*dd*mn excuses for not doing their job.
"A democrat who believes we should give immediate citizenship to illegal aliens."
Or a Republican who believes in amnesty for illegals as well, just a bit slower to citizenship (more palatable, I assume).
"A democrat who believes we should have socialized health care."
Or a Republican who takes incremental steps to get us there.
"A democrat who will make judicial appointments that are so liberal we can expect to see more judges who support the more perverse elements of our society."
Or a Republican who allows Democrats to filibuster and set the benchmarkfor judicial appointments, who lets good men like Estrada hang out to dry for two years, who throws Pickering's appointment as a bone to conservatives, and who, if was serious, would use the nuclear option to break the judicial impasse."A democrat who will permit women to abort their children as the make their way down the birth canal."Or a Republican who "goes out on a limb" (ha ha) ny signing Partial Birth Abortin bill, when a large majority of Americans and the Congress agree, while hoping and praying that he will not have to appoint a SCJustice till after the next elections to avoid controversy and another Souter."
and you forgot- A Democrat who supports CFR...ditto Republican; and a Democrat who elarges government programs, spending, the NEA, Department of Education...and ditto Republican.
So, the bottom line. do we want a Demo to take us to hell in a handbasket quickly, or do we want a Republican to draw our suufering out over a longer period? Or the third option, get the message to GWB to act like a conservative.
Glad you could join us, Mr. Nader. I do hope you plan to be running again, it's lovely when the leftists split and are moronic enough to vote third party. It's really a riot because all of us here know that you guys spread out over there on the left get a lot more of what you want when you all vote together as a pack.
So please, Mr. Nader, run again and Pied Piper the less mathematically-inclined leftists off to a third party :-)
You're obsessed with whether someone can stand behind their words, and you measure that by how many people they ping, decreasing it as numbers go up.
Never mind that there are more people looking at the post, making the words more visible.
The only time calling in more numbers makes one less brave is in a physical fight--which this is not. Your insistence on using a paradigm appropriate only to physical confrontation is an interesting form of leakage.
I find it peculiar that you ping in others when you're getting spanked.
And why does that upset you so?
It bothers me not a wit...
After your extremely negative reaction to my pinging others...that remark is rather amusing.
It's simply funny to note that you don't have the stones to stand on your own two feet.
I'm not the one complaining when my posts are shown to a wider audience.
You are. And you seem to equate not being seen with some sort of bravery.
Interesting. Another guy who views FR as some sort of physical altercation.
Again, this is interesting leakage.
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