You're the one promoting a course that will put Kerry in the White House... stupid is as stupid does... and leftist is as leftist does. 
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 don't think there is any such thing as being "too conservative". There is such a thing, however, as being so politically naive that you advocate strategy or make statements that do the conservative movement harm. Some folks are conservative because it's the natural choice for intelligent folks... some seem as dumb as posts and were just fortunate enough to be born to a conservative family.
The reciever constituency outnumbers the contributor constituency, generations have been raised to suckle at the federal teet, men seek government aid to regulate their neighbors into oblivion, and so many actions are now deemed criminal as to make it impossible to act during the course of a normal day without violating the law.
Under these circumstances, I don't believe the nation would be improved (and in fact would certainly be worsened) by either a president Kerry, or a president Bush.
Would Kerry be worse than Bush?
Almost certainly so.
But that's small comfort to the emaciated and dying shell of a formerly great republic.
So why do I care?
Simply put, the ONLY hope of averting an absolute and catastrophic collapse of the republic (and all the brutality, bloodshed, and horror that goes with it) resides in the possibility of a peaceful return to a limited constitutional government via the ballotbox.
But if it does not happen soon, it will not happen at all.
And there's absolutely no way in hell, that Bush will bring it about.
None.
Naive?
aren't you the one that's buying the whole "they have to be leftist to be conservative later" tripe?
Naive indeed.
It has the same logic as your "Bush or a Democrat" question.
Yeah... either that.. or it was put there because it said things that people needed to be "protected" from.
One or the other.
You're the one promoting a course that will put Kerry in the White House... stupid is as stupid does... and leftist is as leftist does.
There is part of your problem right there. The Constitution specifically states that we are a REPUBLIC. Maybe you should read the rest of it now that you have had this small taste of what it actually does say...
Thou shalt have no other gods before Jim.
Criticize Bush and the terrorists win.
Criticize Bush and the democrats win.
Criticize Bush and Kerry wins.
Yet another original and brilliant critique.
It's like a broken record.
Ahhhh, so you named ONE that you don't like... I know that there are more you don't like. But to be at all credible, please tell me all the conservative policies and actions by Bush that you would appreciate seeing in the candidate you would enjoy voting for.
Moronic argument that repeating something has any impact on whether it is true or relevant.
2+2=4
2+2=4
2+2=4
Prove me wrong.... how does voting third party this year keep Kerry out of office? Which President would make it easier for terrorists to harm America again, Kerry or Bush? Which are historically better at protecting America's national security, Dems or GOP?
Those answers aren't convenient for you so you prefer to ignore them completely.
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