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I’m Tired of Neo-Cons Being Tired of Conservatives (Rant alert)
Aw, Shucks southern News and Links ^ | 29 January 2004 | Jeff Adams

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


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To: Abe Froman
"Since President Bush has had almost zero effect on the domestic abortion issue what difference does it make?"

Errr.... YEAH?!?! And as far as the judicial nominees go. It seems that your logic is backwards. It makes more sense for the President to push harder for a SC justice than to expend his influence on pissant circuit court judges.

But hey. If you like judicial activist that will target gun rights, freedom of speech, and innocent children so be it. I'm glad that you can equate such surrender to a clear conscience. . .
521 posted on 02/02/2004 4:01:21 PM PST by Tempest
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To: Tempest
You mean like Judge Reggie in Washington DC? Bush appointee who upheld the DC Handgun Ban under the Collective Rights theory?

We need more Bush judges like him right?

523 posted on 02/02/2004 4:04:51 PM PST by Dead Corpse (For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
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To: Neets
But you see OWK, whenever they do post their own words, their own stand, whatever you wanna call it, the 5%ers jump in and start calling them Bushbots, and tell them they have brown stuff all over their nose, and so on and so forth.

And so that's when they resort to the gratuitous butt-smooching?

524 posted on 02/02/2004 4:14:11 PM PST by OWK
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To: Mr. Low Key; Abe Froman; Poohbah
Oh Hello Mr. Low Key!!!

Glad to see that you joined "Jan 29, 2004".

So which one of the current DNC nominees are you tooling for???
525 posted on 02/02/2004 4:15:38 PM PST by Tempest
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To: OWK
Yea, if that's what you say OWK...whatever you say.
526 posted on 02/02/2004 4:17:04 PM PST by Neets
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To: Dead Corpse
The defense in that case sucked. It wasn't the fault of the judge.
527 posted on 02/02/2004 4:17:25 PM PST by Tempest
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To: Mr. Low Key
"Any other petticoats you wish to hide behind? "

Nah. I figure it must be getting pretty crowded with you hiding behind Kerry's patticoat and all.

529 posted on 02/02/2004 4:21:51 PM PST by Tempest
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To: Dead Corpse
Dood, the Constitution does not even mention political parties, but they are the reality of the day and what you have to work within.

The recital does folks good.
530 posted on 02/02/2004 4:23:06 PM PST by Owen
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To: Mr. Low Key

I think you'se one of them DU'ers er sumptin...
532 posted on 02/02/2004 4:25:42 PM PST by OWK
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To: Mr. Low Key
As I stated earlier in this thread, I was Freeping before you joined. As in mid-late 1998.

Me too but I never needed to change my name. What was your original name?

534 posted on 02/02/2004 4:36:12 PM PST by Jean S
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To: OWK
Sorry, had to commute. The quick answer is that although I feel the spending and other things are undesirable, I do not see them as a threat to the republic. As much as I hate to admit it, our fine country has survived almost 100 years of creeping government growth. With that as a backdrop, I can't fall for the hyperbole about losing the republic. It would appear we just have different priorities. At this moment in history, I think foreign policy is far more important than any domestic issues (as long as Bush doesn't declare himself dictator or something like that). It would appear your priorities are the exact opposite. Nothing wrong with that, it's just that's where each of us is in our lives right now. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I have young children. I don't begrudge you your priorities, but mine are just as valid. Don't mean to sound like a moral relitavist, but life is complex.
535 posted on 02/02/2004 4:36:15 PM PST by Warren_Piece (Wake up you Sheeple! The Steelers fan invaders are a bunch of Statists!)
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To: Mr. Low Key
Don't shoot Cletus. :)

No one's shooting Cletus. You, on the other hand, are dead.

536 posted on 02/02/2004 4:38:11 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator
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To: Abe Froman
No one has explained to me the value of voting for Bush over a true conservative yet.

Fair enough. I want the WOT to continue. I know you don't but if one has my priorities, this is an excellent reason to vote for Bush.

538 posted on 02/02/2004 4:39:54 PM PST by Warren_Piece (Wake up you Sheeple! The Steelers fan invaders are a bunch of Statists!)
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To: Cultural Jihad
you are truly a sick and demented individual comparing Stalin's movement to the conservative cause. You have no sense of right or wrong.
539 posted on 02/02/2004 4:41:14 PM PST by dmzTahoe (Go Zags!!!...#8 and still rising.)
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To: Mr. Low Key
I'm not the liar. Your just the one who has a hard time expressing his desire to install a President Kerry.
540 posted on 02/02/2004 4:41:47 PM PST by Tempest
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