To: Long Cut; tiamat; Trinity_Tx; andysandmikesmom; G.Mason; Chad Fairbanks; Peach; Poohbah; ...
Second, those radicals are NOT really as conservative as they think. They feel true passion for only ONE ISSUE. They basically ignore all others, and play at scorched-Earth tactic to achieve it, as we have seen. Even when they get what they want (which requires INCREASED government involvement with private lives on most levels), they scream for MORE, and repeat their threats to stay home.
One must ask, where is all this passion, activism, and effort on, say, taxes? Social Security? The furshlugginer WAR, for the luvva Mike? Where's the calls for congress and the President to work weekends and allnighters to fix the budget, or to repair Eminent Domain laws? To repeal patently anti-Constitutional gun laws?
(sound of crickets chirping)
We simply cannot continue to have the entire GOP and conservative agenda shunted aside at the whim of an extreme fringe with more decibels than numbers. In this particular issue, it has probably damaged chances to get anything else done, and possibly the chance to continue the reforms begun after 2006/8. I was in the process of writing a post, but you just said it better than I could.
If anyone is interested in starting a Free Republic Sanity Caucus (by that or some less controversial name), I suggest we start a ping list, and would be happy to volunteer to do so. If you were pinged to this post, I copied your screen name from among the rational posts on this thread.
296 posted on
03/24/2005 6:58:29 PM PST by
malakhi
To: malakhi
OK-- better put me on that ping list! Purty please!
301 posted on
03/24/2005 7:00:09 PM PST by
Clara Lou
(Hillary Clinton: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
To: malakhi
302 posted on
03/24/2005 7:00:19 PM PST by
Chad Fairbanks
(Sure you can trust the government... just ask an Indian...)
To: malakhi
Maybe you could borrow Sinkspur's ping list. Add me to yours. I hope I'm sane.
312 posted on
03/24/2005 7:02:38 PM PST by
.38sw
To: malakhi
To: malakhi
If you are doing a list, please put me on it.
349 posted on
03/24/2005 7:08:29 PM PST by
tiamat
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: malakhi
You're on the list now. : )
351 posted on
03/24/2005 7:08:41 PM PST by
Trinity_Tx
(Since Oct 9, 2000...Just a new, and soon to be changed, again, nick)
To: malakhi
357 posted on
03/24/2005 7:10:19 PM PST by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: malakhi
Please ping me...
I'm feeling like I'm at my wit's end trying to talk to people who are so worked up about this one issue that they are tossing rationality (along with the Constitution and the rule of law) out the window...
374 posted on
03/24/2005 7:13:42 PM PST by
mhking
(If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!)
To: malakhi
Please add me to the list.
To: malakhi; sinkspur
Add me. Oh, and throw me on your "Make money Now" list too. :-P
662 posted on
03/24/2005 11:15:39 PM PST by
Bella_Bru
(You're about as funny as a case sensitive search engine.)
To: malakhi
664 posted on
03/24/2005 11:18:02 PM PST by
texasflower
("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
To: malakhi
687 posted on
03/25/2005 4:32:32 AM PST by
G.Mason
(The replies by this poster are meant for self-amusement only. Read at your own discretion.)
To: malakhi
Need to add two freepers to the sanity caucus; BerthaDee and carolinacrazy. Thanks!
I was starting to wonder if I belonged on FreeRepublic at all!!
1,182 posted on
03/25/2005 11:56:45 AM PST by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green is made of liberals...)
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