Posted on 11/06/2002 5:34:44 AM PST by logic101.net
TIME FOR AN END TO THE CONSERVATIVE INFIGHTING MARK A SITY 11/6/02
When WI taxpayers burden skyrockets, we have Ed Thompson to thank. When Milwaukee and the surrounding area are saddled with a light rail system few want, and no one will ride, we have Ed Thompson to thank. When caps on property taxes are removed, and property taxes skyrocket, we have Ed Thompson to thank. When welfare reform is de-reformed in WI, we have Ed Thompson to thank. When public schools in WI get even worse, and the public school teachers get huge raises, we have Ed Thompson to thank. When WI residents find their rights to defend themselves against criminals who break into their homes weakened, we have Ed Thompson to thank. When companies leave WI, or decide not to set up shop here due to our repressive tax structure, we have Ed Thompson to thank. When Gov Jim "bingo" Doyle rewards his contributors, at the expense of the taxpayers (as he has a history of doing), we have Ed Thompson to thank.
Who is Ed Thompson? Ed is the brother of Tommy, our former governor; the current HHS Secretary. Ed was the Libertarian candidate for governor in WI. Ed gave the Governor's Mansion to Bingo Jim by getting 10% of the vote. Governor McCallum lost the election by only 3%. Thanks Ed.
IL can say much the same for Cal Skinner. I don't know how much of the vote Cal got, but it is likely that Jim Ryan would have won there rather than the Democrat were it not for Cal. One good thing for WI residents over IL residents; at least we can pronounce and spell Bingo Jim's name. I won't even try either for the IL Governor Elect!
Let's keep in mind that Libertarians and Republicans are generally going in the same direction. True, the Republicans don't want to go as far as Libertarians, and there are some very contrary views. However, both generally want a smaller federal government that is less intrusive. Democrats on the other hand want bigger and bigger government. They want hand outs. They want dependency. They want Socialism rather than freedom! They want gun control rather than criminal control. They want ignorant sheeple rather than an informed, educated self-dependent population. I prefer much of the Libertarian agenda to that of the Republicans, but I find the Democrat agenda totally repulsive. Libertarians often hand elections to the Democrats, by taking away conservative leaning votes. When a Libertarian candidate's message resonates with the public; Democrats win! A Democratic win doesn't help Republicans, Libertarians, or Constitutionalists! It sets back all of our causes. It is well past time for Libertarians and Republicans to get together to defeat the common enemy. We can work out our differences later; let's get rid of the common threat first! As far as my views; neither Libertarians nor Republicans go far enough; I am a Constitutionalist! Yet, I generally vote Republican; I'm a realist. When we break the stranglehold of the left, then we can fight each other; but let's fight each other on our terms, not theirs!
Now, as far as Ed Thompson goes; well I have to steal a line from one of my favorite movies (They Call Me Trinity). I'm not mad at Ed, I'm mad at his ma. She should have strangled him, or at least drown him when he was born.
MARK A SITY http://www.logic101.net/
Is there any Republican on this board seriously willing to tell me that they will stop doing this?
If the measure of success is winning office then there is no way they will stop moving left. (The Parties have never done anything but move left since the Civil War)
"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man."
--Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1795. ME 9:317
Ah, again we hear the old, tired, discredited 'free will' argument for criminals and perverts. What the Libertarians will never say is that voters have free will, too. Conservative politicans have free will. Policemen have free will. Prosecutors have free will. Judges and juries have free will. Bailiffs and jailers also have free will.
"Laws against bank robbery rob would-be robbers of their free will choice on whether to rob or not! Laws are satanic and turn people into zombies!"
That kind of arrogant attitude is so contemptuous and antithetical to the American spirit.
Quit whining. No one is entitled to an office. It has to be earned.
Yeah... That's the ticket! Lets all see if we can do something to make the Libs happy and get our total vote take down to 3%. Makes sense to me...
The title is correct. Libs support Socialist DemocRATs by "voting their conscience."
Now lets all get back to the LEGALIZE MARJUINA stance that does this country so much good. NOT!!!
ROFLMAO! It's obvious you mean,"Nothing other than their own inclinations and beliefs.....".
Let's not forget that Sunnunu has already been on tv cheerleading for Bubba-2's proposed NEW bureaucracy called "The Office of Reich Security". While we're at it,let's not forget that Bubba-2 has never met a illegal alien he didn't love,or that he EXPANDED the Dept of Education,increased the number and power of federal and union workers,promised to spend BILLIONS to build houses for minorities,wants to create new instant citizens from illegal aliens,has promised to sign any gun control law congress sends him,etc,etc,etc.
You have the demographics for those districts?
If the Republicans cannot put up their own candidate, it seems likely that there really is no significant (greater than the 20-25% Libertarian vote anyway) Republican presence in that district anyway.
The flawed assumption that you make is that people don't vote for their principles, they vote for pure political power. That's the same mistake the Democrats made that got them annihilated this election. Now that the bankruptcy of that philosophy has been proven at the ballot box, you want to drag the Republican Party down that route?
Principles will always win in the end. Godless power-worship will always lose. It's rather sad that you are so enamored of power that you need to place blame on a third party for a handful of GOP losses. As Jesse Ventura proved, it's believing in something that brings most voters out to the polls - supporting one corrupt candidate over another corrupt candidate doesn't.
For the record, I am a small-l libertarian and a small-r republican both. The two governing philosophies are 100% compatible, so don't blame us if your favorite candidate can't figure that out. You want this vote? Ranting and scapegoating won't get you it. You get more flies with honey, as they say, so bend over and kiss my libertarian ass.
Oh, and by the way... 1996 called, it wants its mindset back.
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