The only difference between now and then is that now the GOP is in power. When you're out of power, it's very easy to SAY all the right things because you don't have to actually DO them. Now, the GOP is in power. Lonsberry is lamenting the difference between fantasy and reality. Is he really so naiive?
Vote Republican. There is an outside chance you may elect a conservative. :)
Comes close to what a lot of us feel.
pretty-much-how-I-feel ping
I think the party has served up the most important issue to its social conservatives: constitutionalist judges. It is the major issue and will continue to be so for years.
Even the WOT is secondary because the radical judges are seeking control of a president's war-fighting power.
Judges, judges, judges....if conservatives can't see that, then there's no hope for them.
The loss of even one Senate seat is a tragedy. The loss of the 2008 nomination to a liberal rino republican is a tragedy, because everything is about the judges.
The WOT is second place.
A totally sealed off border is part of the WOT. I guarantee you, though, that JUDGES will get involved in that, too.
The budget is 3rd place.
We MUST reduce some of the entitlement expense that this budget is forced to pay. But JUDGES will get involved in that. Social Security Reform......JUDGES.
I have to agree. The main reason I'm voting GOP is that I don't trust and can't stand the Dems. That isn't a very strong endorsement.
Yup. We're forced to vote GOP because the Democrats are explicitly in league with those who want to kill us. Doesn't mean we have to like it.
When the alternatives are abortion-on-demand, cut-and-run, a politically correct struggle against terrorism and European-style taxes, the Republican warts don't seem so off-putting to me.
I feel exactly like this article - but I'll vote Republican too. The time is ripe for a real conservative to step up in this party, we've come a good way & have a good start - can't afford to backslide at this point.
The Dims are behaving like cornered animals now, it's not the time to back off.
The world is not safe enough to have Democrats in charge.
The guy is an optimist. I'm a realist. Voting for Bush for his second term was the GOP's second chance for my vote.
The only way I will vote GOP again is for the candidate to address these issues "point blank", and then somehow make it clear that he plans to do the proper thing for each issue.
That may not be an enthusiastic endorsement, but it's the best I've got. And it's taken me six months to come up with that.
But I'm going to vote Republican anyway.
For exactly the reason the GOP's amoral bosses knew I would -- because of my distaste for Democrats and their anti-American agenda.
That pretty mch sums up my view.
Sounds like he worked on NYS Governor Pataki's elections. Or perhaps NYS Senate majority leaderr Joe Bruno's elections.
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We'd all better VOTE GOP this November, or else.
Just look at what Freedom's Enemy GEORGE SOROS, on behalf of our Enemy Within CLINTONS, have in store for US if the GOP loses control of Congress this time around:
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692140/posts
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693011/posts
And we thought the Fall of Saigon was bad enough after the Democrats, sailing on the wings of NIXON's Watergate debacle, won the 1974 Congressonal Elections with a plurality big enough to manage a complete cut-off of U.S. funding for South Vietnam to fight for its own Freedom with.
With a GEORGE SOROS Shadow Party now controlling the Democrat Party,
...we ain't seen nothin' yet..!!!
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Lonsberry is dead-on. I feel the same way.....with clothes pin in hand, I'll pull the Republican lever then use the air-bag I hold in the other. Too bad we don't have a viable 3rd (REAL CONSERVATIVE) party at this time. Maybe I'll be able to vote for one before my time on earth is at an end........I hope.
The fact is, that the general public is split 50/50 and every goat stinkin vote counts...
The polls show that the Republican base is split six ways to Sunday, and the rats have the advantage.
If you want the rats to win..........then continue on with the BS, and it will be a fact.
The 2006 Congressional elections will either be a victory, or a total defeat of our policies. If one policy goes, they all go....
Pretty simple math here.....
Keeping in mind that no large political party can possibly satisfy all it's constituents, the hold your nose thing is automatic and normal. You either do it, or lose. There is no other option available and unless and until we achieve a 2/3 majority (which is not going to happen) we have absolutely no room for voting error by way of protest voting. No room at all.
This is what primaries are for.
This guy is right on - the Republican Party down right stinks, but the Democrat Party is rotten.
I guess voting for the Republican Party in '06 is like going home with the fat girl - it's better (usually) than going home alone.