Posted on 09/23/2006 9:42:15 PM PDT by Tiger007
A friend of mine recently was surprised when I told him that I am not voting Republican this fall. "You are one of the most conservative people I know," he said.
"Exactly," I said, "and that is precisely why I am not voting Republican." For me, illegal immigration has been the final straw. And the GOP's recent decision to pull funding from Randy Graf's campaign shows the writing on the wall: CONSERVATIVES, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME IN THE GOP. Of course, the GOP will take conservatives' votes and money, but if a real conservative runs for office, he almost certainly will be shunned.
The GOP historically has been quite liberal. And now, those at the helm are steering it towards its liberal roots. While President Bush and Senator McCain are seeing who can run farther to the left of Ted Kennedy on the issue of immigration, our country is under invasion. Already 20 million illegals have invaded our country, and our president (other than lip service) has done nothing about it. In fact, he exudes a long track record of encouraging the illegal invasion of our country.
In the 1950s, when our country was under invasion, President Eisenhower (via "Operation Wetback") responded with troops, and deported over 1 million illegals in less than a year. Yet President Bush says he is unable. Rather, he is unwilling. If Bush had engaged in this pandering to illegals in the 1950s, he would have been impeached and tried for treason.
In fact, the treason lobby seems to have overtaken the GOP. By 1950s standards, President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and Senators McCain, Specter, Brownback, DeWine, and Graham are all guilty of treason. Behind the scenes, they have supported the unconstitutional NAFTA Superhighway, and at every turn have undermined American sovereignty. They have betrayed the Constitution and hard-working Americans so that they can make a fast buck from big business and attempt (unsuccessfully) to court illegal aliens for future political support.
And the GOP rewards such treason. Although Senator DeWine has been ranked by Human Events as one of the ten worst border-security politicians in the country, the GOP still funds him. And in the process, they ceased to fund Randy Graf, a true patriot who actually wants to defend America from this invasion. They take money from the conservative and give it to the liberal. This is the modus operandi of the GOP.
If I am ever able to vote for a true conservative in the GOP (e.g. John Duncan, Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul, or Pat Buchanan) then I shall. Otherwise, I am voting Constitution Party (the real conservative party) or not voting at all.
Same last name...I wonder if the authors of this garbages are related.
And add Tancredo to the list of zeros.
Too bad the person in the White House isn't doing his job. The minutemen have had to do it for him. Pathetic!
There is the meat of my stance... if the swing to the left is more bait than the swing to the right... they will go that way.. I will always stand as bait for the correct stance of conservatism... and sleep soundly... The Bible tells us clearing what lukewarm will get you.
Why do you think the libs are swinging more radical daily? Because there is wackos out there like Soro and Moveon.org that the dim party wants to grab from other parties (Communist, Green, and even Libertarian)... It has hurt them to some degree going out on a limb that far left.. something the lib media does not like to admit... instead the lib media likes to punish any conservative who actually stands his ground as chasing voters of right wing extremists.. when in reality they are just being good canidates.... heck, even here at FR many people will vilify conservatives because they might dare to upset the middle mindset republicans have adopted as their stance.
I am just proud that most Alabamians could care less what the liberal left says. They vote basically conservative and our congresscritters basically toe a good line because of it. Now at the extreme, we have seen what pubs will do in California just to stay in power.
It is about time for the general good conservatives to take a solid stand and mean it. RINO's might be the straw that does it and then alternative canidates and parties will no longer be just an catch phrase to the few on FR that down them as impossible. As it stands now, backbonelessness in conservatives has not stopped the slide to the left.
Lukewarm will cause you to spew eventually. God did give you a gag reflex for a reason.
Or "my ding-dong wasn't big enough, so I cut it off."
I can tell you why I will vote Republican in this election dispite my dissatisfaction with much of the Party's actions the past 6 years...For one, every conservative owes a dept of gratitude to the GOP for the addition to the Supreme Court of just the kind of Judges we conservatives demanded.
And another reason is that no President in our modern history has confronted fascist Islam with the resolve that this administration has. Could the GOP have done better in other areas? It may just seem that way from my armchair but with a nation nearly split down the political middle, I'd have to say we have gained more then our numbers warrant. We must stay the path for if we deviate from it now we may very well step off the cliff.
The Constitution Party will never win as long as people like you are able to keep the perception out there that it can't win.
Also, if we continue to allow illegal aliens to come here, breed here and eventually vote here, NO CONSERVATIVES IN ANY PARTY will be able to win a national election or a statewide election in the Southwest.
This is not just a matter of the GOP being "imperfect" as you put it. Bush's GOP has gone liberal on big-government education, illegal immigration, domestic spending, keeping the IRS and federal income tax system in place and unfair trade deals. Even the mission in Iraq has evolved into quite a liberal endeavor.
If a person finds himself disagreeing with the GOP more than he agrees, it certainly makes sense to vote for a different party. I voted Constitution Party in 2004. Best vote I ever cast. Better than Dole in '96 or Bush in '00, that's for sure.
No, the Constitution Party will never win, period.
Beam me up, Scotty.
I helped Perot this nation once before. No matter what I WANT the reality to be, it IS such that a vote out of the two parties is truly NOT a vote for the candidate you think you're voting for.
As long as RINOs like Bush, Rove and Chafee become more and more plentiful, we the people of the United States of America will continue to lose.
There is a world of difference between Bush and Rove on one hand and Chafee on the other. It's not at all clear why you think RINOs are becoming "more and more plentiful." Seems to me that weak Republicans, though not literal RINOs, have always been pretty plentiful. I'll agree that they were much less common for a while in the mid-90s, but that was due to Gingrich's leadership.
I agree that the people of the U.S. are losing. But they would lose much worse, much faster, if the Rats got in.
Losing less badly and more slowly gives us a somewhat better chance of reversing the damage someday.
Very good.
Now if I can just fit all that on a bumper sticker, the GOP will keep the House and Senate FOR SURE! ;-)
"I voted Constitution Party in 2004. Best vote I ever cast. Better than Dole in '96 or Bush in '00, that's for sure."
Well, my friend, we will never see eye-to-eye. I voted for our troops in 2004. I cast a vote against the terrorists. I voted to put two more conservative votes on the Supreme Court. You threw yours away.
The Constitution Party can take its isolationist policies and its whiners and moaners and split the GOP vote - but I don't ever want to hear you or your kind on this site again complaining about ANYTHING ever again.
And the present reality is ...?
Haven't heard much about him.
But the Presidential elections are 2 years away.
There is time for him to get some P.R.
The problem is the media WANTS Giuliani or that Judas McCain to have the nomination so thye give them a lot of free P.R. in a positive light.
What's Purdue's view of the Second Amendment?
Ah, the victim card. "Poor me (Constitution Party). Those other mean kids won't let me have the ball. Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
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