"...(not) voting for a Republican this round and in 08 may teach them a lesson."
It would teach those who had a Republic how they lost it.
Is that what you want?
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.
That clears up your post at 14. Thanks.
"it is also not time to have trolls post duplicate articles."
The whack-a-mole necessary to deal with resurgent amateur propagandists here is no doubt a modest nuisance to the Mods, since DDT has been outlawed....
If I have to choose between a Republican majority with some RINO's making that possible, or a conservative minority blocked at every step by Democrats who are impeaching and cutting funding for military ops, I will go with the RINO's--because I'm sane.
What a moron.
Vote the person, vote the philosophy, not the party.
Remind me again why I should show up to the polls in November?
When Clinton was president gas costed $1.60 a gallon and the military received a 4% pay raise each year.
The Republican party has enjoyed complete power for the better part of six years. I guess I forgot to thank them for turning the country around. I should buy stock in Haliburton before it goes to crap.
Honest to God, I hope Hillary wins. Her presidency might remind republicans to act like conservatives!
The GOP has abandoned me.
Exactly.
In fact, I didn't know George W. Bush was even on the ballot this November.
But a little birdie just told me he's certain that 224 Republican Congresscritters who authorized a large chunk of the much-needed FENCE-WALL on the Mexican-US border ARE on the ballot this fall.
Not to mention these heroic Republican congresscritters had the balls to stand up to >McCain the Lame< and >Wacky-Lib Ted Kennedy< on the immigration issue.
Oh, but author of the initial article on this posting doesn't care one wit about the 224 heroic GOP Congressdudes and dudettes. Only President Bush.
Obviously, the article author is afflicted with the mysterious "Hate-Bush-beyond-all-reason" disease.
Um, facts = facts.
FRiends don't let FRiends post nonsense. Or drive drunk.
In other words, those GOP congresscritters DEFINITELY need the votes of loyal conservatives.
LOL
I'm a conservative not a Republican. That said I'd have to say that conservatives abandoned the GOP. W barely won in 2000 as you might recall. Where were any of the excuses you're making now at that time? Or do you think it's a myth that the majority of Americans are basically conservative? I don't.
You are a damned fool. The Republicans don't have anything like "complete power." Don't you know how the Senate works?
Don't you know what the federal courts are, and how much damage they're still doing?
And don't you understand how much damage a liberal president, let alone a liberal Congress, can do?
And why do you assume Republicans will be more conservative if Hillary gets in? Or that they could win another election if the Rats are given back more power,
which they are experts at abusing?
Why in God's name does the price of gas trump the war on terror as a legitimate issue? Or the Supreme Court?
What planet are you living on?????
They will be sorry if a dimocrat wins.
Two words: Higher taces.
That was an Oops!
Two words: Higher taxes.
Imagine what America's response to 9/11 would have been if there had been just a few hundred more ultra-principled righter-than-though dweebs who sat out the 2000 election.
I shudder to think. God, these people infuriate me.
I agree with you, I don't think so either.
Um, so that one story--about the smallest raise, without any context as to why, as to the size of the military budgets Bush has approved; the size of the budgets for vets Bush has approved; the damage he had to repair--outweighs all other facts except the ones you chose to take out of context?
Agenda = agenda
Liberal judges.
If this guy thinks the Democrats have better immigration and fiscal policies than the Republicans, then he's not a conservative. He's an idiot. And if he doesn't vote Republican, he will only be helping the Democrats. Sorry, folks, that's reality, whether you like it or not. Period. End of story.
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