Some say that a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Posted on 08/18/2008 8:09:06 AM PDT by foutsc
I saw a Republicans for Obama bumper sticker the other day and couldn't help laughing out loud. Republicans for Obama is an oxymoron. Oil and water, fire and ice. Impossible. Then I stumbled across a news article about this craze that featured two "Republicans" who are supporting the O Man. Former GOP Senator Lincoln Chaffee, who put down the bong long enough to vote for John Kerry in 2004, and Jim Leach, former Iowa Congressman who always looks concerned, have jumped on the Obama bandwagon. Neither man is a conservative, and both were voted out of office, so this isn't a big, bold move ala Alabama Senator Richard Shelby becoming a Republican back in the 90's. Chris Matthews may get a tingle up his leg and the caterpillars on Keith Olbermann's forehead may dance with delight, but according to I chuckle at the Obama supporters who also claim to be Republicans. I can don a cape and call myself Batman, but that don't make it so. This is like Baptist preachers for prostitution, Firemen supporting house fires, A Mormon booze and cigarette aficionado club, lambs voting to put the wolf in charge... The GOP stands for conservatism over liberalism, strict interpretation of the constitution, lower taxes, anti-abortion, strong military posture, unabashed displays of patriotism, private sector solutions instead of big government ones, tort reform, and the welfare of students over that of teachers unions. Senator Obama stands for none of these things. I don't doubt the sincerity of "Republicans for Obama." I just doubt their ability to label themselves properly. If you used to refrain from eating meat, but you now snarf steaks and pork chops, you can no longer call yourself a vegetarian. Anyone who votes for someone so opposed to the basic conservative tenets of the GOP can no longer honestly call themselves a Republican. This is media created hype. If it walks like a Democrat and quacks like a Democrat... It's probably a Democrat trying to duck the truth.
Ugh.
You could get a ‘galactic space commanders for obama’ bumper sticker but it would not make you a galatic space commander.
With a few exceptions, most of these are libs trying to trick people into thinking that even Republicans support marxists like Obama.
” Republicans for Obama”
This sounds like some kind of bs campaign started by the democratic left.
I am ever reminded that being a Republican does not equal being a Conservative.
I am looking for a ‘Republicans for McCain’ bumpersticker.
Some say that a picture is worth a thousand words.
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There is a brand of Republican, going back to the days of Teddy Roosevelt, that has sought “consensus” with the Democrat party. For some sixty years after the Civil War, the Democrat party was a moribund bunch of old men, “clinging to their guns and their Bibles”, who concentrated in the reaches of the Old Confederacy. They gave rise to the dreaded Ku Klux Klan, the “white Christian soldiers”. Something strange happened in the Northern states, the “Progressives”, the intellectual heirs of the Abolitionist that associated themselves with the Republicans, became a force to be reckoned with in internal Republican politics. The separatist Progressives went “third party” in 1912, causing Taft to lose the election to Woodrow Wilson, who was elected on a minority vote. Woodrow Wilson, in spite of how he might otherwise be lionized, was a ruthless dictator with an agenda of “reforming” the world. The former “Progressives” saw this as a chance to jump to the other major, but still feeble, party, and infused them with a vigor the Democrats had not seen since the days of Andrew Jackson.
The Great War, and the period of lawlessness that followed after the imposition of Prohibition, where illegal practices were tolerated to a degree rarely before seen in this country, allowed the incubation of these “Progressive” ideas among the intelligentsia, so when the BIG Party of the 1920’s was over, they could take advantage of the collapsing fabric of the country. Everything was “Hoover’s fault” (sound familiar?), and the Democrats, with their allies, the former Republican “Progressives”, pretty largely governed this country until the end of World War II (which, according to the Wilsonian agenda, was never supposed to happen).
These Republicans (RINOs, really) are alive and well today. They continue to find more in common with Democrats, than with fellow Republicans. “Reaching across the aisle” has NEVER moved the stated Republican objectives an inch, but it has succeeded in shifting the subtext of how this country is governed, until the America of 1958 would not recognize the country we have become. Back then, people recognized the enemy and faced up to it. Today, we do not even identify who, or what, is the thing we should direct our efforts to confine and control.
I think an Obama presidency would be a catastrophy.
If I were to vote for Obama, it would be because I think that is what this nation deserves. And the fact that a significant portion of our population even takes him seriously is a huge indicator in that direction.
But to be clear. I will not, nor will I ever, vote for Obama. But he may indeed prove the axiom that in a democracy you don’t just get the government you want. You get the government you deserve.
Actually it read "Republican" [singular with quotation marks], and it was on the bumper of Lincoln Chafee's car.
“If it walks like a Democrat and quacks like a Democrat... It’s probably a Democrat trying to duck the truth.”
Yep. Hey who do you think was more to the right, Zell Miller or Junito McAmnesty?
Best quote of the day!
My favorite said “McCain...he sucks less”.
Ain’t no “oxy” about it...
(For our younger FReepers:)
(1) Phone Booth:
An ancient item used in the 20th century. It was a 4 sided enclosure with a top, early versions were of wood and glass, latter versions were of plexiglas and aluminum and all had a folding door - some early models even had seats. Inside was a 'pay telephone' which had 'wires'. It could be used to call 'an Operator' (a human being) or another telephone that also had wires. These 'Phone Booths' would be placed on street corners or in buildings called: 'Drug Stores', 'Dime Stores' or 'Department Stores'.
:-)
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