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For the 1st Time in My Life I am Ashamed of My Country
edgeblog ^ | 11/04/2008 | William Dougherty

Posted on 11/04/2008 10:42:23 PM PST by bdognet

Freedom, Liberty, Personal Responsibility, and general Conservative principles suffered a crushing defeat tonight. The concept of limited government seems dead. In an election I will remember as the choice of the lesser of two evils, evil won.

I am tired. I am tired of choosing between bad and worse. I am tired of supporting a party that has lost its way. I am tired of Republicans whose motto is “we aren’t quite as bad as the alternative.” I am tired of liberals of both parties expanding entitlements, taking away liberties, raising my taxes, bankrupting the country, and calling me selfish for not wanting to bend over and take it. To paraphrase our new 1st Lady-elect, For the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of my country.

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KEYWORDS: 2010; conservative; dissent; dissident; mccain; obama; resistance
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Tonight the fight for control of our country begins anew. The 2010 election begins now. I expect history to repeat itself. I expect Obama, Reid and Pelosi to follow the Clinton model in 1992 and overreach, thinking tonight gives them a clear left-wing mandate. I expect the Democrats to raise taxes and raise spending. I expect them to push for nationalized health care, the fairness doctrine, and the card check union system. I expect there will be a backlash in 2 years. As Conservatives, it is time to dust ourselves off, look to the principles of Reagan and Goldwater and Gingrich that served us so well in the past, and begin the fight anew.
1 posted on 11/04/2008 10:42:23 PM PST by bdognet
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To: bdognet

no balls , no glory.

or sumthin’


2 posted on 11/04/2008 10:43:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: bdognet

The Land of the Freeloader!


3 posted on 11/04/2008 10:43:56 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I'm voting for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: bdognet

I am also ashamed of my fellow Americans. To those who wanted to change this wonderful republic. What fools!


4 posted on 11/04/2008 10:44:40 PM PST by BeckB
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To: bdognet
For the 1st Time in My Life I am Ashamed of My Country

What the hell kind of attitude is that?

Be ashamed of the bums, socialists and idiots who voted to elect Hussein! But don't be ashamed of this great country, that was made great mostly by people who didn't vote for Hussein! I will always be proud to be an American. Always.

5 posted on 11/04/2008 10:45:18 PM PST by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: bdognet

“For the 1st Time in My Life I am Ashamed of My Country”

The country is a great country that has withstood great challenges and have always prevailed. We will survive four years of BHO.


6 posted on 11/04/2008 10:46:13 PM PST by DemonDeac
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To: bdognet

I was disgusted in 1992, 1996, 2006...

1/2 of my fellow countrymen make me ashamed all day everyday.


7 posted on 11/04/2008 10:46:41 PM PST by Porterville (Senate Wackyland: 100 nuts and a squirrel)
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To: bdognet

and to inform the Repub party that they may not pass GO, but may proceed straight to the dustbin of history.

You do not win when you apologize for who you are, Mr Mclame. Get out, go home, and good riddance.


8 posted on 11/04/2008 10:46:44 PM PST by petertare (--)
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To: bdognet

I am also ashamed of half of our country. Obama won largely by saying the phrase “tax cut” over and over. And the people were stupid enough to believe him. Yet for some reasons, most Republicans in Washington have felt lately like it was a good idea to grow government.


9 posted on 11/04/2008 10:46:45 PM PST by Elvina (The average IQ in America is 100. Half are operating in the double-digits --as seen tonight.)
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To: bdognet

I’m ashamed too.


10 posted on 11/04/2008 10:47:27 PM PST by television is just wrong
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To: bdognet

Yes, provided that the fix hasn’t been made permament...


11 posted on 11/04/2008 10:48:12 PM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light)
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To: bdognet

Iwas just thinking the same thing. What is Obama’s New Kind Of Patriotism? Surrender?


12 posted on 11/04/2008 10:49:39 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: bdognet

I am ashamed of the newly elected congress and the president-elect. that’s it. I love America, and am looking forward to exercising my constitutional rights in 2012.
They can never say America is racist again, or that we need affirmative action.


13 posted on 11/04/2008 10:50:11 PM PST by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: bdognet

The socialists have been in charge of education for 30 years, and the indoctrination has now had its fruits.

And apparently the 80+million gun owners have voted for the “socialist” to some degree, showing again that Americans cannot stick together even when the country’s very future is at stake.

When the Dimmi congress passes McCarthy’s AWB next spring, you think maybe BO will sign it? Ya think?

All the big talkers that have said over the years “..from my cold dead hands...” will get their chance, maybe sooner than later. (I wonder how many of these will submit, like the poor fools in New Orleans did. It’s hard to fight when you are alone and the JBT are at the door in their SWAT outfits, and you have no backup to call...)

Gun registration by this time next year, using the 4473 info: my prediction...write it down.

Finally, remember in the controversial novel “The Turner Diaries” when the govt used ‘freed prisoners’ and ‘black gangs’ to collect the guns? Now, please remember Obamanure’s call for a “Civilian Security Force”? Get the connection?

Organize with like-minded individuals NOW, while there is time.


14 posted on 11/04/2008 10:50:30 PM PST by Wasichu
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To: bdognet

America has lost its balls, the many voices of the weak have spoken, they are unable to stand upright, they fill the cities, they filled our land from across the border, they believe a messiah will lead them to utopia, they only wish for a free ride.

The train is now gathering its passengers and they are off to the ovens, and they will not complain.


15 posted on 11/04/2008 10:51:12 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey (alpha and omega)
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To: bdognet

There’s such a thing as patriotic shame. It’s not the whiny liberal shame that you see when naive, childish people decide they hate America and everything it stands for because we went to war or whatnot. It’s the kind of shame that drops to its knees and says, “I love this country, so what the hell are we doing to it?”


16 posted on 11/04/2008 10:51:41 PM PST by PatriotPresbyter
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To: DemonDeac

“The country is a great country that has withstood great challenges and have always prevailed.”

You’re ignoring how much “the people” have changed. Without “the people” you had you will not get the same results you had.

We’re in it up to our elbows and folks need to put away outdated notions that imply things are as they have always been.


17 posted on 11/04/2008 10:51:44 PM PST by Boucheau (A wise & frugal gov't...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. T. Jefferson)
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To: bdognet

Check out this thread... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125428/posts


18 posted on 11/04/2008 10:52:04 PM PST by An American! (Proud To Be An American!)
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To: television is just wrong
Starting tomorrow, when you greet an Obamanut, use the word Comrade.

It will make you feel better, and it will tell that person that you know what they are and what they stand for.

Do not give an inch, ever.

As for me, I'm buying a new Shotgun tomorrow. I'm sure I won't be alone. Wolverines!

19 posted on 11/04/2008 10:52:33 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

An Obama regime will attempt to make this the land of the scheme and the home of the knave..


20 posted on 11/04/2008 10:52:39 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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