Posted on 02/09/2007 5:18:36 PM PST by processing please hold
I'm still fuming about Harriet Meirs. I never got to hear one word come out of her mouth. I never got to decide for myself whether she was a good nominee or not because the pundit gods decided they knew what was best for me. We're just trading one form of intellectual tyranny for another. I am going to make my decision when I have sufficient facts to make that decision. It will be long before November 2008, but it sure won't be February of 2007 and I'm tired of being called a RINO or stupid because I refuse to jump on someone's bandwagon. It may have been meant as a joke, but there are plenty of us who are going into lurker mode because we are sick of being called dumb by people who DON'T mean it as a joke.
Sorry about the rant, but the thing I love best about this place is the intellectual stimulation and the ability to discuss, argue and pour over things so we can make good decisions as citizens.
I see, and you're the one who is going to decide for me just who is a RINO, right? If I choose anyone other than YOUR candidate, that makes me a RINO and your are the only PURE conservative, right?
One of the things that makes me angry is that we have been fighting this battle for 30 years and babies are STILL being slaughtered, that means we're not fighting it the right way. We finally manage to get someone on SCOTUS who will help to overturn Roe v Wade and then what? It gets turned back to the states and the fight starts all over again as people in a non-abortion state fight to keep their daughters from obtaining an abortion in a pro-abortion state.
How about we switch tactics and spend as much energy in teaching people just what it is they are flushing down the toilet? How about we expend a little of that energy teaching people the moral consequences of what they are doing. How about making it socially unacceptable to kill your baby instead of a fashionable right of passage?
If choosing a president who was pro-life would eliminate abortion, why wasn't abortion eliminated during Reagan's presidency?
I want Roe v Wade overturned because there is NO constitution "right" to an abortion, but overturning Roe v Wade is not going to eliminate the problem, it's going going to slow it down and change the battlefield.
Are you unhappy with Roberts and Alito? I'm not. Hoping we get another just like them and that's why I don't want to settle for anyone less than a nominee with a known pro-life record. If we cannot fight for a known conservative in the primary, when CAN we fight? Kinda late if we wait for the general and are faced with a known social liberal vs Hillary.
I'm perfectly willing to fight for a conservative in the primary, once I determin for MYSELF who that conservative is.
The thing about Harriet Meirs is I never got to hear ONE WORD out of her own mouth, no one. I was TOLD by pundits what she believed and how she would have voted. Sounds just like the liberal press doesn't it? Telling me who is good and who is bad so I don't have to bother my little head making those decisions all on my own?
Well sorry, I'm not going to be told who is and who is not conservative. I'll do my own investigating and make my own decisions, and if this site is no longer a place where we get to discuss, but has become a place where things are decided for us and we're supposed to be good little soldiers and fall in behind the current fancy, then I'd like to know about that now.
The better question is why post a poll where the 1st, third, and fourth choices are indistinguishable? Voting for Hillary, voting third party, staying at home, and undecided or too dumb to vote are the same choice.
OK, let's do it this way. Let's take all known names out of it and pretend we are dealing with a whole different group of people. What if God gave you the once in a lifetime opportunity to look into two alternate futures. In one future, there is the conservative dream candidate and he appoints another SDO to the bench and in the other alternate future, there is a not so dream candidate but he/she appoints someone to the bench who says "I can find no right to dispose of your child, a living being, in the Constitution of the United States of America". Which one do you vote for?
That's fine, and the best I can do is to figure out for myself just who is and who is not conservative so I can fight for him/her too. (notice the her, I keep hoping a Maggie Thatcher will emerge)
Not me.
However I loath polls and will often vote for the 'oddball'
Having said that I despise Hillary more than I hate polls so I probably voted undecided.
I'll be interested to see the results...
No, Mc, you get to decide who's a rino for yourself. But, don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. He's a rino.
Choose whomever pleases you. When did conservatives get together and decide that supporting gay marriage and gay lifestyles are a conservative issue to fight for? They neglected to send me that memo.
I believe rino Rudy will split the GOP if he's nominated. And that ain't good.
What difference would it have made? We had the choice between someone who has demonstrated conservative values his entire life and someone who only came to them recently. Why would we take a chance on someone who has already wavered once?
Great comments!
Love your new tagline too!
Uh, I think there was a reason for that. When people, such as the Senators with whom she interviewed, did get to hear something coming out of her mouth, they could see plainly that she was unimpressive. The Administration therefore kept her under wraps. So....see, no need for all that fuming!
The liberals have been making those decisions for people for ages, I never expected to see a bunch of so called conservatives be so submissive.
Good God, this place is becoming like DU.
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