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if only I could blend those two expressions together with my face I would have the perfect response
Posted on 04/05/2007 8:46:45 PM PDT by Pistolshot
I came here in 1998 looking for conservative, logical, thoughtful conversation and debate on the things that matter to us the most. I was a Reagan Republican. One of those who had watched in horror as our embassy staff in Tehran was taken by fanatics. The answer should have been overwhelming force, but it was Carter, that limp-wristed, can’t-we-just talk-this-out, weakling who had made the military a shambles, and stripped it of its soul because of VietNam. I knew from the beginning that there was no room in this world for weakness and that was the beginning of my road to conservatism.
Now here we are, in the beginnings of a campaign to deny the Democrats not only the White House, but the two houses of Congress. It is extremely early in this race, the leading candidates that have announced are far from acceptable to a large majority of us. Yet, day after day on this site we have the Rudy machine, the McCain people, Mitt’s people, and every other supported candidate backer posting missives about their guy. Some are repeated vitriol that has no debatable content, and only begs to be ignored. Some of it is the adage of ‘Don’t like it, too bad. He will be our candidate.’ In the past I’ve seen posters here who were thoughtful, logical, literally passionate about impeaching Clinton, but with a HUGE degree of civility.
What is taking place here, and I am guilty of it too, so don’t think I am pointing fingers here, is the destruction of what is good about this site. WE ARE CONSERVATIVES, first and foremost. We have our passions that lead us to the candidates we have running. Debate is the give and take of ideas to reach a consensus about a direction. A direction we should all look at for the country, not because of the ‘he can beat Hillary’ dogma, but because the candidate we choose is THE one to carry what our hopes and dreams are for this great nation. I have seen posters here demean others, insult integrities, bash people they DON’T EVEN KNOW ON A PERSONAL LEVEL, and generally look like some of the slime that lurks on DU.
We are supposed to be better than that. It’s time we stop acting like we cannot debate without insult, stop treating each other as if our opinions don’t matter or our vote. It’s time that Jim starts looking around and suspending or closing some accounts for this type of behavior until it gets under control.
We are not DU here. The candidate we vote to carry the platform will be the one who reaches out to the most diverse among us. If that doesn’t happen for your candidate, I’m sorry. But to stoop to some of the tactics I’ve seen here based on a persons opinion or religion is despicable and speaks poorly for all of us.
-—So, Conservatives, who couldn’t even carry their own States as incumbants, would be a good bet to run for President. Brilliant idea!-—
Does the name, Nixon, ring a bell?
Help me out here; is that post suppose to make YOU look like the good guy?
ROFLMAO.
-—Don’t try to lecture me. -—
Oh, dear me, no!
American politics has ALWAYS been a full contact sport. The more that is on the line, the harder the hits. If you can’t handle it, take up knitting.
American politics has ALWAYS been a full contact sport. The more that is on the line, the harder the hits. If you can’t handle it, take up knitting.
Nixon ran six years after losing the CA Governor’s race.
Anyone who just lost five months ago is not a good POTUS bet this time.
The same Nixon that gave us the EPA?
Actually Earth Day was the worst. I never understood why hippies that never washed themselves were interested in cleaning up the planet.
You know, I thought I heard this week that the Dems are going to bring back the ERA amendment. Is that true?
/The point being, Nixon got nominated over Reagan. But, like Nixon, Reagan never quit trying.
You heard correct.
You mean they aren’t the same?
And is her mouth off or crooked?
LOL.....I had to ask, didn’t I?
Which doesn’t make a helluva lot of sense, 44 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, and decades after women got the right to vote.
Gosh, we sure have a lot to thank the sitter at homers for, don’t we?
I suspect the next item they will bring up is “comparable worth”.
That’s when the gummint decides what pay should be for jobs rather than employers and employees.
You can’t reply meaningfully.
By your logic he was a proven loser, but now you adding new qualifications to your statement.
And I wasn’t holding up Nixon as a conservative example, but as an example of someone that came back from losing 2 major elections to take the Presidency.
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