I went to your home page. I agree with every single thing you said on it! I just don’t think that the Republican Party is headed in the right direction. If they don’t stop - and turn around - they will continue to lose elections. They’ve lost sight of that whole “smaller government” thing.
The Republicans in the Senate are the ONLY thing that can stop Obama, McCain and the Democrats from destroying the U.S.A with government healthcare, cap and trade, Amnesty for illegals, socialism etc. Those not supporting the Republicans in the Senate help this destrucion by Democrats come about much sooner.
You need a super majority, 60%, in the Senate to get anything done or passed in the Senate.Most bills need to get passed in the Senate if it is to become law. But Republicans only had a 51%(R) to 50%(D) bare majority. The liberal mainstream media called that Republicans “completely controlling” the Senate and Congress and the presidency. So then the media blamed every problem, most of them invented like global warming on the Republicans.
Many who call themselves conservatives then refuse to support Republicans saying that “Republicans had control of both houses and the Senate so they should have drilled for oil in ANWR , cut spending dramatically, built a fence on the border, privatized SSI etc.” That is just sheer ignorance or purposeful demagoguery. Democrats used filibusters to block measures like drilling in ANWR, proving again that you need a 60% majority to do anything in the Senate.
Yes I do agree with these “conservative” bashers of the GOP that Bush could have done more but he is just one man. Blaming the whole GOP is not only unfair and incorrect but it helps the Democrats achieve a real super majority in Senate which they will used to turn the U.S.A into a socialist state. If you look at the actual votes on bills in the Congress 90% of Republicans voted the right way to expand drilling, to deny Amnesty to illegals, to cut taxes, to limit government, to strengthen the military, for freedom. And Democrats vote in the exact opposite numbers for Socialism and expanding government and crippling industry and for Amnesty. However 90% of 51 Republican Senators is not enough to get past Democrat filibusters. Most of the government school educated public don’t understand the super majority requirement of the Senate and the liberal media spun this to demonize Republicans. MANY conservatives even on this site also use this tactic wittingly or unwittingly to bash the GOP as a whole , which only helps the Democrats/Marxists, and makes them “useful idiots” for communism as in Stalin’s day.
Well if you agree with everything on my home page then you are a conservative and for freedom and liberty. Maybe the liberal mainstream media has misled you and other conservatives. I don’t know but we only have TWO ,2 choices support the Republicans or support the Democrats.If you look at the votes on bills then a conservative should support Republicans enthusiastically , not all Republicans but most of them (90%) who vote the right way.
“I went to your home page. I agree with every single thing you said on it! I just don’t think that the Republican Party is headed in the right direction. If they don’t stop - and turn around - they will continue to lose elections. They’ve lost sight of that whole “smaller government” thing.”
It’s great to see that other people can see reality how it really is. I am so used to meeting either ignorant people or liberals or brainwashed people who don’t have a clue. It’s only here on Freerepulic that I have met others who think like I do.
I don’t however agree with your negative take on the Republican Party.
If you see the incredible odds that many good Republicans have had to go up against including their own President Bush then you would understand.
First of all Republicans had only a bare majority in the Senate of 51-50 and they needed 60-40 to get any bill passed in the Senate so that is why they couldn’t stop the mandatory government spending and ever growing monster that is government and that has built in growth into it.
You have to realize that progressives(Marxists) and the liberal media monopoly passed 100 years of marxist legislation that has grown government to the size it is and that practially all of that growth is built in in mandatory spending mandates. Again Republicans didn’t have a 60% majority and 100 years to repeal all of these laws that mandate SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, FCC, HUD,Welfare, HHS, FEC,EPA, IRS, Dept. of Education etc and so on ad infinitum.
You also have to realize that Bush has been very bad on many occasions as in Amnesty for illegals and signing Mccain Fiengold etc. So Republicans had to battle the president, the Democrats, a lack of 60% super majority in the Senate, 100 years of liberal/Marxist legislation, and the liberal mainstream media among other things.
Even so if you look at the votes Republicans vote the conservative way 90% of the time or 90% of them do. The Democrats/Marxists vote the oppossite way. The only thing that can stop the Democrats/Marxists and a McCain or Obama is the Republican minority in the Senate and Mitch McConnel. Those that fail to support the GOP help the Democrats achieve their goal of a socialist state and a starving populace.
If you want to see the threat we face please read this, “The sad road to socialism” to see what the Democrats have and are doing to the United States and her people: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048965/posts