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Posted on 10/29/2008 6:25:59 AM PDT by Robert Branch
I am a Reagan Conservative. I came of age in my political thought during Reagan’s rise and was inspired by his faith in people and the love of our Country. I think it was Reagan who said, “If people have a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, they will always choose the Democrat”. What I always took this to mean is People will always chose the candidate who held strong beliefs in core political values over the middle of the road candidate.
The choice in this election is between a Democrat and a democrat (little d intentional). It is October 28, 2008 and I do not yet know for whom I will vote. I am as mad as hell.
Obama is a Democrat to the core. He unabashedly promotes their cause. McCain is at best a moderate Democrat who calls himself a Republican. Other than security issues, McCain has shown repeatedly, he is willing to change his vote, if not his views, to appease the other side.
I believe that this nation has lost its way. Led by business people without a sense of obligation to do anything for country. People once built a business in hopes of making a product that would provide a profit and in turn profit the community and country as well. In the past corporations such as NCR, GE or GM would never have considered conducting business in a manner destructive to the community to which they belonged or the country they lived. Could you ever imagine GE doing business with any country that was considered an enemy during any previous war? That has changed. Today corporations such as GE only exist to make a buck and everything is on the table if the bottom line is improved. That is why we had companies like GE helping Iran with their nuclear program and investors betting on the failure of the housing market while setting up its ultimate failure only to make obscene amounts of money. All in the name of enriching them and the Corporations they serve but at the expense of country and honor. Factory and Auto Jobs gone to Mexico and China, but the crash and failure of those corporations is to be paid for by our taxes to now bail them out. Where is obligation and morality?
Obama or McCain will not influence in any way the path we follow with regard to moral issues. No matter what the law is. People will or will not seek out an abortion based on their own moral compass. Issues such as abortion and same sex marriage are changed in the heart of people based on their relationship with their God. Institutions and their allowances or mandates only reflect the hearts of the masses they serve. Institutions will only change when the desires of the people are influenced by personal morality. We should not waste or efforts fighting laws that allow people to make the wrong moral choice for no law will ever stop that, but rather we should demand the removal of laws that prevent or punish us for doing the right thing.
This Nations attitude concerning these moral issues are not the result of bad Government, rather the moderation of ones own beliefs to make our lives more convenient, which are then, supported by our Churches. A Church that does not rail against followers who openly support matters completely contrary to what is right and wrong or against the doctrine of their church is not a church but a weekend support group.
My dilemma. To vote for a Democrat or an in name only Republican that may crush any hope of Reagan conservatism returning.
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McCain is not our first or best choice. The alternative to him, however is a Socialist thug who will completely ruin what remains of this great country of ours.
SO:
Vote McCain/Palin
We can move McCain. obamalamadingdong will be a good socialist/marxist. no movement.
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Newbie with a vanity?
When did they start allowing that?
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I dunno. The poster's views are legit. I don't think the poster is a troll, but a newbie posting a vanity like this (no matter how legit) is asking for trouble.
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Otherwise, to the thread poster...welcome to FR.
Bump!
Palin is conservative.
Voting dem will only bury the country for good.
With people like Palin on the ticket, it shows that there's still hope.
Signing up today, making a single questionable post, and not responding to any posts to you spells....T-R-O-L-L.
A word to the wise if your not.
He already started in August:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066502/posts
I'd rather have an outright socialist in office than a socialsit who pretends to believe in the free market. The alleged defenders of the free market in the Republican leadership have done more in the last year to undermine support for free markets than all the Democrats combined.
Me too. McCain and the other pretend conservatives do much to impugn and to discredit conservativism, so when they fail, guess what, folks will stop listening and turn to the real dark side.
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