Posted on 08/07/2009 3:28:37 PM PDT by Stephen Colbert
The enemy you know is way worse than the enemy that acts like your friend only to stab you in the back.
Once Republicans have the numbers again in the future they're not going to reduce the size of government in any meaningful way, ever. THAT'S A PROMISE. We're on a one way path to larger and larger government.
The way Republicans talk you'd think when they're in power they'd put half the federal government and spending on the chopping block. Surely that's what the republican constituents want, right? I think politicians of both parties forget that they are not our leaders, they are our elected representatives. The difference being that we're supposed to tell them what we want, not them tell us what we should want.
Democrats tax and spend, Republicans borrow and spend. Neither ever ever ever cuts spending.
Spending and our debt exploded under Reagen, and they exploded under Bush.
At the democrats advertize that they want to spend money. They get people that actually agree with their socialist agenda to vote for them. They are wrong, but atleast they advertize what they are going to do.
Republicans however campaign on cutting spending, cutting the size of the government. But once they get in power, do they slash the government at all, do they keep any of their promises? No, not even slightly. THEY LIE TO US CONSISTENTLY, TELL US EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR, THEN STAB US IN THE BACK AS SOON AS THEY GET OUR VOTE.
They are the real enemy here. The size of the government, and the debt exploded under Reagen, and it exploded even more under Bush. Bush gave us Medicare Part D, the trillion dollar bailout of Wallstreet, and the 1.3 trillion dollar debt when he left office. He didn't veto a single one of these, the republicans didn't oppose any of these. They are reason we are in this mess.
Stop letting this continue.
NEVER EVER VOTE FOR A CAREER POLITICIAN, NO MATTER WHAT THEY TELL YOU, NO MATTER WHAT THEY PROMISE, THEY ARE LYING.
The only way we are ever ever going to get our country back is to elect in regular ordinary people, like Sarah Palin.
Heck I would happily support the one and only exception that proves the rule, the one and only politician that has ever ever voted against Reagen's and Bush's bloated budgets, government expansions and spending sprees, Ron Paul.
But if the GOP doesn't nominate a real person, not a politician. If they nominate another RINO like Tim Pawlentiny, or Mitt Romney or anyone in the Senate or House, I urge you please, please, don't vote for them.
Demand that Sarah Palin run as a third party candidate and vote for her instead. Even if it costs us the election, it will atleast send the GOP a message and maybe next time, they will put a real person, not a politician on the ticket.
Yes, it sucks to lose. But if we did this back in 2008, if we refused to vote for McCain and instead voted for a none-Rino. If we asked Ron Paul to run as a third party candidate and voted for him, then maybe we wouldn't have wound up with another RINO/Career Politician like Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlentiny as our nominee in 2012.
The way Republicans talk you'd think when they're in power they'd put half the federal government and spending on the chopping block.
But once in power, they never, ever, ever, ever come remotely close to doing that. Not even close. They lie to us.
So please, I beg of you, just say no. No politicians. Either we get a real person on the ticket, or vote third party.
While this piece of S#*t is obviously a troll,he does make a valid point about the Republicratic push towards State-ism.Some say its the lesser of two evils we must support,I say I`ll not support a Fascist jealous,Freedom hating, Dictator DemocRAT wanna be “RINO”.Either we re-take the party of Reagan or I`ll pick and choose who I vote for.
The GOP didn't select McCain as the top of the ticket. The Media and DNC did. Howard Dean's staffers were part of Democrats for McCain going back to 2006.
There were McCain staffers who left the McCain Campaign for Obama's campaign just days after they secured McCain the nomination. Mission accomplished.
What a waste of oxygen that this ZOT-bait breathes
It's true he had some points but he really lost me at running Ron Paul, among other things.
And just who do you think makes up third parties? Politicians, that's who!
Try again.
Thank you. Well written. I was being glib in #21, you said what needed to be said.
Coming soon to a thread near you.
We’re waiting!
Steven Colbert signed on to Free Republic 7/31/2009
HOW WONDERFUL YOU GIVE US SUCH A VALUED PERSPECTIVE AS A NEWBIE!!
Any other literary creations on the horizon?
Look at the post as "Divide and Conquer" rhetoric. He offers up no solution.
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He's dead Jim. |
Palin run as an indie? Are you totally dee-ranged? If you want more of what’s happened this past 200 days....that’s a sure-fire way to have more. Pure political suicide, because I don’t think she can win outside the party. She’d have two parties smearing her....like being pecked to death by little birds.
These days , shall we say “ almost as bad as Democrats . “
Prove me wrong,I TRIPPLE DOG DARE YOU!
a whole lotta zotta
Stephen, Stephen, Stephen.
Take some economics courses. At Chicago or George Mason, not Princeton, Yale or Harvard.
All deficits are not equal. Obama is trying to recreate the Carter malaise, but at a much more devastating level.
Stephen, hyper-inflation, stagnation, high taxes. Pure Socialism/Communism.
It kills every country.
Can't... you win. :0) (Wow. Skipped the double dog dare and went straight for the juglar....)
PS: I consider myself a conservative, not a republican. The pubbies are far too willing to be led by the liberals into spending and refuse to take a firm stand on almost anything.
And if we could find a way to flush out the existing liberal/union bureaucracy then the Republic would be in much, much better shape.
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