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Well, a joint resolution of Congress authorized this war. Whether you and Hillary agree with it or not, it is the law of the land. And, in the meantime, President Bush is doing a helluva job conducting the war to the satisfaction of the American people.

"President Bush is doing a helluva job conducting the war to the satisfaction of the American people."

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Well, a joint resolution of Congress authorized this war. Whether you and Hillary agree with it or not, it is the law of the land. And, in the meantime, President Bush is doing a helluva job conducting the war to the satisfaction of the American people.

I've never agreed with Hillary on a thing in my life....lol. That resolution authorized the use of military force to which I wholeheartedly agree. I don't however believed they authorized this administration to suspend the Constitution and constitutional rights of American citizens. If you will recall at the time Bush said all these new "rules" would NOT apply to American citizens.... did he not?

Don't confuse Bush's handling of the war with his policies on preventing domestic terrorism. I like the way he is prosecuting the war. But his domestic agenda for preventing terrorism is awful. First, it is primarily oriented at being politically correct to win votes from minorities. And it does this by sacrificing the security of our borders which indirectly raises the risks of new successful attacks. And it ignores the realities of past immigration mistakes that have allowed the terrorists to enter the country in the first place.

Next he has sacrificed my safety by restricting my Second Amendment right to carry a firearm. There is nothing in the Constitution that gives Bush or anyone else the right to prevent me from carrying a firearm anywhere. And I concede the right of the carriers to refuse to sell me a ticket if I insist on boarding with a firearm.

Apart from the defense of the country, Bush's domestic agenda is pure politics to lure the left at the expense of the conservative agenda. And he is doing this with the premeditated notion that conservatives have no where else to go except the Republican Party and himself. He feels completely liberated to court the left along with the rest of the Republicans in Congress who are acting more like Democrats every passing day.

I believe that our freedoms and our Constitutional guarantees are in grave danger. I believe that danger originated with the Democratic Party. But I believe the power and corruption that goes with remaining in Washington with the reigns of power longer than six to eight years is so narcotizing and corrupting that Republicans now pose as grave a threat as Democrats. Worse, some Republicans believe that they can only effect change if they themselves remain in office. This group becomes delusional believing that the country is moving left and that they can remain in office only by adopting the Democrat's agenda to keep the Democrats out of power. At least they feel they can slow the rate of drift to the left.

I think our government needs radical surgery with a complete change of leadership. I would hope that Constitutional conservatives would replace those currently in office from both parties. I do not see this change coming from within either party. I think there are only two ways to bring it about. Either a new party must rise to power or conservatives must take control of an existing party. I think it will take too long to build a new party to sufficient strength without a charismatic candidate or a major issue where both parties take the wrong side in the eyes of the American people. I don't see such a candidate at the moment and issues like that are very rare.

That leaves conservatives taking control of an existing party. Clearly the Republican party is the logical choice. But taking control from the powers that be is impossible unless the party were to suffer a massive defeat at the polls in an election. This fall presents a golden opportunity. With Bush in power, there would be some check on a Democratic Congress. I submit that this fall's congressional elections are a golden opportunity for conservatives to convince Republicans where their agenda must be in order to be elected. By staying home and letting Democrats take control of Congress this fall, we can show Republicans that they only win when they advocate conservative values and enact a conservative agenda. I think the Republicans have to lose power before conservatives can come to power. Conservatives can take control of the Republican Party by first defeating the existing powers that be and replacing them with genuine conservative candidates in the 2004 election. If Bush doesn't get on board, he should be defeated by a conservative in the Republican primaries leading up to the 2004 election. The audience monitoring FreeRepublic grows substantially as we approach election times. Our political power and political captial will grow if we can demonstrate results.

I know this goes against the natural urge of many, and in particular against the grain of many on this site. My father thinks this insane. But the reality is, we have a very short window in which we may be able to turn the country around before it goes off the financial cliff into the abyss of the unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security. The United States is now very close to being a true democracy rather than the republic that we were and should be again. We are on track toward a financial apocalypse. We have been consuming our industrial capital for a decade accumulating debt rather than investment capital. No individual, business, or nation has ever borrowed or inflated its way into prosperity. We face either bankruptcy default or massive inflation or both sequentially.

Someone has to provide the leadership and the forum for discussion to enact such a bold plan. Someone has to provide the forum for debate to convince those who don't believe or can't see. Since this is not going to start within the Republican Party, I think that FreeRepublic is the perfect place for this debate to take place. I have an enormous problem with censorship. And while I hate the idea of letting simplistic thought be aired on serious discussion threads, I do think there should be a place for both and perhaps they should be separated. Certainly the discussion could proceed more quickly and orderly without distraction, but how are we to know what the "uninformed or unenlightened" are thinking and why. Even the deliberate sabotage of threads may offer some clues as to how to win the debate or carry the agenda.

I have engaged in a lot of personal attacks on FreeRepublic. I had hoped to silence or intimidate the weak. Instead I think added to the confusion and the length of threads but not to the informative nature that I really seek. In the future, I may still engage in personal attacks but I will try to give more thought to advancing an agenda.

I hope FreeRepublic will debate the concept of staying home or voting only for real conservative candidates this fall. Blindly voting Republican is, I think, not in our own best interests. I truly believe we must cause the Republicans to lose in order to win real political power that can move the country back toward the Constitution. I still believe most Americans are basically conservative. I think many have been misled by the media and the press. And in some cases we have clearly been misled by our own leaders. If they don't pay the price and if our leaders do not get the correct message, even the little bit of the US that is left is doomed. We are not betraying our country or our people. Our Country and our people have abandoned the Constitution and our freedoms that made us great. Please, we must return to them and quickly. There is no time for incrementalism. If we do not act correctly, quickly and decisively, it will not matter what we do. It will be too late.