Open Letter to Rush Re Voting for RINOs

Maybe you remember me? I'm "Mike from North Caldwell." I've been a (an accepted) "caller" to the show about 20 times, but I have not tried to call for five years or more now. I still listen when I can, but work makes it difficult for me to call these days.

Today is a day I would have called. I would have called have called after you got that woman, who ostensibly called to chide you for being to tough on Republicans who won't support RINOs, to say she would vote straight Republican because she had no other choice.

I wonder if you have some advice for me. You see, I live in New Jersey and the Republicans want me to vote for Tom Kean, Jr. Now Tom Kean, Jr. didn't just support the smoking ban here in NJ. He's not just a co-sponsor. He's the guy who introduced the bill; and he's proud of it. Because of Tom Kean, Jr.'s bill I have had to join a private club to have a comfortable place to smoke a cigar. (Side note: The club was written up in CA and I'm sure the members would be honored if you would show up at one of the monthly club dinners.) I really don't want this guy in the Senate. Sure, we might lose a vote in the full Senate but Kean, if he wins, would get committee assignments that might go to a real Republican.

And what about my representative, Rodney Frelinghuysen? Have you even heard of him? He is the ultimate get-along-go-along-Republican. He has been elected here six times to the House, and is the fourth Frelinghuysen to represent NJ there. They think it's their own little Duchy. Recently I received a response from him regarding my objection to the circuitous ban on Internet gambling. He didn't care. He was voting for it. Now I have never bet a nickel on poker or sports on any of the internet sites targeted by this bill (and not much more than a few dollars elsewhere) but I would like to think that if I had the time sometime, I could play in an on-line poker tournament. Now RINO Frelinghuysen has helped make that unlikely. Why should I support a guy who thinks my (potential) recreational gambling is his business, or that it is even within the province of the Federal Government?

And what about our President? I give him very high marks and credit for there not having been another successful terrorist attack here in the United States since 9/11. But does his government really have to prevent middle-aged guys like me from carrying my shaving kit onto an airplane, when flying to or from the same airport near my home that I have used for more than 25 years now? I had to get up at 4AM yesterday for a 6:20 flight even though I was staying only five minutes away from the small airport I used to fly home. I was all for the war in Iraq, but I'm hardly for imposing "democracy" on them. (I'd withdraw to garrisons outside the cities, and only come in to "restore order" when it suited our interests.) We used to criticize "nation building." What happened?

Now maybe you'll argue that the Supreme Court is at stake. And you would have a point. But really, except for aggravating me, Supreme Court decisions have much less effect upon my life than not being allowed to take a tube of toothpaste with me when I board an airplane.

So I'm not going to vote for Kean or Frelinghuysen. I cannot vote for Bush again, but I tell you now I won't be voting for McCain if he is the Republican nominee in '08. No, I almost certainly will not be voting for the Democrat either. Instead I'll look for some Conservative, Libertarian, of Constitutional Party candidate in these elections. Almost every one of the votes these parties get is a vote that the Republicans will know they could have had with a true Republican candidate. I'm hoping to encourage them in that direction.

Well, since an innocent typo ("This bs attempt TO insult conservatives...") posted in the early hours before caffeine....elicited such a response from you, when you supposedly 'knew better'...I have to ask. Why DID you jump to the apparent conclusion that I was dissing you? You obviously were (and are) being defensive. And as for you 'all' not being as sharp as I am....au contraire. Most of the Freepers I have seen here are ten times sharper than you or I can ever hope to be. Most of them would have probably concluded that there was no need to resort to any tacky comment or response necessary, unlike you.

The only reason I compared you to a leftie, after your tacky response to me is, most lefties do exactly what you just did. Even if/when they know better. They attack someone that they know is a conservative ("I did know you were on my side because I read a few of your other posts.")

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See, we're all not as sharp as you are. Some of us need coherent sentences and fail to understand deep compositions like: "This bs attempted insult conservatives or Rush-fans usually always comes from rabid lefties."

Unlike you, I did know you were on my side because I read a few of your other posts when I couldn't understand what you posted to me. But we really don't need people like you to be advocating positions for our side because it might make us all look like dolts to others without your amazing intellect.

Anyone who has seen more than a handful of my posts and suggests that I "must be a leftie," is surely brain-dead.

Yeah, I saw the link. But the law exempts cigar bars that derived more than 10% of their revenue from tobacco sales in 2005. Why did this club need to go private?

Here's the link for ASHES:

http://www.ashescigarclub.com/

Try the steak tar tar. They make a really good seafood dip too. If you get a private membership, you get access to the upper floor, with leather couches, plasma screen TV's and your own private humidor and locker.

I'll see you there on November 7. I need to go have a few stiff drinks there before walking to the polling center to vote for Giant Douche Kean. He's still better than Turd Sandwich Menendez.

It's a choice between Bubonic Plague (Menendez) and SARS (Kean). SARS might kill you, but the plague is certain death.

I'm new here. But it looks like this site is no different than the other 2 I've been on. Everyone's looking for a confrontation that will make their day a little bit more exciting.

Not much actual intelligent political discourse going on here. ml/nj posts something that sounds critical, and nobody has anything intelligent to say so they resort to ad hominem attacks.

Now we all know what it feels like to be on the floor of the house. Except we're not getting a juicy federal pension or fringe benefits or perks from lobbyists.

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