40 Pieces of Silver

Nov 8, 2006 | Self

[Natural Law]

The GOP leadership sold its soul and sold out its core constituency for the figurative 40 pieces of silver. Whats more, their apologists on this forum expect that all Conservatives should have followed lock-step behind them. Conservatism is an ideology, not a party. If the GOP wants the money, votes, and support of conservatives it must be conservative. We are not here to represent the party, the party is here to represent us. As Reagan once said of the Democratic Party; "it left me, I didn't leave it". Let's see if it can find its way home.

[onyx]

He's great. I like him too!

[nopardons]

You bet it is! But since I don't own FR, it is hardly enforceable. :-(

[nopardons]

LOL

[GoLightly]

He ain't purdy, but he's a dang good Rep. He also has a good staff, cuz I've gotten real answers when I've written to him. Kohl & Feingold respond with boilerplate BS.

[onyx]

I've always like your congressman. He's one of the best.

[Schnucki]

You have been drinking the kool-aid for too long. You are now beginning to talk like a liberal. Your premise appears to be that the GOP was the victim of betrayal by its conservative base, not that it was responsible for the consequences of its actions and inactions. If anyone has been betrayed it is the Evangelical Christians and the Reagan conservatives. No one is entitled to my vote, they have to earn it, and not by being just a little less reprehensible as the competition. The GOP tried to play that card one too many times. Accountability is a conservative value. I do not vote against a party, I vote for it, but I have to have something to base that on. For too many it is obvious that the GOP didn't deliver.

Speaking as somebody who would be considered an evangelical Christian, I'm sure you did the right thing. Now you can sit back and:

• Enjoy the filibustered conservative judges.
• Enjoy the homosexual and pedophile agenda that now has majority support.
• Enjoy the farming of aborted fetuses for stem cells.
• Enjoy the increased governmental support for the ACLU.
• Enjoy the aggressively anti-Christian agenda of the democrat party.

Speaking as somebody who might be considered a Reagan conservative:

• Enjoy the new taxes.
• Enjoy the newest Vietnam.
• Enjoy the next attack by emboldened terrorists.
• Enjoy the new confidence and commitment of the mainstream media to the democrat party.
• Enjoy the entrenched voter fraud.
• Enjoy the new lame-duck president who might have fended off the liberal agenda if not promoted the conservative one.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Tommy Thompson??

[Sooner1938]

"Then go post on a LIBERTARIAN forum"

What's the matter? Can't stand a bit of truth?

I've been telling you koolaid drinkers for at least a year that you were riding for a fall and Tuesday's results proved me right.

[GoLightly]

Tommy's a great guy, but he's not a conservative.

[nopardons]

You wouldn't know the truth, if it clamped its jaws on your nose and nothing and nobody could remove it, for the rest of your life!

ROTFLOL...so someone who is enamored of blue skinned people, a crazy fringe party, that has been hemorrhaging members for more than a decade, and is reveling in a DEM takeover of both Houses, is telling ME that I am a Kool-Aide drinker? Damn, I can't remember WHEN I haves seen such gall and stupidity as expressed in your replies!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Well in that case I don't think Wisconsin has EVER had a conservative Governor or Senator!! Joe McCarthy and Bob LaFollette certainly were not conservatives. Obviously Joe was for national security, but he was otherwise what used to be called a 'modern' or Dewey-Rockefeller Republican.

[onyx]

LOL You haven't been here a year! At least NOT under your current screen name.

[GoLightly]

You're talking about a state that has elected Socialists, for crying out loud. LOL I try to tell people who are cozy in red states, there's just no stinkin way some places are gonna send conservatives to the Senate.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Well, if a couple of problem areas (Madison, Milwaukee) were solved, maybe you could do it!!

[nopardons]

Yep, I looked, old Sooner has been a member of FR for a wee bit over 3, count 'em, THREE months.

THREE MONTHS AND A BIT !

[Natural Law]

"The public turned against Vietnam during the Johnson administration. Nixon was voted in to clean it up.

You probably are not old enough to remember, but Nixon still hadn't cleaned it up in his 6th year in office. He governed as the most Big Government, liberal president I can remember (wage & price controls, created the OSHA, EPA, SSI, DEA, Office of Minority Business Enterprise, doubling of the Federal Register annually during his 6 years, 55 mph speed limit, etc.) in an attempt to appease or work with the Democrats. He gave into the DEMs and officially ceased US combat operations in March 1973 (two years before the fall of Saigon), this meant that those of us still there couldn't defend ourselves. I see the parallels to Iraq very well. Like Vietnam the administration has not permitted an over powering, unconditional fight against the enemy because of political pressure. Americans demand that we either fight to win or not fight at all. The public support for the war in Iraq, rather how the war is being fought, was a major contributor in the debacle.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

You don't suppose that a certain amount a RETREADING has been going on??

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

He governed as the most Big Government, liberal president I can remember

So Bush is much better than Nixon, and the party is much more conservative, and you still are unappeasable!

[GoLightly]

State senate just went blue. Election reform was vetoed, twice. Our registration laws make motor voter look like a pain in the butt. The guy who was just reelected our Governor is under Federal investigation. The state election board (controlled by said Gov) changed campaign law in the middle of this past election, throwing out most of the funds of the Gov's opponent. The state Supreme Court refused to issue a ruling on the case until after the election was over. Unless we get election reform, there's no way to overcome Milwaukee & Madison. The person in charge of Milwaukee's election didn't catch a 5 figure discrepancy in votes versus voters in the primary.

[GoLightly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtxgOj0-eQY