GOP PRIMARY PROTEST VOTE

e-mail from Citizens Lobby | 1/18/2004 | Unknown

[JimRed]

If your state is holding a "primary" vote for the Republican candidate for president, Citizens Lobby strongly urges you to cast a "blank" ballot -- OR write in a candidate of your choice.

We recommend Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan or Alan Keyes...

President Bush needs a wake call and your vote is a great way to send him a message.

[Hoverbug]

that game's getting old. You want Bush to get my vote? tell him to earn it. The election is his to win or lose.


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[FirstPrinciple]

He said CFR would be the law over his dead body. Last I checked he was still breathing and CFR is the law of the land.

He claimed he was a free trader. However, he placed tariffs on steel to boost his popularity in key battleground states. I hope he knew what free trader was when he made that remark.

He said that he will not use federal funds for stem-cell research, and we all know what happened.

He was opposed to affirmative action when he was the candidate, but he supported it in the Michigan law school case. The stupid phrase "diversity is a legitimate state interest" came from his brief that he submitted to the Supreme Court.

I am sure the list is longer. I am not that politically inclined to know everything.

[dagnabbit]

I will attempt to vote for Tom Tancredo in the Wash DC caucus on 10 February. Since he's not on the ballot, I don't know how that's going to work out. We'll see.

[FirstPrinciple]

Have you ever heard the phrase "the bullet that you can hear is not the one that kills you."

[Jim Robinson]

You're for OPEN borders? Oh, man. What kinda anti-bushie are you? Hover would ZOT you in a NY minute.

[FirstPrinciple]

Al Sharpton. If I had to pick one from this crowd, I would probably go for Joe Lieberman.

[Texasforever]

Reagan had a Republican Congress, we would have never heard of George W Bush

Now that one went right over my head. What do you mean?

[Sabertooth]

The crusade to move Bush to the right was for 2001, 2002, and 2003 and can be for 2005, 2006, and 2007. Any attempts to drive a wedge in his support now is underestimating the damage a liberal can do.

The Amnesty for Illegals wedge was driven by President Bush, on January 7th, 2004.

No one forced him, the responsibility for the resultant division is exclusively his.

[FirstPrinciple]

For most of the history of the nation, we have had open borders. Capitalist nation-states like Singapore, Lichtenstein, the former colony of Hong Kong, etc. all have open borders. Most of our ancestors came during the days of open borders. The problem is not open borders, but the fact that these immigrants now come and immediately get dependent on the welfare state. Almost all illegal immigrants are net welfare receipients and are thus dependents on the state. I don't think Bush supports denying them health and education, so I cannot support that. Don't give them any handouts and if they still want to come in and work for pennies, I say let them all in. However, we now have a pesky little terrorism problem. I haven't really thought through how to resolve open borders with terrorism as of yet.

[Naspino]

Have you ever heard the phrase "the bullet that you can hear is not the one that kills you."

It seems to me that should apply to you and not me. You are willing to trade Bush for either Dean, Kerry, Edwards, or Hillary.

How many justices will depart the SCOTUS over the next four years? Why must we get rid of Bush NOW? Much of his spending has been related to defense; something these other guys are not willing to do. I just don't understand how you people miss the fact that its either going to be him or a liberal/socialist. You think Congress can be an effective balance for the President but the President has a lot of power -- line item vetos, the bully pullpit, the Command and Chief, foreign relations, etc and who's to say things don't go worse in 2006? An anti-war Democrat winning in '04 is going to seriously change how we conduct the war on terror.

[FirstPrinciple]

That means RINOs like Bush would have never made it into the party if Reagan's ideas made it into laws under a Republican Congress. Bush would have probably been a Blue Dog Democrat, at best.

[Fabozz]

"[I]f they lived then they would have tried to make Washington a king anyway."

I doubt it—Washington was soft on immigration.

[lewislynn]

I'd vote for Osama Ban Laden before I'd vote for Pat Buchanan.

Be careful what you wish for nitwit.

[Naspino]

I haven't really thought through how to resolve open borders with terrorism as of yet.

You don't -- its not possible. You stop them from being effective once they are inside the country.

[Cultural Jihad]

Just as what Josef Stalin meant when he said 'Sure there are contradictions in the Soviet system, but those contradictions will ensure that there will be a dialectical leap to the glorious utopia which is just around the corner.'

[Hoverbug]

Who cares if it ushers in UN control over our troops

By your reply, it appears to me that you intend to indicate that you would respond with a pusilanimous retort to any such attempt? Hb

[FirstPrinciple]

That is not true. Discretionary spending has actually increased under Bush from Clinton years. All this complaining during Clinton years went in vain. Moreover, he signed dumb and draconian laws that I would never expect a Republican to sign - like CFR, Sarbanes-Oaxley, NCLB, Medicare expansion. The list is huge. You would be foaming in your mouth if Al Gore signed any of this, and telling us how GWB would never stand for this.

[Naspino]

By your reply, it appears to me that you intend to indicate that you would respond with a pusilanimous retort to any such attempt? Hb

Don't make me get a dictionary. I saw you're pulled comment -- is that how you intend to respond to those you disagree with? I would expect that on Dummyland not here. The point was -- by voting for some 3rd party loser you get exactly what you hate. UN control over this country.

[Texasforever]

He had control of the Senate for his first 6 years and a working majority in the House with the Blue dog democrats, Reagan had more to do with bringing "rinos" into the party than any living leader today. It only makes sense given the fact that in today's definition of "rino" he was the first one.