Posted on 01/22/2004 7:07:09 AM PST by Wolfstar
A bloated Federal Budget without concern for fiscal responsibility, and concern for the eventual bill is NOT accepable.
Campaign Finance Reform was NOT accepable.
These are core GOP tenets. Why are they now acceptable to compromise on, and where next will the so-called "conservative President" or his Ruling Syndicate yield and compromise on traditional GOP Party platform principles?
Is it on guns? Abortion? Will the next SC appointees be "centrists" like David Souter? Who really knows what the "political" plan is...
For a Party that controls -- YES CONTROLS both the Senate AND the House AND the Presidency, why is conservatism merely just holding its ground, or even retreating on certain issues??
If memory serves, didn't the elder Bush recently give TED KENNEDY the Bush family achievement award? What are they rewarding - how inexplicable is that? Does anyone take moral principles seriously anymore?
Oh, boo-freaking-hoo. You guys want the forum all to yourselves, and for your whining, take-my-ball-and-go-home-he's-not-gonna-get-my-vote-I-want-a-Democrat-to-win-that'll-teach-'em complaining about President Bush to either go unaddressed or be agreed with, is that it? Sheesh.
If you're going to dish it out, be prepared to take it.
Say what you will about Jose Padilla, but admittedly he IS a U.S. citizen and he is being denied his Constitutional rights under provisions of the Patriot Act. It could happen to you, it could happen to me.
Frankly, the "I have nothing to hide" argument is weak - and has been debunked many times on FR and elsewhere.
Good luck - I'm glad you feel secure.
FACT: George W. Bush is not the greatest threat to conservative principles in America today.
FACT: The Democrats ARE the greatest threat to conservative principles in America today.
FACT: George W. Bush's re-election is the ONLY defense against a new onslaught of leftist ideology in the halls of government, in our courts, and in American society.
FACT: I think it's pretty well established that most of the naysayers on FR these days are 1) disruptors from the DNC who pretend to be Republicans who bash Bush; 2) disruptors from DU who pretend to be conservatives who bash Bush; 3) disgruntled Buchanan supporters who still hope that Pat hijacks the conservative movement and carries it back to the 1930s and '40s, and to about 15% of the US electorate; 4) the terminally crumudgeonly; 5) those who are still ticked off that most Freepers didn't support Tom McClintock in the California recall.
FACT: The naysayers spend more time trashing George W. Bush than they do trashing John Kerry, Howard Dean, John Edwards, or any of the other Democrats (which should tell you something).
FACT: I predicted back in September that the very same people who attempted to destroy the Republicans' chances of replacing Gray Davis would be sharpening their knives to destroy George W. Bush in the new year, and my prediction has proven correct -- you are precisely the same people, making the same tired arguments, but now targeting them at Bush instead of Arnold.
FACT: It's fine to disagree with Bush on any one or number of policies, but we've rounded the corner in this election cycle and now is the time for all conservatives to emphasize what they support about Bush's Presidency, rather than tear at each other over one or two single issues.
FACT: The Bush-bashers haven't said anything new in weeks; it's the same old mantra.
FACT: Jim Robinson has repeatedly made clear that, yes, this is a conservative discussion site, AND that it supports the re-election of Pres. Bush, supports the war on terror, supports the effort in Iraq, supports the President's judicial nominees, supports (in general) increasing the Republican majorities in Congress, all as the most practical means of correcting largely 60 years of leftist tilt in this nation. And...
FACT: These incessant criticisms of Bush go way beyond honest disagreements on policy, but have taken on an emotional edge which suggests that those who continue to gnaw on this particular bone suffer from the inability to step back, take a deep breath, and actually contribute something positive to the discussions on FR in particular, or the conservative movement in general.
lol - if both extremists hate him, then he MUST be doing something right.
They migrate from Mexico in the winter to USA in the summer. Nice putdown!
Really, which crops? Can you justify that statement?
Apples, oranges, peaches, cherries and nearly every agriculture crop. Most fruits and vegetables need hand picking or damaged crop losses will put farmers out of business. In a world economy, higher costs equals foreign produce.
As for making unemployed pick, you going to have farmers pay their benefits, workmans comp and unemployment.
Once again, how do you have agriculture w/o cheap Mexican labor??? Still waiting.
Pray for W and The Truth
Read this, and apply it to yourself, ex.
It is YOU who repeatedly call into question anyone's morals if they don't agree with you.
It is YOU who are guilty of 'prideful arrogance.'
It is YOU who think YOUR opinions are an infallible understanding of what the Scripture and the Constitution mean.
It is YOU who are laughable to all who read your arrogant condemnations.
All I did was to turn your own game around on you.........and you lost.
"Gotta disagree with you there, the number one litmus test is fiscal responsibility." - BJClinton
Here's why I disagree: a liberal, such as the former governor of Vermont Howard Dean (who balanced every state budget and pinched pennies like mad) can be fiscally responsible and pro-choice.
Conservatives aren't pro-choice. We aren't out advocating the murder of innocent little babies in their mothers' wombs.
Yet your litmus test would say: Vote for Dean, a Planned Parenthood doctor, over Bush, the only President to ever sign a federal ban on abortion.
Thus, your litmus test is woefully flawed, with all due respect.
Or as Franklin might have put it... we need to hang together or we will relive 1992 separately!
Ding! Ding! Ding!
They hate Republicans. They wish we would leave.
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