I voted for GHWB in '92. And '88. And Reagan in 1980 and 1984.
What have I done lately? Hmmm... help to put on counter protests against the ANSWER crowd, help to put on "support the troops" rallies in our nation's capital, attend Forest Service public hearings to try and stop bad environmental regulation (roadless area policy), attend rallies to show support for the Darby farmers, analyze a draft DEIS regarding the New River Parkway and handed a copy of that analysis personally to Helen Chenoweth Hage back when she was in Congress (it was also published here on FR), provide several pre-publication reviews of the book Natural Process: that environmental laws may serve the laws of Nature to the author...
My first political rally was the Judgment Day rally on the Capitol Steps in December of 1998. There were about 500 of us there. It was a major FR event. (Not quite the March for Justice, which I was prevented from attending by my ex-wife, but it was a be there or be square kind of event)Where were you?
I have been a conservative since about 1990 (I credit Rush for beginning that process).
So to answer your silly assed picknose missive, Yeah. I'm proud of myself now.
So you want to throw all that effort overboard now, do you? Willing to go AWOL in the turning point of this fight? Have you learned so little from Rush, whom we both appear to hold in such high regard, or will you simply let your bottom feeder’s-level perspective stand to validate your perceived need for self-importance here?
You need a politician to “owe you” something for your vote, so you’d better have a hope that he can deliver something more than just a feel-good, preaching-to-the-choir, rabble-rousing homily. I’ll admit, it’s easy to become beguiled by them.
Your third party trolls are mostly a lot of talk and fund raisers, knowing, of course, that they’ll never see real action. They become sounding boards for whiners, knowing all along that they’ll never have to personally face the fire and produce something of value to advance conservatism. But they’ll be the first to sit around and congratulate each other for their mistaken value of collective non-effort. You may not have a chance of accomplishing anything, but boy you’ll vote for the “feel-good” solution. And the Dems are just as happy for you to vote for that solution too. Oh yeah, YOU’LL teach your side a lesson, or two, and at the same time lose what little credibility or conservative credentials you thought you had to start with.
We could get into pissing matches about who’s been in the fight longer and drop our theoretical conservative drawers just to see who’s bigger, and run down the litany of “pedigrees,” but judging by what you wrote I already have a 25 year head start on you. It would be unfair to you, and it would likely just be a bore for everyone on FR to have to read, like what you posted last time.
Pick somebody other than Bush to vote for in 2004 and I'll just leave you to pick your own nose and reserve my thanks for those that can be counted on and will vote for Bush.