Because they are all better than this:
Posted on 02/03/2004 4:07:53 AM PST by The_Eaglet
Restore the Republic
January 21, 2004
It used to get a big laugh among conservatives and Republicans to tell any story which contained the words, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you."
But, increasingly, what you hear President Bush say, in so many words, in so many areas, is that --- well, he's from the government and he's here to help us --- even if his help is unconstitutional.
In his recent State of the Union address, Mr. Bush praised his own Medicare program, which will cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
He praised his latest immigration scheme, which will allow millions of illegal aliens to stay here "legally."
He wants to double Federal funding of abstinence programs.
He wants $300 million to help ex-prisoners get jobs.
He pushed once again for his so-called faith-based initiative --- a terrible and dangerous idea that entices churches to become welfare recipients.
And the President --- who has asked for more than $50 billion for his Department of Education --- bragged about how he increased Federal funding for our schools by 36 percent since 2001.
What do all these programs have in common? They are all unConstitutional --- every one of them.
At the end of his address, President Bush told a story about a 10-year old girl, Ashley Pearson, who wrote him a letter. She asked Mr. Bush to tell her if he knew of anything she could do to help someone.
Well, Ashley, wherever you are, I would suggest, respectfully, that you can help Mr. Bush, and all of us, by writing him another letter suggesting, please, that he re-read and obey our Constitution.
Any person claiming to be conservative who is not motivated to keep the Democrats out of power after knowing EXACTLY what they will do with it if given the opportunity, has a real problem with reality. They're either political martyrs, have not been paying attention to what the Democrat candidates have been promising they will do if elected, or are ignoring (or are totally or willfully ignorant of) the history of the last seventy years, or are incredibly dense or insane, or have a morbid desire to toil their lives away in the misery of a Liberal Hell! Any person who would support a third party candidate who has absolutely zero chance of winning even one state or even a single electoral vote is so politically naive and devoid of the brainpower that The Creator so graciously endowed upon them, that it's not even worth wasting pixels on.
And I can tell you, that I probably won't be wasting very many more pixels on people who are coming to FR to trash and bash our candidates and or to trash and bash and drive away the very posters I'm trying to attract. If the intent of third party supporters is to cause as much hell and discontent on our forum and to inflict as much damage to FR as they possibly can, well, I can assure you we will have many fewer third party posters left on FR very soon. The LePur colony can have them. Thank you very much.
It might be different if there was a primary involved. These kind of battles need to take place as part of the process of selecting the best person to run. In this case, there will be no primary. God willing and barring any major disasters, George W. Bush will be the candidate. So it will either be Bush or one of the Democrats that gets elected. No one else stands a snowball's chance in hell. And I've given every person on this web site plenty of advance notice (I've been saying it for the last three years) that FR will NOT be used to help replace Bush with a Democrat. Period. End of story.
Again, if that is your intent, leave now or get yourself banned later. Excessive and repetitive attacks on our candidates or our posters will not be tolerated. Try your luck at DUh or LibertyPost. In presidential politics, they are interchangeable."
712 posted on 02/01/2004 6:55:33 PM EST by Jim Robinson
Democrat gets elected: The right voiciferously opposes every presidential action that could be construed as being the least bit left of center, though the culture continues to go to the dogs. Any criticism of up-and-coming Republican nominee results in an organized chiding from party stalwarts.
This has been the template for decades. I'm not impressed. I will not be intimidated into blindly validating what the lesser of two evils does. It shuts down debate and ensures just as much slouching towards Gomorrah.
Because they are all better than this:
Try to understand that whatever conservative is elected to the highest office in the country they will be opposed by more than 50% of the population and most of Congress if you add in the RINO's. Bush back in the White House in 2005 and another conservative in 2009 will be the best thing that could happen to this country.
Heck man, I'll even give you permission to wear your "Che" t-shirt when you pull the leaver for Bush next November you "revolutionary". ;^)
But he could start pulling in the opposite direction from them. So far he's pulling in the same direction. That's what's so disquieting.
I'm not out to cause his defeat, but a showing by the Constitution Party in 2004 would help alleviate the pressure he gets from the Left, by countering it with pressure from the Right. The risk, of course, is that it might result in his defeat. That needs to be measured against the risk that without serious pressure from the Right, he and the Republican Party will continue to drift leftward, and it will be harder and harder to extricate the country from the result.
Socialism is an addictive disease that will keep getting worse without aggressive intervention. Ultimately, there is a threshold that, once crossed, cannot be crossed back over, at least not without some major trouble. I don't know where exactly that threshold is, but I don't want to find out either.
While I am conservative, issues like these, border defense lapses, and party funding of pro-abortion candidates have prevented me from joining the Republican Party.
If Republicans want conservative votes, they need to stop disproving their professed ideology of conservativism while implementing policies of liberalism.
Bragging about spending increases on unconstitutional programs does not help matters, either.
I support the Constitution Party, but I gladly cross party lines to support conservative Republicans when I could find them. It is up to them to prove that I can trust them with my vote.
I am grateful that he allows me to express mine as we both share the goal to to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. I am grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Republican, independent, Libertarian, and Constitutionalist FReepers in these efforts.
There are times where we disagree, and the question of how to hold the presidency accountable is certainly one of them.
I don't understand why Jim says there will be no GOP primary when New Hampshire had one, and several other states have GOP primaries and caucuses.
If we want to roll back largesse, then we need to stop voting for candidates like Bush who continue to expand the federal government and brag about it. The State of the Union address attests to this.
I am doing my best to vote this way, too. Sometimes I am surprised at the results of my vote after the fact (for instance, Dr. Bill Frist), but when that happens, I look for other candidates.
I am glad that Peroutka also sees it this way and is giving us an opporunity for fiscal freedom and the restoration of Constitutional integrity.
Peroutka is a great man and the Constitution Party is turning into a strong 3rd party, much better than the clueless Libertarians. Conservatives should definatly support them - in 2008.
Unfortunately, there's this thing called reality. And there are some guys out in the Middle East call Al Quaida who want to blow the U.S. to smithereens. The only thing standing in their way is President Bush. The Constitution Party was against the War in Iraq. They're against a pre-emptive defense policy that punishes terrorists and countries who plan on attacking the U.S.
Peroutka should seek Constitution Party candidates in Congressional and state legislature races. Stay out of the presidential race. 2004 is way too important for malcontents. And don't flame me as a Bushbot - I was one of the most feared Buchanan supporters here on FR back in 2000.
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