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GOP Infighting Fills Our Enemies with Joy ((The Stupid Party getting even stupider)
The Times-Picayune [New Orleans] ^
| February 12, 2004
| James Lileks [Newhouse News Service]
Posted on 02/12/2004 7:32:47 AM PST by quidnunc
Let's just be blunt: The North Koreans would love to see John Kerry win the election. The mullahs of Iran would love it. The Syrian Baathists would sigh with relief. Every enemy of America would take great satisfaction if the electorate rejects the Bush doctrine and scuttles back to hide under the U.N. Security Council's table. It's a hard question, but the right one: Which candidate does our enemy want to lose? George W. Bush.
And some conservatives will be happy to help, it seems.
Woe and gloom have befallen some on the right. Bush has failed to act according to The Reagan Ideal.
The actual Reagan may have issued an amnesty for illegals, but the Ideal Reagan would have done no such thing. So unless Bush packs freight cars full of gardeners and dishwashers and dumps them off at the Mexican border, some voters will just sit this one out.
The Ideal Reagan would have eliminated the National Endowment for the Arts; the actual Reagan proposed a $1 million increase in his final budget. But Bush increased NEA funding. So angry conservatives might just sit this one out.
And if a Democrat takes office, and the Michael Moores and Rob Reiners and Martin Sheens crowd the airwaves on Nov. 3 to shout their howls of vindication? If the inevitable renaissance of Iraq happens on Kerry's watch, and the economy truly picks up steam in the first few years before the business cycle and Kerry's tax hikes kick in? If emboldened Islamist terrorists smell blood and strike again? Fine. Maybe the next Republican president will do everything they want.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; alqaedavote; conservatives; kerry
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To: swampfox98
Seems that you are the one who is over doing it.You're the one who suggested you were being knifed in the back, and were just a smidge away from being booted for your opinions.
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posted on
02/12/2004 4:29:57 PM PST
by
Amelia
(Pop-culture impaired)
To: Amelia
And I'm not? And I wasn't? Hooray for freedom!!!! long sigh of relief......
242
posted on
02/12/2004 4:32:02 PM PST
by
swampfox98
(Beyond 2004 - Chaos)
To: Jim Cane
Hey, Sugar! That was such a thoughtful response! By the way, you have some toilet paper sticking to your shoes.
243
posted on
02/12/2004 4:56:38 PM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: N3WBI3
I have not noted one partisan on this board who would vote for Kerry if he were a Republican.Of course ,Kerry's record is worse than the worst Rino on National Security votes,so you are simply insulting Bush supporters.Bring It On.
244
posted on
02/12/2004 5:37:11 PM PST
by
MEG33
(BUSH/CHENEY '04...for the sake of our nation)
To: Jim Cane
Your photo?
245
posted on
02/12/2004 5:56:58 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: Jim Cane
Regarding your tag line, does Tancredo endorse his promotion for President?
And what's Tancredo's proposal on immigration? I've heard it's only slightly tougher than Bush's proposal.
246
posted on
02/12/2004 6:31:22 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: kjvail
Historically about every 50 years or so the major parties get a shakeup in this country....It is past time for a shakeup - the Democratic party is imploding and the GOP is moving farther left every year to take their place. The future belongs to the LP and the CP. And how many presidents were elected from any of these other parties since the Civil War? And how many legislators in this country are from the LP or the CP now?
To: Jim Cane
What's up with the vile pic? Is this your idea of intelligent political debate?
No wonder you yearn after third parties...
248
posted on
02/12/2004 7:15:16 PM PST
by
Tamzee
(EARTH FIRST!!! We'll stripmine the other planets later...)
To: quidnunc
It was Sam Francis, and he borrowed it from a British wit who was speaking of their 'conservative' party.
249
posted on
02/12/2004 8:57:30 PM PST
by
Pelham
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To: SevenDaysInMay
Oh,brother..like I said before..
Signed MEG,a native Texan,Daughter of the Republic of Texas qualified.
251
posted on
02/13/2004 10:22:12 AM PST
by
MEG33
(BUSH/CHENEY '04...for the sake of our nation)
To: quidnunc
Let's just be blunt: The North Koreans would love to see John Kerry win the election. The mullahs of Iran would love it. The Syrian Baathists would sigh with relief. Every enemy of America would take great satisfaction if the electorate rejects the Bush doctrine and scuttles back to hide under the U.N. Security Council's table. It's a hard question, but the right one: Which candidate does our enemy want to lose? George W. Bush. I noticed that you forgot the #1 enemy of the US, Saudi Arabia. Did you forgot that they financed, provided the ideology of hate, and the jihadists that destroyed WTC with 3000 innocent Americans. This Iraq thing is a diversion from our real enemy.
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To: reformedliberal
Faith and patience is what I counsel. Sometimes progress is only possible from within the system. Often, progress is hard to discern at the moment and is only seen in hindsight. People living in historical times often don't realize it.
254
posted on
02/14/2004 10:59:57 AM PST
by
rdb3
(You're fired.)
To: swampfox98
Tell me, if the Republicans weren't lying to the country they would be acting like Republicans should act, and they shouldn't be angry at their base for stating the obvious. You are not the base. The base of the Republican party is Republican voters. You are the right fringe.
swampfox98 anounces he will not vote for Republicans 3 years ago
Because of Bush's immigration policy, and his pandering to co-President Fox, here is one Ohioian who will never vote Republican again. During the election fiasco, I marched in Cincinnati with fellow Freepers calling for Bush to be recognized as our President; wish now I hadn't.
Taxcuts, PBA ban, and killing terrorists have not changed your opinion. You are a one issue anti-immigration conservative. You are not the base. We will get by without your vote somehow.
255
posted on
02/14/2004 10:41:31 PM PST
by
Once-Ler
(Proud Republican and Bushbot)
To: WayneM
However, neither the Ideal Reagan nor the Actual Reagan would have issued a second amnesty after 15 years of seeing the destructive results of the first one-time only amnesty. ...If Ronald Reagan said it, it was true. Ive spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I dont know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. Thats how I saw it, and see it still. Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation, January 11, 1989
Reagan passed amnesty for illegal aliens in 1986 yet 3 years later he sounds like he still believes all men are created equal. I don't think you know very much about Ronald Reagan.
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posted on
02/14/2004 11:51:04 PM PST
by
Once-Ler
(Proud Republican and Bushbot)
To: Darlin'
Frankly, I don't see a dime's worth of difference in democrats like Kerry, McAuliffe, Gore, Clinton and the 'principled' conservatives. They all proclaim their "patriotism" out of one side of their mouth while deliberately distorting the President's every action out of the other side. Should one or both succeed the end result is the same... a democrat in the White House and an open invitaton to every murdering, bloodthirsty terrorist around the world. So there is zero difference. Well said and worth repeating.
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posted on
02/14/2004 11:56:49 PM PST
by
Once-Ler
(Proud Republican and Bushbot)
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