Posted on 02/12/2004 7:32:47 AM PST by quidnunc
Yes. How else would you interpret his shining city speech? Hollow rhetoric?
Hard to argue with paranoid delusions of persecution like that, but I'll try. FR is a hobby for me. Best I know, none of the regular contributors at FR are paid for their efforts. I've already explained that your are not the base, you are the fringe. Your assertions to the contrary...combined with your conspiratorial ranting have not convinced me otherwise.
I think you got it, right there...sometimes the "you, sir, are no conservative" posts here are about as reasoned as the arguments of the Dem's saying "conservatives call Max Cleland unpatriotic".
Hasten to add, posters here "argue" from true convictions and passion (at least, for the most part) and no offense to anyone intended.
A last point, though...people like Kerry, Dean, and Clinton (both of them) have "true convictions and passions" too, but I'm certain their "vision of America's future" is not the one I want, nor do I think these people have the best interests of the collective "people" at heart. Not to even mention how disgusted I am by the "means and methods" they seem to find acceptable in achieving their election goals...lies are no problem for their own "good cause".
Activate, yes. Make a difference, yes. But please, fellow FReepers, if you have doubts about the current President, ask your conscience whether the glass is half-full or half-empty, and whether your principled vote will in effect give a majority vote to someone like Kerry, the effects of whose potential leadership of our country we can likely all agree on...
My wife, my children, my parents and the rest of my family, my co-workers and friends. I'm not trying to make you jealous, but I don't know how else to answer your question.
Now this rat fink wants to know "what you care." A few years ago you said you would never vote Republican because of Dubya's immigration policy...earier in this thread (post 93) you said you would vote for Bush and the Republicans "this time"...it has been a whole 5 days...have you changed your mind yet again?
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds - Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Arkansas, I'm voting Jim Holt as US Senate, and Marvin Parks for US Congress because they seem to be the most conservative on issues.
On local levels, I'll vote independent if they are more conservative. The Arkansas Constitution Party is trying to get signatures to be recognized as an official Party.
There are ways to make Republicans act more conservative. Which is the only reasonable way to solve the problems in the Federal Government. Letting the democrats get more power by voting 3rd party will not solve the illegal immigration, overspending, etc. problems. It will make them worse.
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