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]

[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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[Howlin]

The GOP is supporting George W. Bush this year.

You'll have to vote for somebody else, because we're not going to let YOU tell US how who or how to vote.

[swampfox98]

Find yourself a candidate pure enough for yourself and vote for him.

Listen, I am a Republican who grew up with Republican ideals. I don't consider myself "pure" as you insult would indicate. I consider myself an American who is sick to death of voting for people who say one thing and do another. (Unlike some people who care nothing for the path America is taking under Bush.)

[Howlin]

Why is the required compromise *always* to the left and *never* to the right?

Because there's nobody to compromise with to the right of you guys!

[Dolphy]

Only those who don't care about America's future refuse to speak out.

Nonsense. Those who care about America's future don't dismiss the significant accomplishments of this President as if they were well within reach of just any man and then claim to be betrayed beyond reason.

[q_an_a]

tell me how his work in 2002 does not look like fighting for conservatives? did RR add seats and go get conservatives to run like Mr. Bush? NO. Did he make an appointment of several people and bring them back after 2002? Yes. Did he install Judge Pickering? yes.

The author of the article makes it clear that the memorery of RR is better than the facts. There are 200+ dead Marines that got not help from Mr. Reagan. We left Lebannon and allowed the Arabs to think we would always cut and run.

I wish the President was vetoing spenidng bills, but he did not and jsut like parents who wish they made different decisions it doesn't mean he won't fix them in the next round.

[deport]

(Principles, not blind loyalty)

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Yep, I believe the author of the article had you read perfectly. Obviously if you had blind loyalty to Principles you would know that you have to make progress toward the ideal in our governmental process steps at a time..... nothing comes all at once.

[MEG33]

A bit late for your wishing for a new candidate.Perhaps you could write in your name ,as Tancredo is voting with me,for President Bush.

[Carolinamom]

Their combined anti-Bush votes are only 18%. They might as well vote for Kerry/Edwards and expect to be ruled by the UN, that bastion of One-Worldism.

[Howlin]

(Unlike some people who care nothing for the path America is taking under Bush.)

Ah, there it is; your last refuge. Can't make a point? Then try to insinuate you care more about the country then I do.

I am stating a simple fact: George Bush is our candidate this year.

What you chose to do about that is your business; but I wish you all would stop trying to make US feel bad about the decisions we've made by making statements just like the one you made above.

[prairiebreeze]

Woe and gloom have befallen some on the right.

Darned few really. Only to their own self-inflated ego-obcessed minds, are they a force to be reckoned with. More examples of gasping for relevance by those who would also have us think they believe they might really get better treatment and a bigger bang for their buck from Kerry and his RATS.

Prairie

[rintense]

Putting Kerry in the WH would only force the Republican party to move even further to the left to get re-elected!

Good Heavens, people! GWB is not perfect. But does anyone here honestly believe that it will be easier to advance a conservative agenda with a liberal White House??? Wake up!

[Jim Cane]

You'll have to vote for somebody else, because we're not going to let YOU tell US how who or how to vote.

LOL! Not going to LET me? You have no power to prevent me from telling you how to vote. You only have the power to disobey my direction.

[Ciexyz]

Betrayed beyond reason

Are we talking about the Clinton years or the Bush years?!?!

[Howlin]

Well, a lot of those are probably distruptors who just voted that way to skewer the vote.

The Kerry ones can be thrown out, but the undecideds we will get.

[RockyMtnMan]

You mean like Ted Kennedy's education bill or John McCains CFR? How about Fienstein's AWB? The Democrats (in general) Medicare bill? Maybe it's the new amnesty the Dims want so much.

All tough sells to be sure.

[Carolinamom]

Unlike us, THEY have "principles". (/sarcasm)

[MEG33]

I did point out that your candidate is voting for President Bush.

[roses of sharon]

You forgot "melo-dramatic", their statements of "betrayal" prove the illogical nature of their "feelings".

[Jim Cane]

A bit late for your wishing for a new candidate.Perhaps you could write in your name...

No thanks. I'll write in Tancredo, just the same.

[Howlin]

You have no power to prevent me from telling you how to vote.

Oh, I can see that now.

Why would I be surprised that you feel like YOU can tell ME how to vote -- after all, you're casting your vote for a man who has said on more than one occasion he doesn't WANT you to vote for him.

Try not to be so condescending of the rest of us while you throw your principled vote to a man who doesn't want it.