GOP Wages War Against Its Conservatives

GOPUSA ^ | June.28,2004 | Christopher G. Adamo

[asmith92008]

Amen. It's getting to the point where I don't know where the GOP ends and the Democrats begin.

[John Lenin]

Go Tom go !

[Once-Ler]

Amen. It's getting to the point where I don't know where the GOP ends and the Democrats begin.

For most people the choice is clear on issues of abortion, gun rights, taxes, and defense. It is too bad you don't see a difference.

[unsycophant]

Ironically, I just came across the Team America site the other day while looking at some Buchanan info. The piece you posted doesn't mention that Bay Buchanan is listed as 'Co-chairman' of the Team America PAC. It should have, as knowing that Tancredo is working closely with someone who supported a third-party candidate is relevant.

In addition, Tancredo (Team America) sent out a fundraising letter in May2004 basically calling President Bush arrogant and power-mad. I find Team America's rhetoric offensive and misleading. I hope I'm not the only Republican who does.

[lizma]

Of course Ronald Reagan never intended for his "Eleventh Commandment" to be arbitrarily invoked as a means of allowing liberalism to spread, unchecked, within the ranks of the GOP.

That comment is huey. Mr Regan understood our enemy just as Churchill and Washington before him. He knew how to make us whole,

To rate presidents Washington was amazing , Regan was damn good.

[zarf]

Frankly the GOP is ready for a good fight. The so called conservatives are spending the country blind and driving moderates away with their hyper-religious ferver.

On the other hand, RINO's like Spector have no balls and cave to the slightest Democratic challenge.

The Pubbies have got to find a way to be inclusive to expand the base and fiscally responsible.

[asmith92008]

Well, you could also look at the fact that this administration jumped on the diversity bandwagon in its brief to the Supreme Court on affirmative action. Justice O'Connor, another "conservative" appointee, seized on this to enshrine reverse discrimination into the Constitution.

I'll grant that Bush is a better choice than Kerry on defense. However, that's damnation by faint praise. Who wouldn't be better than Kerry? All the same, the administration refuses to actually enlarge the military so we don;t become overstretched and allow our enemies to perceive us as weak.

Gun rights? Why hasn't the Republican Congress and White House restored the people of Washington DC their right to bear arms?

And on abortion, the administratpion was great n the partial birth abortion ban. But where is a ban on human cloning? We have New Jersey getting ready to allow it within its borders and its on the way here in California. Why has the Republican leadership not moved to cork the genie in this bottle?

On illegal immigration, the only difference between Bush and Kerry is how quickly they will throw open the borders.

And where is the strong Republican leadership on the gay marriage amendment? Outside of Rick Santorum, whom the White House gave no back up to when he pointed out the absurdity of the Lawrence decision, there are few in the Republican leadership rallying on this issue.

[asmith92008]

And then the White House supports Specter in his primary. If they couldn't endorse Toomey, which I can understand, they should have at least stayed out of it.

[unsycophant]

From the Desk of... Tom Tancredo
U.S. Congressman, Colorado's 6th District

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Dear Friends,

In January, in complete defiance of the will of the American people,
the President proposed granting amnesty to the twelve million illegal
aliens who broke our laws getting into this country.

As if that wasn't outrageous enough, Mr. Bush took it a step further
and asked Congress to include in the amnesty bill a guest worker
program that would give foreign workers from anywhere in the world
the right to come to this country and compete with Americans for jobs
here. It is the final chapter of the sellout of America.

The arrogance of those in power today is as great as it has ever been.
Knowing full well that an unprotected border threatens our national
security, increases the violence in our cities and schools, burdens
our hospitals, suppresses our wages, bankrupts our government and
balkanizes our nation, our so-called representatives do nothing to
enforce the laws of this land.

"We, the People" has been replaced as the driving force in this nation
by "We, the Corporations", a group that doesn't give a rat's tail
about our workers, our communities, or our national sovereignty for
that matter!

But it is they who are calling the shots in Congress and open borders
means cheap labor. That is good for them and they could care less
about the consequences to the nation.

Friends, the situation is URGENT! Unless we move now it may be too
late.

That is why I have asked Bay Buchanan, a fellow Reaganite and former
Treasurer of the U.S., to help me form Team America.

Team America will find, support and help elect patriots that will
stand up to the corporate and party bosses and help in the fight to
reform our immigration policies and secure our borders.

---

Tancredo's remarks in this fundraising letter from May seem deliberately abstruse.

[Cultural Jihad]

"Open border advocacy" usng the universal Insta-Ideologuese-to-English translator really means: "People who refuse to machine gun women and children at the border."

No one except the fringed 3rd party hacks advocate open borders.

[Reagan Man]

Tom Tancredo believes that amnesty for illegals isn't a core value the GOP should be supporting. On that point, I agree with him. As does about 80% of Americans.

I didn't see the fundraising letter you refer too. So I can't comment on his rhetoric. I do know, Tancredo supports the reelection of Bush-Cheney.

Liberal Republicans (aka.RINOs) should not have a voice in the GOP political agenda. Period. Conservatives constitute a majority of the GOP base. The party platform is based on a conservative agenda. And when Ronald Reagan appealed to Democrats in 1980 and 1984, they were conservative Democrats. Not liberal Democrats.

[Cultural Jihad]

The piece you posted doesn't mention that Bay Buchanan is listed as 'Co-chairman' of the Team America PAC. It should have, as knowing that Tancredo is working closely with someone who supported a third-party candidate is relevant.

In addition, Tancredo (Team America) sent out a fundraising letter in May2004 basically calling President Bush arrogant and power-mad. I find Team America's rhetoric offensive and misleading. I hope I'm not the only Republican who does.

Anyone who would align with those who endorse Ralph Nader and his Socialist Workers Party cohort, and who publicly derides corporations, is the one who does not belong in the Republican Party.

[staytrue]

Why hasn't the Republican Congress and White House restored the people of Washington DC their right to bear arms?

Because the people of Washington DC want a gun ban. They voted for one overwhelmingly. Put to a vote, a gun ban would pass 80-20. By the way, DC will vote for Kerry about 80-20 too.

[Sloth]

The GOP treats conservatives like the Democratic Party treats blacks. The difference is, blacks have somewhere else to go.

[Reagan Man]

Anyone who opposes amnesty for illegals, stands with a majority of the American people. That's all that matters on this issue. Tom Tancredo is right on this issue. Bay Buchanan is right on this issue. PresBush is on the wrong side of this issue and he knows it. Bush`s recent silence in support of amnesty for illegals, makes that point abundantly clear.

[staytrue]

Liberal Republicans (aka.RINOs) should not have a voice in the GOP political agenda. Period.

To move legislation, you need the president, half the house and 60% of the senate.

That means you need bout 60% of the people to be with you. Conservatives are not 60%.

What needs to be done is to assemble a 60% group and that will mean you will need to give a voice to all 60% or else they will join the other side. If you expect the moderates to vote for your stuff and for them to have no voice, you are nuts.

[Cultural Jihad]

The GOP treats conservatives like the Democratic Party treats blacks. The difference is, blacks have somewhere else to go.

Nonsense. The xenophobic border-wedgies and the protectionist anti-free-trade types can go flock to Ralph Nader and his Socialist Worker's Party cohort.