Posted on 07/17/2004 5:33:14 PM PDT by Kuksool
There was a lot of crazy speculation here that Clinton wouldn't cede power to the GOP back in 2001. And it was just as baseless and paranoid then as it is now.
That's what LBJ said about Vietnam.
"You can call it scare mongering if you want to; I call it facing the facts."
There is nothing factual whatsoever about your wild speculation. Repubs have beaten the lies before and can beat them again. You can provide no historical basis for your claims, only ridiculous hyperbole.
Perhaps you've missed some of those great 'free trade' agreements signed of late by the White House. I'm for free trade but what Bush is doing is not free trade. FTAs with third world countries, namely CAFTA in route to FTAA, are going to make it even worse. I'll give him an a ounce of credit though. Protectionism won't work either. Now if he would only follow through with this instead of throwing up 30% tariffs for steel and the like. Problem is he's jumps from absolute opposites it seems depending on which way the poll, I mean wind, blows..
we're giving Iraqis their freedom to run their own country.
Sure 'we' are. Does that mean all 100,000+ troops can come home now instead of 2006? Hey, maybe while they're packing their bags over the next two years they may stumble across another buried missile or parts of 15 year old lab equipment confirming the existence of the invisble WMDs. But don't worry, when the troops do come home, our tax dollars will be flowing freely to Baghdad for decades to come. There is more than one type of an empire...
My views are stated in several previous posts. I never expected to be flamed for being a conservative republican. If we can't criticize our leaders, we've already lost. If we can't petition them for improvement, it's already a dictatorship.
My summary is Bush has problems with his conservative base, of which I am one. Bush needs to implement policies more in line with our core values (and presumably his). Cut spending, reduce the size of government, do not sign the awb reauthorization, etc.
Our votes are still the carrots and sticks for politicans.
George Bush: I ask you to get back in touch with your conservative base. Or be voted out. A RINO is a democrat.
We all lived through eight years of degenerate bill clinton. We can do it again. Perhaps republican congressmen will then finally get some balls.
Read up on French politics lately? Specifically, look up the Muslim headscarf ban and the repatriation of radical Muslim clerics. Do you honestly think Chirac would have those items on his list at all if he wasn't in serious danger of vote-splintering from Le Pen and the extreme-right Front National?
The only reason it hasn't happened in the United States is because conservatives haven't made a consistent, serious long-term threat to splinter the vote on the right.
A vote for anybody but Bush is a vote for John Kerry;
By that logic, if I were to suddenly change my citizenship (not that I would; I'm just giving an example) before November, I'd be voting for John Kerry.
and if you don't vote for Bush, don't bother going back to the polls until 2020.
Mm-hmm.
For better or worse, many of those from 2000 were purged from the roles.
I wish I had the resolution to state it like that.
See posts #85, #112, and #123.
Sixteen years? Oh, that's just a hoot. If the Democrats could hold on to their power for that long, their misrule would drag us down into civil war (potentially against Mexican nationals and Muslim fanatics) VERY quickly.
Maybe you could provide some specifics about what you would do differently than President Bush with the economy?
Luckily, the second tax cut was good enough to get our economy going in the right direction, thus elimating the need for GWB to make economic speeches, which always showed how clueless he is on the economy.
BTW...you don't know what you're talking about.
I can tell you that economics taught in almost any school outside of Chicago is worthless. MBA's have nothing to do with economics. Most successful business leaders are also clueless on the economy. All they have to know how to do is run their businesses.
If kerry gets in so be it.
Good grief! You sound too forgiving.
The country couldn't stand four years with Traitor/Kerry at the helm and you know it. Bush better WIN!
You don't own anyone's vote, Howlin.
Thank God.
Thank God.
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But don't you know that we must subvert our individual rights to serve the good of the whole nation? Why, it's our duty!
While President Bush is our only viable choice, it would be great to see "better" representation be elected to Congress-like Cain in Georgia-sending a message that it is time for true conservative ideas that have real conservative backing to be placed on the agenda.
Er, you do realize that the only way these statements can be squared with one another is to stipulate that "GOP officials" are as dumb and oblivious to reality as a bag of hammers, right?
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