who the hell wrote this... Soros?
Don't know. But whoever it is, it's nothing that a good family ass-whipping won't cure.
Posted on 10/17/2004 3:02:51 PM PDT by Ed Current
**"I voted for Arnold."**
**Yup....I reckon voting for liberals is a hard habit to break.**
I was being pragmatic. At least the Governorship is now nominally a part of the Republican Party. Better than nothing.
But I hear ya.
who the hell wrote this... Soros?
Don't know. But whoever it is, it's nothing that a good family ass-whipping won't cure.
I'll take a stab: the base is those folks who think the Founders knew what they were doing, who think the Constitution means EXACTLY what it says, who believe that judicial forays into legislation must be curbed, and who generally think the government should stay out of the private lives of the citizenry as much as is possible in this imperfect real world we currently squat upon.
That's my take on the "base" of the Republican party.
I dunno who this other guy is talkin' 'bout.
sell tickets.
should be a good show.
I just checked the Electoral Vote tracker at the LA Times - Bush 296; Kerry 206 with PA and NJ dead even. You can stick your fork in Kerry, he's done, as they say.
self ping
"Got some background on the guy? This is the first time I've ever seen his name."
Yeah. Chafee's a lib. He votes with the Dems a lot of the time. He says he's not voting for Bush in the Presidential election.
Oh ,for the day that Bush wins reelection and we can return to the food fights of yore!
They don't seem to be married to many of the Conservative core principles. They believe in government intervention both abroad and at home, much more so than traditional Conservatives. President Bush does too, as far as I can tell. I'm voting for him because there's no alternative, but this Iraq invasion has yet to be sorted out. I supported it, and with ease. That won't happen so easily the next time he or anyone else bangs the drums of war.
The neo-Conservatives may have undue influence, who knows, but President Bush is his own man, and if one doesn't like the direction the Country is taking, then the person to blame for that (and, logically vote out of office) is the President, not those trying to bend his ear toward this policy or that policy. They have just as much right to try to bring their philosophy to bear as any other influential group has ever done, or will do in the future.
BTW, the link on cognitive disonance that you posted on a thread earlier this week was fascinating.
For which party? Hagel is a traitoress blowhard.
No, I described 100% of the RINOs who keep stabbing Republican voters in the back, but keep getting propped up by Country Club pubbies.
almost any philosophy, even a good one, if taken to an extreme, tends to get a little nutty. if we take old fashioned conservativism to an extreme, we get an isolationist America like Buchanan wants, while if we take neo-conservativism to an extreme, we get something like an American version of the British or Roman empire, along with major deficit problems.the repub party is probably better off with both wings of conservativism, in some sort of dynamic balance.
what the libs see as a fault line is really a crucial strength.
Thanks :-)
Agreed!
actually, the really interesting thing about the article is that it pretty much assumes that the repubs have won the election. (which i am assuming also.)
and with HRC running for president in 2008, i think the conservatives and neo-cons will manage to work in a united way.
to keep HER base intact, HRC will have to run further left than she will want to. when she runs to the left, the repubs will pull together.
the fight predicted in the article will probably not last very long.
Hating neo-cons is practically the Left's new hobby. They want to go back to the Gerald Ford Republican Party where they were a permanant minority
My Great great grand father was a Wig and joined the Republicans because he was an abolitionist.
By today's standards, JFK was a neo-con, too.
Pity the Dems left that and became the party of Cynthia McKinney and Maxine Waters.
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