Posted on 11/04/2004 4:39:10 PM PST by thegreatbeast
The other side may be euphoric, but the intensity of their happiness can't match the intensity of our despair. Honest conservatives, even those who admire President Bush, know he didn't earn a second term. They know he staked his presidency on a catastrophe, and that, by all rights, Iraq should be his political epitaph. Their victory, while sweet, can't be fully enjoyed because it isn't fully deserved.
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But cultural sensitivity is one thing; principle is another. In their attempts to win rural voters, Democrats have already essentially abandoned gun control. That doesn't keep me up at night. But gay marriage is different. The fact that it is widely unpopular cannot obscure the fact that it is morally momentous and morally right...
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This is an arrogant little piece by a presumptuous ass.
Who is he to say what an honest conservative thinks, he being neither? What is his criterion for earning a second term? Anyway, we a do not give terms as rewards: we pick the best available leader for the country, and given the choice, it was easy.
Kerry is man who betrayed his country, and helped defeat a cause for which some 60,000 Americans died. He did his part to help keep Soviet communism in power for another generation, and was trying again to undercut America. Kerry showed no executive ability whatsoever, and selected a vice-presidential candidate who was a pretty-boy of even less desirable experience, and with no useful trade.
The winning alternative was Bush, a steady, principled fellow, who gives every indication of being able courageously to tackle some of our really big problems. His qualifications far outweigh his defects: smirking, walking in a way which somehow offends liberals, and showing a patriotism which offends the left.
The only time a liberal attempts to argue morality is to buttress a cause which he knows to be impossibly unpopular. There is no logic in liberal ideas of morality: it is just a sanctimonious pose by a loser.
You are absolutely right. The only problem I have with gay marriage is that they want to call it marriage. I'm sorry but that simply is not marriage, the actual definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. I think they should be afforded the same rights as normal people, these anti-gay marriage ammendments in 11 states (at least in my state of Utah) seem only to target gays and specifically single them out as not worthy of the same rights as normal people. If they would only concede to calling it something else ( like civil union or something) then it would be acceptable.
I believe the gay lobby is simply trying to attack a tradition and redefine it as something of their design to be able to snub their nose at christians specifically. The stubborn desire to call it something that it is not seems like an elaborate attempt to offend people.
Voting Republican?
You are absolutely right. The only problem I have with gay marriage is that they want to call it marriage. I'm sorry but that simply is not marriage, the actual definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. I think they should be afforded the same rights as normal people, these anti-gay marriage ammendments in 11 states (at least in my state of Utah) seem only to target gays and specifically single them out as not worthy of the same rights as normal people. If they would only concede to calling it something else ( like civil union or something) then it would be acceptable.
I believe the gay lobby is simply trying to attack a tradition and redefine it as something of their design to be able to snub their nose at christians specifically. The stubborn desire to call it something that it is not seems like an elaborate attempt to offend people.
Hey......I learned something....that gin and raisins will cure what ails you.....
.... under the canopy, stomping on the wine glass. I'm not Jewish but I know that the symbology there is the breaking of the hymen, the acceptance from the community, and the procreation of children.
IINM, the breaking of the glass is intended as a commemoration of the destruction of the Temple.
God?
Family?
Country?
C'mon. You can't put up an empty suit like Kerry who has no option but to try to lie himself into the presidency and expect to beat GWB, no matter how much the MSM shills for Senator Gigolo.
Yesterday another "true conservative", Joseph Farah, was trying to hide behind the SwiftVets to push his own anti-Bush agenda. Some of the "true conservatives" tried to use his BS in their own way. It didn't work. The fact was Farah couldn't push his own agenda, and people didn't allow him to "use" the Swifties.
Oh dear. I don't have high hopes that the left is going to deal with reality.
What a shame.
America has 59,313,309 Bush voters. More than any other President ever. Don't let a liberal forget it.
Interesting. While I am not particularly thrilled with everything Bush did in his first term, the ignorance of this statement is astounding. Quite obviously he did earn a second term. Since we still live in a democratic republic (for now), all that is required to earn a second term is the approval of a majority of the Electoral College (and hence the voters). This is just more evidence of the entitlement mentality of the left. Somehow they seem to believe they have some basic right to the office and anyone else is simply a usurper.
"Iraq should be his political epitaph"
This clown has no clue what's happening in Iraq. Iraq was a planned operation .. it was to draw the enemy to ONE PLACE WHERE WE COULD FIGHT THEM .. one place .. not 50 states of America.
WHAT'S WRONG is the liberals don't get it - and I'm afraid they never will. This is a global war on terror .. not a petty little battle for Bush's own glorification.
I think he always wore the barn jacket to display some consistency that he doesn't have.
I went no further.
I shouldn't be, but I'm still stunned to see just how out of touch these people are. They really believe they lost because they didn't "communicate their message" effectively. They're utterly blind to the truth, that they lost because enough people DO understand their frightening message all too well.
I also still shake my head over the fact that they're so myopic as to utterly ignore the evidence of history. That evidence makes clear that nations or empires cannot and will not thrive once moral decay sets in and declares wrong to be right and right to be wrong.
It's as if today's liberals think the normalization of sexual immorality and perversion has never been tried before. They think they thought it up. It's been tried, with inevitably fatal results for the city/state/nation/empire.
MM
That's what you think. Hahahahaha! I haven't felt this relaxed in at least a decade. Life is good. Praise God.
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