Except that "Gran" translates as "Great." My feelings are crushed that you would ridicule a fellow Texan. :-)
Posted on 11/06/2004 7:29:37 AM PST by ConYoungBlack
Bill Clinton taught lots of us not to be knee jerk, whatever they say is right kool-aid drinkers.
The guy's only 29, man. Geez!
You did it! Get out there amd make your voice heard. The blacks are waiting for you! They have been held down by phonys long enough. God bless you.
You have to realize that with XT polls showing near 20% voting for W that means the real number must have been 25-30%, so your not alone anymore. All things important take pain and what you are doing is monumental. God Bless Ya as a Brother in Christ!
Pray for W and Our Troops
"I didn't do this for dubious reasons or with self serving motive."
No problem. Draw some attention to yourself. Yours will be a valuable voice, and FR is a great forum for honest feedback!
Welcome.
Of course, since you are just a kid of 29--I am heartened that you realize you have a lot to learn. Someday you can become like me--you'll know everything. 'Cept you won't be able to remember half of it! :>)!
OOPS--even I can't forget this: welcome to our cyber "home"!
Except that "Gran" translates as "Great." My feelings are crushed that you would ridicule a fellow Texan. :-)
For me, the only valid test is following what they do, not what they say for a sufficiently long time to be convinced that it is not simply strategic deception.
Color me skeptical.
I liked your article; my position is with the leaders of the DNC like Nancy Pelosi.
House Democratic leader Pelosi recently stated "Quite frankly, I think the table is set for us in the next election," she said. "We have lost just about everything that we can lose."
No, No you haven’t Nancy. It will get better for you when your political party realizes what is important to America and not what is important to you and the liberal elite which make up less than 20% of Americans. The total contempt by those in your party’s base about what Americans believe is the core values of their everyday lives. I do not believe that you can persuade the political base of the Republican Party to join without completely disenfranchising yourself from the liberal socialist agenda, In other words a total reconstruction of your party and party leaders. When it’s raining its raining regardless of whether or not you wish to call it only a sprinkle it is still rain. The only way I see the Democratic Party to change is after a total meltdown and that in its self will cost 30 years of power on capital hill and in the White House. Democrats still like to say the race for the White House was close and that nothing is wrong other than the fact we were not nasty enough to get what we wanted. The fact they have begun to resort to violence and flocking to the Canadian border shows how close you may be to the meltdown right now. The silent majority has reached its breaking point and it has decided to take back our country from those who despise it from within our own borders. You may not like Joe six pack but truth is he doesn't like you either and never has. What will happen to your party is inevitable change because power can not be obtained without the will of the people to support it. I am not so much a Republican as I am of the values they currently stand for and I would be a Democrat if the situation was in reverse. Your remaining base is weak and only exists out of pure loyalty to a party that has failed to them justice.
It is a very good editorial and I agree with it. Keep it up and when you are a regular don't make us excerpt your editorials.
Oops!
And welcome aboard! :-)
Great! And I could hear my chair and those of countless other Freepers screeching as we moved over to your side.:) Because we all share the same basic values, though, we probably aren't your best sounding board, but we can act as an advisory board for you after your essay is published and you start catching some liberal heat.
I like your 7 points very much. The Dems have pandered to/been taken over by so many non-mainstream special interest groups that they are marginalizing themselves out of business in many states. And trust me, it is good to have two competeting politicals parties, because a monopoly by only one party inevitably leads to staleness and corruption. By making even the name "Democrat" a perjorative among so many of us, they are removing their party as any kind of competition.
And they don't seem to realize that what they say "blue states", they're really talking about "blue cities", some Indian Reservations, and Azatlan along the Rio Grande. USA Today's county map of the U.S. should bea devastating wake-up call for them - if they can force themselves to see the reality.
GREAT!!!! And very well said. The democrat party has become the hostage of a zillion special interest groups and has totally ignored that one huge special interest group, The America People.
Your editorial contains some of the essentials, but it needs to be made more concise. Examine whether 'commentary' (contained in parenthesis) should be part of the sentence or included. Please check your spelling and punctuation before submitting it as there are a number of errors.
You should also note that Michael Moore and his ilk are representative of the media and entertainment, neither respecting truth or our values. They are one and the same, not worthy of separate consideration.
I would also consider it important to mention our Constitution and Bill of Rights as representative of the underlying ideals from our founding fathers, religious and philosophically enlightened men. Those same ideals are what many individual Americans hold dear, the same people considered by so-called liberals to be "extremists".
Good Read, Good Job, Good to know you. Hope you stick around.
I agree that another argument outside of religion needs to be used against the gay lifestyle.
1) It is unhealthy. The average lifespan of gays is extreemly short. The same people who carp about smoking and McDonalds are being hypocritical.
2) It is "unnatural". The best line I've seen on this is from Dr. Laura who said "Penis, Vagina, what is it that you don't understand"?
3) There are innumerable studies that say that children need both a father and mother. And even if the "family" doesn't intend on having children, the example set that male-female couples is the "proper" family is good for the community. If others want to break these traditions, fine. But let's not encurage it with social custom.
Why not apply that same logic to abortion and keep religion out of it, if for no other reason than to keep the lefties from screaming, "Religious zealot?" When a leftie asks about abortion just reply, "It's not reproductive and is not in the best interests of bettering the human race." That should silence anyone.
This is even easier.
1) If it is important to give rights to all people. Then it is equally important to give rights to unborn people as well. The Constitution does not discriminate against unborn people.
2) Roe vs. Wade is just bad law. There is no legitimate Constitutional right of privacy that allows the Dr. Patient relationship to do anything it wants. Hell, we don't even allow Doctors the "privacy" to prescribe many drugs. And in that case there certianly is no third human involved. Dr. Kevorkian didn't have the right of privacy to conspire with his patients to kill them. He ended up in jail.
3) People might argue the merrits of abortion, but Roe sets a bad precident that the courts can just make up law. I would think that this would be anathema to good liberals, because some boogyman like John Ashcroft could come along and do real damage against them by bypassing the Congress and getting 5 justices to do his bidding.
4) If the Constitution gives the right to marry anyone they want simply because this makes them happy. Then it is certianly within the same argument to say that poligamy and polyamory should be allowed as well. When pro-gay marriage people insist that this isn't the case they're being hypocritical. And they're praciticing religious biggotry against the Arab and Mormon communities that want this practice recognized.
Excellent piece and welcome to Free Republic!!!
Welcome to FRee Republic, excellent post. Takes a lot of Nads to be a black conservative. I admire your courage.
Excellent effort, Curt.
Could use some minor fine tuning--paragraph II, for example...I think that conservatives haven't just awakened to actively promoting their politics. Think back to Newt in '94, the Broken Glass Republicans in 2000, some great successes in '02 all leading up to our remarkable win on Tuesday. We're on a roll!
As to your advice to the Libs? If they followed it (and you know they won't!) they wouldn't have a party left (Left! Ha, my own good play-on-words!) For it is all of these separate factions that come together to try to defeat conservatives, whether or not they share eachother's views on specific issues.
I hope you will shop your opinion piece to some predominately Black newspapers and mags. They need to hear the voices of young, black conservatives like you.
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