Posted on 11/12/2004 5:39:41 PM PST by Indie
These leftists & socialists are ever-so-slowly infiltrating the Republican Party & have been doing so for decades. Case in point: how many so-called "conservative" Republicans question the constitutionality (or better yet, the LACK THEREOF) of Social Security, federal involvement in education, fighting crime, "nation building", foreign aid, etc., etc., etc.? They are few & far between, especially in the GOP Establishment.
George Wallace was right when he said there's not "a dime's worth of difference" bewteen the Dims & the GOP.
Uh, isn't the election over?
"But there is much wisdom in what he has to say."
I agree, much wisdom in what he said and I agreed with most of it.
I'm a tad disappointed, though, that he didn't mention immigration. Had been to the Party's official web site about a year ago and remember reading immigration and cultural erosion as two of their main issues. But, not an iota was spoken on immigration in this acceptance speech.
Nonetheless, I wish Michael Peroutka all the best. He's a good man.
Duh...aren't conservative ideals important anymore or did they die with the election?
If you think the point of the post is because it was an acceptance speech...then you missed the point..better luck next time.
He mentions immigration in this one if you want to read it...he as you know is very much against it.
Thanks for an intelligent and thoughtful post.
http://peroutka2004.com/schedule/index.php?action=eventview&event_id=36
WHO IS THIS IDIOT?
"But I only have one life to live, and I want to spend it making a difference."
You want make a difference irrespective of the fact of whether that difference is negative or positive. (I write this as a declarative statement, not as an interrogative one.)
They certainly are.
"What percentage of the national vote did they get?"
You don't get it.
It's not about percentages, it's all about ideas.
And it's not even about the party, when you come down to it - it's about people - your people - and its preservation.
Thanks, Indie. I will peruse that link.
Did you actually read the entire post, or are you parroting the others, you know, group think?
You don't get it.
Give Peroutka credit, he broke the 100,000 vote barrier. Something Howard Phillips couldn't do in 2000, even while on 4 less ballots.
But if your ideas are never heard by anyone, nobody is going to vote for you and you'll never have the opportunity to put any of your ideas into play. I think that Dog Gone "gets it" just fine - the essential idiocy of posting this long-winded, drawn-out "acceptance speech" 10 days after the freaking election is over is typical of this fringe political party's clumsy, ham-handed approach to public issues.
Successful politics is all about compromise and crawling before you walk and walking before you run. If the CP wants to become more than a statistical sliver on the American political scene, they need to stop pulling stupid grandstanding plays like this one and start fielding candidates and winning elections at the local and state level.
"I do get it. Politics isn't just about ideas. It's about getting into a position where you can make those ideas happen."
Which and whose ideas? That is the whole crux of the matter, isn't it?
You get "there" through ideas that you believe in, not through fake, phony ideas and lies. To do so is to be deceiving yourself, your people and your progeny.
The debate that happened on our campus over Peroutka was the fact that a vote for Peroutka, was taking away a vote from President Bush. Because of that, and knowing that Peroutka would not win, would it not help Kerry win? Bush and Kerry were both very different from Peroutka's stance on issues, but would it not make sense vote for the "lesser of two evils" in order to atleast prevent some of the deterioration Kerry would have allowed? I respect Peroutka because he brought issues to the surface with many conservatives, but in elections as close as the most current one, it is not the time to vote merely on ideas, but to vote with reality in mind.
"But if your ideas are never heard by anyone, nobody is going to vote for you and you'll never have the opportunity to put any of your ideas into play."
That's exactly my point. It's called convictions.
But, when you attempt to get in power through lies and ideas that you don't belive in, then you have made a pact with the devil, a pact that is contrary to the very ideas you believe in, a pact that annihilates the future of your own children.
You want the steering wheel, but you don't care that you don't have any wheels.
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