Well, thanks for the info. This is disturbing. You people are cutting your own throats. Anyone who doesn't stick with the GOP is helping the Democrats. And that will do no good at all. In fact, it will do enormous harm. You should be grown-up enough to realize that results are usually slow in coming. If you remove yourselves from the game like this, you are abandoning your fellow citizens, and frankly, you deserve what the Rats will do to this country when they regain full power ... perhaps as early as 2008. The problem is, while you deserve this, the rest of us don't.
An army can't function this way, and neither can a country.
They dont care. They are just a bunch of philosophers stuck up in their ivory castles with their fingers up their asses. They dont care about squat but their moral crusade. But they will squeel the loudest when Hillary makes three or four nominations to the Supreme Court.
No offense CP, but you sound like every GOP centrist/moderate/liberal/RINO we've ever heard talk about this.
Just ask the RNC Treasurer's Office (Mike Retzer) if you can find anyone there who will tell you the truth. From what I can see, conservatives are definitely heading out the door. Maybe not critical mass yet, but definitely a trend.
It is generally accepted that conservatives are 30%+ of the base. The GOP cannot afford to lose even 1/3 of that, and yet that seems to be happening. Not necessarily people re-registering, but simply folding their arms and putting away their checkbooks (as I have).
This is a problem the GOP could easily have avoided and must have foreseen in dealing with some of the hot button issues the way they have. Consequently, they must also have decided early on to take the hits they are taking now (and which will, I believe, continue unless there is a dramatic shift to a true conservative agenda).
Two or three weeks ago I received another GOP funds solicitation call. I said my piece. There didn't seem to be much disagreement, or inclination to debate the issues, on the other end of the line. I think they've been hearing a lot of this.
So far, since the Republicans have been in the majority, have they ACTED like it? You're right, that's too slow for me!
Campaign Finance Reform
Billion dollar department of Education
Largest Federal Budget in History
Amnesty for Illegal Aliens
Prescription Drug Benefit
Politically Correct Warfare
Out of Control Judiciary
Kow-Towing to Environmentalists as an Energy Policy
No sign of domestic or political backbone from the White House, Capitol Hill, or the State House in Florida.
I live in Pennsylvania where the State Legislature is supposedly controlled by the GOP. All they are doing is working for creative ways to raise taxes without actually calling the "user fees" taxes. Government on all fronts is growing.
The GOP has abandoned the "Contract with America" and the ideals of Newt Gingrich. I joined the Republican party because of Newt. I stuck it out for the last 10 years because you people kept telling me that "it takes time" for change. Well if this is change you can have it.
The only things I can applaud the Bush Presidency for are the tax reductions (which are scheduled to phase out [wimp]) and the initial stages of the "War on Terror". With the court martial of soldiers who are more concerned with their lives and the lives of their buddies than being "politically correct", the "War on Terror" is morphing into the micro-managed quagmire that Vietnam became under Johnson.
You can blame me for the defeat of the Republicans in 2006 and 2008 and the return to power of the Democrats because I will not vote for ANY incumbent and I will not vote for a Republican presidential candidate unless that candidate is a Ronald Reagan conservative who promises real reductions in government - not just the reduction in the growth of government. I will no longer "hold my nose" and vote for the "lesser of two evils".
Teddy Roosevelt said "Speak softly and carry a big stick." The present GOP seems to me to be saying "Appear indignant but do nothing."
32 years of abortion on demand - 50 million babies (potential, at least taxpayers). 24 of those years under Republican Presidents. All the while, the Judiciary metastasizes. (Remember Souter, and Howard Phillips who was the one voice warning of him. Howard was dismissed as a nutball.)
And if Bill Frist indeed said that the courts did their job in the TS case, it bodes ill. Actually, they did do a good job at what they have been doing for years; i.e. legislating from the bench.
Frist and the Repubs need a wake up call, now! Change slow in coming, eh? Well, there is no change at all from the sleigh ride down the slippery slope.
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