Posted on 05/28/2005 11:35:42 PM PDT by SmithL
After a lifetime voting for and working for Democratic candidates and independents, I'm finally going to make the switch and become a Republican.
The reasons are many, not the least of which is age. I turned 55 recently and, having lived more than half my life, I can't afford to worry anymore about the other guy. It's time for me.
As a Republican, I can now proudly -- indeed, defiantly -- pledge to never again vote for anyone who raises taxes for any reason. To hell with roads, bridges, schools, police and fire protection, Medicare, Social Security and regulation of the airwaves.
President Bush has promised to give me more tax cuts even though our federal government owes trillions of dollars to its creditors. But that's someone else's problem, not mine. Republicans are about the here and now, and I'm here now.
As a Republican, I can favor exploiting the environment for everything she's got. No need to worry about quaint notions like posterity and natural legacy. There are plenty of resources left for everyone, and if we don't use them, someone else will.
. . . Jeff Gillenkirk was a speechwriter for former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo. He lives in San Francisco. Contact us at insight@sfchronicle.com.
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Seriously? This was in the SF Chronicle? I started reading, but after three paragraphs I was certain this was written by a zit-faced highschooler for his A.P. English class, or perhaps by one of the local university's Freshmen on the campus newspaper staff.
I cannot believe such immature tripe would appear in a major metropolitan daily.
Anyone else smell BS?
OH the Sf cronic is so cute, like a teddybear jampacked with an explosives suicide belt. :P
I popped on over to the source and read the whole thing. What a bunch of puke-level alpha garbage. The caricature painted is so unrecognizable that it's hard to believe that the author is very bright at all. If it weren't so freakin stupid it would be really sad.
LOL, that's hilarious. For a second their I got confused with a real GOP migrant, Kieth Thomson of the SF Gate. I love this piece.
As odd as this may sound, this sort of sarcastic illogic is what many liberals believe when you talk with them. The entire article is based around the question "when was the last time you beat your wife?" (an unanswerable question). Just substitute the "poor" or the "environment" for "wife" and you have the liberal argument.
They really are still trying to get a handle on this "intentional humor" concept. They must be subsribing to Franken's comedy-by-mail-class.
He really intends to be a Republican, taking the form of an undercover RINO.
Sarcasm 101
Must be a paint-by-numbers correspondence course. At the very least the manuals are printed in Crayola.
They look for the Federal Government to solve all their problems, even though there isn't a shred of evidence that their Party has ever done nothing to advance the people who support their platform. The difference between Liberals and Conservatives is clear. Liberals don't trust the people who vote for them to be responsible for their actions. Conservatives expect those who follow them to be responsible for their actions, and understand that handouts do nothing but strip away a persons dignity.
This reads like it was written by one of our trolls.
Any chance we can ZOT the San Francisco Chronicle?
Jeff Gillenkirk was a speechwriter for former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo. He lives in San Francisco.
And he starts with the liberal rhetoric halfway thru the 3rd paragraph.
I'm suprised I wasted my time to read the whole thing.
OMG, this article is the greatest. I'm still laughing. I wish Rush would read this.
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