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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
This is simply another, in a long series of examples, as to why the comical is not to be taken seriously.
It just shows how liberals think about things- it's all me me me me me me me.
I wonder how much he "earns" from that?!
He hasn't grown up at all at age 55. What a bitter creep.
The younger generation realizes this hackneyed, 1960 philosophy that if we tax enough the government will take care of everyone - that this is really a pile of crap.
HA! Thanks kcvl. Boxer takes the same tone...lol. Now I know why!
anti-death-penalty advocate Jeff Gillenkirk of San Francisco
Gillenkirk’s group, Death Penalty Focus
Founded in 1988, Death Penalty Focus is a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.
http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=about
We believe that the death penalty is an ineffective and brutally simplistic response to the serious and complex problem of violent crime. By diverting attention and financial resources away from preventative measures that would actually increase personal safety, the death penalty causes more violence in society. We are convinced that when the public is informed about the inherent racism, injustice, and the true human and financial cost associated with the death penalty, the United States will join the growing community of nations throughout the world who have already abolished capital punishment.
I've gotten some pretty good results lately from attacking the prejudice rather than refuting the point.
Example:
Lib: I guess Republican policies are fine if you don't mind starving children.
Me: What are you nuts? THERE ARE NO STARVING CHILDREN IN AMERICA. Show me a starving kid in America, and I'll show you a kid whose parents are preventing them from getting a meal.
This dimwitted column is about what one would expect from a former associate of Governor Cuomo. Two lamebrains who belong together ...
Stories by Jeff Gillenkirk
http://www.alternet.org/authors/1060
What a smarmy, condescending a_hole!
It's precisely because the roads the schools the bridges police etc, etc have been driven to hell in a hand basket by the government that we don't want to give it any more money!!!
And he failed the class.
Churchill's maxim that "If you're not a liberal when you're 20 you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative by the time you're 40 you have no brain", amply applies to this guy... with 15 years to spare!!
Maybe he can get a gig writing for MoveOn.org.
They accept anything
As a Republican, I'll say goodbye to "old Jesus" and hello to "new Jesus." Sure Christ started out as a liberal Jew, and look where that got him. Compassion, love and diatribes against the rich only encourage the weak and punish the most successful among us. The Jesus that Republicans worship is a muscular, decisive, pro-war crusader hard at work cleansing the world of evildoers, not, God forbid, turning the other cheek.
We can easily tell he's the mainstream, appeasing-type DemogRat.
My decision to become a Republican didn't come easily. For years I clung to the idea that the foundation of a democratic society was our implied social contract, each of us committing some level of personal sacrifice to the common good of all.
Mainstream socialist part of the party too.
"If I were donated 30 million dollars
I'd buy your peace and loooooooove."
We can thank Mr Head for that lovely diatribe. Does he go by Richard or does he prefer to be called Dick!
Jeff Gillenkirk is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in numberous (sic) journals and newspapers.
"Joining" the GOP maybe to try to make McCain the 2008 nominee is all.
I'm thinking of joining the DNC so I can become a crook, bribing America's largest cities for civic contracts while getting praised in the media. If ever arrested, I would not be identified by party in the subsequent news articles.
I could conviently change my story from day to day and have protestors rioting in the streets demanding my release.
< /sarcasm >
I wonder if the SFC would print my response.
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