Posted on 09/26/2005 5:34:31 PM PDT by mwfsu84
My major complaints with the GOP are Bush's spending, and the stonewalling RINOs in Congress. And yet, what is the alternative? To vote Democrat? Or to not vote at all - which is just as helpful to Dems.
Every time I think how disappointed I am with Bush, I try to remember how much worse it could be with a legitmate Bush-hater.
The Democrats won't cut spending. They'll raise taxes. We'll see national health care. A Democratic President won't nominate moderate SCOTUS justices - unless you consider Ruth Bader Ginsberg a moderate. We'll cow tow to the UN, probably pull out of Iraq, establish relations with Cuba and Hugo Chavez. They'll be no legitimate challenge to the ban on partial birth abortion. This fall, an upcoming SCOTUS case will be whether a minor has a right to have an abortion without parental consent. If a 15 year old child wins that 'right', do you honestly expect ANY leader from the party of Planned Parenthood to challenge it?
You think gas prices are high now? Wait until you see prices caps imposed, Jimmy Carter-style, so you'll have higher prices and longer lines. We'll have a president that preaches to us the value of sacrifice, which as we all know, worked so well during the Carter years.
As disgusted as we are with George W. Bush, we can't give up on the Republican Party.
I myself am conflicted with the same thought. Sometimes I want to just vote with the "installed all at once" option so it'll collapse that much sooner. The American populace is easily fooled when things happen slowly and are stealthily inserted by the corrupt politicians.
Time to walk the walk, not just talk the talk!
My major complaint with W is that he thinks that government should play a major role in the ordering of a just society - that thought, unfortunately, is the foundation of socialism.
Other than that, I admire him personally as a straight shooter and a man determined (I think) to save the world from Islamic terror.
I'll continue to vote Republican, with misgivings, since the alternative is unthinkable.
I'm afraid that this is like one of those mechanical problems; You know there is a problem ..
But because you are short of time and there are only two mechanics in town and they are both incompetent and crooked, you drive it until it breaks down completely....
And you just have to pray that you aren't driving down the freeway when the wheels fall off and you cause a mass collision with many deaths.
Put the democrats in charge and overthrow the government right before they try to implement collective farming.
My major complaints with the GOP are Bush's spending, and the stonewalling RINOs in Congress. And yet, what is the alternative?
No, Bush is partly to blame because in order for something to become law, Bush must sign it. To date, President Bush lifted the veto pen out of the ink well.
Kill off the Lifers in the primary.
Force the change at the local level.
Response: The idea stated above is also known as-"The Doctrine of Relative Filth!"
As disgusted as we are with George W. Bush, we can't give up on the Republican Party.
Time to give the constitution party a chance.
Are there things I disagree with Bush on? Absolutely. However, God put him in the White House at this time because he was the man who needed to be there as this country faced the multiple disasters that occurred through no fault of his.
the PFOP-"pretty fair old party" ?
Welcome to the real world.
Giving up on the GOP may not be an option, but neither is giving up on the conservative agenda. Bush&company have expanded the fedral bureaucarcy like no adminsitration since LBJ. Spending on welfare and entitlement programs are higher now then at anytime in US history. Fiscal conservatives should be standing up and denouncing such policy. Not accepting it as a show of status quo pragmatism. Conservatism is for a smaller, more limited govt. What we have now is big govt Republicanism. And on immigration reform what we have now, is no policy at all. Continued open borders and lax enforcement of exisiting immigration law does nothing to solve a serious problem that is not going away anytime soon.
The Whigs, after ail the where be replaced by the Republicans, have to start someplace.
I've often wondered what would happen if all of us who are sick up and fed with with the current party, would get together and vote for one of those little crackpot parties that always seems to get on the ballot in all 50 states but never get more than a million votes, and we let it be known just before the election that we will be voting for the crackpots in protest. We wouldn't win but we would send a strong message if that crackpot party suddenly got tens of millions of votes. Then maybe the republican leadership would pay more attention to us.
I'll continue to vote Republican, with misgivings, since the alternative is unthinkable.
My sentiments also. I think we have got a lot of Libertarians posting on this thread.
Sorry, but yes. Bush is dealing with a bunch of Prima-donnas who all want their way. Bush can veto but it is up to congress to pass the laws. Bush has threatened vetos and congress has followed his wishes, but on other things Bush allows congress to prevail. I'm not a fan of Bush not doing more either, but that is still not where the problem is.
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