Posted on 12/06/2005 5:19:59 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
But with the Republican Party's hold on the Senate looking tenuous, the party of Wall Street and the religious right is suddenly chummy with its most prominent environmentalist. With a tough race looming, and a solid conservative challenging Chafee in the primary, Republican elites are sending checks to Rhode Island -- to help Chafee.
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BS. I've voted for Republicans for years, waiting semi-patiently for them to start acting like principled conservatives. We've been told for years that as soon as they held 'enough' of a majority, they'd start moving the conservative agenda. It's been over a decade. How long should we wait before we effectively take them to the woodshed and slap them silly?
Why should we tolerate traitorous behavior, like Ricky's endorsement of ARLEN SPHINCTER over Pat Toomey? Should we simply let bygones be bygones, excusing those who sell principle to expedience? No. I don't think so. Ricky Santorum is going to lose his bid for re-election not because he's too conservative, but because he's a self-serving pol who simply rode the conservative cause to election. The truth is out, and the game is over. The principled pro-life voters who worked tirelessly for this turncoat are livid....and rightfully so. He's going down...and he has no one to blame but himself.
Since that momement when he endorsed Sphincter, I've watched his actions and compared them to his words. The two are incongruent. Ricky is a self-seving pol who will say anything to be re-elected. His bills, found at http://thomas.loc.gov are full of socialistic solutions to social problems. He's the enemy within, and far too many starry-eyed Republicans continue to give him a pass on his big-government, nanny-statist solutions...and his support of pro-choice candidates. He's moving the leftist agenda for them. ENOUGH.
If we throw him, and all others like him into the street, at least the Republicans who are prone to reflexively clapping and cheering for whatever idiocy a Republican proposes will be more vigilant...watching the Dim more closely than the so-called 'conservative.' And maybe, just maybe, the STUPID PARTY will understand that they can't be everything to everybody. Time to say what you mean, and mean what you say....and stand on principle.
There is a considerable body of people who believe that had Santorum and Bush supported Toomey on principle rather than Specter -- for whatever God awful reasons -- that Bush would have won in PA. Lots of Toomey supporters sat that race out.
I'll say it so that you (or anyone else) don't have to . . . We took our bat and ball and went home. Toomey brought people out of the woodwork to vote for him, not from the graveyard, but from their own self imposed exile of not voting because there hasn't been anyone worth voting for. Toomey was the exception, but when Party became more important than principle to Bush and Santorum, these people again chose to withhold their votes.
The reason 3rd parties aren't gaining momentum is 'cuz the 2 (???) major parties are doing the best they can to prevent their message for getting out. Take the Presidential debates, for example, where the Comission overseeing the debates (which is run by Republocrats) set the standard so high that no other candidates can qualify to join in....& even if they did (fat chance!), either or both of the 2 main candidates would refuse to take part in it.
Then you have the MSM...& the constant whining of the folks on either siad of the aisle who say it's a worthless cause, which is actually a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Thank God for C-SPAN! At least they allow non-Republocrats to have their voices heard on nationwide cable. Whether they will allow that to continue remains to be seen.
The best lessons are those that one learns by themself.
Sure, that would be a wonderful goal...but what's the point in doing so when the GOP is ever-so-slowly implementing the Dim agenda anyway??? The GOP Establishment has been moving their party (& therefore their supporters--the American people) to the Left for the last 50 years.
From your keyboard to God's ear.
The answer is simple: LOOK ELSEWHERE. The GOP is no longer a party of smaller government & individual liberty (if it ever was one to begin w/!).
Pat Buchanan left the party about 9 years ago, & Sen. McCain said "Thank God & Greyhound he's gone". Former Sen. Barry Goldwater died in 1995; the very honorable Representative RON PAUL, M.D. is despised by the GOP Establishment due to his consistent, never-flynching stand on constitutional PRINCIPLE.
I hope that some day conservatives ( & constitutionists like myself) can say "Thank God & Greyhound IT'S gone" when it comes to the GOP.
Yes. Principle is far more important than party label. Before casting my vote, I would also want to know whether the hypothetical candidate was pro-life.
I have no party affiliation.
Maybe, if such a thing existed, on a local level only, since to send this mythical beast to congress would be like shipping it to the slaughterhouse where it would be skinned and eaten alive, then have its skin stuffed and propped up in the back benches to vote with the other dems.
Zell Miller is a Dem that I probably would have supported. I can still remember his 'spit ball' line.....
He didn't appear to lose himself ...the machine didn't assimilate him....but I agree, it's a danger.
For one thing, if they strictly interpreted the Constitution in the manner that the Founders intended, they wouldn't be allowed to join the Dim Party (not anymore....Congressman Larry Patton McDonald was murdered in 1893).
But anyway, IF he/she did adhere to his Constitutional Oath of Office, YOU BET I would support him or her. Absolutely! In his Farewell Address, George Washington told us to avoid what he called "The Spirit of Party"...& that's THE reason why I left the Libertarian Party & became an independent.
Lieberman and Miller were in place and in strong positions before the rats turned over to Bolshevism completely.
Lieberman has sunk to a backbencher nobody.
A young puppy would just be food.
Go ahead & be a single-issue voter @ the STATE level....most governmental power is 'sposed to be left @ the state & local level anyhows. But @ the federal level, the level where powers are "few & defined" as James Madison said in The Federalist #45, be a CONSTITUTIONAL voter.
Interesting. Thanks for that comment.
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