Democrats for your rights are you kidding.
John Kerry calling the NRA terrorists.
The dems are only against this because it is Bush.
They are for a three month extension so they really are just playing politics.
Dems did a great job in Waco with your rights.
This love for the democrat party on this site is unreal. The leader of the dems dean calls anyone a racist that doesn't like illegals.
The dems bash you for being religious real freedoms.
Don't misinterpret me. I never said Democrats are for anyone's rights. The point is that even broken clocks are right twice a day, and in this case the Dems were supporting something every Freedom-loving Republican should have been behind.
I agree that it was for the wrong reasons. But let's look at this reasonably - the whole idea behind the Patriot Act is that the government, when empowered, can solve society's problems. In this case, advocates of the Patriot Act are stating that the government can somehow end terrorism. That is the equivalent of saying the government can end poverty.
My point is that, at its core, the Patriot Act is a Democratic big-government approach to the problem, the type of solution that Republicans would unanimously reject simply on principle if a Democrat was in charge (and the Democrats would have LOVED to have President Gore to push this one through, don't mistake me for one minute).
But we, as conservatives, are a people of principle. We might get sidetracked once in a while, but when it comes down to it, we stick by our principles. And the principle that should be closest and dearest to our hearts is that the government has enough trouble fixing a sink, not to mention fixing an age-old problem like terrorism.
Those that so strongly advocate the Patriot Act are far closer to being Democrats than those of us that oppose it will ever be. At least we don't embrace core Democratic principles to try to "fix" problems.