I am not changing the subject but only adding perspective for a self-professed Reagan Man. You seem content to bash Bush for the same things you probably praised Reagan for. I was just pointing out that Reagan, too, had to deal with the political realities of his day.
In America, free speech is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. In fact, our 1ST amendment right to free speech was originally designed to specifically address political dissent in Colonial America.
You are right, audacity and ignorance are protected speech in this country, as long as it is politically correct. :-) It takes wisdom and discipline not to display them.
I don't agree with you that engaging in free speech on political issues is spouting off. And IMO, "dumb" is a good label for people who come on FR to attack conservatives for engaging in free speech and political dissent.
I am attacking brashness and ignorance, not conservatism. Those with weak arguments frequently retreat behind the shield of "Don't pick on me! I am just exercising my 1st amendment rights."
FR is a conservative website. FReepers are suppose to be championing "causes which further conservatism in America". Not liberalism and not RINOism. Conservatism believes in limited government, not bigger government that wastes the taxpayers money and expands bureaucracy.
If you and others of your stripe don't wise up you are going to lose your rights, all of them, to the Communists/Democrats by splitting the Republican Party. Like it or not the RP are our only chance. As far as rinos, they are elected by their peers. I didn't elect them. Both my Senators and my Representative are stellar. Yours??
You are in Colorado. Can you get rid of McCain, Snowe, Chafee, Shays, Collins, Hagel, Specter, Graham, or any of the others that you disagree with. No you can't, you have to deal with them. That is what Bush and the RP has to do, also. Get real!
Few of us approve of everything Bush does but in most cases there are gains behind what looks like a political cave in to the Democrats. The Education Bill gave us accountability and has greatly angered the NEA and the left now that it has kicked in. That's a plus.
The Medicare Drug plan introduces the private sector into Medicare and attempts to keep our drug industry afloat against the onslaught of the Democrats/Trial lawyers.
A guest worker program of some kind is going to be a necessary part of the border solution.
Look at the facts, the political realities, and stop carrying water for the Democrats!
Call it what you like. You are STILL attempting to change the subject.
>>>>I am attacking brashness and ignorance, not conservatism.
You're acting like a baffoon. First you say, "Then you have the audacity to criticize others for opposing you". I did nothing of the sort. You brought Reagan into the debate. Not me. I simply defended my right to exercise my 1ST amendment rights. Period. You change the subject to include Reagan, in order to attack me for criticizing Bush's liberal policy agenda. And I'm being audacious? WOW Again, the thread is about PresBush. No one else. Your efforts to obfuscate the issue of the thread are noted.
>>>Few of us approve of everything Bush does ....
From what I've seen in your posts you approve of everything Bush does. Anyone who can defend the new trillion dollar Medicare prescription drug program, the largest government entitlement program since Medicare itself was created under LBJ in 1965, is neither fiscally responsible or conservative.