Condi Says She’s Not Running. Believe It this time.

RealClearPolitics.com ^ | 01/17/2006 | Jay Cost

[eskimo]

You need to get out more; not one Republican I know is sitting this one out.

You need to talk to more conservatives and not just mindless party groupies. The void between the two is widening rapidly.

[warchild9]

A rather patient Navy doctor informed my 19-year-old self that I had a heart condition that the service didn't want to deal with. It hasn't given me a lick of trouble in the time since, but he labeled me medically unfit when I tried to volunteer.

And he waited until I had completed a loooong and humiliating physical before telling me this, when the examiners found out early! I'm still p****ed about that.

[warchild9]

I'm not protesting. I just quit the whole process.

My view is more extreme than most. The others want to see someone with proven leadership qualities (they aren't necessarily pro-life, or whatever). That means Guiliani, America's Mayor.

I couldn't support him because he supports a woman's right to choose to murder her unborn children. I can't hack that.

[Wolfstar]

Another thing about Keyes's supporters that floors me is they actually think he's a good public speaker. Sure...if one considers condescending, arrogant, hyperbolic demagoguery good public speaking.

[warchild9]

RTF Posts. I said I supported him because he was entertaining, and the wife liked him because he was Catholic.

Winning or losing is irrelevant, since the "winners" so far have been unacceptable.

[USS Alaska]

"Most of the Republicans I know here in NC (and I'm now officially an Independent) are planning on sitting out this election in protest."

In protest of what? Didn't get every thing you wanted for Christmas? Kind of like a 6 year old that holds their breath until they turn blue.

Your realistic choices are pubbies or demonRATS. Period. Two words, grow up.

[warchild9]

Howlin, you fit right in certain places. You can imagine where those are.

Your sort gives the good people of FR a bad name all over the world.

[warchild9]

I AM condescending, arrogant, and hyperbolic. You ought to hear me lecture in class. It's red meat and the students love it.

[warchild9]

Babe, it's not a protest. I just quit. That's not a protest. I'm no longer engaged.

I concentrate on statewide anti-abortion and pro-adoption groups. That's NGO's--government is NOT the answer.

[Howlin]

You need to talk to more conservatives and not just mindless party groupies. The void between the two is widening rapidly.

Mindless party groupies? You mean the ones who work and pay to keep the GOP in power so they Democrats can't come back and finish this country off?

People who don't care enough to vote don't interest me in the least. Your myopic views of the world only put us in more danger than we're in right now.

[johnny7]

So again... how long have you been out of the nuthouse?

[warchild9]

Let's see, you ride a motorcycle and obviously passed through the public school system. And I'm repsonding to you why?

[savedbygrace]

That's an old and tired response to the issue. In the end, after that debate plays itself out, the bottom line of it can be summed up in this slogan:

Republicans - Not as bad as the Democrats

Or this one:

Republicans - If you think we're bad, look at the Democrats

[pollyannaish]

Thank you for the reply.

I understand you personally are not protesting, now that I have read all of your responses.

Let me rephrase my question.

What has/or is quitting the whole process accomplished? Does it reduce your frustration? Do you feel it is just a waste of time?

I want to make clear I am not trying to bait you...and I am not trying to change your mind. I am just curious as to what is it that makes a person look outside one day and say "forget it."

[warchild9]

Oh, sorry, not motorcycles. Manly pickup trucks. I grew up around your type. I'll bet you still can't get any girls.

[warchild9]

"repsonding"

What the heck is that?

[areafiftyone]

Well I have no problems if she says yes because she will have my vote. But we could be beating a dead horse on this one which is what I truly think.

[Howlin]

Since I have to deal with the NC Libertarian Party, hard-core pro-abortionists who support infanticide in the name of "self-interest."

Color you clueless; neither Alan Keyes OR the Libertairan Party are on the ballot in NC.

[USS Alaska]

"But as for the actual effects on my life? Will my rights increase instead of decrease? Will my taxes go down? Will someone finally hunt down and kill Osama? Will we finally confront China and stop selling out the country? Will we treat the War on Terror as a real war and seal the borders?"

Your right to keep and own a gun will change with the beast.
Your taxes will go up. Where have you been for the past 5 years?
We are trying to find osama's body but it's in a lot of little pieces.
With the beast as President, she'll sell the bastards any secret they want.
She will surrender to al queda and put six lanes bridges into the USA from mexico.

Nah, she won't effect your life, if you move to some other country.

[dbehsman]

From your post:
"I don't have the time to list them all, but let's note that the Fourth Amendment secures our persons, papers, and PROPERTY against any search carried out without judicial fiat."
Except in time of war. Remember in one of your earlier rantings (post #29) how you asked "Will someone finally hunt down and kill Osama?" This is something called the "War on Terror".

"Under the buncom Patriot Act, the judicial fiat is carried out after the fact, and the storm troopers can ram their way into your house any time they like."
First of all, what in the heck does "buncom" mean? I haven't found it in the dictionary (Oxford English). I never heard that in a wiretap that the court order was issued after the wiretapping was done except in extreme cases. A couple of Muslims yakking on the phone about which building they should target is obviously an extreme case. Wouldn't you agree? As an aside, try to reserve the term "stormtrooper" for you DU postings

"Only a shill for corporate America would keep our borders wide open in time of war in order to assure the business class of a massive supply of cheap labor to undercut Americans."
Shill for corporate America? Which union are you posting this for?

"I can go on but you used bold type, which means you are fleeing from cognitive dissonance, and wouldn't listen anyway."
I typed your original postings in blue type so that it would be easier to distinguish who said what. It makes it easier for everyone reading the postings. I did not type in bold type. You do see the difference, don't you? Blue type is very different from bold type. Yes?
"Fleeing from cognitive dissonance". Please.