Yep, Frankie, they sure are the same. I'll vote for perot in 2008.
Posted on 04/16/2006 1:52:39 PM PDT by rodeocowboy
Question for conservatives who vote for Republican candidates every few years because the Republicans are the "lesser of two evils." P>
How is your voting strategy working out?
Since "conservative" Republicans have taken over the House of Representatives 11 years ago, the expansion of government has continued at every level. Nothing has been done to stop the holocaust of abortion. Gay marriage under the guise of "civil unions" is becoming a norm in our society. Our government continues in its Wilsonian tradition of globe-trotting and nation-building with the precious blood of American soldiers fertilizing the subjected nations, making them "safe for democracy."
Nothing has been done to deter the invasion of over 10 million illegal immigrants across our southern border. Taxation as a percentage of income is at record levels. Federal and state government debts are at record levels. The middle class of the American citizenry have the boot of the government planted squarely on their necks and continue to shoulder much of the monetary burden that keeps our corrupt governments breathing.
Conservative voters, I ask you again...How is your voting strategy working out? Have the "lesser" of evils advanced your agenda? (I really don't believe that this "evil" is lesser at all...but is merely a different flavor of evil. Much like choosing between strawberry or chocolate ice cream...the underlying substance is the same with the only difference being the flavor.)
I'm not asking if they have promised to advance your agenda (because I know their rhetoric).
I'm asking, "What has the Republican Party done for you and your cause?"
Words without actions are MEANINGLESS.
To use a quote from one of my all-time favorite superheroes in one of my all-time favorite movies (Batman Begins), "It's not what you are underneath that matters, but what you do that defines you."
In politics, it's not what you SAY that matters...but what you will DO once elected to office...
Until there is a paradigm shift in the thinking of conservatives, our nation will continue slouching toward certain destruction...Until there is a revolution in the minds and thought processes of dyed-in-the-wool conservatives who regularly vote Republican, there will be no legitimate change in our nation's course...Until the conservatives arise from their mental dormancy and slumber, our nation will continue to creep toward certain judgment.
Conservative brothers and sisters...OPEN YOUR EYES!
These jokers want us to capitulate on the War on Terror! How can anyone seriously consider them. Here is there platform:
America is engaged in an undeclared war with an ill-defined enemy (terrorism), a war which threatens to be never ending, and which is being used to vastly expand government power, particularly that of the executive branch, at the expense of the individual liberties of the American people.
The "war on terrorism" is serving as an excuse for the government to spend beyond its income, expand the Federal bureaucracy, and socialize the nation through taxpayer bailouts of the airlines, subsidies to the giant insurance corporations, and other Federal programs.
We deplore and vigorously oppose legislation and executive action, that deprive the people of their rights secured under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments under the guise of "combating terrorism" or "protecting national security." Examples of such legislation are the National Security Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, and the proposed Domestic Securities Enhancement Act (colloquially known as "Patriot II").
The National Security Act is used by the federal government as a shroud to prevent the American people and our elected officials from knowing how much and where our tax dollars are spent from covert operations around the world. The National Security Act prevents the release of Executive Orders and Presidential Decision Directives, e.g., PDD 25, to the American people and our elected representatives. Not only are many of these used to thwart justice in the name of national security, but some of the operations under this act may threaten our very national sovereignty.
The USA PATRIOT Act permits arrests without warrants and secret detention without counsel, wiretaps without court supervision, searches and seizures without notification to the individual whose property is invaded, and a host of other violations of the legal safeguards our nation has historically developed according to principles descending from the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Since we will no longer have a free nation while the federal government (or the governments of the several states, as the federal government may authorize) can violate our historic rights under such laws, we call for the rejection of all such laws and the ceasing of any such further proposals including the aforementioned Domestic Securities Enhancement Act.
The Constitution Party is unalterably opposed to the criminal acts of terrorists, and their organizations, as well as the governments which condone them. Individuals responsible for acts of terrorism must be punished for their crimes, including the infliction of capital punishment where appropriate. In responding to terrorism, however, the United States must avoid acts of retaliation abroad which destroy innocent human lives, creating enmity toward the United States and its people; and
In accord with the views of our Founding Fathers, we must disengage this nation from the international entanglements which generate foreign hatred of the United States, and are used as the excuse for terrorist attacks on America and its people. The 'war on terrorism" is not a proper excuse for perpetual U.S. occupation of foreign lands, military assaults on countries which have not injured us, or perpetual commitment of taxpayer dollars to finance foreign governments.
http://www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php#Terrorism%20and%20Personal%20Liberty
I gotta admit, you've got a point there.
If all that is sought is to attract attention, then attract it in Democrat districts. Attention given can be particularly negative. How do you think Ralph Nader is viewed by leftists nowadays? Have a look at his results in 2000 and then 2004.
No movement on reducing the size of government.
No reduction in spending.
No privatization of Social Security/Medicare.
Come to think of it, since the Social Security maximum income is now $94,200 from last year's $90,000, I've BEEN HIT WITH ANOTHER TAX INCREASE.
THANKS A LOT BUSH!
Yep, Frankie, they sure are the same. I'll vote for perot in 2008.
That's it. In fact, most of the Constipationists admit that "teaching the GOP a lesson" is the reason for voting for these losers.
It's like the guy whose dog messes on the carpet and, in order to teach the dog a lesson, he locks himself out of the house.
Thats the only reason I have stayed Republican but I am sitting out 06.....Constitution party waste of time
Don't think so..... Voted in every election since 1966. Never miss one. After I'm dead, I'll register as a Democrat so I can still vote.
I will be voting Constitution party this year.
In accord with the views of our Founding Fathers, we must disengage this nation from the international entanglements
Is this wrong?
"That's how to get the GOP back on track. Politicians listen to their constituents."
Such garbage. Case in point. 2 senators in CO, Salazar a Dem, and Allard a Rep. I know Salazar is not going to vote the way I want no matter what. But Allard is sitting on the fence concerning this illegal immigration issue. I can trust Salazar, he's an idiot, but I can't trust Allard.
I understand.....have the GOP called you for a donation yet this year.....I told them I will not give a subsidy for faliure.
Go right ahead. Continue to support the "two" party only mechanism. Just don't complain 20 years from now when this country is even more screwed up and the Constitution is even more unrecognizable and obsolete.
This is always the most laughable demand of conservatives.
Let this sink in: no president since Calvin Coolidge (1924) has left the government "smaller" than when he took office!
The American voter doesn't want "smaller" government. If it did, that's what politicians would deliver.
And how do you suppose we kick its butt while it can still do something. They have to lose once due to their votes being siphoned off to a more-conservative, third-party. Sometimes lessons hurt, but they have to be made. You are never going to change the Republican party back to its platform without making it lose during the off-year, non-presidential election. Period.
All Bush has to do is pick up the phone and talk to mike Savage....He will set him up to fly right!
Cool! Then I'll actually have good choices to make in government.
Just filed an extension for taxes...Might as well vote for the socialist candidate, since I'm supporting two other families besides my own...and I am middle class America.
There will have to be a tipping point someday....
Too bad the Constitution and Libertarian parties are so messed up on national defense, or they'd actually be a viable alternative.
I'll be campaigning for "Blank" in '06 unless the GOP shapes up and quick. The impact of millions of cast but blank ballots would really shake things up.
Here's MY donation!
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