Posted on 05/08/2006 7:04:26 PM PDT by mwfsu84
If I had told you on 9/11/2001 that we'd go four and half years and counting without another terrorist attack on US soil, would you have believed me?
If I had told you that US-led forces would secure Afghanistan in just a few months...something the Soviets couldn't accomplish in ten years...would you have thought I was crazy?
If I had told you that Saddam was gone, that Khadaffy had renounced terrorism, and that Iraq was on the verge of becoming the second democracy in the Middle East, would have thought I was on medication?
Sometimes in our disappointment of this administration, we often forget some of the positives. The economy is strong. More Americans are homeowners. With tax cuts, we're spending less time working for Uncle Sam.
And if you take those benefits for granted, just imagine how much different things would be under a President Al Gore.
So if the president's stance on immigration and spending upset you - and they do upset me - what are you going to do about it? Stay at home? Nothing could be worse for conservativism. Your non-support will usher in more immigrants, higher taxes, and weaker national security.
If the GOP loses Congress, George W. Bush will be removed from office. Nothing would embolden terrorists more. How can we be counted on to wage an effective war when we can't even decide who our enemy is?
George W. Bush isn't the enemy. But that's exactly the message conservatives will send to the world if they stay at home this November.
If you're upset with W. on immigration - write him, write a Republican Congressman, let him know how you feel. It was conservatives who got Bush to change his mind on Harriet Meirs.
I promise you, a Democratic Congress won't be nearly as responsive to your needs.
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh no, you haven't had enough.
When you get higher taxes, immediate withdrawal from Iraq, subordination to the UN, presidential impeachment over bogus charges, weaking of the laws that have helped capture terrorists...PLUS more liberal immigration laws...then maybe you'll have had enough.
But by then it'll be too late.
I promise you, a Democratic Congress won't be nearly as responsive to your needs.
What's the point of writing to people who are just going to respond with some sappy patronizing spin-filled letter without changing their policies? That's not called "being responsive." That's called patronizing you and trying to keep your vote while betraying Republican principles.
Medicare prescription drug benefit? Growing deficits? Pork-filled bills? No ANWR oil drilling? No Social Security reform? No immigration bill? No border security? More bureaucracy?
I think the Democratic Congress can be just as "responsive" as that. Except maybe Bush would have the guts to veto them, which he clearly doesn't with respect to "Republican" leadership.
I used to defend the President and this party at all costs, but it's becoming increasingly more difficult to do. And that's their own fault.
No, the senate is to blame along with the White House. The House has delivered much more when it comes to fiscal conservatism and their immigration bill is fantastic. Republican voters have learned a valuable lesson.....NEVER ELECT A COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE TO DO A CONSERVATIVE'S JOB.
You are exactly right. My guess is that 1/3 of these "Conservatives" are Seminar posters.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
And I hope you sleep well at night knowing the knife you will have stuck in the back of every U.S. solider fighting in the current war.
Because that is exactly what you will be doing by allowing your personal narrow politics to override the reality of putting the anti-military, anti-American, anti-WOT democrats into a majority.
There are times (plenty of times) when it is fine to walk away from one's party over a conflict regarding one's personal politics....this is clearly not one of those times.
It is time to cowboy the F up and stand shoulder to shoulder with this CIC while he leads our soldiers in this war. Come hell or high water.
08 is the time to take your personal political fight to the primaries.
Nonsense. Taking votes away from the GOP is the only way to incentivize it to move rightward, in order to regain our votes. If the GOP knows they'll get conservative votes no matter what, then it is only incentivized to move leftward in an effort to get 'centrist' votes.
If the GOP loses Congress, George W. Bush will be removed from office.
Also nonsense.
You need to grow up and figure out how the world works.
You want to cut your nose off to spite your face?
I think if he were here today, he'd shout: "Move where there are no mexicans and stop your bitchin'! Arghh!!!".
And can you take years in the wilderness while the Dims spit on everything you believe in? Yep, we got rid of Nixon in 1974 and only by good fortune did we get Ronald Reagan into ther White House. That good fortune was the total ineptitude of Jimmy Carter.
Sink - I know where your coming from but you really need to take the blinders off. The conservative base is in full scale revolt at the ineptitude of our Republican leaders. We are determined to hold them accountable and bring forward a new group of CONSERVATIVE Republicans.
This has nothing to do with supporting Democrats. It has everything to do with holding our elected officials accountable.
The answer isn't to put anti-American, anti-soldier democrats in office....it is to put more conservative republicans in office.
There's a list?
I am just as angry with Bush as anyone. But, I will be danged if I am going to stay home and see a bunch of 'rats get elected.
The Great Sinkspur Enemies list. I think his middle name is Milhous.
BS! Read post #26 (it goes for you as well).
Well, that makes sense. I realized after his Amnesty and after the steel subsidies and the increase in the size of the Government that there is no reason for anyone to expect GWB to be any kind of Conserative.
No, don't bother trying to deny it. Your own post proves it.
Like which leaders? They probably will disappoint you as well.
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