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.
So true. It's easy to accuse people of changing principles...especially if they don't know what your principles are. I don't believe there's anyone on FR who knows all of my principles.
A vote for a third party is a vote for the Dims - good Lord, how many times must we learn this lesson?
Exactly. And those of us who are not on the extreme end of the party have a tendency to retreat in these debates and let others set the agenda without our voices being heard.
We don't have to all agree here
There are some who think we have to agree with THEM word for word.
You are right on for so many reasons.
One issue that should be perhaps most important to our Constitution Party "friends" is that the next president will get ATLEAST one nomination to the Supreme Court, perhaps more. We have (or so we think) four solid votes right now. On many issues, we only need one more (abortion obviously being the most important).
Vote 3rd party = let Hillary put another Ruth Bader on the Supreme Court. Thanks, guys, for voting your convictions and "sending the GOP a message." That'll do us all a lot of good in 2008.
But theirs will always trump yours. See how that works?
Brush 'em, then.
Sure you do. Everybody here knows it.
Yeah, I can see it's a never ending circle for them. I guess they stay happy that way.
ever hear of "sleepers"?
An old communist/socialist tactic
The issue is as follows: Democrats are trying to gain control of the Senate Judiciary committee in November. If they do, radical justices and judges will be appointed to the Supreme Court and the Federal circuit courts. The damage done under that scenario will be permanent.
The Democrats will also attempt a Constitutional Amendment throwing out the Electoral College. They will attempt to implement the Fairness Doctrine. They will attempt to impeach President Bush. They will use conrol of the House to attempt to ramp up their undermining of the War On Terror and the War In Iraq.
Given this scenario no conservative will cast a vote for anyone other than the Republican on their ballot in this year's elections. Anyone claiming to be a conservative while advocating anything but a Republican vote in this year's election is a fake, a charlatan, a phoney and a liar.
If you don't like it it's because you've been unmasked.
What's wrong about that? The democrats that are now in office are the farthest left in our history. They hate this country and prove it daily.
It's very threatening to their core feelings about themselves.
I'm old enough to remember when conservatives didn't want ANYBODY in their bedrooms. Now we have a small faction that wants THEIR puritanical views foisted on the entire world.
She's exactly right.
That makes no sense to me. Voting for Hillary guarantees that you will have a socialist agenda. As much as I hate McCain, he's not a liberal. Really, I think it's not worth worrying about. McCain will NEVER make it out of the primaries. He doesn't have a chance in hell of winning.
I have ONLY used the WORD ONCE that I can recall.
And I know what it means and I am referring to the ELITE LEFTISTS of wealth and privilege that run around Wash DC, SF, NY etc trying to stir up dissension in the GOP ranks.
This also refers to those LEFTISTS that just THINK they are elite and wish they came from wealth and privilege.
I think it is time to throw the lunatic right off the reservation. They got everything they want except for summary execution of mexican illegals. The failure of the democrats disposing of their lunatics is what is costing them elections. The 3-4 % lunatics that we have in the right need to be purged or we will suffer the same fate as the democrats and that is being a dysfunctional party.
Get it?
They're not happy people --- they're miserable and always remember the old adage that says "misery likes company."
That reveals their intent.
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