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.
Go to BED!
Trust me, this fight will still be here in the morning. LOL.
Like I said, there's no one on FR who knows ALL of my principles...least of all you. So stop pretending like you know me.
Exactly.
Can you paste to me where I ever advocated voting for Hillary? I have yet to see that from anyone. Certainly NOT from me.
LOL!
Oh, please. The argument to vote 3rd party if that candidate is more conservative than the Republican candidate is not a new one, and it does not attack anyone's principles to say so. My point is that when two people have the same set of principles; but only one of them votes for the candidate that supports those principles...what is wrong with the other person? Voting against your principles supports a perverted idea of what democracy is all about.
Yes, that does seem to be the case.
Doesn't much matter; somebody will be right along to tell you they're wrong........LOL.
they know that and it doesn't matter.
What matters is that the proceedings would drag on for the rest of his term - and do in the Republicans...they hope.
At any rate, such proceedings would cripple the nation in a time of war - and with Iran threatening to blow at any time - we do not need these shenanigans - nor such surface thinking as is going on with fair weather pseudo-conservatives
DO THAT IN YOUR OWN STATE FIRST!
Very true.
That sounds so easy BUT it is not possible. The fact is....you have to have conservative voters to elect conservative candidates. I am not talking primaries but the general. You will not elect a red meat conservative in the states that now house what you call "RINOS". The voters themselves are "RINOS".
It will go "on" under the UN.
I'm not advocating my point as the message we must get out to voters...I'm simply stating facts. Re-read, please.
She DIDN'T say that. Quit trolling for a flame war.
Sorry, I didn't mean you personally, I meant in a general sense.
Amen!! Amen! Amen!
The other thing is, what happens when the next G.W. Bush comes around? Are people simply going to rush to support a candidate who may be an unknown quantity or far from perfect? It looks like something similar will happen in 2008 or in subsequent elections.
"Ideal" or "ideologically pure" candidates are rare. Most of the time one just picks the least of the evils. But I'd like to hope that the President's strongest supporters have learned something from the experience of recent years -- if nothing else, at least to be clear-eyed about these things, and not pretend candidates are different from what they are.
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