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.
I loved that bit.
As he pretended to hold a handful of sand:
"You see this... you know what this is... it's SAND... you know what it's gonna be in 1000 years... SAND."
"We've got deserts in America too, we just don't live in 'em. MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS!!"
Oh bull crap --- you're pathetic Junior. Facts are facts and just because you don't like President Bush, you think the comparisons are bashing President Reagan. Get over your misreading Tex's post.
I was referring to the previous poll, the one that actually offered the choice of third party or sitting it out, in addition to voting Republican or Democrat.
And, certainly you don't think that every person who has worked to elect Republicans is a FReeper, do you?
The point was to bring Reagan down a few notches to make Bush look better. But I won't worry any more about it tonight.
No, the point was to make an honest comparison rather than treating Reagan like a god.
**Bush has allowed Bin Laden to live in Pakistan, and is encouraging an invasion of the US on the border**
ALLOWED Bin Laden to live in Pakistan? OMG, you really are from DU. Please go back.
He's likely on par, so start happily peeing.
I'm am tired, so good night!
that actually offered the choice of third party or sitting it out
Well, there is the Republican party with some conservative members and some not so conservative and then there's the evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat Party. I'd rather have a conservative Republican in office, but I'll take a not so conservative Republican over any evil Marxist liberal socialist Democrat any day of the week. And I might express my unhappiness with some of his policies but I think I've learned my lesson about irreversibly trashing the Republican office holder or the Republican base or the party itself (at least not too much trashing). As they say, the alternative is unthinkable.
**Bush still thinks its cool to kill babies as long as mommy claims rape**
You really are a creep, you know that?
So, if we don't post the facts about Reagan, they won't be true?
It's funny, but when I look at polls on immigration, I find myself very much in the majority. Cuts across party and class lines, too.
I cannot, however, blame the unexcited republicans if they do not go and vote. It will be the leaders of the GOP we have to blame. It is them that need to hear our concerns. The buck does NOT stop at FR nor does it stop at the conservative base. The busk stops at the feet of out leaders.
We must always make sure they know our feelings.
Yes we know bin laden is in Pakistan, and we know hes in the region of that country its own government can't govern. So instead of following his own Bush Doctrine, he lets the dictator of Pakistan pretend to do it for us. I know he means well, but hes got to grow some balls. If we can invade Iraq under no direct threat (Iraq needed to be done, and I still support it fully), we can certainly send special ops troops into the mountain region of Pakistan under direct threat for Bin Laden.
Love and kisses to you too.
Facts are facts and just because you don't like President Bush, you think the comparisons are bashing President Reagan.
The post belittles Reagan and implies that the only thing he had going for him was his ability to communicate. Don't pretend otherwise----the intent of the post is obvious. Bush can be defended on his merits without having to resort to that.
You sound just like every raving lunatic liberal I've ever met.
That was a cheap shot, but its true.
If people are going to insist on comparing President Bush to President Reagan, then it is necessary.
thanks, sink - I was trying to put it in words without many really not nice words that kept creeping in - these surface-thinkers scare me
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