[onyx]

The principled among us want to improve the party and we are willing to work toward a longterm goal, realizing that we may have to make distasteful, but necessary short term sacrifices.

I'll stick with THIS GUY'S principles.

To: Carry_Okie

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.

34 posted on 03/02/2006 3:15:02 AM EST by Jim Robinson

[jazusamo]

I'll stick with THIS GUY'S principles.

That's by far the best post on this thread onyx, and it says it all.

[pissant]

Good post (and re-post)

[Conservative Goddess]

The unthinkable is a Republican party that only believes socialism is bad when proposed by Democrats. "Compassionate Conservatism" paid for with money extorted under threat of lien/levy of private property is rehashed, renamed, new and improved, lemon-scented Democratic Socialism. The trouble is that Republicans peddling this nonsense don't set off the Republican immune response...but Dems do. To the extent that Republicans are Dem-lite, we have to clean house.

[Hunble]

As they say, the alternative is unthinkable.

Free Republic and today's strong Conservative base was created by people dedicated to political change, because of the abuses of William Jefferson Clinton.

If anything, that Democrate in the White House did more for the Conservative cause, than anyone else in the Republican party.

He (WJC) made us focus upon what was most important.