Posted on 05/10/2006 7:15:13 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
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Red
and not much.
That's me.
Too bad. He was a real working PhD physicist who also served this country as a U.S. Marine.
I for one am sorry to see him gone.
I have no sympathy nor sorrow for people who have lost control of their minds and their emotions on this subject.
I don't care if you have a PhD. If you don't engage your mind on ANY subject you get yourself in trouble.
However, even amongst us, we are divided on this issue. If everyone who ever disagrees with someone else were called a troll and subsequently banned on this forum, it would not take long for this to be a forum of one.
I am not trying to turn this into an argument. Just was lamenting that a highly intelligent and educated poster who had a lot of good things to say over the past few years is gone.
There's a BIG difference.
from the May 19, 2006 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0519/p09s02-cods.html
Bush may be losing his base
Conservatives are openly dissenting from policies of Republican leadership.
By Daniel Schorr
WASHINGTON - The term "base" is not in William Safire's political dictionary, but he tells me it will be included in the next edition. "Base" refers to that solid core of political supporters who will stick with you through electoral thick and thin as long as you are perceived as advancing their principles. Most often, the term is applied to religious conservatives.
Something seems to have gone off the rails between President Bush and his base, judging by a recent Gallup poll that shows his support among conservatives down from a long-standing 80 percent to a current 50 percent.
Religious conservatives have found the administration and Congress falling short on issues such as same-sex marriage, obscenity, and abortion. They have expressed disappointment that the president has not been more active in seeking a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
The issue of the week is immigration. In what he called a compromise proposal in his television speech on Monday night, the president sought to allay the criticism of conservatives by proposing to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops along the Mexican border.
There may be less there than meets the eye. The Guard troops will be mainly in support roles. The arrangement may not last more than a year. And the president, who also has a business base, felt compelled to propose a "guest-worker" (not amnesty, repeat, not amnesty) program.
At the same time, the administration was trying to shift attention to consensus Republican issues such as tax cuts and judicial nominations. But, the dissension within Republican ranks was evident. The $105 billion war-spending bill, passed by the Senate, was called "dead on arrival" by House speaker Dennis Hastert. When Senate majority leader Bill Frist called Gen. Michael Hayden the "ideal man" for CIA Director, Speaker Hastert announced his opposition to having a military man in the job.
Influential conservatives have begun speaking openly of their reservations about the Republican leadership. Dr. James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, has said that he might turn critic of the administration unless it does more to deliver on conservative goals.
At this point, the thunder from the right may be in the nature of admonition. But I can recall a time when evangelicals shunned the ballot box. If that were to happen again, it would change the face of American politics.
Thanks for Clinton and Welcome to FR.
It is always smart to fight a planned war on liberals.
We don't want the fire breathing communist Democrats in power from our action or inaction.
We look to remove the liberal Republicans in primaries in the upcoming years when their office comes up again.
Remember and back the Republican opponent in the primary.
Also continue to remove the party that wastes out good air called the Democrats.
Perhaps the "Hard Core Republicans" are similar, in a frightening sort of way, to the "Far Left Democrats"?
Wouldn't it be something if Bush reversed his pro-amnesty stand, and became a border hawk? Only then would it be revealed how many of the FROBL, who now hide their open border views as support for W, would vent their fury on Bush, and any other Republican who would deprive them of their precious illegals.
Woo! The list is staggering
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