Posted on 05/11/2006 8:25:42 PM PDT by Burr5
There has been a rising tide of opinion expressed these last few days on Talk Radio regarding the impulse to vote against Republicans in the upcoming congressional election in order to punish them for their whorish pandering to illegal aliens, their fiscal irresponsibility, and their general disregard of the demands of the conservative base. I have heard echoes of this on Rush Limbaugh, Mike Gallagher, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck and Bill O'Rielly.
We should be worried about this attitude. Especially those of us who remember 1992. In George H.W. Bush's second presidential attempt, a conservative rebellion (over tax policy) and the insurgent candidacy of a purported "economic conservative" (Ross Perot), resulted in the election of the most venal, irresponsible, demogogic criminal in the history of American politics. 43% of the electorate was enough to give us eight years of Clinton.
So would sitting this one out, or voting for a Libertarian get us closer to where we want to be? Everyone realizes that a conservative temper tantrum at the polls will only serve to grant power to the Democrats. Would this "teach the Republicans a lesson"?
Perhaps. But where would we be then? We are at war. The Democrats believe the war is Bush's fault. 9-11 was an aberation. It will not happen again even if we don't listen in on Al-Qaeda's phone conversations. We will be safe if we pull out of Iraq. There will NEVER be a justification for bombing Iran's nuclear facilities. There will be no more war for oil, and yet the Caribou in ANWR will still be safe from the predations of Exxon-Mobil.
Domestically, we can expect the likes of Charles Rangle and Ron "Red" Dellums to hold the reins of power in the House of Representatives. The Bush economy will not be destroyed; things will simply become more "fair" for women and minorities.
And, of course, the great gains we are making in the corrupt, tyrannical judiciary will come to a screeching halt. If you're alright with the "right" of irresponsible young women to hire doctors to shove a metal implement into the skull of their partially born babies, and to have them crack open the skulll, vacuum out the brain matter as the tiny arms silently flap around, and then throw the corpse into the trash, then the make-up of congress may not be of much importance to you when the next confirmation hearing comes around. Chairman Leahy- Say no more.
Politics is a TEAM SPORT, ladies and gentlemen, and one does not express one's dissatisfaction with the team's effort by aiding the opposing team.
Do not let the party of treason, greed, corruption, infanticide, demogougerey, hypocricy and judicial tyranny gain power.
It could take another forty years to get it back.
"Pay attention. Harry Reids immigration plan is the same as Frist's and the President's, open borders and amnesty"
I would like these two words defined. I hear them used loosely all over the place that is"open borders and amnesty".
I might have a different concept of open borders than most do but I havent heard many Republicans say they want this. Also, as to the word amnesty. That has about a twenty different definations it seems. I think there is big middle ground as the amnesty that is between the viewpoint of deport them all and auto citzenship for instance.
At least it has gotten people to stop hijacking threads with posts about Terry.
Painfully obvious, isn't it.
When the government is handing over the nation to another country...it's a big issue.
" This entire republican bashing exercise is carried on by single issue voters on immigration."
Respectfully, you are at least partially wrong. A lot of use are p!$$ed about alleged conservatives spending like drunken sailors, too. Maybe even madder. Just as many alleged Republicans feeding at the earmark trough as Democrats, just pigs of a different color suckling at the taxpayer's teat
"Jeez, I've been gone for awhile. I don't even recognize FR anymore."
If you can't put up with opposing viewpoints, maybe you should go away again.
While the "I'll show them" attitude may offer some sense of power the reality is the GOP took control of Congress in the '94 midterm election not because the voting public began to love them but because the voting public began to dislike Democrats immensely, particularly because of their programs. Tax increases, a mammoth nationalized healthcare scheme, etc. all added to the Dems woes and many Democratic voters voted for Republicans because of such nonsensical ideas. The GOP was only too happy to accept whatever put them in the Majority Party offices of Congress. Now they're suffering the slings and arrows that come with being that majority party. Clearly they have not been all things to all people--or more accurately, all things to those people--so it's time to toss them out. Of course this is without any thought of who or what will be taking their place. No matter. That doesn't stop these smarter-than-the-rest-of-us morons from crapping on themselves just to show those Republicans who's boss. After all, we gave them the power and, by God, we can take it away. Just watch.
Well, that's brilliant. Take it away and give it to whom? I hope they keep that in mind when Ruth Bader Ginsburg's little sister is put on the Supreme Court. But at least those Republicans will know who's really in charge. Jeeez...
So, you folks go ahead and vote for Buchanan...again. Or don't vote at all...again. But whatever you do keep one thing in mind: Clinton got 43% of the vote in 1992 and was elected president. He got 48% in 1996 and was again elected president. And the idiots responsible for putting him there were not those who voted for him but the 19% in '92 and the 7% in '96 that voted for Ross Perot, most of which had the same "I'll teach them" absurdity that they're once again showing this time around.
Some things just never change.
Of course it's a big issue, no one is saying it isn't. It's those who are becoming irrational and hysterical over the issue that are making fools of themselves and their tantrums are not productive.
I understand your feeling about earmarks. However I bet many people here on FR think the earmarks for projects for their own District are of paramount importance and can't imagine why its taking so long to get enacted. Thats the problems with spending and guess why I don't get upset at times with as others. I recognize my own role in it lol.
Which Party would that be now? Your definition fit's both Major Parties at this point.
The only squabble between the Democrats and Republicans is who to turn or nation over to after it's sovereignty is stripped. The Democrats want to become a part of the E.U. The Republicans want to create and E.U. type union but only in the Wester hemisphere, between Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America.
Both plans include open borders and the end to old standards like the Constitution and Bill of Rights in favor of international laws regarding trade dipsutes and deciding human rights decided by an appointed, not elected board.
The Diplomat from Australia said of the vote coming up July 4th on the U.N. resolution that brings into international law the edict that only government and the U.N.have the right to gun ownership. The Second Amendment only applies to the right of the government to form militias and control weapons. The Austraian gave her admonishing comment that it was far time that the United States live under the rules that the rest of the world is expected to live under, that being U.N. determination, doctrine, and benign dictatorship.
This same U.N. who smuggle guns to Muslim terrorists to wipe out Christian Sundanese, the same U.N. that arms Somalia that has on it's board of Human Rights the worse abusers of human rights on the planet.
The same U.N. that will accept any religion, even Satanism, but frowns on the exlcusivity of Christianity, because Jesus delcares that no one comes to the Father but by Him.
The same U.N. in which corruption has been found from top to bottom. That dear heart is the only difference between the two treasonous Major Parties. How we vote makes no difference in the push to join the goal of the Beast whose sole aim is to undo national borders in the name of Free Trade Zones and put in place a board that determines trade issues and the issue of human rights all directed and controlled by the Beast.
We are being herded in lightening speed towards a totalitarian state. The globalist have declared the nation state dead and the first nut they want to crack is the strongest and less likely to be controlled the United States of America. So yeah, a few of us feel a temper tantrum is in order.
You know, flaglady47, I've tried to ignore how insulting you are to people but IMHO you should be banned from this forum. HelloooClareece didn't say anything that should have brought such a response from you You are so full of yourself and it's a disgusting display of arrogance.
LOL! Beautiful... You just nailed it on the head. I am not going to vote for someone that acts like liberal in congress. Sorry its not happening.
"You are such a shrew."
That's Freeper shrew to you. Is Bushbot a dirty word to you? Or is it reflective of your own inclinations. Sometimes the truth hurts.
You need to watch your mouth.
Well, this is one of those things. Its called reality. You have to win the state for Senators, not just a district. This means that in Pennsylvania you have to win Philadelphia. You also have to win Pittsburgh but Philadelphia is nearly the bluest brightest diamond in the DemonRat's list of liberal outposts.
Conservatives have been feeling their oats, cause we have actually gotten folks to listen to us.. Harriet Miers and all.. but in reality the hard core conservatives are only about half of the Republican party. So, we can make a big difference at special times. We make a difference in the Primaries by strongly influencing which candidate will be selected, and we make a big difference in the general by being the troops that get out the vote for the whole party. But, there aren't enough of us to win by ourselves. However, in 2004 there was enough of us to win without any help by cross-over Democrats.. so we could run consistent with our whole list of hopes.
The Democrats scored a victory beyond any they could have hoped for by taking Tom Delay down. Its the loss of "the Hammer", that has taken the steel out of our Representatives. They also via Fitzgerald have tied up the White House's political apparatus with an insane out of control free floating witch hunt. We are just seeing the end of the effectiveness of this brilliant ploy.. Now that the Snowman has come to take the lies and distortions on directly with whit and basic facts.
We can still win, and win big.. but God has to intervene.. in our favor.. ie.. Zarqawi needs to be nabbed, and Snow has to take the "truth" to the mats.. establish what we have been reading.. that the Weapons we were worry about very well might have been moved as Colin Powell indicated was happening in his UN speech.. Do a gotcha investigation of Syria and have a Schwartzkopf moment exposing what happened.. and then move on to what we have found in Saddam's papers.. a summary of the guilt of the Iraqi regime that we removed.. and then we move on.. Let the Dems whine and complain, and Bush should restate and apologize to the Brits that the 16 words were absolutely true..
LOL
It does seem that some people are in such denial they can't remember certain illegal aliens attempting to harm our economy and marching in our streets to demand unconstitutional representation while shouting "Down with Gringos" and proudly waving the Mexican banner.
This outrage couldn't possibly stem from that...nah....either we're trolls, fringe kooks, or seduced by the same MSM we've ignored for six years.
Nice to see the Left doesn't have a hold on producing a good conspiracy theory or two. Won't exactly help to get the millions of Americans not on the board back in the fold though, by pretending they don't exist or can be frightened into submission.
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