Posted on 05/18/2006 2:49:31 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
So, are you pro gay marriage?
Maybe his conservative side will win out. Even if it doesn't, he's one of the few New England Repubs who aren't RINOs.
Just having fun with hijacked threads on this "sicko" FreeRepublic forum founded by "sicko" Jim Robinson in "sicko" California, home of "sicko" Ronald Reagan.
How are things in Hawaii the state that got a seven-year head start on the gay marriage movement and was the driving factor behind the Federal Defense of Marriage Act? Congratulations on your entire state delivering nearly 200,000 votes for President Bush in 2004, that's almost as many Republicans as we came up with in Sacramento County.
Oy vey. Thanks. (I lived in PA a long, long time ago from when I was two until I was three and half).
Well, a look at the states that already have or are debating amendments declaring marriage sacrosanct between a man and a women suggests that we the people still have a say in the matter.
Some of the above are gullible, like recovering_democrat, but I on the other hand am much more in line with the Constitution Party and I don't mind bolting. I dare them to try that...a vote for third party is a "vote for a democrat" nonsense with me...apparently a vote for a republican is a vote for big spending and bigger government...democrats with a 'R' beside their name.
Affirmative.
I really doubt that gay marriage and other social conservative issues are going to be a factor in this election cycle. If anything, I think it'll be seen as an attempt to distract the public from other more pressing issues, and may backfire. You already see a few posts alluding to that on FR threads like this one.
At any rate, the bottom line is this: someone who sees politics as "the art of the possible" and doesn't want to make the good the enemy of the perfect, and who sees the glass as half full not half empty, that person is pleased with Bush's tenure overall. ( Enough metaphors for ya? :-D )
He hasn't been perfect. He is light years ahead of a possible President Al Gore or John Kerry.
I think Hastert and Frist--as tough as it is watching them waver sometimes--are much much much better than a Speaker Pelosi or Majority Leader Reid.
Tell me any time in American political history when conservatives voting third party has elected a more conservative federal government. You can't. Because it doesn't. It elects liberals.
Republican Teddy Roosevelt tried it in 1912, and he helped defeat his fellow Republican Taft and elect Democrat Wilson...and Ross Perot that clown tried it in '92 and '96. We got eight years of Clinton. Did you enjoy Clinton? I didn't.
The fact of the matter is: when conservatives leave the Republican party, Democrats are elected.
Feel free to flame away. I'm not deluded, I'm realistic: making the Republican party more conservative works by changing it from within, like Ronald Reagan did--not leaving it like a Pat Buchanan.
The point is that it will make the Senators go on the record as favoring gay marriage or not. How they vote may affect some peoples' vote in November. I am glad the Reps are finally doing something to get people to think about just how radical DemocRATs and some RINOs really are.
It's always fun to see Arlene have a hissy, but, honestly, I'm starting to think the Senate is just a waste of space.
The propaganda premising the headline tells much. Something that is not possible, does not exist, and has never existed can not be banned.
More apropos:
In essence, the most basic tenet of law, PRECEDENCE comprised of conventional wisdom, tradition, common law, and enacted law is simply being specifically codified for the "meaning of is" crowd to prevent the power of the people from being usurped by activist leftist judges.
The Amendment when enacted will change NOTHING -all it will do is reestablish a reality observed for thousands of years and as such kick to the curb one of the leftists delusional efforts -this, in addition to unclogging the courts from homosexual agenda pipe dream cases and putting to death and completely burying post haste the Frankenstein fabrication of homosexual marriage given life by leftists and resuscitated every so often by rogue courts. Finally, the Amendment when enacted will further inhibit the ACLU and every other organization attempting to legislate delusion by lawsuit...
Maybe more apropos:
P.S. Looks like you took the bait on continuing to hijack the thread. ;-)
Yep. The senate has been absolutely shameful on this critically imortant national issue.
Actually, the question is not IF -it is WHEN...
You're showing your age. ; )
I totally agree with you. It's all window-dressing.
So what was the purpose of putting it through the committee?
Just to appease the base? Obviously they think we're stupid.
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