Bush has said that he is unable and unwilling to enforce the borders ("It just can't be done. We can't deport 11 million."
This is abject cynicsim. We didn't ask him to do that--we asked him to focus on border security. He wants to legalize illegality first. We've heard this kind of thing before, and its name was Clintonism.
Joe is going to be disgusted, and feel betrayed. You can't talk him out of it, but I believe action could keep it from turning into an electoral disaster. This is unescapable at the present path, and Bush still could turn away from it. Bush is giving every appearance of being obsessed with the interests of Mexico. Why?
Why? Who elected him president of Mexico?
He is an honest and believing Christian, and I think he is genuinely concerned about the Mexicans. We seem have a problem here between genuine compassion and hard-headed necessity. It is an honorable point of view, even if it is wrong.
Cut the man some slack, I can respect his point even if I don't agree with him.
Are you married to Joesixpack? Is that why you are so worried about him?
What are you doing besides egging idiots on and trying to get the conservatives and Republicans to lose in 06?
Here's what I've done:
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I support and admire your passion. My problem with the Republican "right or wrong" crowd is that they join in with the Democrats in trashing conservatives like Alan Keyes and Katherine Harris. They spread all kinds of nasty things about them, criticizing their competence, intelligence, delivery, appearance, whatever. They always have reasons not to fall in with their support. The left wing of the Republican Party has always done this. Scranton and Rockefeller trashed Barry Goldwater. John Anderson said he's vote for Ted Kennedy over Ronald Reagan, and ran an independent campaign against him for president. But then they lecture us about third parties and their destruction.
The Rino's want our support for less than ideal candidates. The fact is that they don't reciprocate. We are told to support their Giuliani's and Romney's and McCain's and DeWine's, and they promise horrible things to come if we don't vote for the "most conservative candidate." They've got more boogey men than I can count.
Do a search on any Katherine Harris or Alan Keyes thread here and look at the ridicule these same moderates throw at our conservative candidates. They tell us not to expect perfection. But it's darned apparent they do.
I still remember the Specter-Toomey race. Specter has been a liberal just like everyone said he would be. We warned them. He's a stinking lizard. He's the poster child for cronyism with the Democrats, but we're told he'll vote with us occasionally or some such rot or that Toomey couldn't win. That's another canard. Gerald Ford said the same thing about Ronald Reagan. And the country was a lot more liberal in 1980.
We are having a discussion about what exactly conservatism is. After that, we can argue about how far left we want our candidates to be. Right now, most of our party couldn't be distinguished from Jim Wright and George Mitchell, the career pols they overthrew in 1994. And we aren't even talking about the president here. There's about ten threads every day on his betrayals.