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Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face, Conservative Style
HUMAN EVENTS ^ | Sep 27, 2006 | John Hawkins

Posted on 09/28/2006 2:22:59 PM PDT by neverdem

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Nailed it, IMHO.
1 posted on 09/28/2006 2:23:00 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
This cuts both ways. For every conservative gnashing teeth over RINOs, we have moderates backstabbing candidates like Randy Graf.

Time for both sides to shut up and vote for the pubbie nominees, and save the infighting for the next round of primaries.

2 posted on 09/28/2006 2:25:32 PM PDT by dirtboy (This tagline has been photoshopped)
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To: neverdem

No matter how bad it gets on this side, I will never root for the side that wishes our enemies win.


3 posted on 09/28/2006 2:25:56 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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To: neverdem

4 posted on 09/28/2006 2:26:03 PM PDT by kesg
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To: neverdem
Nice article, but many are so enamored with their Gottadamarung complex they won't care.
5 posted on 09/28/2006 2:26:20 PM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: neverdem

Nah, all of his analogies are extremely poor. This one's closer:

If your son were behaving badly, messing up his life and creating deep debts that you and your family are obligated to pay for, and inviting criminals and beggars into your home without permission, giving them the unfettered run of the place, would you continue to reward him with bonuses and increases in his allowance, because "another son would be worse"?


6 posted on 09/28/2006 2:31:33 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: neverdem

Yup, I hope the fools who populate this forum and spout that "we need to lose" crap read this and have the capacity to understand it.


7 posted on 09/28/2006 2:32:08 PM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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So we can safely put you down in Hillary's column, right?


8 posted on 09/28/2006 2:32:33 PM PDT by Howlin (Declassify the Joe Wilson "Report!")
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To: neverdem
So, a setback for the Republican Party is a setback for conservatism

If only most Republicans were conservative in the areas of limiting Federal spending, cutting back on Federal authority in areas they should not be in according to the original intent of the Constitution, and insisted that our borders be protected from illegals, this statement would be correct. Most Republican congressmen and senators are like the liberals of the Kennedy-Johnson era. True conservatives in the Taft-Goldwater mold are rare. Their only saving graces are their strong support of national defense and their moderation in comparison to the socialists and perverts who dominate the Democratic Party.

9 posted on 09/28/2006 2:33:53 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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LOL! Yeah. Only HillaryHell can purge the RINOS and purify the Republican Party.






(that was sarcasm, btw)


10 posted on 09/28/2006 2:34:23 PM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: savedbygrace

In that scenario, it seems you would trade in your own son on a "replacement son" who vows in advance to be far worse.


11 posted on 09/28/2006 2:34:53 PM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: neverdem
Nailed it, IMHO.

Exactly!...Right On The Head.

12 posted on 09/28/2006 2:35:17 PM PDT by jazusamo (DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
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To: Skooz

If "she" doesn't scare the living hell out of a voter, there's not much I can do to convince them they are wrong, is there?


13 posted on 09/28/2006 2:36:07 PM PDT by Howlin (Declassify the Joe Wilson "Report!")
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To: showme_the_Glory

Neither will I, but some folks here say they are going to "sit out" this election. In my view, that is the same thing as voting for the other side.


14 posted on 09/28/2006 2:36:16 PM PDT by usflagwaver
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So we can safely put you down in Hillary's column, right?

That statement is as logically deficient as the author's analogies are.

15 posted on 09/28/2006 2:36:57 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: usflagwaver

Precisely.

No matter how many times or ways they say it's not.


16 posted on 09/28/2006 2:37:05 PM PDT by Howlin (Declassify the Joe Wilson "Report!")
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To: savedbygrace

Not to those of us who can understand the English language and can COUNT.


17 posted on 09/28/2006 2:37:51 PM PDT by Howlin (Declassify the Joe Wilson "Report!")
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To: dirtboy
Time for both sides to shut up and vote for the pubbie nominees, and save the infighting for the next round of primaries.

Well said. I'm sick and tired of "conservatives" threatening to stay home, and I'm also tired of the holier-than-thou, party bootlickers who think they're better than those who are frustrated at the GOP over some key issues. Eliminate the RINOs in the primary, but conservatives should all come together in the general.

18 posted on 09/28/2006 2:38:15 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Seems to me the time to "punish" those with whom you disagree is in the primaries. When the primaries came here in Ohio, I voted for some guy named Pierce over DeWine. Mr. Pierce lost. Now, between DeWine and Sherrod Brown, I will be voting for DeWine, holding my nose while I do it. I hate being put in this position because it seems neither candidate wants to secure the borders but I will not vote for a DemocRAT! They want to get U.S. killed with their sycophantic molly-coddling to these terrorist swine!


19 posted on 09/28/2006 2:38:39 PM PDT by Sister_T (Defend America ... Defeat DEMOCRATS!!!! Go Ken Blackwell Go!!)
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To: Petronski

Yeah, sure, whatever. I was following one of the patterns of the author's analogies, talking about a son. That's all.

Do you claim that the author's analogies are accurate and logical?


20 posted on 09/28/2006 2:39:10 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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