Posted on 10/13/2006 10:03:32 AM PDT by Froufrou
A conservative advocacy group is not only asking the "what if" question, it's answering it - in an email message that urges conservatives to get out and vote in November.
The midterm elections are "very important," the American Family Association says. "As bad as things are, they will be infinitely worse if the liberals win."
The AFA offers the following list (verbatim) of what conservatives can expect if Democrats regain control of Congress:
-- Amnesty for 12,000,000 illegal immigrants.
-- A push to make homosexual marriage and polygamy legal in all 50 states.
-- Only liberal judges will be appointed. They will create laws to implement the social agenda liberals cannot get passed through the legislative process.
-- Liberals will make the killing of the unborn more difficult to stop.
-- Liberals will continue to try to rid our society of Christian influence, including any reference to God in our Pledge and on our currency.
-- A return to the "Fairness Doctrine" in broadcasting where opposing views must be given equal time. Every conservative talk show host will be forced to give a liberal equal time on every issue. The purpose of this rule will be to shut down conservative talk shows.
-- An increase in taxes to push new social programs.
-- Passing a new "hate crimes" law making it illegal to refer to homosexuality in a negative manner.
-- Liberals will give terrorists from other countries who try to kill Americans the same rights American citizens enjoy under our constitution.
--We will withdraw from Iraq, sending the message to the terrorists that if they will just be patient they can win and bring their terrorist acts to the U.S.
The American Family Association is warning conservatives that the liberals' strategy is to disgust and discourage Values Voters (about the Mark Foley scandal, for example) to the point where conservatives will stay home rather than vote.
"If that happens, the liberals will have achieved their goal and they will be running our country," AFA Founder and Chairman Don Wildmon said.
In an effort to get more conservatives registered to vote, the American Family Association has set up a ValuesVoters website that offers state-by-state information on the voter registration process, voting dates, absentee ballots and deadlines.
Conservative voters were the largest single largest factor in the 2004 elections, Wildmon said. "Now is no time to let up," he warned.
Already done. Mailed my ballot Monday.
The People's Republic of Kalifornia is a nation unto itself. A break-up of the US doesn't necessarily imply a terrible war. It only requires that there be a geographical relationship to the prevailing ideologies.
Kalifornia has only a tenuous connection to the concept that the government is constrained by law. Or anything, for that matter.
Arnold is touting his alliance with Tony Blair to fight global warming. Most Kalifornians would make virtually any sacrifice to support this noble effort. Tyranny of the majority is here and it's main proponent seems to be the RINO Arnold.
Private property? Not if there is some scenic aspect to it. The "people" own the coast. The "people" own the waterways. The "people" own the forests and the deserts.
There's a collectivist mindset that pervades almost everything.
Even the vintners and dairymen are expected to embrace the collectivist notion that the law should require their participation in marketing campaigns promoting "Happy cows" and regionally identified wines.
There is no consideration given to the fact that these campaigns cannot be successful without the force of law to extract funds from unwilling participants.
Similarly, there have been cases to decide whether teachers, who might be the few conservatives in the trade, have a right to prevent union dues from being spent to support liberal policies and candidates.
A billion Chinese and a billion Indians are not going to have to become very efficient to change the economy of the US for the worse. Liberal policies make it impossible to encourage the behaviors that will assure a comfortable future for ourselves and our posterity.
The US will end, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
What happens is that they push re-institution of the fairness doctrine to shut down the few existing conservative voices in the media. They push for control of the internet to stifle the voices of conservatives. They will push more stringent gun control to disarm the public (presumably so that we don't fight back when they come to steal the rest of our property). They will push a socialist agenda as always. They will destroy what's left of the great constitutional Republic known as the United States of America.
The question is 'what will the remaining conservatives do about it?'
Isn't this something our "conservative" Republican majority should've been concerned with before now?
Right. No conservative mecca, down under, mate -- where to own a gun, after all the paperwork, you can ONLY keep it under lock and key at the gun range ... Simple: When your house is broken into, just do a "time-out" sign to the friendly armed criminal, while you go down to the range and retrieve your gun, oops, they don't let you take your gun home. Oh, well, knife to a gun-fight time ...
Things like huge deficits, balance of trade, money supply inflation and out of control spending do not seem like sustainable trend lines.
Thought exercise: imagine 1929-like economic conditions happening today. Perhaps fueled by a larger war that cuts off our energy supply. Would the country make it through? Would we have another FDR?
I don't see the reserves of religion, faith, steadfastness, and a sense of destiny to see us through another crunch like that.
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House |
John Conyers, Jr, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee |
Tom Lantos, Chairman, House International Relations Committee |
David R. Obey, Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations |
John Dingell, Chairman House Energy and Commerce Committee |
Chaplain for the US House of Representatives?? |
Charles Rangel, Chairman, House Ways & Means Committee |
Jane Harman, Chairman, House Intelligence Committee |
BARNEY FRANK, Chairman, House Financial Services Committee |
Henry Waxman - House Government Reform Committee |
Patrick Kennedy, Chairman House Entertainment Committee |
Honorary Chairperson, House Committee on Conspiracies |
Harry Reid, President pro Tempore of the Senate, 3rd in Presidential line of succession. |
Joseph Biden, Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee |
Jay Rockefeller, Chairman, Senate Intelligence Committee |
Robert C. Byrd, Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee |
John F. Kerry, Chairman US Senate Committee on Finance |
Joe Liebermann, Chairman, Senate Homeland Security Committee |
Chris Dodd, Chairman, Senate Rules and Administration Committee |
Carl Levin, Chairman Senate Armed Services Committee |
John McCain, some things will stay the same |
Ted Kennedy, Chairman, Senate Committee on Immigration |
President in Waiting. |
First Man |
Patrick Leahy, well find him a job |
Barbara Boxer, well find her a job. |
Senate Chaplain??? |
Regards, Ivan
Since when do liberals care about the law and constitutional amendments?
Are you married?
If not for family attachments, I would have been gone long ago. My so-called "assault weapons" have already left.
I think that the "majority" of the conservative majority is not cognizant of what's really happening around them. When the only sources of news are the alphabet networks, leftist rag newspapers, and the occasional political ad, it's hard to see what's really going on. Heck, when half the Republicans in the Senate are RINOs, it's pretty obvious that the populace isn't paying attention.
So to answer the question, yes, the "conservative" majority should have been concerned with these issues before now. But apparently, they/we are not. Elsewise, we'd have dealt with the issues that have gotten us to this point.
Don't think it can happen? That's exactly what Bill Clinton did. After only two years in office he and the Democrats started celebrating 4 years of economic growth. Right in front of the MSM that had helped him make the election about "the economy,stupid".
You can still do some good, old frog. There IS a place for you....
So, what you're saying is, Clinton took credit for things he didn't do and denied credit when it was something naughty he did do? ;o)
What's with this woman, anyway? She so often has the expression of a game-show contestant who just won a thousand dollars.
Would you buy a set of encyclopedias or a water-softener from somebody who looked like that?
Polygamy laws? What's this guy smoking
Hi FRiends, thanks for the responses. I believe we could experience a massive depression without a civil war, and I don't see California breaking off either, for reasons too lenghty to go into here.
By the way, I expect a recession that will approach depression levels between 2010 and 2014, and part of my business is to predict such things (Doesn't mean I'm right, of course).
I think the surprise will be how we will pull together during that period, not how we will disintegrate. Have you guessed that I'm an optimist yet?
Extreme cigarettes?
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