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To: RKBA Democrat

I do not want you to be banned because as you said you have not posted anything offensive. However I am questioning your judgment. You claim you are a conservative and yet you belong to a left wing socialist treasonous party called the democrat party. You do not make sense what so ever.


86 posted on 10/27/2006 1:02:54 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: jveritas

"However I am questioning your judgment. You claim you are a conservative and yet you belong to a left wing socialist treasonous party called the democrat party. You do not make sense what so ever."

Again, I don't have the time or the inclination to write the polemic I'd need to write to fully explain. Political parties exist to get their members elected to political office. They're a means to an end, not the end in itself. Both major political parties contain people of numerous different philosophical stripes. There are conservatives in the Democratic party. There are leftists in the GOP.

To date, I haven't viewed the GOP as an effective vehicle for accomplishing the conservative political philosophy that I ascribe to. It's hard for someone who is not actually a Democrat to recognize that conservatives within the Democratic party have influence. Even though conservatives are definitely an endangered species in the Democratic party, we still act as something of a brake on the radical left.

Much of the reason why the Nancy Pelosi's and the Howard Dean's and all the other characters that conservatives love to dislike are in power is because the philosophical conservatives left the party in droves in the 1980's. They radical left stepped in and filled the power vacuum.

I will say that my thinking with regards the GOP is changing. This election has shown that at least when cornered and their jobs are in danger, the GOP is capable of engaging in a political scrap. Now I wish the GOP would spend one fourth the effort they've spent in this election cycle to balance the budget, but at least we're seeing that the GOP has the capability, if not the will to do so.


95 posted on 10/28/2006 5:35:09 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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