Posted on 11/08/2006 8:14:07 PM PST by Checkers
I'm 50 years old, Defiant. I've been to college, raised a family, and even homeschooled our children who are now grown, intelligent adults. Our eldest served in Iraq and is now a satellite communications expert. Our youngest is brilliant in the building industry.
I applaud you for helping your children with their homework, not giving them the answers unless they really can't figure it out, and even giving them some helpful hints along the way. However, I am not your child. I'm a grown woman on an adult forum who happened to miss an important sentence while reading an article. Your condescending tone was insulting.
I do not have a "problem" with "reading comprehension". If I am guilty of anything it is that I try to stay informed by reading so many news articles in one day that sometimes I read through it too quickly.
It might be helpful when conversing with other adults to take your daddy/teacher hat off and leave it at the door. :)
They stayed home because the stench of corruption, moral turpitude and drunken sailor spending was all over the Republican Party.
By the way, I wouldn't suggest using such a condescending tone with your children either. It is rude and most definitely not helpful.
OK, Chena, don't get so worked up. I just told you to re-read it rather than explain the whole thing, figuring that you would see what you did as soon as you re-read the article, and you made it into a big battle. I'm sure you're a very smart, nice person who just skimmed and missed something on the first pass. No big thing. Now get some sleep, and tell me tomorrow how we're going to get through two years of the phrase "Speaker Pelosi".
Oh, if only we had your independence of thought, we too could be free of the evil stench of republicanism! Tell us more, Mr. Majic.
Better two years of "Speaker Pelosi" than eight years of "President Hillary".
Use these two years wisely. ;^)
IMHO, the American people haven't changed that much over the past 6 years. I don't witness a catharsis in American politics, and in many cases RINOS were replaced by simply mediocre liberal democratic socialists.
Unfortunately, I also haven't observed any real change amongst socialists in the US over the past 6 years, other than a proclivity to become even more unsatiated if they gain more power. Many conservatives fail to grasp that the upper class socialist continues to strive and scheme even when out of power. Their machinations were heinously exposed somewhat during the Clinton regieme. They periodically tip their hand when exposed to perceived victory.
IMHO, the Rummy resignation will help tip their hand from a temprary satiation from election night. The mechanics of our government haven't fundamentally changed more than how it would have responded with the populous in its same state of mind.
If one is searching for improvements, then focus on how the public might be better led, informed, and allowed to better select and develop elected officials to best represent our interests.
We have many who belive the vote will hinder the WOT. A better solution to the WOT is to better inform the common man of what exactly the threat is, and how to best develop a common intuition of the actual threat from terrorism.
If it is Islam, then stop ignoring God and act faithfully through Him in our administration and leadership of the nation.
Let God through faith in Christ handle the situation by our proper execution, guidance and selection of our elected authority as always we remain in faith through Him. Then regardless the outcome, it will still be in accordance with His plan and irregardless the temporal consequence, we will still have performed a good work worthy of His blessing, now or future and eternally rewarded.
In all the posts on FR in the last 2 weeks about Iraq yours is the most well stated and actually gives us a solution that the Republicans can grab ahold of instead of running away like they have been.
How in the world Bush allowed the "quagmire", no WMD's nonsense and Iraq/Afghan are not the same war, to get by is in part do to the MSM but also a failure to speak to the American people. Not only his failure but all the Senators and Congressmen who should have been carrying the message home week after week instead of waiting till the last month.
That isn't even getting into all the other domestic policies either. Also all the things they did do domestically for the country they were not loud enough about their accomplishments. Two conservative justices, partial-birth abortion ban, ban of federally funded embryonic stem cell research, the tax cuts and how they helped the economy and actually brought in more revenue to halve the spending debt...
The list goes on and on but they never talked about it. Instead they allowed the Dems to frame the discussion and the MSM to drown them out.
We need someone who can get on message, stay on message and lead the Republican party to victory in '08. Then follow through with the message and spread the message of that success to the American people.
Everyone knows why that didn't happen with Bush. I like him but we all know he is not a good public speaker and that has hurt the conservative cause more than most of us care to admit.
I'll tell you this: your taunt would carry more weight if any of the current Republican leadership actually carried the stench of Republicanism on them.
I could vote for that, if for no other reason than the fact that it would be the first true Republican ticket offered by the GOP in fourteen years.
Seriously. Want people to vote Republican? Run Republicans! :^P
I can't speak for the entire GOP, so don't attempt to stick me with that.
Would you like me to stick YOU with the entire plethora of KOOKS and CRAZIES which is the Libertarian Party? If you're such a Libertarian and too much of an "independent a thinker" ( whatever that oh so self important, petulant piece of drivel is supposed to mean ) to be accepted by the GOP ( and how do you know THAT? LOL ), then clean up the political party you belong to and stop grumbling about another, which you hold yourself too far above, to join and help.
And my challenge to you, is to grow up. Decide what it is that you want to fight for and go fight; join the fray and stop being just an idle complainer.
You sound like the animals in the children's' story "THE LITTLE RED HEN". Which has nothing at all to do with Communism. :-)
Please don't take what I have said the wrong way. I am not trying to chase you off. You are being somewhat reasonable, but also, somewhat childish. The GOP is NOT monolithic and you might fit in just fine. :-)
I beg to differ, Defiant. You did not just tell me to re-read it. You wrote to me, "Did you read it again and still not understand? If so, let me know, and I will type an explanation. Slowwwwwly."
Then you, Defiant, also said, "When I help my kids with their homework, I don't give them the answers. They won't learn if I do. Instead, I tell them if they were right or wrong. Sometimes I give them little hints. When they get it right on their own, they are better for it. I was just doing the same for you, encouraging you to do better at reading comprehension so in the future you wouldn't have the same problem."
I'm sure you can comprehend how your two comments to me could be taken as being insulting and condescending. Don't mistake me for a fool. :)
As for "Speaker Pelosi", I think she will prove that she is perfectly capable of destroying herself. Let's just pray she and her cohorts don't take us down with them.
I know the GOP isn't monolithic, but there are quite a few in the Grand Old Party who seem inordinately committed to insisting otherwise.
I can't prevent you from doing the wrong things. I can only withhold my vote if I think you're going too far down the wrong road.
I didn't do it this time, but I might have to do it next time.
Please don't make that necessary.
Just stand by true Republican ideals and I would be happy.
Would be.
P.S. Please don't take my flamboyant rhetoric the wrong way.
Just sayin'. ;^D
The article provides some good reasons why people may have stayed home.
Go ahead...vote for some guy who is poisoning himself and turned his skin blue and for the spitter and all of the other useless and brain dead morons who run the Libertarian Party/run as its candidates, if that's what you really want to do. Help the damned Dems win, because you are just too lazy and tooooooooooooooooooooooo much of an "independent thinker" to soil your hands with actually getting off your backside and getting involved.
Don't be so grumpy. And thank you, for having a son who has served his country. Sounds like you have a great family.
I am taking you at face value. If you do not mean what you write, then do NOT write and post it. :-)
Can we please put this canard to bed once and for all? Rove's "genius" hardly looked like that yesterday. It took him until two weeks before the election to figure out that conservatives were unhappy with the party, and by then it was pretty much too late. He as much as anyone is responsible for the muddled party message of the past six years. He should stop admiring McKinley and start admiring Reagan.
To help you sleep. :-)
What would you do with it then?
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