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NO TO RUDI
Nealz Nuze ^ | 11/15/06 | Neal Boortz

Posted on 11/15/2006 6:06:03 AM PST by steve-b

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To: Alberta's Child

"Boortz has a valid point, but in his libertarian approach he overlooks a very salient, important point -- one that is the driving force behind much of the "social conservative" agenda in this country. "

Our "Social Conservative Agenda" should not be part of any Federal guidelines. We need to rely on the states to do this and at the moment they are doing a very good job.

Put it on the local ballots and let the people decide. We want less government yet we are trying to impose our social agenda on the courts. Gee, the left does the same thing and we condemn them for it.


21 posted on 11/15/2006 6:21:44 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I thank the RNC for freeing me to vote my values rather then political party. It is liberating!)
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To: steve-b

Maybe we could try to win Rudy over rather than dump him under the bus. It would be a worthy effort even if he decides not to run.


22 posted on 11/15/2006 6:22:09 AM PST by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser and Shalit, we are praying for you)
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To: steve-b

Rudy's got three problesm as a Republican candidate. He's an All-Pro: pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, and pro-gun control. While that's not a problem in New York politics, it is nationally. Plus those pictures of him dressed in drag......


23 posted on 11/15/2006 6:23:17 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: JamesP81

Or any kind of liberty for that matter.


24 posted on 11/15/2006 6:24:43 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: JHBowden

Jim Leach, Lincoln Chaffee, are they conservatives? (Just to name a couple).


25 posted on 11/15/2006 6:25:01 AM PST by Iowegian
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Our "Social Conservative Agenda" should not be part of any Federal guidelines. We need to rely on the states to do this and at the moment they are doing a very good job.

Put it on the local ballots and let the people decide. We want less government yet we are trying to impose our social agenda on the courts. Gee, the left does the same thing and we condemn them for it.

President Reagan recognized that attempted social engineering by the so-called "cultural conservatives" was just as big as an electoral loser as when the left does it.

I like Rudi in general but I can't back him for President unless and until he at least quits supporting gun grabbing. In the Bill of Rights, it's the Second Amendment that truly guarantees the other nine.

-Eric

26 posted on 11/15/2006 6:26:13 AM PST by E Rocc (Myspace "Freepers" group moderator)
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To: DTogo

Patton? More like an Eisenhower is needed.


27 posted on 11/15/2006 6:26:47 AM PST by LiveFree99
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To: steve-b
If that's Guilianni than I'm a Guilianni man. I'm just very very skeptical about whether that these are his passions.

needing a political movement dedicated to individual and economic liberty, limited government with a strong defense, cutting government spending, school choice and strong capitalist instincts ..

28 posted on 11/15/2006 6:26:58 AM PST by DManA
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To: steve-b
There's going to have to be a fusion of social conservatism and libertarian conservatism. Until that happens, we are dead in the water.

Libertarians need to learn to live with the fact that we aren't going to abide on demand abortion, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research. I hear libertarians talking about individual rights, but as long as they think that letting a man starve his infirm wife to death for the insurance money is OK, they are NOT serious about individual rights. We at least think the states should make their own laws about marriage.

Social conservatives are going to have to forget this instinctive 'law and order' and big govt tendencies we have. We don't go around asking the government for its permission; it's supposed to ask ours. Media censorship is a loser of an issue and it needs to be discarded and forgotten as quickly as possible. Excessive tobacco and other vice taxes are not interpreted as efforts to get people to quit smoking, but as efforts to butt into people's personal lives (which it is). Govt charity and education spending are also big losers. Social cons need to actually read the Constitution and then learn and understand the significance of the fact that that same Constitution doesn't detail the full extent of the people's rights; it details the full extent of the government's granted privileges.
29 posted on 11/15/2006 6:28:14 AM PST by JamesP81 (Rights must be enforced; rights that you're not allowed to enforce are rights that you don't have.)
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Yeah, sure. Let's just turn the argument against the shibbolith of the Left--that 'ol "Religious Right". You know--Gays and such.
In case you forget, Rudy is Pro:
High taxes.
More Gov't $ for everything.
A much bigger Gov't to boot.
Wierd social systems.
Very "creative" prosecutions for invented crime.
Highly intrusive laws (see Bloomberg, transfats, smokes).
Illegal Immigration/amnesty and free medical care for those breaking the law--sending YOU the bill.
No guns for citizens--for Rudy self-defense is the crime.

The MSM loves him, but the more you learn, the less electable he is.
BTW this goes double for McCain.


30 posted on 11/15/2006 6:28:33 AM PST by Flintlock (Keep yer powder dry--yer gonna need it.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Our "Social Conservative Agenda" should not be part of any Federal guidelines. We need to rely on the states to do this and at the moment they are doing a very good job.

That is complete bullsh!t in today's political/legal climate. It is impossible for states to maintain any social conservative climate whatsoever until the Federal judiciary has been rightly repudiated for its past transgressions in overturning previous state laws along these lines. This cannot happen until the U.S. Supreme Court overturns each and every one of those prior decisions -- and it won't happen if we delude ourselves into thinking that these are "state issues" even as a majority of the sitting justices on the U.S. Supreme Court bench insist that they're not.

Put it on the local ballots and let the people decide.

As per my comment above -- this is a pointless exercise until AFTER the Federal judiciary acknowledges that local ballots and/or "the people" are legitimate arbiters of these issues.

31 posted on 11/15/2006 6:29:07 AM PST by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: DTogo
Neal makes a great point. America needs a Patton in the White House, not a Falwell.

Tom Tancredo...

32 posted on 11/15/2006 6:29:14 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: JHBowden
Santorum? Talent? Allen? Are you kidding me?

Actually, IIRC, the majority of the republicans that lost were, in fact, RINOs. Some conservative pubbies did lose, and the media is anxious to play that up to make it look like conservatism lost.
33 posted on 11/15/2006 6:29:44 AM PST by JamesP81 (Rights must be enforced; rights that you're not allowed to enforce are rights that you don't have.)
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To: steve-b

If he's the nominee, I'll vote for him. If it's a choice between him, Romney and McCrazy, I'll vote for Rudi.

The only influence that the President has on abortion is by virtue of his role in appointing Supreme Court justices. I think Rudi would appoint conservative justices, irrespective of his views on abortion. He supported Alito and Roberts. That's good enough for me.


34 posted on 11/15/2006 6:31:23 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: E Rocc

Get rid of the gun grabbing and I will support Rudy. Unless Gingrich runs in which case I am voting Newt.


35 posted on 11/15/2006 6:33:16 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I thank the RNC for freeing me to vote my values rather then political party. It is liberating!)
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To: Flintlock
BTW this goes double for McCain.

McCain is also straight out opposed to free speech.
36 posted on 11/15/2006 6:33:39 AM PST by JamesP81 (Rights must be enforced; rights that you're not allowed to enforce are rights that you don't have.)
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To: E Rocc
Our "Social Conservative Agenda" should not be part of any Federal guidelines. We need to rely on the states to do this and at the moment they are doing a very good job.

Wrong. You need to read the Constitution...

States ratify Amendments...

Article V.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress...

37 posted on 11/15/2006 6:33:55 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Please stick to the subject and do not spam the thread with irrelevancies.


38 posted on 11/15/2006 6:36:07 AM PST by steve-b (It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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To: Alberta's Child
Abortion and Marriage are not CONSTITUTIONALLY in the federal realm.

If Social Conservatives insist on nation-wide laws that govern these issues they will continue to drive small (l) libertarians out of the party.

I believe we should be able to join under the banner of "strict constructionism"...solidly constituional judges...that put these issues back to the states. We also share the desire to beat the jihadis...and close the border. To a lesser degree we share the desire to reduce the overall size of the federal governement...and "fair" trade.

If we cannot agree to form a coalition around these basics we don't belong in the same party and should formally split.

39 posted on 11/15/2006 6:36:41 AM PST by Mariner
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To: steve-b

YES TO RUDY !!!


40 posted on 11/15/2006 6:37:29 AM PST by BunnySlippers (Never Forget)
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