Posted on 01/09/2007 9:49:04 AM PST by SmithL
>>>this is what those of you who stayed home get and it is going to get worse.
This is what those who drink the GOP cool-aid get when they pursue liberal Democratic policies (spend-spend-spend and open borders). What we have now are Socialist Party A and Socialist Party B.
The GOP was caught selling performance (spending and immigration) that only the RINOs and party operatives want to buy. Now that our National Guard is "cutting and running" at the border, the turn out will be even worse.
Its like there's a RINO-GOP pilot holding the controls of the jumbo jet called "the US of A" and he's pointing the nose in a hard dive down. Blame the RINOs: they have the choice to pull the plane back up, but they refuse to do so.
Pres. Bush will strighten this out.
You wouldn't vote for John McCain?
What if he were running against Hilliary?
Ed
We diagree there. I think he's a patriot and I know he's pro military.
Nothing in this world or the next could make me vote for him.
Yeah, I "get it."
I've been a GOP party activists for decades, since I was a teenager and went door to door in Newport Beach, California, passing out flyers for John Schmitz.
I have programmed countless databases of voters, printed, distributed and walked hundreds of walking lists and made countless phone calls at phone banks for every election since Reagan, but I see the Grand Old Party I love so much moving steadily away from me, and there is nothing I can do about it.
I cannot follow Rove, Mehlman and Giuliani where they are going, it violates my long deeply-held principles of old-fashioned Republicanism.
Ed
I'm going to be "out" that day.................
Hell, I do NOT know; I'm of the mind that he won't make it out of the primaries.
I do NOT want to be put in that position; so, as Jim Robinson says, it's our JOB to make sure we have a better candidate!
"You need a new eye doctor"
McCain's CFR was one of the most destructive bills ever written. His upcoming attempt to extend that to political forums like Freep will be tyrrany like Vlad Putin and Hugo Sanchez are attempting with their seizure's of their countrys' media, and his self-centered Gang of 14's betrayal of President Bush make it clear to me that my vision, while admittedly astigmatic and myopic, is nonetheless, politically speaking, 20/20!
Ed
"I do NOT want to be put in that position; so, as Jim Robinson says, it's our JOB to make sure we have a better candidate!"
Heh heh heh, we agree on that!
Ed
I imagine after the next two years, if it's anything like the last two months, we'll all be "Yellow Dog Republicans."
"Stop blaming Conservatives for a slight - statistically within the margin of error - drop in turnout."
They have to have some reason that doesn't point to the Republican Party as the problem.
Show me please where in the American system you are allowed to cast a vote against a candidate.
The fact is, the only voting that counts is that which is cast FOR a candidate. Any candidate who wins your vote assumes that means you want more of whatever he is offering.
For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger ran on the platform of running full tilt leftward and avoiding any association with conservatives like the plague. Now, he feels that to be his mandate, even though we were told time and again the reason to vote for Arnie was to vote against Angelides. Instead, the message he got was that he and the GOP aren't ENOUGH like Angelides, and so we now need abject apologies for the special election agenda and a slate of new socialistic programs.
xsteen voted [for George Allen] in her first ever election. she has been accepted into all of the college she has applied to and is most likely going to choose the U of Dallas. her criteria was small, conservative, southern and authentically Catholic.
That may be the intent, but it is not the reality of democracy. This is the weakness that comes with the system. The pettiness of people. The tendency to devolve into populism and vindictive voting without thinking or caring about the consequences.
After all, you were just one vote of many. The mistake is shared, if it is even accepted.
this is why our founders had the foresight to institute a Republic, and not a Social Democracy. We adopted our Congress and method of elections, to include the most important Electoral College that has been under assault and rendered nearly worthless in recent years. The college insures that highly populated areas do not totally control the direction of the country, the judges, the issues and the future.
Yes, voting should be based on a knowledge and experience, and qualifications. But it is not. not by a long shot.
Somehow we have survived thus-far, but i would not give you a plug nickle for our future, if the Electoral college is defeated by the states refusal to participate, and populism begins to rule at a time when we are so vulnerable, both economically and physically.
Such as the primary in Arizona where the national congressional committee butted in to an election where there was no incumbent and supported one candidate over the other? And where the retiring incumbent refused to endorse the winner of the primary?
That works both ways.
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