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Have some Girl Scout cookies, and you'll feel better!
The only answer is less politics and more statesman..now!
Tom Coburn and Mike Pence need to step up!
What makes you think you can just pop a vanity up there? What do you think you own the site?
So what are WE going to do about it?
Third Party??
Suck it up, ladies and gentlemen, because you are going to be sorely abused for your convictions when election 2008 rolls around and the mob calls you insane, stupid, vain, naive, enabling and anti-American for not supporting the next guy in line.
BOOKMARK for future use to help explain the difference today between conservatism and the party that use to represent it.
As the Dems move further leftward, the GOP rushes in to fill the space. In so doing, the GOP creates a void to their right.
As long as the country-club big-business core control the GOP, the party will continue to move leftward, and they will call it being "centrist" or "moderate".
The conservatives have a choice: (1) Take control of the RNC, or (2) just continue to pull the R and get more of the same "centrism" and "moderatism", or (3) find a new home. But don't expect the country-club big-business core to turn conservative all of the sudden. It ain't gonna happen.
I don't quite share this level of pessimism, but that is exactly the reason McCain and Rudy must be defeated in the primaries. And I think they will be.
On the other hand, no, President Bush hasn't been perfect. But either of those two would be far worse.
... To say nothing of Hillary...
One is pro abortion, pro gay rights, anti first amendment, pro gun control, pro big government, pro big spending, pro illegal immigrant, pro environmentalism, pro United Nations, anti war.
The other will compromise its principles to compete with the first.
BTTT!
The party my grandpa loved was a party of freedom and civil rights and personal responsibility and I am sure he is rolling in his grave. The pro slavery party of the democrats of old is a far different party today.
Jim, you make good points. I worry everytime I see the support for Giuliani in the party.
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You're right. Our nation is turning into a romanesque soap opera--a spectacle administered by shrews behind both parties.
Democratic Platform: "The dictatorship of the proletariat has carved the way to true Marxist utopia, and the time is ripe to throw off our last capitalist shackles, purge the remaining bourgeois and Christians, return our cities to mother earth, abort all parasitic fetuses stealing the fluids of the motherland without ration cards, make property ownership illegal, decriminalize forced anal sex, allow people to marry trees and any other life forms, rid ourselves of our last gun museum, reduce the age of consent to 3 months, augment the Good Citizen Data Chips with Good Citizen Forehead and Hand Tattoos, increase the maximum tax bracket rate from 99% to 99.9%, put Mao on the dollar bill, Stalin on the twenty, Hillary Clinton on the ten, FDR on the fifty, Noam Chomsky on the Franklin, make the US flag illegal, replace the Constitution, the Executive, the Judiciary, and the Legislature with United Nations designated leadership, expand Hate Speech laws to criminalize the expression of any sentiment drifting apart from the Progressive Party Line, and outlaw the consumption of any product derived from a living organism - animal, plant, fungi, archaea , protista, or bacteria (and we will henceforth outlaw such discriminatory classification schemes)."
- Hillary Hussein Kucinich III & a French Oak Tree
Republican Platform: "Vote for us - we may only be 1% better than the Democrats now, but COME ON! If you don't vote for us, Hillary Hussein Kunicich III will be president. It will be your fault. Keep holding your nose.
- George W. McCain & John F. Schwarzenegger
If we stick to principles we will never be lost.
Some are under an illusion that there is a huge difference between the parties, when in fact on many issues there is not, and never has been, really.
There is a major difference in the center of gravity between the parties on the abortion issue, but both parties have their own minority wings. The same is true of gay rights, although over time the Pubbies are realizing more and more that gay bashing is a loser, and the center of gravity is slowly changing. The difference of attitudes among younger people is quite massive vis a vis their elders on that issue.
Both parties have been in favor of campaign spending restrictions since rocks cooled, and to suggest that anything goes, will result in the wealthy totally controlling every politician in sight. The Dems have abandoned gun control because it is a loser at the margin. Bot parties are in love with big spending and big government, and have been since rocks cooled, particularly George Bush.
There is a difference in the center of gravity on illegals between the parties, but Bush is on the Dem side on that one. Both parties have been in favor of environmental regulations since rocks cooled, and there really isn't that much a difference between the parties on the environment; it is mostly posturing noise. The options really are rather limited. Bot parties have been in favor of the UN since rocks cooled, although the Pubbies like to made sound bytes about it, from time to time.
The Pubbies are beginning to panic on Iraq, because we seem to be getting dangerously close to simply underwriting a civil war, and getting into the middle of that fray. That policy is not sustainable, either militarily or politically.
And there you have it.
PS: There is a big difference between the parties on tort lawyers, and school vouchers, and tax policy, but those items were not mentioned in the vanity post.