[Alas Babylon!]

But how can this be!!!!????

Many folks here said they didn't vote last year because the Republicans were getting too liberal.

I was assured that letting the Republicans lose last year would bring out the TRUE conservative Republican Congress and President of 2008!!

They said there wasn't "one thin dime's worth of difference" between the two parties.

They even said the dems couldn't do any more harm than the past 12 years of Republican rule.

They claimed the lesser of two evils was STILL evil!

I want to know what happened to all that!

And they're going to do it again next year if Rudy is the nominee.

[Strutt9]

Well, some of us voted Repub all the way even tho we had to hold our noses. I believe most people on this board voted Repub and am disgusted by those that didn't vote or voted third party, letting in the Dems. So There!

[Amalie]

In the end, we all know the differences are very real. We are not even to the end of February yet, and this is what the last election has gotten us. However, don't just blame the non-voters; we can no longer sit around and b*tch into the ether. We need to let people know what we think and who we are, and WHY. Now is the time to SPEAK UP - we have two years of this to go, stand up and fight, regardless of who your representatives are. The First Amendment is STILL valid, but if we stay silent now, God help us - Eurabia is already helplessly adrift; we and a few international friends are all that now stand between freedom and the next Dark Age.

[edpc]

I'm supposing the Sunday talk show thread will be mainly concentrated around this subject.......

[ReleaseTheHounds]

And they're going to do it again next year if Rudy is the nominee.

Alas Babylon! I agree with everything you've said in this reply and especially this last point. And the thing that angers me most is: despite his "liberal" social points of view, he is the best leader (or best prospective leader or best DEMONSTRATED LEADER) this party has had since the great Ronald Reagan... and there will still be "Republicans" who will stay home in spite. When what this country needs more than anything and more than ever before is LEADERSHIP to prosecute the War on Terror! Talk about RINOs!

[lentulusgracchus]

I love Bushbot sarcasm in the morning. It smells like...... morning breath.

Get back to me with an explanation of how your post addresses mine, or how it addresses the statements you supposedly object to, and we can talk.

They [conservatives] said there wasn't "one thin dime's worth of difference" between the two parties.

I take it that, according to you, we are supposed to be grateful that Rockefeller Republicans don't send storm troopers to arrest conservatives in the middle of the night, the way Hildebeast and the DUmmies would like to do.

Well, have a look at the recent revision to Posse Comitatus moved by the Bush Administration (regrettably cited by the New York Slimes and accessible in full -- interestingly, considering the Slimes won't let us quote them here on FR -- at this URL on the otherwise-loathesome truthout.org website):

Slimes editorial.

This link is provided for the benefit of FReepers who don't want to give the NYT subscription info, a reluctance I fully understand.

Kit Bond and Patrick Leahy have a bill before the Senate, that would repeal the Administration-sponsored revisions to Posse Comitatus.