Posted on 02/19/2007 1:14:04 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 02/19/2007 2:20:11 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
Any chance to take more potshots at me? LOL
Because people being called "LIBERALS", here, now, aren't liberals at all. N either were they once once DAMNED DEMS; as some doing the name calling were.
Why do you refuse to answer my questions?
but, but, but, Jim, if a Conservative Republican won that means some of the folks here will have to loose the house cleaner, babysitter, yard cleaner, etc. and pay regular wages to legal workers. :)
My sole purpose, on this thread, was to correct the posted misconception of how the platform planks of the GOP are written; who writes them, who has control of writing them, and the fact that they haven't been changed for decades and shan't be changed in '08, by whoever is the presumptive candidate.
The platform is solidified BEFORE the presumptive candidate accepts the nomination and become THE CANDIDATE.
Nope, I won't need to lose any of 'em until Congress passes that kind of bill. And I'm pretty sure the devil will be wearing ski boots before that happens.
None of your baiting, flam throwing, and name calling matters to me at all. Doing that, only makes you look foolish.
None of your baiting, flame throwing, and name calling matters to me at all. Doing that, only makes you look foolish.
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IT BIDS PRETTY FAIR, JIM!
The play seems out for an almost infinite run.
Don't mind a little thing like the actors fighting.
The only thing I worry about is the sun.
We'll be all right if nothing goes wrong with the lighting.~Robert Frost, Vermonter-Poet
You are correct sir.
Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!
Excerpt from Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty" speech
Thanks for your honesty. I really am just now learning more about your views here. I am curious as to why you are abandoning conservatism for liberalism? This is not sarcasm or anything else, I simply want to know what prompted you down this path since you first joined FR in 1998?
I sincerely hope you sent those two polls to Mel Martinez. It paints a picture of an agenda that he needs to see.
Sign me up for the Freeper Party. Jim Robinson for POTUS!
To the open borders politicians who refuse to represent us, and who obviously profit from open borders and think more of their "position" than their country, go to hell.
That has nothing to do with the GOP's platform, who writes it, who can change it, nor this vanity which gives the misguided idea that the poster and/or members of this forum have a say so in changing it.
Abolish the Income tax and a republican will get my vote.
Lovely sentiment could be the theme of Free Republic..
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