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To: hellbender
It wasn't the socons who became the biggest porkers. I think you are misled because W sounds like a socon and turned out to be a big-govt. guy. But the Congressional leadership who wallowed in the trough weren't the hard-core socons. They were careerist Party hacks like Hastert & Frist. They exercised no discipline and had no vision, as did Gingrich.

Well, I suppose that's fair. But, given that the social conservative has gotten a lot of their agenda accomplished, and given the at least perception that the GOP was a socially conservative party, one shouldn't be surprised if a lot of people think "we let them have their way, and look what they did".

54 posted on 03/04/2007 5:37:20 PM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King

Just what of their agenda did the socons get accomplished? We still have abortion on demand, we still have the cultural-Marxist agenda being forced on kids in government schools, the media spew filth into the air, and the country is being invaded by 3rd-worlders of all types, hardly any of whom are going to be conservatives of any variety. The people who had their way are simply a bunch of professional politicians, not adherents to some principled cause; they use socons the way they use the other components of their base; the same way Demonrats use blacks, union workers, and the rest of THEIR base. If the base was ever satisfied, how could they marshall them to vote? So they never fulfill any "Contract with America." The fulfill the contracts with the big-money contributors by giving them specific things they want--like cheap immigrant labor for agribusiness. Like free trade with China for big business.
Common people don't matter at all to them.


68 posted on 03/04/2007 5:50:32 PM PST by hellbender
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