Posted on 04/20/2007 9:51:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
I hate to say it again, but guess it has to be said:
Free Republic is a conservative site.
As a conservative site, we are pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-liberty, pro-America.
Like-minded folks know immediately what this means and why we will never "move on from abortion" as Rudy Giuliani and his supporters ask us to do.
Think about it.
You might as well be asking us to deny God. To deny the Creator that gave us life and liberty. To give up our children. To surrender our country to the left. To give up our freedom. To give up our faith and our belief in God's Word.
Why insult us like this?
IMHO, the root difference between conservatism and liberalism IS our belief in God. For the most part, we conservatives defend our Christian/Judeo founding and our God-centered traditional American society and family values system, and the belief that our most fundamental rights were bestowed upon us by our Creator. Rights given by man can be taken by man. Rights bestowed by God are unalienable rights.
Liberals, on the other hand, especially the Marxist/socialist liberal leadership and the big leftist feminist, homosexualist, abortionist, anti-religion organizations deny God exists. They deny our Christian/Judeo heritage, work overtime to destroy our traditional family values, and seek to destroy our freedoms, including, and especially our right to the free exercise of religion.
Our deeply rooted conservative belief in God and refusal to roll over for feminism, abortionism, homosexualism, socialism, etc., is the only thing stopping the left from completely overwhelming us with their godless, socialist perversions and completely wiping out our traditional Christian/Judeo God-centered free society.
If we cave-in to the left by nominating a supporter of abortion rights, gay rights, gun control, illegal aliens, etc., as our candidate for the presidency and de facto leader of the Republican party, then we will have destroyed our own pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-liberty movement and will have destroyed all of our prior pro-life, pro family, pro-liberty work. The Republican party will have made itself a joke. It'll be left standing for nothing. Worse, it'll be left standing with NARAL, NOW, the ACLU, and every other feminist/homosexualist Marxist/socialist communist group.
Surrender to the abortionists? Not on your life!
This is Free Republic. We ARE the dissent! We fight for life and liberty! We fight for our traditional American family values! We proudly and diligently defend our Christian/Judeo heritage, our country, our constitution, and our right to be free and to freely worship our God!
IMHO, those of you who cannot or will not understand these simple truths will never understand what FR is all about, what the pro-life movement is all about, what conservatism is all about, or even what freedom is all about.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL - It's a good thing no one is around me. I'm working the boneyard shift tonight.
Zell Miller, John Breaux, Ben Nelson, Max Baucus, Gene Taylor, Ike Skelton are some conservative Democrats.
Especially when you line them up next to Lincoln Chaffee, George Vionovich, Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, Jim Leach, Amo Houghton, Chris Shays, and Rudy Giuliani.
They are conservative? Not in my book.
For example, Breaux, Nelson, Baucus voted for Traitor Reid as majority leader. All three are flaming liberals.
Same goes for Taylor and Skelton in the House. They voted for traitor Pelosi.
There are no conservative Dee's in congress.
I said earlier that the question of abortion is a question of when the fetus becomes a human with the rights inherent.
Now, my personal belief, is that happens sometime between first brain activity (at about 40 days) and viability (sometime around 21 weeks). Which means that, at the least, partial birth abortion and other late term abortion should be banned.
Define "God-fearing." That is, how did "God-fearing" impact their beliefs and behaviors?
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Prov. 1:7)
Which tells me nothing about how you see the Founding Fathers demonstrated, through their acts and behavior that they were "God-fearing."
At the risk of being argumentative, would that make Collins and Specter hard right conservatives because they didn’t vote for Reid?
Most republicans who identify themselves as "moderates" do so on the basis of the support for abortion. If it's not the only issue, it's certainly the deciding factor.
And I still don't buy the Islam part of the argument. Mitt Romney has been far more articulate on the matter, especially the Iranian part of the equation, than Giuliani has. So have Gingrich and Hunter, for that matter.
BTTT!
At the risk of being argumentative, would that make Collins and Specter hard right conservatives because they didn’t vote for Reid?
According to the ACU, both Nelson(Neb.) and Collins vote conservative about 50% of the times. Both are not conservative.
According to the ACU, Specter votes conservative about 45% of the time while Bacus votes conservative about 15% of the time.
As I said before, there are no conservative Democrats in congress -- none!
Hi Jim:
Thanks for posting this article. I find it refreshing.
regarding this particular post:
“Don’t you ever again ping me based on a ping list that you hijacked.”
Perhaps you could comment on this kind of freeping? People post to others who are obviously for or against something and then that person says, “don’t ping me”. Are we supposed to be keeping track of people who say “don’t ping me”? Isn’t that an oblique acknowledgement that their comments are not aimed at everyone even though it’s posted in a public forum, akin to asking to be removed from that forum?
The Mormonism doesn't bother me at all.
“You might as well be asking us to deny God. To deny the Creator that gave us life and liberty. To give up our children. To surrender our country to the left. To give up our freedom. To give up our faith and our belief in God’s Word.”
I’m not a very religious person, but I can’t help thinking “AMEN!”
“We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.” —Ronald Reagan
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.”
— Ronald Reagan, March 1, 1975
“Let us lay to rest, once and for all, the myth of a small group of ideological purists trying to capture a majority.
Replace it with the reality of a majority trying to assert
its rights against the tyranny of powerful academics, fashionable left-revolutionaries, some economic illiterates who happen to hold elective office and the social engineers who dominate the dialogue and set the format in political and social affairs. If there is any ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found
among the enemies of freedom on the left or right — those who would sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives.” Ronald Reagan
If you really believe that, why bother being a conservative?
Has anyone checked if the DUmmies have gotten wind of this thread? I’d be interested to see their response. They’d probably fall back on the cliche “bigot!” defense, which I believe to be the liberal equivalent of a child putting his fingers in his ears and shouting “la la la! I can’t hear you!”
We all know the protocol for ping lists. Someone starts a ping list and people ask to be added to or removed from it.
In this case Spiff took the existing Rudy ping list set up by areafiftyone, changed the name to a long rant quote, and then sent it out to us.
Spiff obviously believes that normal protocol and simple courtesy do not need to be extended to Rudy Giuliani supporters, as he has decided that we are sub-human and therefore can be treated without the slightest respect.
Spiff and friends clearly smell blood in the water and would like JimRob to have a mass purge of all Rudy supporters. That is of course Jim’s decision, and he can either ask us to leave or suspend our accounts with no warning if he chooses. Of course, Spiff and friends don’t have to take into account that many of us who support Rudy have been and continue to be loyal supporters of FR — not just with taglines, but also with contributions.
My own opinion is that the Rudy posts only bother those who oppose him because he is leading and has an excellent chance to win the nomination. If in fact he had no chance to win then why all of the violent attacks?
Clearly your snitching to JimRob shows that you have no tolerance for either an honest opinion or a simple request that protocol be followed. Spiff hijacked an existing ping list — he didn’t just ping me or the other Freepers.
To construe my firm demand not to abuse the ping lists as a request for removal from Free Republic is pretty lame.
As I have said many times before, it is JimRob’s forum and he can remove any of us whenever he wants. I have expressed appreciation for his policy of allowing posts regarding Rudy Giuliani. Some posters, however, are clearly afraid of these posts and desperately want all Rudy supporters banned. That’s hilarious. If you cannot deal with political discourse within the relatively narrow confines of FR how do you expect to do so out there in the general population?
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