Posted on 04/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents.
One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They never intended God or religion to be written out of public life. They never intended government to be used to deny God's existence or for government to be used to force sexual perversions onto our society or into our children's education curriculum. They never intend for government to disarm the people. They never intended for government to set up sanctuary cities for illegals. They never intended government to “rule” over the people and or to take their earnings or private property or to deprive them of their constitutional rights to free speech, free religion, private property, due process, etc. They never intended government to seize the private property of private citizens through draconian asset forfeiture laws or laws allowing government to take private property from lawful owners to give to developers. Or to seize wealth and redistribute it to others. Or to provide government forced health insurance or government forced retirement systems.
All of the above are examples of ever expanding socialism and tyranny brought to us by liberals/liberalism.
FR fights against the liberals/Democrats in all of these areas and always will. Now if liberalism infiltrates into the Republican party and Republicans start promoting all this socialist garbage, do you think that I or FR will suddenly stop fighting against it? Do you think I'm going to bow down and accept abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, global warming, illegal alien lawbreakers, gun control, asset forfeiture, socialism, tyranny, totalitarianism, etc, etc, etc, just so some fancy New York liberal lawyer can become president from the Republican party?
Do you really expect me to do that?
I reluctantly acknolwedge that our country is more like California than not (coast dominated by densly populated and highly Democrat/liberal voting blocks, the rest of the area predominantly Republican/conservative), and take HUGE COMFORT in the revelation of FR's majority of donations coming from California. Maybe the nation is more conservative that we suspect.
Oh well, I'll just say it here as well.
Hip Hip Hooray!
Hip Hip Hooray!
Hip Hip Hooray!
If the GOP would stick to a strong conservative-libertarian philosophy, all of the problems we have now would be eradicated, Howlin. Don't you get tired of Republicans acting like Democrats? Or is it OK with you because you don't want to miss out on the $1,000-a-plate fundraisers and handing out GOP campaign literature.
Bump for Fred in 08! :0)
I wish them luck with that. Secret discussions are no way to promote a candidate.
Go screw yourself, you little twit.
You’re not going to force me to defend Rudy when I have repeatedly said that I’m not in his camp.
I could answer your post if I was his lawyer, or if I were advocating for him at this forum. I’m neither.
I want him and his supporters to be treated fairly on this forum. I’m less worried about him than I am his supporters.
Who exactly is the official announced candidate that all FR members must support at the risk of being zapped? I missed the memo, and I thought I was on the distribution list.
Your correct in saying that the Pubbie party is acting like a centrist one. That is exactly the problem. They have abondoned the tenets outlined in the party platform.
You have re-written the definition of “Ugly American”
Now go home to your momma.
True Conservatives??? Pffffft!!!
HE WILL!!!!
You are a disgusting, impotent Lemming Twit!!
How can you “not accept my characterization” of him as a liberal? The ONLY area in which he is in agreement with conservatives is the war on terror and national security is not really a conservative or liberal issue (it sometimes seems like it is because conservatives generally support the WOT and liberals generally don’t; but it has been made into a political issue, historically national security has been apolitical).
Would you label Joe Lieberman a conservative? What about Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt, are they conservatives? (The fact is that both Daschle and Gephardt are MORE CONSERVATIVE than Rudy.)
YOU called him a social moderate. In order to be a “moderate” Republican there have to be people to the left of him IN the party.
Nobody ever seems to be able to name any. Therefore he is LIBERAL.
Now there's a nice response from a "Christian". LOL.
Now there's a nice response from a "Christian". LOL.
So get lost already! We thought you were leaving, you need JimRob to nuke you so you feel ‘SPESHUL’?
Enough, you twit. You’ve shown your true colors, now do yourself a favor and hit the road.
You got it Chuck.
The term RINO is used as a pejorative in simplistic saber-rattlings, not reasoned debate. Someone else kindly pointed this out to me last week and it took a bit to sink in.
Why should I take offense at being called a RINO? I am a RINO! I’m also a student of conservatism. The Republican party is the original “big tent” party. It is the mechanism for my participation in American politics. Like it or not, the current paradigm is a two party system. I certainly have NOTHING in common with the Dhimmis, so that leaves me the Republican party to further my aspirations. It is a grossly inexact system, but what are you gonna do?
The problem we face today is that some are saying that we must abandon our conservative principles and “go with the flow”. No thank you. “The Republican Party must reach out to the left if we are to pick up the votes we need in order to win”. Win what, exactly?!
What is the point of “winning” the battle and losing our souls?
That might make me a RINO, or paleo-whatever, but I have a thick skin (and a firm grip on my principles).
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