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?
Upon reflection, I’d be more inclined to think he was referring to the comments about the lack of support from “mainstream” Republicans, the banning of VIPs, and so on. In other words, in his mind, word is spreading to THAT world, not DK. It’s hard for me to imagine PF being tongue in cheek about this topic in the way you suggest given his prior comments in the thread, but I’m probably wrong.
I have a bit of problem with this Reagan's rule thing though because to me it's a bit like taking a passage out of the Bible and applying to any situation you want to apply it to. I think the the rule can be misused and it wasn't intended by Reagan to be invoked under all circumstances.
Exactly true of the past coalition prior to 2000. I don't understand why we threw all this away like so much garbage. I have been trying hard to pinpoint the change in behavior, and to understand why.
Of course, each time I point a finger it gets bit off, or I am in danger of losing my entire hand.
It's a sad state of affairs non the less, and we cannot repair this without leadership. As we speak, whats left of the coalition is like a rudderless ship, steaming in slow circles, only because of the magic of rotating torque, and occasionally lurching side to side, but there is a distinct sound of water pouring in now, and I don't plan to go down with the ship.
I have spent the better part of the forty years since becoming politically aware, trying to build party unity and take the congress. Once that was achieved, something happened.
I don't have another forty years, and I don't have the answer in any case. I can only watch as everything hoped for sinks beneath the surface.
Damn shame.....Really is...A damn shame.
But some posters are making it easier every day.
I couldn't agree with you more. I've been around longer than my 2002 sign-on date would indicate. I can't tell you how many times I've thought that I just posted my last comment/thread. This thread alone exhibits a wolf pack mentality that is instructive. Let one misguided comment stray from the group-think and the pack shreds "the guilty". I am saddened that people such as Peach, FairOpinion, King Prout, quidnunc - all of whom contributed so much - are gone because they did nothing other than stand up for their convictions. But we must be mindful that each of them are driven to defeat the Hillary/Obama machine(s) and to keep us from being destroyed by jihadists bent on our apocolyptic destruction. In that, we are like-minded.
But I must say something - and it may not mean much. I am President of a medium-sized company. Every employee here has common goals. But if there are two people who think exactly alike in every way...... I probably don't need one of them. The departed people from this forum do not and did not think exactly like me, or you. But they brought value to the forum. We have been diminished significantly by their departures - whether the wolf pack believes it or not.
That said, I hope to be around. I respect many, many FReepers. Others, well....maybe less so. But, the most important criteria to me when I step in the voting booth next will be protection from the jihadists. They want to kill every last one of us - the born and unborn. I pray to God that our next leader is equipped to handle the threat.
I understand. Still, a third party vote any time in history has ALWAYS resulted in the LEAST desirable candidate winning.
DailyKOS, my liberal friend, is leftist moonbat central HQ. Thank you for helping now to explain why your view of conservative vs. liberal is so upside-down.
Amen. Right now, the threat is before our eyes. Anyone who looks in any other direction is simply not getting it.
That’s why we need to stop thinking that far ahead, to a worst case scenario before the convention even happens, and start focusing on getting conservatives in. Real conservative choices.
No time to freeze now. Now is the time to start to work!
If you use the KOS Kool-Aid Kids as a measuring stick for conservative even Rooty can fit in the lower end of the scale.
This is not new, as the forum once had a small but vocal population of mostly anti-Bush libertines.
As you know, Libertarians think of themselves as the real Conservatives, so it's no real surprise. It;s also not surprising that they are enjoying the show over here.
That is pretty much the truth. Don’t you know who’s wishing that the Republican vote splinters that way?
It's not as simple as that. Peach, especially was driven to trash the Reagan legacy to somehow make Rudy look more conservative. Quidnunc was trolling every time he posted an anti-Fred thread.
JimRob made a decision that FR would not be used as a springboard to attack conservative candidates and/or conservative values. Rudy boosters who adhere to that are still posting.
I love this quote.
“[T]he trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.: Ronald Reagan”
Amen!!
Fred will easily win the nomination.
From your lips to God's ears.
Has the dust started settling yet?
Amen.
I just saw one of your earlier posts - you may be interested in my post #6,725. All the best, my FRiend.
Awesome, another actual Republican is getting some traction. This is good news for Republicans and bad news for the Rudy McRomney RINOs.
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