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Will FR embrace socialism to make way for Rudy Giuliani as a Republican presidential candidate?
vanity | April 21, 2007 | Jim Robinson

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?


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To: stillonaroll

Abortion: Did President Bush do anything about abortion? Did he engineer the Supreme Court to stop all abortion, or even the federal funding of abortion? No. I’m glad about the ban on partial birth, but I’m recognizing that the President can do little to nothing about abortion, unless there is a new make up in the Supreme Court.

Pro Gay? I am not anti gay; I know some gay people who also make wonderful parents. I don’t think they should have special rights but equal rights are fine with me.

Guns? I’ve never owned one. Of the three things you talk about here, the only one that I may be concerned about is guns but do you think Rudy really wants to take your guns?
I don’t have a problem with Rudy’s thoughts on gun control if he is true to what he says here to Sean Hannity.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250497,00.html


7,561 posted on 04/24/2007 2:16:27 PM PDT by merry10
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To: Dominic Harr
"Are you aware of the logical contradiction of the two positions?"

Actually, I would argue that there is no conflict between the two, that actually being politically conservative *requires* social liberalism.

Okay. Please explain what you mean by "social liberalism", and then how being "politically conservative" requires it.

I would argue that the conflict is the other way around, being socially 'conservative' means you want govt intervention in private, social matters.

Since your original statement was "I'm socially liberal, but politically conservative", before we can consider the relevance and validity of this assertion, we need to know your definition of "socially liberal" and your explanation of the causal link to "political conservatism". Exactly how does political conservatism require social liberalism?

7,562 posted on 04/24/2007 2:17:58 PM PDT by tarheelswamprat (I love dialoging. It's a great way to pick up chicks! (*obscure cinema refence - all rights reserved)
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To: JamesP81

Research NCC and you will learn everything you need to know.


7,563 posted on 04/24/2007 2:18:15 PM PDT by del4hope (If your candidate doesn't respect an unborn life, they don't respect your life either.)
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To: del4hope

That don’t make no sense.


7,564 posted on 04/24/2007 2:18:25 PM PDT by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, pull my finger.)
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To: Jim Robinson
As to your last question, please refer to my statement of purpose posted to FR's home page.

I'm sorry, I'm afraid that doesn't help me. Abortion isn't mentioned on the FR home page that I can find.

I only ask cuz I don't want to be rude. I don't want to 'misuse' your site. I agree with you much of the time. I respect you all of the time. I think it's incredible what you've built here -- I'm a Director of IT for a company with a lot of online software, and I think you've done a fabulous job with this site. I think it's the best, easiest to use, most fully featured message board on the web, bar none.

You've always been very kind to me, I've never once in almost 10 years had any complaints.

It sounds like you'd prefer at the least, I didn't debate abortion, didn't defend the pro-choice side?

7,565 posted on 04/24/2007 2:18:46 PM PDT by Dominic Harr (Conservative: The "ant", to a liberal's "grasshopper".)
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To: loboinok

Boy, that’s the truth.


7,566 posted on 04/24/2007 2:18:59 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Dominic Harr
Besides, I've already said I don't think this is the time or thread for an indepth discussion of abortion.

How hard is it for you to say why you think it's okay to take a tiny child, the most helpless and innocent among us, stick scissors in the back of her head and suck her brains out through a tube?

7,567 posted on 04/24/2007 2:19:23 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness)
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To: Lando Lincoln

He’s playing games...


7,568 posted on 04/24/2007 2:20:17 PM PDT by Getsmart64
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To: No.6
This guy?

7,569 posted on 04/24/2007 2:20:29 PM PDT by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, pull my finger.)
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To: Brad's Gramma; tiredoflaundry

It was her Gramma, I swear (ducking)


7,570 posted on 04/24/2007 2:20:50 PM PDT by del4hope (If your candidate doesn't respect an unborn life, they don't respect your life either.)
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To: merry10
Abortion: Did President Bush do anything about abortion? Did he engineer the Supreme Court to stop all abortion, or even the federal funding of abortion? No.

First of all, the PBA ban went before SCOTUS and was upheld by SCOTUS because Bush signed the PBA ban and nominated two solid judges.

Clinton vetoed a PBA ban. Rudy supported that veto.

And give the current judges time. I don't know if Kennedy would vote to overturn Roe. But I have a feeling, with O'Connor off the court, that he would vote to uphold some pretty significant state restrictions.

So a president's pro-life views do matter. Big time.

Of the three things you talk about here, the only one that I may be concerned about is guns but do you think Rudy really wants to take your guns?

Gawd, just check his long history of taking guns from legal gun owners and permit holders, calling for more federal gun laws, supporting the Brady Center, and suing gun manufacturers (in the process defining valid reasons for owning a gun as hunting and law enforcement - not self defense).

So please educate yourself about Rudy. I initially thought if I had to, I could vote for him. I no longer feel that way after finding out his long, liberal and sordid history.

7,571 posted on 04/24/2007 2:21:11 PM PDT by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08/But Fred would also be great)
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To: Lando Lincoln
DH, my most respectful expression of gratitude for your adult, civil tone.

Oh, thanks, I do try.

Man, it would be so funny if I flamed you now! :-D

"Your mother sews socks that smell"!

7,572 posted on 04/24/2007 2:21:29 PM PDT by Dominic Harr (Conservative: The "ant", to a liberal's "grasshopper".)
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To: tarheelswamprat
Reminds me of something Tom McClintock said back during the 2003 Cal Recall campaign:

"I have always thought that one of the phoniest claims in California politics is that 'I'm a fiscal conservative but a social liberal,' which always invites the question: 'How do you plan to pay for your socially liberal programs with your fiscally conservative policies?'"

Squaring that philosophy with the Constitution is also an impossible endeavor.

7,573 posted on 04/24/2007 2:22:39 PM PDT by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: No.6

That’s your problem not mine. If you (the collective you) succeed in getting a far left radical feminist/abortionist nominated from the GOP over the objections and warnings of the conservative right (you know, the people who make GOP victories possible) then you’d damn well better have a plan B prepared to get him elected. And it looks to me like your plan B involves trying to pickup support from the left. If so, you’ll reap what you sow.


7,574 posted on 04/24/2007 2:22:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Dominic Harr

“Abortion isn’t mentioned on the FR home page that I can find.”

That’s only because you may have missed the ENTIRE statement.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103363/posts


7,575 posted on 04/24/2007 2:25:21 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Jim Robinson

THANK YOU!
The sooner people who are “prochoice in certain instances” get this, the blinders come off and they will then, “get it”. It’s connect the dots, follow the money, follow the socialists....etc, need I say more?


7,576 posted on 04/24/2007 2:25:27 PM PDT by del4hope (If your candidate doesn't respect an unborn life, they don't respect your life either.)
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To: Reagan Man

Like I said, I could increase the list to 15 key points. But the farther you get from the big 4, the more debate within conservative circles arises. For example, immigration is one that no conservative concensus has arisen for a solution - other than stopping the flow as the first step. I want to see all illegals have to return home and apply for green cards (temp workers) or else be deported permanently. And the end of anchor baby BS. But the editorial boards of mainstream conservative publications such as the WSJ, NR, and Weekly Standard have all seemed to align with a version of Bush’s plan.


7,577 posted on 04/24/2007 2:25:36 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Actually going to take a break - be back in an hour or two...


7,578 posted on 04/24/2007 2:25:43 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Spiff
How about you get a damned clue about what you're talking about and give it a rest.

You are another disruptor! You need to get a clue because your KNOW IT ALL attitude needs repair. I DO know what I am talking about - I read that post last night. Now instead of pointing the finger at MThatcher, why not look at yourself.

I won't give it a rest when I see hypocrisy or otherwise. The mob squad here has been doing an 'over the top' slamming of some good conservative long time freepers before and after they left while 'standing on principle' as the backdrop. How 'righteous' of you. Your main purpose is to cause disruption with your free pass in your pocket.

YOU are the one that needs a rest from FR. There are many others than can promote Jim's cause and YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THEM.
7,579 posted on 04/24/2007 2:27:37 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Dominic Harr

Here’s the second paragraph of ‘The Founders Statement’.

“As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc. We also oppose the United Nations or any other world government body that may attempt to impose its will or rule over our sovereign nation and sovereign people. We believe in defending our borders, our constitution and our national sovereignty.”


7,580 posted on 04/24/2007 2:27:42 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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