Posted on 05/07/2007 5:25:31 PM PDT by madprof98
I don’t know why the liberals here are so reluctant to just come out and admit that they are liberals and that is the reason they support Rudy.
Instead, they hide behind all of these talking points that have been demonstrably disproven.
Of course there is good and bad charisma...Clinton and the like have the darksides charisma. I believe Romney has the good charisma just like Reagan had. A candidate needs to draw people and make them enthusiastic. Just being right on the issues isn’t enough. Dole was right on the issues but didn’t have enough projection of enthusiasm.
I am STILL not ready to jump in with Romney. The shallow people of this country want charisma, slick — ie they wish to be played the fool and they may well be in the majority, BUT — right/wrong, win/lose — I will vote issues.
I am a social moderate. For persuasion, and personal responsibility concerning the single issue.
you are spinning what I am trying to say...charisma: “a divinely conferred gift or power.” The right issues are explained with conviction with that. So really, charimsa is not a correct usage for the Clinton types. More like hypnotic power.
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Yes. Agreed.
The good news is that there are a lot less of them than there were a month ago!
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Yes. More seem to be leaving daily. It's a brave thing to do, but Mr. Robinson is not lacking in courage.
What does that even mean?
Are you one of the "I would never commit infanticide, but I'm okay if others do" type of "moderates"? Are you okay with people committing other acts of murder and violence as long as you don't participate?
YOUR ATTITUDE of not standing up to evil has resulted in 50 MILLION slaughtered infants since 1973, who should take responsibility for that?
You’re more than welcome to vote for someone nominated from the political center of the GOP. It won’t be that far a trip rightward for you, as compared to the long trek to the left for conservatives to vote for Rudy. A journey that long requires that many principles have to be jettisoned.
The Rockefeller Wing of the GOP was pretty good at keeping the Dems in permanent power. Sorry, but we don't want to go back.
And they were NOWHERE NEAR AS LIBERAL AS ROOTY.
I have yet to find a social “moderate” explain how the social breakdown that results from their policies won’t result in fiscal liberalism.
You can’t refute it, because it’s irrefutable.
Social breakdown resulting from liberal social standards and policies ushers in massive amounts of tax money thrown at the problems (unwanted children, brokren families, molested kids, feral children, drug addicts, etc). Unless you’re a devout libertarian and won’t mind if they all die in alleys.
“”YOUR ATTITUDE of not standing up to evil has resulted in 50 MILLION slaughtered infants since 1973, who should take responsibility for that???””
For the sake of an intellectual discussion, I did a lot of research into the whole issue in the library back in the 70s. The RCC mystic Aquinas says that “the soul comes into the body after the mystical 40 days” Many spiritual traditions teach that the soul enters the body with the breath.
I had a lot of trouble getting pregnant, and probably had dozens of zygotes floating around. I don’t for one minute think that my zygotes were sentient human souls.
In an intelligently designed universe, which I believe in, billions of sentient human souls are not floating around in the sewers of the world.
Abortion is a world wide problem that is never going away no matter what. Laws will not stop abortion no matter what. Mexico is legalizing abortion because of the millions of illegal abortions.
Persuasion is the only way to lessen abortion.
The FACT is that almost all abortions are performed well after 40 days. But I guess your argument is that taking life is okay even though there is a question as to whether or not there is a soul.
Abortion is a world wide problem that is never going away no matter what.
Neither is post-birth murder, rape, arson, robbery, etc. -- should we legalize all of these as well?
Persuasion is the only way to lessen abortion.
Spoken like a true liberal. Unfortunately, the numbers don't add up.
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