Posted on 07/28/2007 3:45:31 AM PDT by bilhosty
Nailed it. Democrats let the republicans clean up THEIR mess and let the voters think that they never needed the republican party to begin with.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Forget Fred, Sheriff Joe is the way to go.
Its simple folks we are outnumbered ,period ,immigration,low paying service oriented jobs ,human nature being what it is and the intentional stoking of the basest of human instincts of jealousy ,greed ,like the rich dont pay their fair share,pitting one group against the other ,blacks against white ,hispanics ,women against men ,gays against heterosexuals ,old against young .What do you expect and all this is done in the never ending quest for political power . Read “Witness” by Whitaker Chambers it is all there ,create chaos and confusion ,anarchy, and the all powerful government comes in as the saviour and you get a totalitarian paradise. This country has been dead for some time we just dont know it yet ,and no one knows this better than Bin Laden ,they are just biding their time for the right moment ,we are killing ourselves from within we just need a little push for total chaos
You probably meant northeast.
A good list, but you omitted an early and serious outrage - McCain-Feingold. The President’s support for this bill was cowardly and dissembling - a betrayal of stated principles, and a violation of the Constitution he swore to preserve, protect, and defend.
He has been steadfast on many issues, but far from it on many, as well.
I could not disagree more the contract was a pivotal moment. Remember that everything in the contract was brought to the floor and voted on. Most of it was passed. Newt was the driving force. The party went wrong the last six years when they allowed the Democrats to define them and did nothing to defend the party. Preferring to cower and hope the attacks would go away. Much of this pitiful behavior was at the behest of Geo. Bush doing what his father did before him “try to get along with the Democrats”.
It’s easier than that - we fail to keep our promises, and too many Republicans have drunk the D.C. kool-aid. We buy into the legalized corruption which should be done away with. Cutting government and taxes are not tired messages. We have failed to deliver.
A good addition to the list.
I didn’t follow that debate very closely so I forgot about it.
I work at a university and I’ve watched student workers deteriorate over the past 25 years. Each year the number of truly intelligent students seems to decrease. MTV, public education, and the nutty left dominate their minds.
Even the ones who seemingly are capable of thinking don’t seem to try. Last year a student worker who seemed quite capable told me that Republicans scare the hell out of him. I asked why, and he said Republicans put dissidents in concentration camps. He added that he’d written an essay denouncing Bush for one of his lefty professors and was convinced that Bush knew about it and had him on some kind of list somewhere.
They absorb all this crap from Michael Moore, Daily Kos, MTV, and their teachers. Most of them want three things in life:
1) To be able to do whatever they damn well please when it comes to sex.
2) To be given everything for “free”.
3) Not to ever have to fight in a war, no matter what.
In addition, they repeat all the nonsense about multiculturalism, diversity, global warming, etc.
Granted, there are still plenty of good kids out there, and I get to see the worst of the worst sometimes. But 25 years ago there was more of a balance. Maybe half the kids who worked in my department had some common sense, understood that nothing in life is free, knew that war was unfortunate but sometimes necessary, and had some values. Today it’s about ten percent.
I agree but for me to help in that effort I would have to move and that isn't going to happen. I'm blessed with state and congressional conservative Republlican representation.
Last Thursday our state representative came for a lunch meeting to give a report on the recent state legislature. There were about 35 people present including several elected Dems. He started his report by saying, "I'm a right-wing conservative and offer no apologies. I'm proud to have been voted one of the most conservative members of the TX Legislature." He never minces words; ask him a question and you're going to get an answer --doesn't matter who agrees or disagrees.
He " retired" for one term and ran again due to public pressure after being replaced one term by a RINO. A lot of the pressure for him to run again came from elected Dems who told him that they didn't always agree with him but at least they could TRUST him to do what he said. He NEVER said one thing and did another like the RINO had done.
you and I really aren’t disagreeing at all...I’m not disputing that the Contract was, for awhile, a good thing that connected with middle America.
But where is it now?
You point out correctly the party has gone “wrong” the last 6 years, and you are right.
For a brief time we were given the impression that the “Contract” was going to be a continuing relationship with republicans trying to work for families.
But once Newt hit a brick wall - politics returned to business as usual.
Newt turned out to be a typical politician, who was affective for awhile but in the end was exposed for what he is.
The republican party returned to DC politics and forgot about the Contract.
We need the Republican in NY who lost the Senate seat to Hillary to run, I forget his name, but in fly over country, he’d be very popular(don’t know how they bribed NY into electing her).
I tend to think we might be looking at a "Throw the Bums Out" situation in November 2008 (look at the current approval rating of Congress, which is so low that Bush's numbers are more than twice as high). And if so, the political carnage will be bipartisan, and the only winners will be whichever "newbies" are best-organized (cf. the Gingrich Revolution in '94).
Rick Santorum.
Newt has a big character flaw, that doesn’t mean that his idea wasn’t a good one. He implemented it and it worked splendidly. trouble is the party could not keep it going after his demise. The same old moderates and CYA politicians drifted right back to their same old habits. And that’s how we got Bill Frist Trent Lot and the rest of the hide under the bed moderates.
No! it was Rick Lasio
The only reason the GOP is polling poorly is due to the base still being pissed over immigration, the GOP's gutless lack of fighting back, too much spending. If someone like Fred Thompson gets the nomination, a huge number of currently disgruntled base members will come home.
“Newt has a big character flaw, that doesn’t mean that his idea wasn’t a good one.”
I’m not saying his idea wasn’t a good one.
And sure he had a big flaw - one that is typical to most political animals - he presented himself as a champion for family values while personally trampling on them.
“trouble is the party could not keep it going after his demise. “
agreed, and why should they? They are politicians and politicans have to make promises to people in order to get elected. Promises they cannot keep.
They have to raise crazy amounts of money during election campaigns and then spend it rapidly. They forget that this is not how real people deal with money.
So, we wind up with a bunch of guys who are trained to lie to people and are good at wasting alot of money.
And then we act surprised when they don’t make good on their promises and are wasteful with taxpayers’ money.
Thanks for correction, I still mean Rick Santorum, geuss my memory is a little like Hillary’s memory under oath.
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