Posted on 10/15/2007 10:56:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I'm sure we've all learned many lessons recently on who to elect or not elect. I'm going to start with a few and hope other FReepers add to and expand on the list (don't ask me how I know about these):
Never ever compromise with the liberals. Compromise with liberals is a one way street. They win, we lose. I've never seen the liberals compromise with us for less socialism and more freedom.
Never ever negotiate for your rights. You already own them. They can't give you any additional rights and any you give up are gone for good. Hold the line. Never give in. Never give up.
Never ever support or vote for a known RINO. They'll betray you every time and you'll always regret it in the end.
Never ever vote for or support a known abortionist. If a man approves the taking of the most innocent and helpless human life, how can he possibly be trusted with anything else.
Never ever vote for or support a known gay activist or supporter of gay rights. It's not about equality or fairness or compassion or any other liberal malarkey. The gay agenda is all about removing human decency and morality from our society. The end result is anything goes when it comes to perverted public sexuality. At your expense. At your children's expense. At the loss of your basic rights to free speech, free religion and freedom to raise your children as you feel best. It's about the government forcing homosexuality onto an unwilling public. It's about forcing employers to employ cross dressers and other perverts against their will. It's about forcing the taxpayers to fund sex change operations. It's about forcing the taxpayers to fund healthcare to treat homosexuals and those they infect with the inevitable diseases they spread with their vile activities. It's about forcing schools to indoctrinate your children into the "homosexual lifestyle" against your will. Against their will. It's about giving up your first amendment right to speak out against homosexuality. It's about giving up your first amendment right to freely exercise your religion. It's about controlling what you say, and what your preachers are "permitted" to say from the pulpit. It's about making speaking out against homosexuality a thought crime and banning the Holy Bible as hate material. It's about forcing homosexual marriage onto an unwilling society. It's about condemning Christians and Christianity. Don't go compassionate on these evil Marxist bastards. There is nothing "gay" in homosexuality and no freedom in "gay rights."
Never ever support or elect candidates who are weak on national defense, national security, national sovereignty.
Never ever support or elect candidates who are weak on border security.
Never ever support or elect candidates who are weak on defending the 1st amendment, the 2nd amendment, or any of our constitutional rights.
Never ever support or elect anyone claiming to be a "compassionate conservative." Hold out for the real deal. No nonsense, hard as nails conservatives in all areas, social, fiscal, national security, etc. Any candidate who willingly compromises in any one area will compromise in any other area. Your freedom is at risk. Our Republic is at risk.
"Republicans" who try to convince you to overlook a candidate's liberal positions on abortion, gay rights, free speech, free religion, gun control, property rights, federalism, judicial activism, illegal aliens, socialized healthcare, taxes, spending, national security, sovereignty etc, are doing you no favors. Never compromise on the principles and values you hold dear.
Never ever support or vote for known big government or big spending candidates. Big government is never the solution to any of our problems. Hold out for fiscal responsibility on everything. Hold out for local control on everything not expressly enumerated to the federal government in the constitution. Ninety percent of our current federal government is unconstitutional. We don't want our congress working "for" us. Don't add to our problems. Start working on dismantling the federal behemoth and returning the power to the states and the people as originally intended.
Excellent...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/01/mitt_romney_a_massachusetts_li.html
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/21907.html
Mitt is no conservative...
Otherwise, they will try to slip in a Dubai ports sell-out, or a Miers Supreme Court nominee, or amnesty for illegals, or amnesty for illegals - round 2, or amnesty for illegals - round 3, or international law keep foreign illegal death-row murderers from being executed in Texas, or give the UN authority over US shipping with the LOST treaty, etc.
For all of the wannabes running for 2008, scrutinize them, their past political records and their current pandering. If they were ‘for’ something a decade previous, are they really ‘against’ it now, or are they just pandering and placating? [GW fooled many people -— but he waited until his reelection in 2004 before he really stated pushing some of his agenda.]
A definition of insanity has been stated as: Voting for the same people and expecting a different result from them.
they will, in all probability, continue to support, advocate, and push for these in the future.
nice job Jim
saving this one
One to think about adding: Never support or elect anyone who believes that judges should act as unelected legislators, even if they would impose an agenda you would agree with.
How can you even BEGIN TO IMAGINE that if by some miracle or accident Duncan Hunter were the Republican nominee that he would win a national election against Hillary Clinton?
This kind of reasoning makes me despair.
Al Gore, for heaven's sake, got half a million more votes that the extremely moderate Republican candidate in 2000. In 2004, a communist traitor got fifty-nine million votes.
Your guy can't break 5% of REPUBLICANS, anywhere.
And you want him to be slaughtered by Hillary Clinton?
What's wrong with you?
3) Never vote for a lawyer.
Thanks JR for the moral support this gives us this morning.
I don’t regret voting for GWB but with each passing year, the needle’s eye of politics becomes narrower and more impassable to angels. Fewer good people stepping forward in an increasingly dirty business.
I share your concerns, Dave, and I’ll raise you three. In Florida, Fred Thompson said he didn’t remember the details and couldn’t pass judgment on the controversial case. To me this response is incredible and unacceptable; however, he’s got plenty of time to read up on it and make a comment about the state-sanctioned killing of an innocent disabled woman. Second, I’d like to hear FDT’s opinion of the Law of the Seas treaty. Third, his take on the North American Union and the so-called globalist agenda.
Fred Thompson has said that one needs principles and he has them. Well, I have heard them, now I’d like to know how he would apply them. Incidentally, his principles did not stop him from hatching CFR.
I’d like to vote for him, but I need more information.
So, support the right candidate in the primaries, but what do you do if the race comes down to Giuliani versus Hillary? Don’t you want to vote for Giuliani because he cares about national security and will pick better justices for the US Supreme Court than Hillary will? Not to decide is to decide, and not to vote for the better candidate is to give a vote to the worse one. As the expression goes, the great is the enemy of the good.
There is one man who has run on the Republican ticket who meets these criteria. I wonder what would have happened had everyone who truly believes in these ideals had backed, supported and touted the candidacy of Alan Keyes. I realize he has many "flaws," but none of them is philosophical. Sometimes, we can't see the forest for the trees.
excellent post Commander!
Whoever gets elected to the White House and to Congress, we have to be relentless in scrutinizing them and their positions on major issues.
Much as I'd like to get on board now, Fred Thompson is like a huge floating object, largely submerged from sight, and we are all scrambling to survive a shipwreck by clutching him. Without knowing how much he can carry or how far.
And then there's Hunter, a micro-island, grounded and not going anywhere, and neither will anyone who turns to him. It's a sad commentary on conservatism; we should have more choices, and fewer Rudy McRomneys.
And deep down, I think Romney's going to grab the nomination.
I don’t share your pessimism regarding Duncan Hunter, but I gotta say, your FR handle made me LMAO! *Funny* :)
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