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.
Anybody But Clinton
Well, by Golly! Talk about the condensed version!
And exactly right...That saves a lot of hair pulling.
Just print out
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ABC
and put it on the fridge.
Sometimes life is a lot simpler than we make it.
This might have been motivated by what happened with “Benedict” Ahnold and the bills he’s just passed. Live and learn indeed — I worked on his campaign at his headquarters! And now he is making sure that all California textbooks MUST include gay parents as the norm. I pulled my kids out of public school just in time.
Heck, I thought most of the people in Texas originally came from Tennessee; went down with Jim Bowie and those lads.
I am 100% positive Rudy will do for the USA what Benedict Arnold did to California, only worse.
I’m just hoping we have a president that will bring us all back together (on the right). Some obviously won’t do that, but I think a few good men could bring back the conservative movement.
I know we’ll never please the left...no matter what.
Our goal should be unity in purpose, and the purpose being: individual rights, moral fortitude, a sovereign nation, and a reasoned foreign policy.
That sums up my desires. As long as we’re consistant and persistant, we’ll break-through our barriers.
Yeah, yeah, election schmelection, I think I found a fix for the DB:
After removing the auto-increment from the ID field, and moving the primary key to a different field, I was able to save two entries with no duplicates.
I then re-instigated the auto-increment on the ID field, and moved the primary key back to that field.
After doing the above, the problem went away.
I still have another database that I have not altered. I will do a more careful study of the problem with that database, and see if I can nail it down. When I do, I will post the results here. May be a number of days, though, as I am quite busy.
Thanks for your comments, Peter. I didnt think of checking logs.
http://forum.mysqlperformanceblog.com/s/t/381/
Bush seems to be two people--the great president who's holding steady on Iraq and taxes, and then the guy I think he might have REALLY been if 9/11 hadn't happened. If 9/11 hadn't occurred, Bush would have been a one-termer.
Precisely why we need Statesmen, and not politicians in elected office.
Fred Thompson: WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
In some releases ahead of a speech Thompson is to give tonight to the Conservative Party, one in particular catches my eye:
With me, what you see is what you get. I was a proud conservative yesterday, I remain one today, and I will be one tomorrow.
Now, at the risk of raised blood pressure for some of my friends, I have challenged the consistency of commitment to Conservative principles on the part of his rivals in recent days. Having said that, I can only throw this out there and let it stick where it may:
Some think the way to beat the Democrats in November is to be more like them. I could not disagree more,” the one-time Tennessee senator says in remarks he is to deliver to the Conservative Party of New York.
“I believe that conservatives beat liberals only when we challenge their outdated positions, not embrace them. This is not a time for philosophical flexibility, it is a time to stand up for what we believe in.”
Music to this man’s ears.
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/haystack/2007/oct/15/fred_thompson_wysiwyg
You may be right, Jim. I will work like hell for anybody but Rudy, but if he wins the primary, it will be anybody but Clinton. There is no darned way I will facilitate the Clintons moving into the WH again.
Duncan Hunter has never quit and his 26+ years of leadership and support for our military testifies to that.
Not only have you drank deeply from the anti-Thompson Kool-Aid, usually served by jealous supporters of marginalized candidates, but you have a liberals view of our congress.
Fred Thompson did what the Founders of this Country wanted it's legislators to do, serve for a limited time and then go back to being a private citizen. Thompson not only did this but said he was going to before he was elected. Some other people, Hunter included, see being a representative of the people as a profession, not as temporary public service. This is one of the biggest problems we have in this Country, ensconced professional politicians who think they are more important than the Country.
Hunter has some positive conservative attributes, but having spent most of his life as a politician is not one of them.
I will never ever support or vote for a gay rights, gun grabbing, illegal alien supporting abortionist for president. Nor will I allow FR to be used for such evil purposes. I hope and pray you guys wake up and recognize the evil intent of social liberals before it’s too late for all of us.
In my view, the only true conservative who is right on the issues, pro-family, pro-life, is focused on national security and the need to secure our borders, is Congressman Duncan Hunter.
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yes but Hunter is not much of a conservative when it comes to free markets. He’s not a socialist of course but he’s more of a mercantilist, an idea that Adam Smith worked hard to refute.
We want conservatives in all 3 areas of fiscal, social and security (that’s why I push that with my tag line)
There’s actually a 4th area of conservatism that’s not usually discussed and that is of pragmatism. This means a conservative would much rather vote for someone who had real life experience implementing his ideas (such as a businessman or governor) instead of someone with intriguing ideas but was shielded from the real world, like most lawyers, senators and academics.
Worth a "Reup" on my monthly donations!
BUMP!!!
I'm all for that. The powerful central government is the root of all the other problems that you listed.
But I've been around long enough now and have seen the federal government continue to bloat, unrestrained, despite which party is in power, that I am utterly pessimistic about dismantling the 'federal behemoth', short of a revolution.
Never vote for or support a candidate that is not for the dismantling of social security.
Never vote for or support a candidate that is for the redistribution of wealth through socialistic programs called 'entitlements'.
Here you go.
Something to feed your obsession.
I wish we could get Republican presidential candidates like you, JR. Why is it that there are always two or three issues that make a guy hold his nose when he votes for those guys in a general election (or even in a primary)? I never agree with prominent Republicans on every issue. I thought it came with the territory. Yet here you are and I find myself agreeing with you wholeheartedly on every single point.
Perhaps you should think about running, Jim? You have a large ready-made base of support already; namely, most of us Freepers. Who knows? You may be cut out for bigger things than simply being an internet innovator. Cheers!
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