This was very early on with Fred Thompson, and at that point that's why Dobson used the qualifier "think."
I don't "think" he's a Christian does not mean, "He is not a Christian."
It means "I don't think that's true." or "I don't think it's a full moon tonight." or "I don't think dogs really eat cats."
It is a word of uncertainty. That is why he follows up with the expression, "at least that's my IMPRESSION."
Those who insist on Giulian will lead to the election of Hillary.
To vote for Giuliani would cause me to violate God's commandments.
This is why I have been saying, pick a Republican for President and push Hillary out of politics. After the election, tell the Republican party that if they don’t change within the first year, a third party will be developed and there will be three years to formulate it into something the American people can support. Congress is useless today and needs to be brought back to being the peoples representatives or they will be forced out of office.
It’s time conservatives reject the GOP/RNC as an entity.
Conservatives must take a stand and support only candidates that embody and vote with conservative values. We can no longer sweep-under-the-rug the policies and positions of anyone who carries an (R) next to their name — See 6 years of George Bush and a Republican Congress.
We must have faith and the strength of conviction that even if things turn against us in the short term - we will succeed in the long-run.
So, forget polls, forget conventional wisdom, forget the MSM hacks - the base must rally to its core principles or else it will be 4 more years of the same.
That is a disturbing thought - Stalinesque even.
George Washington on the dangers of political parties:
[While speaking on the subject -- The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.]
"All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They [political parties] serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual interests.
"However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
Washington went on to say,
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty."
How does the GOP think it can discipline those they’ve already kicked to the curb?
Virtually nothing has been done to castigate these people for their disrespect for core party beliefs. When the party fails to punish disloyalty, it rewards this type of behavior. .... But Reverend Dobson ... had to announce that he felt Fred Thompson didn’t even qualify as a Christian.
***Umm, isn’t that part of Dobson’s Core Beliefs? Also, he’s not a Reverend. When the GOP core beliefs collide with my Christian core beliefs, the GOP beliefs are tossed.
I agree. Lets string up Ronnie and Rudy.
orge Orwell and the Politics of Animal Farm
Boxer, the strongest and hardest-working animal, falls ill. Though the van in which the dying Boxer is taken away has the words "Horse Slaughterer" painted on the sides, Squealer assures the other animals that the veterinary surgeon had just recently bought it, and did not have time to paint the old name out. Boxer, devoting his unceasing labor to the pigs, outlives his usefulness, and is rewarded by being sent to the glue factory.
I must ask you .cnI redruM - was the glue factory allusion you used based on the politics of 'Animal Farm'?
All you need to see is what happened to old Joe Lieberman when he failed to toe the party line .....
James Dobson is a voter, not a politician.