huh?
Im not a Methodist either!
I rarely listen to the fellow. I think his meds are off this week.
MR drank the koolaid. Most people are obstaining. But whatever. Michael is entitled to his opinion and to diss the rest of us and exaggerate the situation. We now know what he is made of. What I find the hardest to take (speaking of his column on the subject) is his statement about Ronald Reagan seeing Christ in everyone. What? Christ is not in everyone and therefore He cannot be seen in them. What we see in everyone is a corrupt sin nature. I’m sorry but I just think Michael should stick to what he knows and leave theology for someone else before he starts sounding like Shirley McLaine standing at the ocean shouting “I am god.”
Well thanks for sharing!
Hi libbylu!
Mike Reagan, while a nice guy, is a Republican shill, and always has been. When push comes to shove/holding your nose to spite your face, none are better than Mike Reagan, Hannity and Rush. They are hardly true conservatives!! Cunningham is a conservative, though not as conservative as I’d like him to be. If he had backed McNasty, that in itself indicated he wussed out from pressure from other hosts or from the Party.
Having been outside the GOP now for 12 years, I can honestly say that it’s great being Independent! Nobody tells ME how to vote, or threatens me—except some desperate RINOs here at FR. Freedom IS special. We’d better cherish it, because it ain’t gonna be around much longer.
By the way, a lot of freeper RINOs are warning conservatives that we had “better vote for McCain or else the country will go to the left”, etc. I’m not so certain that would be the case. The House will almsot certainly go back to the GOP/conservatives in November. Even Dems are disappointed in the do nothing Pelosi House. With Obama almost sure to win, the House will almost certainly go GOP. The country is already going right. Everyone wants to be considered “conservative”. Conservative is “kool” now. The issue that is driving the country towards the right is the Invasion by 40 million Mexicans and the carnage associated with/caused by some of those illegals.
So, while The White House may go Democrat, the rest of the country is going in the opposite direction.
Conservatives didn't exist during the New Deal. It was created more or less by the intellectuals led by Bill Buckley (RIP) in the 1950s, and became a coherent and consistent set of beliefs, a philosophy of government. They had to fight a battle out on the wilderness of thought, scratching and clawing, gaining converts in small increments. But they had Reagan, and Reagan was the Great Convincer. He brought the party around, the voters, not the elites, and then he stormed into the White House, and then he proved that Conservatism had been right all those years.
What has happened since then? The counter-attack of the elites. They couldn't just dump Reaganism altogether right off the bat, they had to take it in stages. They made damn sure the process was set up such that they could have a great say in the result. Liberal, northern states starting out. Dems voting in GOP primaries. Always being nice to RINOs, even Specter, Chafee and Hagel.
So, Bush I starts right off saying he would give us a "kinder, gentler nation". Why not just turn and spit in Reagan's eye? Then they raised taxes. Perot, a Dem ploy, paid off and we got Clinton. Party elites responded with Bob Dole, who NEVER bought off on Reagan, fought him all the way. Bob Dole personally, by himself, killed the Gingrich revolution, when he caved on the "train wreck". He was a DC product, and it was killing him that the Government was shut down. He cut Newt's balls off, and forced the GOP to cave with that move. Then what happens? He gets rewarded with the nomination! He campaigned like he had made a deal to lose. Maybe he had.
Then we get Bush II, the "compassionate Conservatism" guy. What a joke! As if conservatism doesn't care about people. What he meant by compassion is our tax money going to stupid causes that perpetuate problems, from social welfare programs to foreign aid, to education. He campaigned for every RINO he could find, in each case undercutting the conservative alternative. He brings in guys like Martinez (who he made Senator in Fla. instead of the conservative) and pushes things like amnesty for illegals.
Where I differ with Michael Reagan is that after his father, the party's faithful were conservative and deserved conservative leadership. We have some moderates in the party, sure, and if a good one once in a while rose to the top on the strength of leadership qualities, we could take that. What I cannot countenance is that the "moderate" (read: liberal) wing controls everything in the party, and their motto is "the alternative is worse". We thought it was a conservative party with room for some people who are moderate on some things. Instead, it appears it is a liberal party, accepting the socialist premise of the Democrats, that barely tolerates US.
Well, I say, like Reagan did, that my party has left me. We showed it the way and it showed us the door. To stick around any longer would be to, in the manner of Huckabee, wear out our welcome.
This is a vanity, not an article posting. Please clean up.
“I believe we have been left by the republicans, and I am a republican no more.”
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Yea, yea, yea. We’ve heard it already. Let us know what political party you start. There are millions of us who can’t wait to join the Libbylu party.
Sarcasm off. Stop the vanity crap and stop your bellyaching. You sound like a spoiled child that if you can’t have your way you’re going to take your toys and leave. How about acting like a grown-up and recognizing that although you may not like your choices, you do have a choice.
Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that Cunningham’s spiel on Barack Hussein Obama would be directly attributed by much of the media and Obama’s people to John McCain-i.e., as a deliberate and low maneuver by McCain (whether it was or not).
McCain was quite right in immediately taking full responsibility for what happened even though he didn’t have a damn thing to do with it. He immediately cleared the air.
Any military officer is expected to take full responsibility for the unit under his command - and if that unit fouls up because of no fault of the officer, he is still held to account.
McCain, a former officer of distinction, took the high road. And the honorable road. More power to him.