Posted on 03/05/2008 10:14:20 PM PST by RussP
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If there's a single thread that runs through the e-mails I receive from peevish Republicans, it's that none of the current candidates possesses the conservative purity of Ronald Reagan. One could almost get the idea that Dutch was betrayed by Pontius Pilate and crucified on Calvary. But that wasn't exactly the case. The fact of the matter is that Gov. Reagan gave Gov. Jerry Brown a run for his money – or should I say our money? – when it came to raising taxes here in California. But, in spite of the additional revenue, he was responsible in large part for the streets of our cities being turned into public latrines by the unwashed, the unwanted and the insane when, to save a few bucks, he oversaw the closing of California's mental hospitals. He also signed the nation's most liberal abortion bill. Although he had a change of heart a scant six months later, one never hears him condemned for flip-flopping ...
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What truly confounds me are those cuckoos who would prefer to see such socialists as Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama win the election than to sully themselves by voting for a Republican who was only their second or third or even fourth choice. To them I say, before proving that you place your own ego gratification above what's best for America, keep in mind that most of the Supreme Court justices are in their 70s or even, in the case of John Paul Stevens, fast approaching 90. Do you really want one of those two Democrats stacking the Court for the foreseeable future? Presidents come and go, but justices go on seemingly forever. Kennedy and Scalia have been on the bench since Reagan put them there. Stevens, for heaven's sake, was appointed during the ...
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“When I took the Foreign Service Exam, 82% was a failing score.”
Well, that sounds like a real light-weight exam. I’ve had graduate-level engineering exams where the highest score was below 82%.
Yup. Straight out of the Team Juan Online Shills Handbook.
Sadly, for the increasingly desperate (and abusive) pro-amnesty parrots of Mrs. Vicente Fox Juan McCain Campaign HQ: their beloved chosen liberal is quickly going broke, without those vital, all-important cash donations coming in from the very voting base he (and they) have spent so much time spitting upon and kicking. Karma's a real b!tch, ain't it, kiddies...?
Great plan. Every day I'm a foot closer to leaving the R party. The I is looking pretty good these days.
“Well, that sounds like a real light-weight exam. I’ve had graduate-level engineering exams where the highest score was below 82%.”
It is notoriously difficult. One is required to achieve a high score despite the difficulty.
Well, I agree that McCain needs to pick a solid conservative. If he blows that one big, then I *may* even abandon McCain myself.
Don’t take it so personally. If you are willing to switch parties over perceived personal slights, what does that say about your principles?
EVIL!!! EVIL I say!!!! if you vote for mcCain you have sinned and must burn for all eternity!!!! You will never erase the stain on your soul.
I have never in my life seen a more politically tone deaf candidate for any office than McCain. I expect him to cross party lines and pick Lieberman or John Edwards. If he picks a conservative, I will vote for that conservative. If he picks a liberal, then I'm going to buy gold.
Not! First of all, the Abortion Bill Reagan signed was very narrow, and he spent years trying to rectify that mistake before running for presidency. Second, Reagan never opposed a tax cut, because it “Benefited the Rich” Come to think of it Reagan never used leftist class warfare rhetoric in general.
So save your breath, I’m not voting for McCain, I don’t care if you produce a picture of Reagan at a Communist Party meeting, it doesn’t change who McCain is. You Republicans selected him, now good luck with that.
He said in the article that he was getting a lot of email from people saying they would stay home. I’ll never stay home—there is always something on the ballot to vote for. In this election, my energies will go toward manning the foxholes in Congress with conservatives. We’ll need it to fight whichever liberal gets elected, whether McCain or HillBama.
Everyone should vote. If they don’t like the R (or D)choices, pick a third party candidate or write-in. At least they should use their voice, IMO.
The author does not get it.
Conservatives are not looking for Ronald Reagan incarnate.
However we do judge people based on their stands.
You don’t just embrace someone who pisses on your leg and tells you its raining.
LOL! A rather disagreeable form of disagreement :D
Prelutsky shouldn’t be confused or confounded, maybe he’s just senile. People generally vote for politicians that they agree with. This is particularly true of conservatives.
Rebublicans should stop calling conservatives sanctimonious and self-righteous if they’d care to bring them around to voting for their guy.
It’s tiresome!
If it were a cult, we'd have more members.
McCain NEEDS the conservative core, the conservative core does not need nor desire McCain.
McCain is under the arrogant impression conservatives not only need to go to HIS positions, conservatives have to kow tow to him in the name of “diversity.” He does not get it.
He needs to come to our positions if he wants our support. Sombody needs to advise the fool that in the 21st century people can and do check on his DEEDS to back his words. (the plumeting conservative rating over the years is not just an accident)
1994 100 1995 88 1996 100 1997 88 1998 100 1999 77 2000 81 2001 68 2002 78 2003 75 2004 72 2005 80 2006 65
Can’t stand McCain and I’m voting for him.
Genuinely irritated by jackasses that tell me what I “have” or “need” to do!
a suicidal cult
Reagan was not a great “conservative purist” -
he was a great man, a great leader, and a visionary. He was a conservative, but he was also a realist.
Reagan realized that in the short term, it was more important to defeat communism than to defeat liberalism. So, Reagan compromised with liberals, and allowed them to balloon social spending in exchange for massive military spending.
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