Posted on 05/03/2008 1:40:31 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
"In reality, only America’s ill-informed but well indoctrinated are living under any illusion that any of these three candidates will make a decent President. Men like Jefferson, Madison, Washington and Lincoln, would scoff at all of them in disgust."
So true, yet so is this one...
"These three candidates are indeed representative of the people themselves. Politicians pander to the desires of the people, no matter how ill-conceived those desires might be.
If votes were not for sale, politicians wouldn’t be able to buy them at any price. As it is, they are for sale and all a politician needs to do is buy them with gifts from the treasury that will land this nation in bankruptcy, bondage and certain ruin.
This election is the tipping point. The last several elections have been decided by 1% of the voting population or so. On one side are those who demand more gifts from the treasury and on the other side are those trying to stem the tide to irrevocable socialism.
Read my column from October ‘06 titled "When 51-49 becomes 49-51..."
This election will likely mark the shift from 232 years of 51% or more preferring freedom over free stuff to 51% or more preferring free stuff over freedom...
From there on, the end is near. Politicians are a creation of the people. Not the other way around."
The race boils down to two Marxists and a socialist.
There are several things to consider about democracy, past and present, that helps to put things in perspective.
1) Think of the average American. Average in most ways with income, education, intelligence, taste, etc. While not awful, remember that by definition, 50% of Americans are below average. They vote, and they deserve a candidate that represents them as much as candidates who represent the 50% of Americans who are above average.
2) Americans used to vote based on who bought them a glass of beer or a shot of whiskey. Or at least who they liked who did that.
3) When Americans like how things are going, they vote for more of the same. When they don’t like how things are going, they vote for change. Yet things are still pretty much the same, and things still change. This actually makes sense.
4) One thing Americans don’t do is spend time training candidates who will run for office years from now. Instead, they insist that candidates rise up by natural selection. Imagine how different our nation would be if all Democrat candidates had to actually learn economics, foreign policy, military policy, and history, instead of just pretending they understand them.
Conversely, imagine how different our nation would be if conservative candidates were trained to actually be conservatives, instead of everybody just hoping that someday they might spontaneously become conservative.
>>The men you mentioned would get pummelled by today’s political consultants and media men
Jefferson would be denounced as an adulterer,
Madison as an intellectual lightweight (He only weighed 100 lbs.) and tobacco pusher.
Washington as a belligerent isolationist
Lincoln, as a big business lawyer and disrespector of personal property rights
Let’s not forget
Theodore Roosevelt as nothing more than the fat bully,
or Ronald Reagan - nothing more than an actor. Oops, they already did that.
My first vote was for RR. Every election..I may not have agreed with everything than ran on, but I never had a problem getting behind and supporting the right man. This year...there just aren’t any “right men” running.
Lincoln doesn’t deserve to be in the category, IMO.
“Meet the Anti-Candidates: Nobody’s FOR Them!”
Oh I’ve seen one or two liberals around here that wet their knickers in glee over a President McCain.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
We would still be under the Kings rule or worse; if we had these candidates. So thank the Lord; we had the Founders.
SO, it is not strictly true that "politicians" are simply a reflection of the people when those who are granted voice, REFUSE, or are UNABLE, to elucidate what was the reason for being of the United States of America in the first place.
It is VERY naive to think that our elections, and the major windows to the world, i.e. the media, are not manipulated for certain secretive agenda's.
e.g. The Council on Foreign Relations, and the illegal Mexican Invasion.
Your 51-49/49-51, that 1%, IS because of George Bush, who had the bully pulpit.
Incidentally by August, Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic Nominee, and will be supported, in an unctuous way by 50% (or close to it) of the comments or threads on this "conservative" website.
Absolutely no one I know wants any one of the three morons running for POTUS. People just shake their heads in total shock that we’ve sunk to this traitorous low in our history. Our forefathers are turning in their graves at this national disgrace.
Bite your tongue!
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“In reality, only America’s ill-informed but well indoctrinated are living under any illusion that any of these three candidates will make a decent President. Men like Jefferson, Madison, Washington and Lincoln, would scoff at all of them in disgust.”
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Far too large a percentage of today’s electorate would scoff at Madison, Washington and Lincoln as they scoff at the only remaining politicians who support the Constitution. The quickest way to be branded an idiot now is to espouse the principles on which the nation was created.
He did not represent everything you and I believe in. But the people elected a “compassionate” conservative, not a real conservative. And in this way, the people got exactly what they elected, as they usually do.
You didn't know what he meant by “compassionate?”
Some truth to that! How sad!
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