Posted on 05/15/2008 6:27:32 AM PDT by TSchmereL
Maybe : ) It seems to me that a moderate socialist (McCain) can and will do much more damage than an extreme Socialist (Hussein). Simply for two reasons, first he will have no opposition and secondarily he will accomplish what it is possible to achieve (he will get extremely bad laws passed). A traitor from within doesn't generally work from a basis of ideological purity, he generally has other agendas.
Hussein on the other hand would face opposition even from his own party because they would fear that the unintended consequences might make them look bad. Hussein would be a very constrained President.
IF, it can be cleaned up. The bureacracy these slugs will create will be impossible to undo. Never mind the activist ACLU Supreme court justices they will appoint. We are in deep doo-doo.
“Big Government Conservatism” exists. The phrase was first used by Fred Barnes to describe George W. Bush who is, in fact, a “Big Government Conservative.”
George W. Bush saw Big Government Conservatism as a trade-off. To gain free-market reforms and expand individual choice, he was willing to broaden programs and increase spending. Thus his aim in proposing to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare is to reform the entire health-care system for seniors.
George W. Bush believed that People like big government so long as it is not a huge drag on the economy.
I am a Conservative. It was well known that George W. Bush was a “Big Government Conservative” well before 2004. I still voted for George W. Bush in 2004 because the alternative was worse.
I am a Conservative. I hate Big Government Conservatism. Big Government Conservatism is a total failure. But whatever it is, “Soviet Style Communism” is far worse.
When faced with a choice between “Big Government Conservatism” and “Soviet Style Communism,” I, a Conservative, will reluctantly vote for “Big Government Conservatism.” And hate it.
If you actually believe what you just wrote, you should vote for Barack Obama.
I think the logic is convoluted.
That is true. And a MORE committed socialist is still MORE dangerous than a LESS committed socialist.
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