You are so right, AB! Bingo! Give that man a contract!
Therein is the bigger part of the problem. The pubbies are so damn scared to take a stand and your example is one fine one that should have had flat-haired, wing-tipped pubbies across the fruited plains on our TV’s and in our faces, proclaiming the value of obtaining oil from our own land.
I don’t care what anyone should say, the American people would support drilling for our own oil enthusiastically and would elect such a proponent in a landslide. It is something we all have in common...being human and being American. We understand pride in self-sufficiency and few of us will roll over and die for the elk allegedly inconvenienced for a steel pipe running through their territory.
And yet....I think the political elite DON’T want to drill in this country. And I don’t think it’s because of the environment or other such cover ups. I think that many in our political elite get funds to run for their offices that give them so much in terms of prestige and money, from the very countries who have so much riding on our inability to drill in our own country.
Yes indeed I do. My own Mike Castle, Delaware’s one and only representative in America’s House, himself voted against drilling in Anwar and I’ll lay you odds of fifty to one that the average Delawarian would support drilling in Anwar ten to one. Mike Castle didn’t represent his constituency is what I’m saying here, no he did not. Mike Castle represented Mike Castle, via George Soros, funder of Main Street Republicans, for which Castle is President. Soros, of course, needs a few pubbies to vote against drilling in America and tada.....quid pro quo.
Yes, they pee upon our feet and tell us it’s raining. They do NOT represent us. They have power and they like it.
The hell with every one of us and our four dollar a gallon gas.
CNN UNReliable sources just went to commercial saying “John McCain addressed the American People last night” portraying McDole’s Saturday Night Live skit as if it were real. A little bias, are we CNN Howard Kurtz?
As I posted elsewhere, on the Good Ship GOP, captain John McCain, conservatives are the rats. The folks who run the ship are trying to exterminate us politically, and if the ship sinks, we all drown. The only hope is to not go on this voyage.
Thinking out loud here
*dons fire proof suit*
You know in a way...wht Malkin...Rush and a few on here are saying IS correct.
We are screwed. But not in the way you all are thinking.
Right now...just reading through the (as I write this) almost 90 on this thread...for the most part I can’t tell any difference between the whining that DU does about Her Thighness and Barakstar! and the bellyaching going on here.
Except for the fact that we already know who our nominee will be and they won’t know til Denver...maybe.
But where the Dems have us over a barrel is that even with all their squabbling and sniping over who should be the candidate...they will ALL support whoever comes out on top.
Can we sit here and say the same thing?
There are far too many here willing to engage in self immolation because their specific candidate didn’t get the nod that yet again...it opens the door for the Dems to put their collective boot in our @ss.
At some point if the Republican party wants to do more than influence this country sporadically every couple decades or so...we have to quit this petty bickering like a bunch of pre-schoolers.
Ok so McCain gets his rocks off talking tough to fellow Republicans and kissing @ss to the MSM. We can blunt that effect when he gets elected.
Elect people to the House and Senate that ARE the conservative voices we want. Any president can talk a good game...but he or she can’t get SQUAT done unless they have the votes in Congress.
And while we are squabbling over the fine print with McCain the Dems are running the New Southern Strategy. Putting up people for election that sound more conservative than a Conservative who will then vote the Liberal Party line once they get inside the beltway.
And we are letting them get away with it. We should be ashamed.
If you want to catch a thief...you have to think like a thief.
Same analogy applies to politics.
If we want to beat the Dems we have to think like they do in terms of ruthlessness when it comes to getting OUR people elected.
Otherwise they will continue to steal our candy and punch us in the gut and laugh as they walk away.
I know there will be people who as they read this will start moving the cursor to the alert button...fine...been there done that...I understand there are people who don’t like to hear the reality of how things are.
There are people who will accuse me of being some kind of squishy moderate...fine...do that too...I’ll go dig up my posts openly supporting Thompson and speaking of the virtues of Hunter and Tancredo.
The fact of the matter is I’m talking about the reality of the situation that is in front of us today. Some don’t want to hear it...that’s on them.
But the fact of the matter is...while we are bellyaching about who will be in the White House the Dems are making moves to guarentee that whether someone with an R or a D are sitting in the Oval Office...they will be dealing from a position of strength.
Can we say the same thing?
Thanks. Just got back from mass. We had three First Communions this morning. My 7 year old son will go next year. They grow up so fast! But what a freaking world we leave them!
I do not think it depends on having a Reagan out there or finding Republicans with a pair. It’s going to come down to people getting pee’d off enough, waking up and smelling the coffee, and simply just growing up. If that doesn’t happen, then we truly are screwed.
Come, come Sweet Jesus! Sometimes I tell my wife, He’s coming, but in order for the End Times to arrive, things have to really get bad. Maybe we’re finally at that doorstep. It gives me mixed emotions to think we had children just in time for Judgement Day. If so, I hope they can take it! All I can do is teach my children Faith in God, to be spiritually strong, and not to be afraid, for He is with us, always.