Heh, good retort!
I'm looking for a link to that silhouette graphic of the rhino humping an elephant... AHA! There it is...
Posted on 05/31/2008 10:53:25 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
I cannot remember who first called the Republican Party the "stupid party," but recent events show that our party has earned this name. The very issues with which the Democrats are attacking the Republicans in the current campaign are issues on which Democrats are especially vulnerable. However, the stupid party seems not to have noticed.
First, look at Social Security. Obviously, Social Security must be reformed, the sooner the better. But when President Bush asked Congress to reform it, and permit private accounts to be included in Social Security, Congress (which was controlled by the stupid party at the time) refused. Congressional Democrats exclaimed that this would be "risky." Not one Republican pointed out that if the same amount of money as is paid into Social Security were used to purchase an annuity from an insurance company, it would return between five and eight times what Social Security would return.
In other countries, in which retirement funds have been reformed to include private accounts, retirees actually receive much higher returns for what they have paid in than Americans.
If one considers insurance companies "risky," one could purchase several annuities instead of one. If one bought four annuities, and two of the insurance companies failed (when did the last insurance company fail, to the extent that the insured had no coverage at all?) the retiree would still receive two and one half times what he would have received from the current system. The stupid party could not make this case.
Congressional Democrats, who have gullibly swallowed the global warming hoax, insist that we must all switch to toxic light bulbs. There are several problems with these light bulbs, none of which a single member of the stupid party has articulated. One of the most pressing, in my mind, is the threat that eventually, enough of these light bulbs will end up in landfills to begin to poison our ground water with mercury.
Yet, whatever may be the threat, the reality is that everyone in America would have to use these bulbs for 100 years before there would be any result at all in CO2 levels. The stupid party is unable to think of a single reason these light bulbs are a bad idea.
We are told that by the year 2011 we can expect rolling brownouts in Maryland, since there will not be sufficient electrical power to satisfy expected demand. Has anyone in the stupid party pointed out that Democrats have blocked the construction of nuclear power plants for many years?
How is it that Democrats with degrees in political science can trump the arguments of the engineers who design these plants? Have you ever heard anyone from the stupid party point out that every single day, most coal-fired power plants release more radioactivity, in the form of a radioactive isotope of thorium, than the total released at Three Mile Island?
Democrats have blocked Americans from drilling off the coast of Florida, but have done nothing about the plans of China to extract our oil less than 50 miles from Florida. Democrats have blocked the construction of oil refineries for the last 30 years. Democrats have refused to permit us to extract shale oil, the most abundant oil resource in the world. If the stupid party cannot pin the tag on Democrats for the price of gasoline at the pump, let alone any of these other issues, they will deserve the defeat which seems certain this November.
I tell ya, the ‘rats ought to be ripped in two for their lameass responses to energy supplies.
McLame won’t do it: he doesn’t give a damn about getting our own energy sources either, does he?
Time for grassroots action.
Mike Duncan heads the RNC.
Lower profile than Mel Martinez, but a better GOP head.
http://www.gop.com/About/AboutBio.aspx?Guid=440ac9cd-8163-47f5-9c39-eb39d81a9b79
http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2008/02/08/interview-with-rnc-chairman-mike-duncan/
“The Dems nominate far-left oddballs like Obama because it pleases the most motivated members of their party — i.e. the ones who come out and vote their beliefs, such as they are.”
AND WE ARE IDIOTS IF WE LET THIS LEFTWING GOOFBALL WIN!!!
The new McCain GOP has no convictions.
"The unrighteous man flees when no one pursues, but the righteous man is bold as a lion!"
“No. we need to start another revolution.”
We have a ‘revolution’ every election. The leftists are going to throw the GOP bums out and leave the tax-hiking freespending progaymarriage proabort marxist-fellow-travelling weak-on-GWOT Democrats in, if we dont stop it. That will be the revolution 2008.
“Why start from scratch when the GOP already has the structure and apparatus to function as a a political party ?”
Correct, the 3rd party folks are purist big-fish-in-small-pond fools who will get nowhere.
“We just need to throw the RINO’s and feckless ass clowns out one by one”
TWO GROUPS ARE DOING THIS:
NFRA and Club for Growth
http://clubforgrowth.org
Shoot, the granddaddy of the NFRA orgs, in CA, endorsed liberal former Governor Mitt Romney in the Republican primaries.
What’s the CfG doing in this election?
No we don't. That's almost laughable if it wasn't so sad.
We have in the House gerrymandering districts that almost guarantee re-election for even the most reprehensible representatives. Their constituencies and special interest protect them because they bring home the bacon, other taxpayers money
That my friend isn't a ‘revolution', it's looting in the highest order
Why not put this to the test by actually providing facts?
I think this point is beginning to sink in. I haven't heard recently of anybody calculating when the Social Security trust fund will be exhausted. Perhaps people are figuring out that the crisis will come, at the latest, when Social Security begins to draw down the trust fund. It will then become clear to the dullest mind that the trust fund is a fiction, and no fund at all.
But facts can change minds. And would enlighten many.
Still, the stupid party refuses to bring these facts forward -- or even argue its own case.
The GOP leadership is wanting -- for ideas and for courage.
The problem isn't that they're spineless. The problem is that they know that if conservatism was allowed to work, they'd lose all raîson d'être. While they try to appear spineless, that's a front for the fact that it's better to be thought a wimp than a traitor.
Heh, good retort!
I'm looking for a link to that silhouette graphic of the rhino humping an elephant... AHA! There it is...
I am more in line with the Constitution Party "platform".
An e-mail from a lame duck an d STUPID Florida Senator who need to be unseated!!!
This is a copy of an email from Mel Martinez in response to my request to open up ANWR for drilling. The response is dated 4/29/2005.
Dear Mr......:
Thank you for contacting me. I appreciate hearing from you regarding the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and I would like to respond to your concerns.
Finding new sources of domestic energy is critical to our national security. Today, our nation is 58 percent dependent on sources of energy from the Western Hemisphere, including 14 percent from Venezuela. Judging by recent political developments, Venezuela is not a stable or reliable source of oil for our country.
Hugo Chavez has actively been seeking new markets, such as China, for Venezuela’s oil, which would leave us struggling to replace a sizable percentage of our country’s needs with most likely very little warning. With today’s soaring oil and gasoline prices, we need to be forward thinking about world events and their effect on our oil supply.
We also need to think globally about environmental issues. Drilling in ANWR using the most advanced technology and strictest environmental regulations will keep environmental impact to a minimum. Drilling technologies such as multi-lateral drills and directional drilling are just two examples of ways we are now able to minimize environmental impact. Other countries are not necessarily following the same strict environmental standards used in the U.S., and this puts us in the position of exporting our own environmental concerns to countries with much looser environmental standards.
Drilling in ANWR - in a part of Alaska that was set aside by the Eisenhower administration in 1960 for oil and gas exploration, with overwhelming support from its population and congressional delegation, and under some of the strictest environmental standards in the world – is a sound and balanced approach that will help alleviate our dependence on foreign sources of oil.
As a Floridian, I share your concerns of a ‘slippery slope’ effect as it relates to offshore energy exploration, and rest assured, I remain firmly opposed to drilling off Florida’s coast. I have also receive assurances from the administration to keep in place Florida’s moratorium on offshore drilling through 2012, extending it to areas currently not under moratoria, such as the “stovepipe.” In addition, I will be introducing my own legislation in the U.S. Senate to make the moratorium on our Gulf coast permanent, and buy back any open leases.
As we address the need for development of domestic sources of energy, Florida’s moratorium on offshore drilling will remain firmly in place as one of my highest priorities. Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. If you have any additional questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Martinez will never get another vote from me or my family.
EV, go to the CfG website and you can learn.
In NM, they want Pearce over Wilson.
They support Shaffer in Colorado, a classic conservative GOP vs Liberal Dem race.
McClintock in the Cali open primary. They are running ads against the RINO there.
they want Young gone in Alaska. They are willing to take on RINO big spenders, and they’ve beaten several so far, inclduing Gilchrest this cycle.
And of course, so many liberal Democrats in conservative districts, so little time. MANY key races there that CfG is targetting.
EV, let go of your obsession with a race that is over and look at the races right now. We can salvage 2008 for conservatives by defending and winning the right races in the House and Senate.
This thinking is why i am all for helping the Republican *conservatives* that we can.
If the RINOs lose but conservatives win, then, maybe it would wake some people up.
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