This will help us discuss, and PUMAs understand the myths they may have about the Right.
Posted on 10/30/2008 4:54:46 PM PDT by EarlyBird
If the exit polls from NV and FL are true, it looks like we may have found a new ally buried deep in the Democrat party. Buried so deep that the polls never detected them!
I'm talking about the PUMA's and all the other Democrats who are supporting McCain. Their fierce opposition to The One is only surpassed by our own. As I predicted earlier this month, the Democrat party is deeply divided, and will not give Obama the votes he needs to win, and it is thanks to these PUMA's that Obama will face an ignoble defeat on November 4th.
We all have read about the PUMA's and how they discovered during the primaries that Obama was corrupt and that the MSM was biased. They may be late to the party, but they deserve a hearty welcome and our deepest thanks.
In fact, they deserve all of the support we can possibly give them. These are people we can talk to, these are people who can understand what we've been going through for a long time.
FReepers, welcome them into our midst and thank them for their tireless work against Obama. These are our new allies and with them we will clean out the stables after McCain and Palin are elected. With this alliance, the face of American elections can be changed forever.
This election certainly makes strange bedfellows. I see it as a race between a Democrat and a Socialist (McCain is really a traditional Democrat in the Scoop Jackson, Hubert Humphrey model). That should make it easy for the “squishy middle” to vote for McCain since he is the embodiment of the “squishy middle”.
what kind of evil are we facing when proud conservatives and strong HRC supporters team up together to fight for the security of the country?
As the Democrat party moves to the ledge of democracy, and threatens to undermine its very foundation, I suspect an “American” party will emerge for those who recpect our founding and the checks and balances required to sustain it.
I have learned much about being a patriot from reading the PUMA blogs. They are an inspiration and a testament to putting country before party.
I talked about this earlier today and how I belong to a group of Republicans and PUMA’s against Barack and we are certainly strange friends. We recognize we’ll go back to disagreeing when Barack is out of the frightening way.
Welcome to FReerepublic all PUMA’S!!
Country first. We all love our Constitution and would let no one take that away — Right or Left.
HELL YA!!!!!! WELCOME PUMA’S!!!!!
Imagine the hell they'll put John and Sarah through after the election?
Barbarians at the gate if you ask me.
Oh well, keep your enemies close, I guess?
So true.
I visited a Southern California GOP headquarters and a PUMA volunteer was working there!
Their fierce opposition to The One is only surpassed by our own.Dunno about that... in the past I have seen a few FReepers who said they were supporting 0bama, or that he “wouldn’t be so bad.”
They've remained a force for good. Welcome to the bright side, ladies!
I AM THE ORIGINAL REAGAN DEMOCRAT. (Excerpt from my FR Profile)
THE FAMILIES DEMOCRAT ROOTS
I grew up in Tacoma Washington in a very typical Puget Sound area blue collar democrat family. My Dad worked for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and my mother was a homemaker.
My Fathers family had a true Grapes of Wrath story. They were of Scots-Irish decent, a proud people with a fighting and pioneering spirit who settled much of the non-coastal regions of the South. The roots of my family can be traced to States such as Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, the southern tip of Illinois, Texas, and Arkansas. A people who were credited for filling the ranks of the Continental Army with volunteers, as well as a majority of the men fighting for the South during the horrible war between the States. And who provided many of the Nations great heroes, frontiersman, and explorers.
It was in the early 1920’s that my father’s parents moved from Arkansas to California to work on the orange groves. It was in California where my Dad was born in 1926. During the depression when my father was still a young boy the family moved to Washington where his father found work with the WPA and later with the Railroad.
People from the south in those days were mostly democrats, though very conservative by today’s standards, and so it was with my Dad’s family. Because of this our family was not liberal by no stretch of the imagination. The folks believed that having the strongest military in the world, equipped with the most sophisticated and reliable weapons was the best way to keep America safe from the Soviet Empire.
My parents, with five kids to raise and living from payday to payday, hated taxes being raised and would vote against every single tax increase that came up. But yet they would keep voting for those politicians who supported those increases. Go figure.
My parents hated the long haired hippy anti-war protestors they saw on TV, and their thoughts on the Vietnam war was that we should “bomb the commies back to the stone-age, and” if we would fight it like a war we would win in no time.” Not exactly the way today’s Democrats think, is it? They loved JFK. I remember my Dad had a record album that contained his greatest speeches that he would often play. I wonder what I could get for that on EBAY today? My parents would preach to us the old union-fed mantra that republicans were for the rich and democrats were for the poor and the working class, and with only Nixon and Ford to be examples of republicans, we had no reason to doubt them.
THE GREAT CONVERSION
If there was one single person who had the greatest impact on me turning Republican it had to be Jimmy Carter. When I was at age to start looking for a part time job there was none to be had. I was very discouraged. I would turn in an application at the bowling alley, McDonalds, the supermarket, gas stations, etc, and they would all tell me the same story, “we’re not hiring, but we will take your application.” And then it would be placed on top of a pile a foot high.
This was the malaise Jimmy Carter spoke about. First it was the energy crises. I still find it hard to believe Carter asked America not to put up Christmas lights one year, and young people today could not imagine having to be in a block long line to buy gas, and only if it was your day to do so. (remember the odd/even days?) On the World front, the Soviet military began a major build up and the Soviet communist were influencing governments in Central and South America and in Africa, making the world a much more dangerous place. Then there was the Iran hostage crises to top it all off.
I joined the Navy in 1977 right out of high school, again because there was no jobs in my home town. I served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. This was during the time Qaddafi decided to extend the coastal claims of Libya to the waters where American naval maneuvers were conducted.
The entire Gulf of Sidra, extended up to one hundred miles from Libya’s coast, and it was proclaimed by Qaddafi to be Libyan water, off limits to our forces. The Carter government meekly rescheduled our maneuvers to stay outside disputed area, ordering us to not cross Qaddafi’s line.
True to form, Carter failed to confront Qaddafi over the issue even after a siege on the American embassy in Tripoli in 1979. Prior to the 1980 election an Admiral called all the sailors to the flight deck where he gave a speech on how important it was to vote for a President that would stand up for the military. I can’t remember if he actually used Reagan’s name, but we all knew he was not talking about the peanut farmer. I’m not sure he was supposed to do this, but I’m so glad he did, because I proudly voted for Ronald Reagan, and was the first in my family to vote for a Republican.
Within months after taking office, Ronald Reagan took a stand. He made it clear that American maneuvers in the Gulf of Sidra would proceed as they always had before Carter. Anticipating trouble, Reagan was asked by the Joint Chiefs what American pilots do if attacked? Would Reagan’s orders allow for “hot pursuit”? Reagan’s answer – “All the way into the hanger.” You know the rest of the story.
I voted Republican ever since and learned about the core values of the Republican party and found they were much closer to the values my family grew up with. When I left the Navy in 1982 and returned to Washington. I was able to find employment right away. The electronics revolution has started and strip-malls, video stores, restaurants, and housing developments were popping up everywhere. Help wanted signs were in store windows for a change, and things seemed so very different than the Puget Sound I left in 1977. All four of my brothers and sisters also changed their preference to republican during my absence. My parents however took a little longer to convert. Sensing Bill Clinton was a flim-flam man my parents voted for Ross Perot in 1992. Clintons two terms proved them right. This was also the time that conservative talk radio was taking over the airwaves, and my Dad began to tune in to this Rush guy and learn the truth about what his party was becoming. They have voted Republican ever since.
This will help us discuss, and PUMAs understand the myths they may have about the Right.
Well, I’ve always been a dog person myself, but I like those big cats called PUMAS.
Watch the movie “We Will Not Be Silenced”, PUMA’S feel Obama STOLE the primary, I agree.
Injustice is a great motivator, so is fear, Obama is going down in flames.
I have been visiting some of their sites and, while we may have some real poltical disagreements on issues, it is clear that many of these folks are smart and funny and they love this country too.
They don’t seem to be at all like what the dem party has become.
I guess I could hope that some of them would come to realize that we aren’t what their party and its media arm paints us to be.
It will be fun to watch the ‘08 version of 1968!
Some remakes are better than others.
Let us hold our battle until later.
Right now we must save OUR country from a four year nightmare.
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