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No bonuses, no bailouts
World Net Daily ^ | 3-23-2009 | Vox Day

Posted on 03/23/2009 9:10:52 AM PDT by ReformationFan

I am not a Democrat, nor am I a Republican. In fact, I have never voted for either a Democrat or a Republican in any of the past presidential elections for which I was eligible to vote. Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul are the only two Republicans for whom I would have been willing to vote; I was too young to vote for the former, and the Republican Party prevented me from having the opportunity to vote for the latter.

Needless to say, nominating John McCain looks just as foolish in retrospect as it did at the time. It seems he wasn't quite as electable as his media champions repeatedly insisted he was.

One point that I have attempted to drive home throughout the eight years I have been writing this column is that while the bases of the two major parties are made up of two very different kinds of people, the national politicians who purport to represent their party ideologies in the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives do not, in fact, do so. Instead, they make up a single bifactional ruling party that is far more concerned with maintaining the status quo than with actually championing the views of either of the ideological parties that elect them.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bailout; bonus; politics; voxday

1 posted on 03/23/2009 9:10:53 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan
Instead, they make up a single bifactional ruling party that is far more concerned with maintaining the status quo than with actually championing the views of either of the ideological parties that elect them.

Well said.

2 posted on 03/23/2009 9:27:27 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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...Been screaming this for years, puppet on the left hand, puppet on the right hand, one guy holding both puppets...

...Go back to bed, apathetic, docile, bovine masses, yer government is in control...


3 posted on 03/23/2009 9:53:49 AM PDT by gargoyle (..."Gallows humor."? Mr. President, HANG YOURSELF! Not the Republic!!!)
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“Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul are the only two Republicans for whom I would have been willing to vote”

Well...Reagan isnt with us anymore....that leaves paul...and that’s my cue to stop reading...

Because according to Ron Paul..Jefferson sending marines to the barbary coast would be unconsitutional.


4 posted on 03/23/2009 10:01:13 AM PDT by Crim
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Yup.

Mr. Paul lacks common sense where national security is concerned.


5 posted on 03/23/2009 10:31:27 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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