Posted on 11/04/2010 10:52:00 AM PDT by Conservative_Pragmatist
Hey gang-
I am new here. I was looking for Conservative boards to post on during the election and they just weren’t very good. Someone told me about this site so I figured I’d check it out.
I felt compelled to log-up after the Republicans took massive control of the US House this election.
Like most of you I was over-joyed when the Democrats got swept out of Congress. But we have seen how the tea leaves (pun intended) change. The last two cycles the Republicans got waxed, we were losing seats in strong Conservative areas. That cycle is now turned. We’ve picked up key seats in more Liberal areas like Mass, Illinois, Wisconsin, and here in Virginia a very popular Democrat (Boucher) was defeated. Never thought I’d see that, so the message is loud and clear, this nation DOES NOT want big government.
However, it’s easy to think the electorate in the center could swing right back to the other side if the Republicans fail to deliver. Or get this? Even if the Republicans DO deliver!
Personally, I think this election for the Republicans was great. We dominate the house so no far-left initiatives have any chance of ever making it to law. And I was sorta glad we didn’t get the Senate, because now the Democrats still have some culpability and Obama can’t play against the Republican congress in 2012. We are also close enough that if we win the White House in 2012, we could possibly send a complete majority Republican Senate with that person.
So that is GREAT news.
However, WHAT IF Obama decides to compromise with the Republicans? Remember Clinton compromised with the Republicans after 1994 and got some good things done on trade, welfare and the economy took off as well. Clinton was then re-elected as a more popular candidate than when he won in 1992.
Point is, if Clinton had not worked with the Republicans then maybe the country struggles longer and we beat him in 1996, but that wasn’t what was best for our country.
So the struggle I am having is this. Can we afford NOT to work with a Democrat President if it means we can help the USA? If he works WITH our guys, moves to the center, limits government spending and frees up the market and that helps our nation, then it stands a chance he could get re-elected, something I don’t want to see.
But…helping our country now, and the US Republicans now have a chance to help our nation may actually turn out to help the Democrat President.
While I was popping champagne the other night, I am now left with these thoughts and don’t know what to think. Again…for me it’s country first.
Maybe he wrote it in Word and used the spelling and grammar checkers before he posted it...
Hey. We are having your trial.
It would benefit you to provide some response.
Starting a thread and not responding to anyone is not very polite.
That has happened before, and quite recently. Although someone mentioned he made some posts on other threads.
Not uncommon. I just told a good conservative acquaintance this morning about FR, and sent him a follow-up email with the URL address. Believe me, there are a lot of good, strong, conservative people out there who still get their news from surfing news sites, and don't know forums such as this.
Regular ‘Probabtion’ or ‘Double Secret Probabtion’?
Regular ‘Probation’ or ‘Double Secret Probabtion’?
Regular ‘Probation’ or ‘Double Secret Probation’?
I think my posting hand is malfunctioning!
Or maybe it’s the brain to which it is attached...
Maybe. But who does that?
I just received a follow up email as well. I think he’s trying. We’ll see. I made a strong statement about posting vanities then not following up in the discussion...
there are far more who have never heard of FRee Republic than those who have.
At a Tea Party Rally I handed out a Free Republic Hand bill I made and gave out about 200. Practically none knew of our site.
To my best knowledge, there were only two FReepers present out of around 2,000 attendees. I was flabbergasted by the great turnout and my 200 handbills turned out to be a paltry effort
I agree, but this person seems to want us to think that he (or she) is an American. That makes me uncomfortable.
He's posted this thread, and made one post on each of two separate threads. He seems like he leans conservative, but is probably considered moderate by most here.
Barack Obama has only two uses for people who don’t support his VISION:
The back of the bus or under the bus.
Understand?
If they are sincere and not a troll, then we must perform the rarely seen and never spoken of...
Hazing Ritual!
The Dread Ritual of Haze involves standing in the sun without sunscreen, on one foot, hopping, while touching your fingers to your nose with your eyes closed, reciting the alphabet backwards with a clothespin on your tongue, after drinking... my coffee.
Wombats are involved in there somewhere too.
Welcome, and here’s a heads up on the type of post you did - a post in which the original content is your thoughts and ideas.
Be sure you tag it as a “Vanity” so the moderators don’t get upset.
And for your fellow Freepers it helps them if you follow the main text of your title with: (Vanity), then everyone knows what you are doing, and what you’re not doing - sharing news and information from some other source on the net.
Be well.
I plead guilty to doing that for particularly large posts I have written...
I like my page best. ;-/
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