Posted on 09/09/2011 8:36:10 AM PDT by freespirited
Only when he recognized the full implications of international Communism did he switch parties.
What is more important: His origin with Karl Rove and Al Gore
OR
His PerryCARE and OpenBorders policies.
To the neocons at the Weekly Standard, some of them former trotskyites or childen of neocon former trots, the past doesn’t matter (at least for some people!)
was it meantioned that Ronald Reagon was a democrat before he realized the error of his ways?
Curious why Bachmanns’ support of Carter over Reagan does not get the same scrutiny.
Lots of people were democrats. That doesn’t bother me.
Lots of other reasons to mistrust Mitt Perry.
“Joe Scarborough, MSNBC’s token Republican”. That’s history. If you listen to Scarborough now, you would know that he has been infected with the West Side of Manhattan elitism and probably some romance with Mika. He is on the MSNBC Payroll and bears no resemblence to the Conservative he professes to be.
What is a neocon of today exactly?What are you?
To say it in a single sentence, some southern democrats are more conservative than some northeastern republicans.
That is all that matters.
RINO democrat ALGORE openborders GUARDISIL democrat RINO
There. I just summed up the next 50 posts on this thread.
Talk about an understatement. These were not "stories" they caused entire towns to pack up and go GTT (Gone to Texas). They moved into the most inhospitable country imaginable to simply be left alone to live their lives in peace. Some of my ancestors were part of that. FACT. Some were wanted men, because they opposed the abuses and were literally burned out of Alabama....
Bring on the flame attack, those who simply do not know about this part of unwritten history. It did happen. And we have not had this much corruption in DC since then. But we are there again now and it frightens the crap out of me to think about how we will resolve this mess.
His record as governor is much more relevent than what he was decades ago. If he was never governor then it would be relevent.
Everyone is born a Democrat, stupid and sucking from the teat. Half of us eventually get wise.
The article makes a lot of good points. But, I do consider 1988 pretty late to be backing a man like Al Gore, even the 1988 version. He could have stayed out of it, as so many southerners did in ‘84.
I would have been more convinced if there was a conversion of sorts. This doesn’t disqualify him for me. Having conservative allies for 20 years is enough to help me charitably surmise that he may be sipping in the stuff slowly. He still demonstrates (notwithstanding recent posturing) that he is reflexively big government in a few areas that we have already gone over so many times, and need not rehash again.
BTW- I see this as the root of the visceral media hatred toward him. There is nothing more despised by them than someone who has left the flock.
My mother in law was born and raised ion rural South West Virginia. She was the most conservative, pro-life, pro family, person I knew. She was a solid and devout Christian. She was also a resolute democrat. She’d split the ticket for President but never voted for any other Republican...ever. And she was verrrrrry representative of people of her generation.
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