Posted on 06/19/2013 4:04:24 PM PDT by drewh
I stopped attending the local meetings and unsubscribed from all crap coming from them
It's clear that the preservation of our republican form of government and the Constitution has become inconvenient for the formerly patriotic Republican Party.
Watched Myth Romney debate Fat Teddy and thought, "Man he is going to wipe the floor with that POS Kennedy."
What happened was Myth trying to out-Kennedy the worst Kennedy of them all.
And now I am watching the same thing happen to the entire eff-ing party all over the country!
Back later....I am on my way to Registrar's office to change my party affiliation to TEA or anything but R or D!
Have you seen the movie, Amazing Grace? It’s about the political moves made in England to make the slave trade illegal.
Rush is right on many things, but his apologies for the Bush family for so long have weakened his conservative credentials.
If you cast aside the “R”, you may not be eligible to vote in the Republican primaries in 2014, and goodness knows there are already way too many “moderates” casting the winning primary votes.
Did you see the long list of elitists contributing to George P. in TX. I posted it on another story on Wednesday. The story about Jebbie and the fecundity of Latinos
Right you are, and then the Reagan choices got little better: James A. Baker, III, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, quite a list of disappointments.
I think I would prefer Christie to Rubio or Jebbie, but he isn’t much, is he?
I think nothing chases voters away from a candidate faster than when that candidate starts to mix his/her views with religion. Many Americans want their politics and religion to be publicly separate, however, they do want religious values to be the guide for decisions. Politicians make a lot of us uneasy when they start talking like a pastor. This is the major reason, I believe, that the Constitution party has floundered.
Also Reagan started Colin Powell on the path to power, and his King Day may the Obama presidency possible.
The clergy were a major force in the founding of our nation both as orators of freedom and as military men but very few if any sought elected office as clergymen.
There is no legal prohibition against clergymen taking elected office but attempts to legislate as clergy starts to cross the line into establishment of a state religion.
My congressman is a former Baptist Minister. He legislates based on America’s Judeo Christian foundations but those are what our constitution is based on.
I’m not much on movies; but I am familiar with story behind the hymn. Essentially it’s the spiritual autobiography of John Newton—Documenting his coversion from slave ship captain to Christian clergyman.
“NO. It was a constitutional issue.”
Why can’t it be both a social AND constitutional issue? Why do you think the two are mutually exclusive?
Certainly many abolitionist preachers saw it as a social issue and preached it from the pulpit. In the end, however, the constitution had to be changed, so the issue was a constitutional one in that regard. Seems like some of both to me.
Heh. Well, I enjoy greatly listening to his comments. I find his thinking fascinating -- even when I disagree with him [especially on economic issues where he is very much inside-the-beltway].
What I don't understand is the vitriol hurled at him [and George Will] here at FR. I suspect most of it is from the conservative [small "c"] perfection caucus who can no more tolerate deviation from the party line than can the left.
I like both of them from time to time but when I disagree with them... I get a bit angry with them. An example is when Will met with obama right after the election (2008) and then absolutely gushed in print about him.
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I didn't care for his "gushing", either. But I care less about what he thinks of Obama as a dinner guest than I do about what he thinks of his policies. I don't recall Will approving those.
The same for Krauthammer who once admired out loud the political success Obama had achieved over something or other. He didn't agree with the particular legislation; just complimented him on how he'd managed to get that policy passed.
That earned him heaps of scorn here.
When the Constitution was written the Federal Government was intended to have limited powers as stated in the Constitution. States had any powers NOT specifically stated in the U.S.Constitution.
The States were, in essence, social laboratories for experimenting with various forms of government. After all, you could always move somewhere else if you didn't like the state government where you presently lived.
I remember when in court seeking custody of my nephew, the Judge told us that there is no right or wrong, moral or immoral — there is only legal or illegal in his Court. No kidding!
We got custody ONLY because his parents, who were both druggies with criminal records and had abandoned him to our care five years previously.
Here is the problem the GOP has in a nutshell. They have compromised and given away EVERYTHING. Nothing left. Nada. Zip. They have thrown “everything they had” at the crocodile and he has eaten it. Now it is their turn...
By and large, they already have. My close circle (say... 20) has maybe 4 Republicans left in it... and they are all far-right, Bible-totin', gun shootin', snoose-chewin' redneck folks... salt of the earth. All were Republicans in the 80's... And not a one has moved an inch away from Conservative principles. What they moved away from is the Republicans, and myself emphatically included.
That is the thing the whining fan-bois around here during the silly season will never understand.
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