Posted on 01/16/2014 8:09:12 PM PST by Olog-hai
Either you didn’t read my post, or you have a problem with reading comprehension. I described in simple terms what a “balanced conservative” is, IMO.
Get someone to read it aloud to you.
You cannot NAME one of your "balanced conservatives", can you?
Since you lack the guts to stand behind your words, I'll help you out. Here's a speciman for you:
Oh really? Reagan INCREASED taxes several times during his Presidency. In fact, he raised social security taxes significantly. So let me ask you, what would you call a Republican who proposed raising social security taxes? Hmm?? Let me guess. By your definition, a RINO.
Don’t let facts get in the way of your rhetoric. Reagan was a great President, and a great conservative, but sometimes he had to do some dealing and compromising. Thats just how it works.
The GOP of today is as dysfunctional as a beakless woodpecker. We have Left leaning Marxist Pansies aka GOP Liberal Enablers in leadership who will surrender to DEMs at the drop of a hat rather than face scrutiny or worse in their eyes risking an election on principle.
Reagan was a welcomed Eight Year reprieve from a long history of so-so GOP Presidents. Actually the best POTUD to come from the GOP ever second to none. The man had some fight in his blood and a spine to hold himself up with. Also his family as such wasn't directly in pocket to the Chicoms & Globalist and The {cough cough} Free Traders. Reagan understood Trade's pro's and Coms and warned us "Trade Partners not Trade Patsies" which is where our now one party system has taken us.
Ronald Reagan would not recognize the GOP of today because the GOP of today is far left of even what John F Kennedy was. Reagan had faults. His biggest one shared the ticket with him.
Only CONGRESS can increase taxes. Who was Speaker of The House again? Who was SML? SML {Baker} and Ted Stevens sad to say was the beginning of the modern RINOISM in the senate. Lott and Dole took it much further obviously. Men who initally started out on the right side and eventually sold out to the left in the end.
Compromising is one thing. But the GOP neither in White house or both houses as a whole hasn't put up a decent fight since six months after the 1994 elections and that is a sad but true fact of the matter. Most recently Ted Cruz tried too and the Limp Wristed Establishment Media Whores Owned RINO's cried to Harry and the media. In the last Tennessee U.S. Senate race the DEM running against Corker for example was far right of him. How long must the charade continue and the stinking My Party Tis Of Thee Loyalty vs Upholding our Constitution and oaths of office?
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