[brbethke]

Anything I should add to the list?

[blam]

Illegal Immigrants!

[aeronca]

The 2nd Amendment?

[Fred Mertz]

Bravo! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this.

[Omedalus]

Bravo indeed. Beautiful, clear presentation of key issues.

[austingirl]

Thank you for this excellent post!

[Constitution Day]

Excellent work.

An enthusiastic BUMP TO THE TOP!

[BOBTHENAILER]

#8. Environment

Let's look at the facts boys and girls, for the last ten years we have been following a no-cut, no-clear, no- thin policy in our national forests, at the behest and demand of extreme environmetalists. The last TWO YEARS have seen some 8 million acres burned to the gound, helped in very large part, by those idiotic policies.

Isn't it time we put people back to work (logging and forestry), put people first (not plants and animals) and started following a sane environmental policy? One not funded by the cash cow of the publicly funded Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, et al?

#9. Energy

This one is easy folks. How much do you want to spend in the blood of our countrymen defending vital petro supply lines, when the alternative is to drill ANWR, offshore Califonia & Florida and all other places capable of good domestic production.

Let's also build more coal & nuclear fired powerplants in order to deliver cheap and sustainable power for our country. If I told you it would cost you double and triple your monthly utility payment for Clean solar and wind power, would you really still want it?

[MissAmericanPie]

Great rant. Too bad the Republican Party is on life support and can't hear it.

[billie bob]

You are right on the money, but they just won't respond this way.

[cincinnati65]

Beautifully written. However, I would love for any Republican to stand before a television camera and refer to the "failed policies of the Democratic Party" with regards to any of their "core issues" in this list.

[Richard Kimball]

Today there are more poor Americans than ever before; more out-of-wedlock births and single-parent familes than ever before; more people dependent on government handouts than ever before; and an enormous social service bureaucracy that seems to be more interested in keeping people dependent than in helping them to become self-sufficient.

The average "poor" person in the US has two televisions. Wanna see poor? Hit the Carribean, Jamaica, Haiti, etc. Check out Africa. See kids with distended stomaches and children starving to death. We have revised "poor" upward dramatically. Also, when compiling statistics on poverty, in order to keep the poverty rate high, most studies only include earned income. They do not include food stamps, WIC programs, welfare, subsidized housing, Medicare or Medicaid, or any other Federally subsidized program. So, no matter how much is provided by the government, these people will still be listed as being "poor." BTW, the "homeless" are generally comprised of two major groups. One is people who don't want to be found because they have felony warrants out for them, the other are people who fried their brains on drugs or have other mental problems who have been "freed" from mental hospitals by the compassionate Rats. Out on the street, they are prey to every predator in the world. Don't worry though, the Rats provide videos on how to get healthy meals out of a dumpster.

[Hank Kerchief]

Anything I should add to the list?

Yes! Foreign aid, particularly to those countries and agencies that we know are terrorist supporters, like the PA, Egypt, Pakistan, etc. etc.

If you look at the countries that now threaten us, everyone one was set up and supported by American Foreign Aid.

Hank

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

I agree with nearly everything in your 7 points. However, I don't believe your 'fellow Republicans' agree with you.

The problem is not that they 'sound' like "Democrats Lite". They are so. In fact, on just about any issue that you mentioned there was probably some 'bipartisan' consensus that legislated the socialist changes.

The solution? It's not within the GOP, IMHO.

[LibertyGirl77]

You, my dear FReeper, ROCK. You simply rock.

So why don't you run for something?

[Grampa Dave]

I think that if you took a moment to go (Link to RNC), you would find that Republicans have been addressing these issues.

Most of what you are bitching about are listed under the picture of President Bush with issues listed below.

But for some reason you are not listening nor caring! When was the last time you voted for a Republican. Did you support one of the third party losers in the last election?

[End The Hypocrisy]

Meanwhile our national debt just hit an all time record high of $6.2 trillion dollars:

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

(and that apparently doesn't even include social security obligations, which tack on an additional $30 billion or so!)

[Cultural Jihad]

Anything I should add to the list?

Granting civil rights status to a deadly albeit behavioral-based disease.

[x]

You write well, and that's a good Mencken quote. About welfare, though: is it really true that there are more poor people now than ever before? And haven't we already begun to do things differently over the last six years? About Social Security: is it really the case that the system was "designed" to fail? Isn't it more likely that changes in technology and social behavior have doomed it? If you told people in 1937 or 1957 that some day Americans wouldn't be having children in numbers sufficient to keep the system afloat you would probably have been greeted with baffled and confused stares. To be sure, having government pensions may have led many to have smaller families, but would another system be able to avoid similar or other flaws? Granted the system can't work forever, but the recent stock market slumps and corporate scandals have made people ask whether another system would be any better. If you can improve things, present a plan, but for the time being, moves to privatize Social Security can't win.

[sixmil]

International aid - When are these countries going to stop being poor?

Free trade - When are we all going to get rich?

[sneakypete]

Anything I should add to the list?

Yes. The number one question should be,"Why isn't voter fraud being investigated and prosecuted?",and the number 2 question should be,"Why aren't our borders sealed,and all the illegal aliens rounded up and deported?

BTW,number 3 should probably be,"Why the HELL is Giddy Dolt being supported for a Senate seat?".