Same caste, different plantation.
Posted on 01/24/2003 7:06:10 AM PST by Uncle Bill
Same caste, different plantation.
It's a lot harder, especially over the last few weeks, to discern the difference between the two parties. It was like the Democratic and Republican DNA went through some kind of strange political meosis and what resulted was a rush to expand spending while cutting taxes while not questioning the long-term impact of combining both. Someone please kill this political Frankenstein with an axe.
This is why L's will never exceed 1%.
You are the friggin' freak.
The only thing that will dislodge GWB as the GOP nominee in 2004 would be tapes of he, Cheney and Rumsfeld concocting false tales about WMDs. Since everyone else believed the Iraqis had them for years, that ain't gonna happen. It's pointless to talk about replacing Bush - but it's highly productive for the conservative base to tell Bush in NO uncertain terms that he and the elected GOP members of Congress screwed up over the last two weeks, and they better work to undo the damage and quit pretending that cutting taxes while increasing spending is no big deal. And it needs to be made clear that they cannot automatically count on the conservative vote - otherwise, they will take us for granted and kick our principles around like an old can.
And isn't that exactly what we're doing?
In my history, Bush is easily the 3rd most conservative candidate for President -- trailing only Ronaldus Magnus and Barry hizzelf. There is no #4 worthy of mention.
That he is not as conservative as I might like does not mitigate that rather profound development.
Similarly, the current Congress is easily the most conservative Congress I can recall. Comparatively speaking, the GOP-controlled Congress in Ike's first two years was probably more liberal. Sure, it's flawed, way less than perfect.
But, remember, Congressmen are politicians -- not ideologues.
By this little political biography, you can discern that over the past fifty years, our national politics (and the federal government) have travelled a long way...in the wrong direction.
We're not going to change the direction of the national political discourse by abandoning the more conservative alternative, thereby giving the liberal alternative license. That kind of thinking is counter-productive. But we can only change it by steadily deflecting the conservative alternative further and further to the right.
And the only way to accomplish that is to work from within. I.e., in exactly the same way the radical leftists took control of the Democrat party...
Jim Rob is right.
As long as we say we will remain faithful GOP voters and pull the elephant lever every election no matter what the GOP does to us, why will they give us anything more than lip service when we bitch about the last few weeks? They know we'll be back next election, like battered wives who can't say no and leave.
I think it is mistake to take off the table the threat to bolt the party if things get bad enough. Black Dem voters did that and now the Dems take them for granted. We should learn from that mistake instead of emulating it.
Take out your angst in the primaries -- support the conservative candidate. Then, support the GOP candidate in November. Because, even if he's a RINO, he's bound to be more conservative that the 'Rat.
Keep turning right.
Never help the left. Ever.
There ain't gonna be a presidential primary this year.
Keep turning right. Never help the left. Ever.
I wish Bush would take your advice.
Don't you have any local or state primaries? If not, go down to the local committee and raise hell. Beat up an alderman, body slam a district chairman or something...
"I wish Bush would take your advice."
I'll tell him. Soon as he asks...
Sorry, but I don't believe in kicking the dog when I'm mad at someone else. Bush and the GOP Congress did this, they will be the target of my ire.
I'll tell him. Soon as he asks...
He doesn't need to get it from you. There are millions of fiscal conservatives who are all screaming at the moment. Rush Limbaugh, hardly a radical right winger, is aghast at this approach. He's gonna lose his base if he ain't careful.
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