Freeper Grassroots Movement to Re-Elect Bush

July 24, 2003 | nwrep

[nwrep]

I want to kick off a grass-roots movement to educate and inform discerning Democrats about the real nature of their party and am soliciting suggestions from Freepers. The reasons I am doing this are several, as listed below:

* I have several conservative Democrat friends who have always voted D, but who disagree with the stance of their party on issues like AA, tax-cuts, and regulations.

* These people do not understand that regardless of the "moderate" local Dem candidate they vote for, the party agenda is driven in Congress by an extremely liberal faction of the party.

* Case in point #1: I alerted one friend to Rep. Rangel's remarks about the death of Hussein's sons yesterday (Rangel said it was "illegal" for the US to kill them). The friend said he disagreed with Rangel, and the majority of the Dems would similarly disagree with the Congressman. I asked this friend if he knew who Rangel was. He had never heard of him. I informed him coolly that if the Dem regain the House, Rangel would become the Chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Cte., where all spending bills originate, and that he is one of the most influential members of his party in the House. The friend was shocked.

* Case in point #2: I asked another Dem friend what he thought of Kerry. He gave me a canned response about his Vietnam service, etc. I then asked him if he knew about his anti-Vietnam war stance. He said he did not, but that his parents (lifelong Dem voters like himself) hated Jane Fonda and everything she stood for. I then forwarded him the NewsMax expose of Kerr's Vietnam stance, his anti-war book, his rallies with Fonda and Ramsey Clark, and his statement to the US Senate in 1971. After reading all that, he said he was disgusted, and would forward it to his mother. He conceded that if Kerry were to be the nominee, he would vote for Bush.

* The problem is that these Dem voters are blissfully unaware of the voting records of their candidates and representatives. All they go by are finely crafted campaign statements issued during the last few weeks before the election where they pay homage to FDR, Truman and JFK. As a result, these dopey Dem voters (like my friends and their parents) continue voting for these candidates thinking they are voting for FDR/JFK-like candidates.

We need to educate these people and keep them as well informed as we Freepers are about the real day to day legislative agenda of the Rat Party. We need to highlight how they continue to vote against the best interest of these conservative, patriotic Democrats (like my friends) and how they continue to display hypocrisy by constantly changing their stance on major issues.

How do we do this?

[Scenic Sounds]

Can we get back to building a conservative coalition by calling them all malcontents and unappeasables now?

Sure, but a coalition requires that folks concentrate on similarities more than differences. The presence of a common enemy around here would help, but arranging for that is way beyond my pay grade. ;-)

[Xenalyte]

That's weird. After seeing your reply my clock jumped ahead 45 minutes and now I'm in a chicken suit. What's up with that?

You too? I didn't even know we had chicken suits in Houston. I thought all the state senators had checked 'em out.

[joybelle]

Most people don't realize that to get a bill passed that is of vital importance at the last minute an ammendment cant be attached to it. The President can be in a quandry. Do I sign it as it is of vital importance, or do I veto it and get nothing. Leadership in a demoracy is all about compormise in most cases. We have a two party system that President Washington knew could only be abhorred.

[joybelle]

I told my sister, who lives in the midwest, when she said so many people had voted for Ross Perot, that they just put Clinton in the White House. Some people just vote emotionally and don't THINK.

[joybelle]

The trouble is that most people in this country want solutions OVERNIGHT!! Just let them ask themselves how many YEARS did it take to get here. It was the sainted JFK, whose best gift to the democrat party was the opening of immigration to third world countries. Why do people think we have so many Muslims? Immigrants evidently no longer must have a sponser to see that they don't go on welfare. People from the Asian countries, as a whole are very industrious. Clinton let over a million immigrants into the country to become instant citizens so they could vote. Where was the hue and cry? Remember we barely have a majority in the senate, and at least two of them are only nominal Republicans. The President CAN NOT do it alone. WAke up people.

[Once-Ler]

WATCHING ROME BURN

I'm sorry I got to this thread so late, but you have done a fantastic job rebutting the Paleos. I very much enjoyed reading this post and the "The American President" on your homepage.

You are an excellent writer and I'm proud you are an American, a Republican, and a Freeper. I wish I was a quick on my feet when it comes to the weird and twisted philosophy of the "I got my Freedom screw the rest of the world" Paleos.

William Wallace has this Reagan quote on his homepage...

“I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.”
Farewell Address to the Nation, January 11, 1989

Wow...
"And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there." That sounds like the Reagan I know.

Joe Hadenuf's said "Reagan today, would have probably told you and millions of others to stay the hell put in you're own damn countries and make you're own countries right, instead of doing the easy thing and coming to America."

I have my suspicions about whether Joe is a racist, but I know for a fact he is a ineffectual liar.

[Once-Ler]

I very much enjoyed reading this response and #212. It was well thought out and well written. It looks like I'll have to add your posts to my required reading list. Keep up the marvelous work.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

(You are very kind.)

A friend of mine used to call me "Running Bra", but I have to admit I kind of like the three-name thingy. : )

[CWOJackson]

Please note that I have refrained from making...comment.

[Once-Ler]

Another right on target BUMP

[Once-Ler]

Your appeasement approach is not strategy it is avoidance, delay and deferment. It has been proven a failure throughout history.

Wow! You have a short memory. This strategery was used succesfully less than 4 months ago. The path of least resistence was used to get us to to Bagdad in a week. In fact, They underestimated how sucessfully it would work. Remember when they had to slow down the push to Bagdad because the supply lines could not be fortified as quickly as the advance.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Noted. LOL

[Sabertooth]

I have nothing to add .. just want to see of I make the cut and paste ;0)

Now that's funny, every time I read it. Tagline material, really.

[Sir Gawain]

PuffDaughter3? Are you a rapper? And what's the deal with half a picture? You tease.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

LOL - I was quite, ummmm...bloated when the picture was taken, hence the "puff". (But I am in the music business, so I suppose I should just go with it.)

I had to post a dramatically cropped picture so I could be like uber-environmentalist "Iron [Don't Litter or I'll Cry] Eyes Cody" (who, by the way, insisted he was an American Indian his entire life, even after his sister busted him). If you promise not to make fun of me and throw me to the wolves : ), I'll send you a whole picture, without the puff.

But you have to promise. (Did you just wince?)

[Sir Gawain]

Send on. And I wouldn't tell Dane about that "Puff" part in your name.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

Post of the year.

[The Coopster]

Suspicions? It's about as subtle as a water buffalo doing Riverdance.....

[Mo1]

Tagline material, really.

Maybe I'll try it out .. but I reserve the right to change my mind at a later date ;0)

[Sabertooth]

Hah! You're a good sport, Mo, and I gladly grant you the lady's prerogative.