You're the one who said you couldn't take it anymore and was fed up, so being somewhat intelligent, that means you are angry, correct? This has nothing to do with me needing to taunt you because I'm a Bushbot......oooooohh, that is childish.
Yes I did, so I guess it's fair for you to address my frustration. If he was my next door neighbor I'd love to play cards or go plinking with him on the north forty. I am not angry with him and I don't think I called you a Bushbot.
So, you are angry, and that somehow makes your ideas...right?
I can appreciate that it looks like I'm angry, and if you wish to think that I am, that's okay.
Reading your gripe list, no one, anywhere, can do those things as there is no mandate to do it. This is the reality, plus your list is boilerplate.
Just so we get this straight, the ideals we used to consider conservative are now boiler plate and what Bush is doing is conservative. Okay, I understand your position now. Sadly 75% of what Bush is doing now is what was known as liberal Socialist democrat boiler plate until the spring of 2000.
And don't accuse me of being dishonest because I don't share your goals, as if they are somehow more noble than anyone else's.
This isn't about you being dishonest for not sharing my goals, but don't come here and review a list of cosnervative issues then call it boiler plate and refuse to accept it for what it is. Just one of these issues, big government spending isn't conservative. You can't simply change what is conservative and what isn't because Bush does or doesn't do it.
I have differing expectations that you, but will that stop you from accusing someone like me from being a mind numbed robot?
I don't believe I did call you a Bushbot. I went back through our complete exchange, and unless I missed it, I didn't. Now I may have implied that through my comments, but I'm not sure what you want me to do if I address what have been conservative ideals for the last 25 years, and you call them boiler plate.
You just wanna fight and be pissed off and grind your teeth...what you demand will never come to pass, except on the margins, which requires TIME.Having taxes be at 20% of GNP vs 23% is about all i expect, so don't piss on me because your dreams can't come true.
Despite you colorful euphemisms, I'm trying to tell you I can't support a man who is ruling in the manner Bush is. I do support some of what he does, but other things are so outside the bounds I cannot sign on. I'm not the only guy in the class to raise these questions. If you want to dismiss my opinion, that's your choice, but this opinion does exist, it's not as outside the mainstream as you might wish it to be. And in the long run, I thing the Bush people are going to have to either deal with it or accept the results. Now those results may be infantesimile. If so, you and your policy wins. I don't think conservatism or the nation does.
155 posted on 08/01/2003 8:25 PM PDT by habs4ever