I'm with you. I banged the recall drums as loud as I could for a long time . . . but the conservative movement, IMHO, would be better served by confronting a known enemy than having a liberal or semi-liberal or liberal-sympathizing candidate with an (R) before their name win office.
I'm a Texan and a devout GW supporter but I've never understood his "compassionate" conservatism schtick. Doesn't that imply we were monsters before he came along? And has it done the conservative movement any good?
The so-called "Progressives" are nibbling away at us. The Supreme Court blesses the gay lifestyle and . . . Voila! . . . gay marriage is next on the agenda. We're becoming a homogenized, everything-goes, and there-is-no-right-or-wrong society that's lost it's moral compass.
I'm too dumb to understand all this neo-conservative, paleo-conservative, gay-conservative, hetero-conservative, black-conservative, or white-conservative nonsense. TRUE conservativism needs no modifying, peg-holing modifier to be understood. You know it when you see it. Anything with a hyphen in it makes me nervous.
I only want to know where the REAL conservatives are? It looks to me like the world is swallowing us up and we're "supposedly" in charge. We have the Presidency. We have majorities in the House and Senate. Yet we're the ones always compromising and kissing ass. I just don't get it.
Alas, Ahnold is starting to make me nervous. Hell, everyone else has hyphens . . . I think we should call him a Republi-crat! He shore ain't no Republican but I fear we'll be painted by his brush if he wins . . . and it looks like he will.
We're here on FreeRepublic and we support Arnold. Deal with it.
"Paleos" are peace at any price types and cultivate weird characters like lavender Justin Raimondo who writes for Pravda and runs antiwar.com.
Conservatives know who conservatives are: Shorthand: We are the ones who elected Ronald Reagan many, many times. Our younger regiments are the political heirs of the people who elected Ronald Reagan. We believe in strong families (one man, one woman and their kids and other relatives), strong military, strong foreign policy, tightfisted policies that leave our earnings where they belong: with us, tight-fisted policies of shrinking government SPENDING, the 2nd Amendment INDIVIDUAL right of every American to keep and bear arms: militia or no militia, the right of innocent babies not to be sliced, diced and hamburgerized, and that government is tolerated primarily for two purposes: defending citizens from being attacked by foreign enemies or by domestic criminals; that the constitution says what it means and means what it says. Many of us have other issues but those are the litmus tests.
Review that list of litmus tests over and over. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to believe that Schwarzenkennedy is on the right side of EVEN ONE of those tests much less all. Maxine Waters would get as good a score as Schwarzenkennedy. Henry Waxman or either of the Sanchez sisters would do as well. Matsui would probably do better. You would not want your daughter dating Gary Condit but he would score higher. You would not want your daughter to date Mrs. Schwarzenkennedy's Uncle Ted (assuming you care abot seeing your daughter again) but he is old enough that even he might score higher and certainly would not score worse unless there is a driving test.
As St. Paul said: Be not afraid. Long before October 7, this turkey Schwarzenkennedy will be done. Only Demonrats can save him now and he has to divide that vote with Arianna Airhead and with Cruz Bustamente and with Larry Flynt. It is hard to keep up with amateur hour over at Schwarzenkennedy's campaign but we will manage and he goes down for the count within three weeks. The GOP ship will desert the sinking rats.