Republicans First or Conservatives First?

Media Research Center ^ | August 19, 2003 | Brent Bozell

[TheAngryClam]

That's grammar, not spelling.

I am guilty as charged as a grammar nazi, anyway. It's a pet peeve of mine to see people say that "Your being silly" and "this is you're bike."

[pogo101]

The legislative GOP will hold the line against Democrat-proposed taxes. We saw that in this year's budget battle. However, they break immediately to support a GOP-proposed tax hike. We saw that in 1991 with Wilson.

Ipso facto, it is better to have a tax-loving Democrat in office than a tax-loving Republican, because at least with the Democrat, one party will stand up for what's right.

Even your generalization were accepted, you must bear in mind that the governor appoints hundreds of judges and thousands of bureaucrats. Holding the line on taxes is extremely important, but there are other issues to consider too. Who knows how wacked-out left-wing the state judiciary would be, for example, if not for the judges appointed by Deukmejian and Wilson instead of Bradley, Feinstein and K.Brown during those years? There's a trade-off involved.

[South40]

You may have a point, though I'd be willing to bet he's just painted himself into a corner and sees no way out.

Then again...

lol!

[TheAngryClam]

Dean and Bush are actually identical on the gun issue.

Dean and Bush both support the 1994 Crime Bill's assault weapons ban, and want to leave any additional regulation up to the states.

Then again, Dean is from the state with the best gun laws in the country (excluding Alaska, which recently copied Vermont).

Strange days, aren't they?

[Protagoras]

Those are my guesses, at least

You left out the most probable one. That would be because he does support gun registration and doesn't want to admit it openly for fear of people finding out that he is actually a liberal on this forum pretending to be a conservative and acting like a buffoon in order to discredit conservatives. He has been doing it for years. Hard to believe you never saw this little dog and pony show from him.

[TheAngryClam]

These are the same people who call Gray Davis a conservative.

That doesn't mean that Davis is doing something right.

[Roscoe]

Buffett's Laguna Beach property taxes are much higher than he stated. The press gave him a pass.

[Maelstrom]

You are consistent.

RINOs support Bustamonte if they can't have Arnold.

The same RINOs gave us Davis because they couldn't have Riordan.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

He said his team will put something together soon.
Right now, California does not have enough conservatives to elect a good conservative. But, we have more than enough liberals to elect Cruz Bustamante.

[TheAngryClam]

Judges need voter approval. Californians can and will throw them out- look at what happened to Justice Rose Bird and her pals.

[BureaucratusMaximus]

They also take good jobs in construction, hotels, canneries, etc. from many Americans.

Funny, the free-traitors tell me that there just doing jobs us 'Mericans won't do...maybe you should clue them in. /heavy sarcasm

With the increase in voter fraud, illegals are now costing us elections;

(snicker) as the Republikans (i.e.Stupid Party) move ever so closer to court the hispanic vote.

[Protagoras]

Bingo. It would expose him to answer, so he doesn't. Instead he pretends you ask a different question and answers that. School children do that kind of thing all the time. :^}

[TheAngryClam]

Apart from the freepers I know in real life, I tend to not pay much attention to who the other posters are, rather, what they say.

So I probably did miss it.

[Roscoe]

That Arnold is a liberal? Everyone with a brain knows that

That still leaves open the question of whether you know it.

[South40]

You're {contraction necessary] parsing again.

As long as the message is clear, what difference does it make if there is a spelling or grammatical error?

[A CA Guy]

What seems to fly over many people's heads here is that the more conservative choices are totally unelectable at this time.
I have never claimed Arnold is my dream go-to guy from a conservative political point of view.
I have said we have lost battle after battle for the hearts and minds of Californians because we keep trying to get elected the whole conservative package at once. That doesn't work and isn't possible.
So either we keep losing races and elect Democrats by putting the same whole package out there or we learn by our mistakes.
If we learn we go with the electable people and as we win, slowly put more and more conservative candidates out there.
Do this over 20 years and you might be then able to elect a "Whole Package Conservative".
There can be no shortcuts in the process though. Just doesn't happen.

[Maelstrom]

Hello Senator John Jeffords.

[hobbes1]

Actually, make that CINOS, McClintock, and Simon....and you would be correct.


Act like a libertarian perform like a libertarian.

[A CA Guy]

So you prefer Bustamante?

[Roscoe]

You can ask me.