Posted on 03/05/2002 6:24:38 AM PST by Golden Gate
California Democrat Charles Pineda Jr. is on the ballot as a candidate for Governor of California. Charles Pineda SUPPORTS Traditional Values and The Right To Bear Arms. Democrats are encouraged to say NO! to Gray Davis! Vote **-Charles Pineda Jr.-** for Governor!
Individual Democrats need to personally consider several issues and hopefully they will see that the Democratic Party is wrong, and that we need restoration and reform in the Democratic Party. Democrats need to say NO! to Gov. Gray Davis. His 'modern' and typical 'democratic' politics and leadership is NOT what Democrats need, and it is NOT what the people of California need. We need an 'exit strategy' for G.G Davis! A vote for Democrat **-Charles Pineda Jr.-** is a vote for restoring the Democratic Party to our important American principles.
Democrat voters have their reasons and their favorite issues to continue to support the typical Democrat candidates. While the voters know what the Democratic leadership and the candidates say about issues, have the voters taken the time to hear an alternate or oppossing viewpoint before making up their mind, and before casting their vote?
In history, the Democratic Party had a good foundation, being inspired and founded(?) by Thomas Jefferson. There needs to be a discussion of the history of were the Democrats went wrong.
On this Primary Election Day of 2002, we need to consider a couple of specifics issues where G.G Davis and the Democrats are wrong.
1. - As Americans (and as Democrats), we need to consider the matter of the right to life vs. the 'choice' of death, as it relates to a child who is growing in the mother's womb during the time of pregnancy. With a basic understanding of human biology, we can know that each of us began our lives at the moment of conception (fertilization). As life begins at conception, so should the right to life begin from the time of conception. While this young life is growing inside the mothers body, this young life is a genetically distinct, and a completely unique human individual. With modern medical care, this young child in a pregnancy is rarely a threat to the life of the mother.
'Choice' and 'abortion' are not about healthcare, freedom, or rights. 'Choice' is a clever and deceptive euphemism, which helps divert our attention and derail the discussion of some of the real issues. When we realize that 'abortion' actually kills the young life in the womb, then we will know that 'choice-abortion' is a cruel injustice. (Even with RU-486) - Virtually every 'abortion' stops a beating heart!
A mother or father may 'choose' not to love and nurture a baby in the uterus; but our society should not provide the legal means, or allow the medical means, to kill that baby. There are times when people react to a pregnacy as a crisis. Discussing the `crisis' of a pregnancy can be a sign of sesitivity and compassion. But it should not then narrow the discussion, and limit the choices to just one option. Being compassionate should not mandate the support of the common use of 'abortion'. And all things considered, being truly compassionate is incompatable with the support of legal 'abortion'.
When someone decides they don't want the child, that does not change the humanity of the child. The so-called 'unwanted' child is still human, and still deserves the basic right to life that each person deserves.
When people support the `choice' of legal 'abortion', or avoid the discussion of 'abortion', they are not being tolerant of privacy, rights, or freedom. They are being tolerant of an injustice.
Democrats have been at their best when we have expressed concern for the common person, and for people in need. A mother (or the father, or some other person who is advising the mother) may be indifferent to the child who is living and growing in the womb. But because of this indifference, we should not just ignore the right to life of the child. And we should not sanction or be indifferent about the killing of that child.
2. - The leadership of the Democratic Party needs to change their attitude about the Second Amendment and firearms in order to know the best way to deal with the gun violence that we see in our American society.
There are Democrats who may think that guns are scary and dangerous, and that only the police and military need to have them. With the tragedy of assinations, and the gun violence in society, some/many Democrats suggest that we should ignore or abolish the Second Amdendment, and support extensive legislative 'gun control'. Democrats need to know that the Second Amendment specifically states that the right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Democrats need to further understand that 'gun control' does NOT work! 'Gun control' keeps lawmakers busy, but it does not protect citizens. The everyday criminal cares nothing about your life or rights, and they don't care about a 'gun control' law. Some of the cities that have the strictest 'gun control' laws, also have a continuation of gun violence.
As Democrats, we need to understand that the Second Amendment is as relevant and important today in the 21th Century, as it was when it was written. The Second Amendment protects the First Amendment, the Second Amendment protects it ALL! - It protect US All!
Our best protection against crime, is the personal possession of a firearm. If someone doesn't want to possess a firearm, they should be thankful each day that America has a Second Amendment, and that some of their neighbors have firearms. It would take a police-state to effectively enfore the total aboliton of guns, and it would then take a police-state to effectively protect our society from the criminals.
What we need in our society is not the control or abolition of guns. We need for more of our citizens to learn the importance of firearms and their safe use.
3. - The purpose of government - With the approval of the Consitution, the Founders of America decided to have limited government. The purpose of government is provide for our basic freedoms, and to conduct the basic business of the government. American, and California government should not be trying to provide for peoples everyday needs, and government should not be running peoples lives.
Democrats - VOTE **-Charles Pineda Jr.-** for Governor of California!
Terry McAuliffe told him to say this to get elected.
Until Reagan came along, so-called moderates had just about ruined the California Republican Party. Earl Warren, Goody Knight, Tommy Kuechel et al. And don't give me Nixon, "We're all Keynesians today." California Republicans didn't invent me-tooism, but they sure fell in line.
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For California DEMOCRATS!
We Need an 'exit strategy' for Gov. Gray Davis! - Say NO! to G.G Davis!
...Why? Because Gray Davis should be shoveling trash at the dump. -
FOXNEWS - Ken Layne - A lifelong Democrat
Democrats - VOTE **-Charles Pineda Jr.-** for Governor!
Including, a Golden Gate Essay - Democrats need to work for restoration and reform in the Democratic Party. - FR needs to effectively communicate with Democrats. - The Right to Life vs. the 'choice' of death - The Second Amendment and Firearms - The Purpose of Government
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/640258/posts?page=10
I am right here fighting. I left the Democrats because their defense of Clintonism made me sick to my stomach. I clearly remember the day that I went down to the Registrat of Voters to change my registration. I couldn't bear another moment of being associated with the evil I was witnessing. The non-trial of Clinton in the Senate was a fitting example of what the Democrats will defend. I will never forgive what they did.
My switch made possible the victory of Bush over RINO McCain. There is no way that I could have any part in allowing Gore to be President of the United States. That man is one of the biggest fools I have ever seen. I am proud of Tennessee that enough of them saw through him.
That the Democrat leadership is wrong I agree. The reason that the everyday Democrat voter doesn't KNOW is because the biased media doesn't tell them. The media tells them lies by commission, omission, and innuendo.
During the election my local rag published pictures of Gore and Bush on the front page. Gore was above the fold, standing full figure in front of the flag... Bush was below the fold, face only, with an unhappy expression, and his picture was only about two thirds as large. An equally large picture of a man smoking a cigarette through a hole in his throat was next to Bush's picture.
That was long after I had cancelled my subscription. On seeing this garbage, I called a friend and talked him into cancelling. The decline of newspaper readership is, at least in part, caused by their insidious, nation-destroying bias.
Not possible. A true democrat has his personal identity tied up in his party affiliation. That affiliation is higher than his love for country or the constitution. Hell, how could you love the constitution and belong to a party that advocates so much (more than the republicans in fact) unconstitutional garbage?
From my Northeast relatives now approaching retirement - when you really dig - you'll find the reason they are democrats. They believe democrats in control assures they can get back some of their tax money that they have paid all these years in the form of benefits now that they are approaching retirment. I can at least understand that logic.
However, I am a life-long Dem from a family of Dems, and I was persuaded. First, I was disillusioned w/ the 'environ.' movement. Then, it's a baby, not a blob, - it's child, not a mere 'choice'. Economics & taxes... 2nd Amd. The purpose & role of gov't. Nat. Def. & foreign affairs, & failed Dem administrations... etc...
True Dems, remember the important principles. The *regressive* 'dems', have forgotton, ignored, or rejected the important principles.
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