Posted on 06/05/2002 1:20:54 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
No I got it. You might be right, who knows? I was simply pointing out that if what you call "Bush Bashers" all are Buchanan supporters and Buchanan supports Bush, well, perhaps Bush isn't quite what you thought.
Personally I like Bush alot more than Buchanan. Or I did, but I am beginning to suspect Buchanan would have acted pretty much like Bush if he were elected. I guess thats why Buchanan supports and trusts the president?
The word "equal", like every word, requires some context to be certain of meaning. In the context of the Declaration of Independence the word means more than just equal status before the law.
The Declaration was addressed to King George. It was a direct denial of the "divine right of Kings" which was the principle which allowed King George and his antecedants to hold absolute rule over the King's subjects in Great Britain.
The words following "all men are created equal", are "that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, "
This further context shows that "equal status before the law" is only a part of what "equal" means. It also means that everyone has a right to life, without regard to what the law says. It means that everyone has a right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness, without regard to what the law says. And that when government becomes destructive of these ends, they have the right to abolish it.
It is an extension of the "equal" endowment from their Creator which empowers us all in ways which go far beyond just having "equal status before the law".
During John Ashcroft's confirmation hearing he was NOT asked if he supported the Brady Bill, he was asked if he would UPHOLD IT. Your facts are debunked. The FACT is, he is the first Attourney General to ever ask for a clearification of the second Ammendment and added his view that HE believed the 2nd Ammendment applied to ALL citizen's NOT just State Militia's. So take your spin back to the NEW YORK TIMES. You are JUST like Rush Limbaugh, You take the bate of the lefties and run with it
We are told to stay off threads of Keyes or be careful what we say or be banned so as not to upset them but they are not told to stay off Bush threads and I want to know WHY?
Yes, I wonder at some of the go along to get along, but instead of a tide of the above, that it may be a tidal wave.
Let's see what happens if he gets a Republican (not rino) House and Senate, and then judge his peformance.
Here goes anyway. Those liberal senators who claim they knew Souter was pro-abortion are claiming credit after the fact. Souter refused to answer the question publicly. Show me one conservative Senator who knew Souter was pro-abortion and blew the whistle on him.
But this debate is irrelevant. Unlike his father, Bush 43 is a pro-life evangelical, not a convert on the eve of nomination. Bush 43 also saw upclose and personal his father's mistakes, and openly acknowledged those mistakes cost Bush 41 a second term. And your thesis is that Bush 43 just can't wait to make the same mistakes and be another one-termer. Bush 43 ain't smokin' whatever yer smokin'.
He's nominated good conservative judges so far and has given no indication of any change.
This is classic! Can I borrow it?
The definition of lunacy is to keep doing the same thing over and over and then expecting different results.
Anyone who raised any questions about Bush before the 2000 elections was harshly castigated around here. I know, even though I took a stance of wait and see.
I waited and am not very impressed with what I have seen. Our two party system consists of two wings from the same bird of prey and until you folks pull your heads out of the sand and recognize that simple fact nothing will ever get better.
We've been through several election cycles now hearing the same chants from you folks. "we have to get republicans elected", "it takes time for things to change", "vote for any man who puts an R behind his name and things will change"....etc. How long to you expect people to keep on falling for the same BS?
I like democrats. They say exactly what they want to do and then go about doing it. I don't agree with their sleazy tactics or mistaken ideology but at least they say what they are about. Republicans, on the other hand, tell us one thing then go and do something else.
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