Posted on 06/05/2002 1:20:54 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
Well I'm a registered Republican and have been all my life.
By dividing consrvatives the democrats will had an open door.
You can't have it both ways. The "Die-Hard Bush Supporters" keep telling us that we don't matter. To take our votes and go. They say we might amount to all of .1% of all the votes the GOP gets. And they are probably right, so "dividing conservatives" is not really the issue, is it? But if the democRATS can use illegal cash to influence (using their mass media) the 70% democRATS and undecided voters ... if democRATS can influence elections through outright voter fraud (like they did in several contests last time) ... if they know they will not even get investigated when they do it (like the last several elections), then they will STEAL the next election buying and creating as many votes as needed.
No one has to act like a cheerleader, just don't destroy what little access we have to the WH .
But those trying to silence all dissent and comment ARE acting like cheerleaders. And if our dissent on this forum makes the WH uncomfortable, then GOOD. They should be uncomfortable with the notion of ignoring serious crimes just because they deem it politically expedient.
I still have faith he might come around next term.
Why? All the reasons given for ignoring the crimes now ... the WOT ... getting moderate support ... etc ... will all remain. Only then it will look a lot more suspicious for the WH to begin investigations.
But why attack the only - admittedly weak - wedge conservatives have and give fodder to the socialists?
Frankly, I'm less worried about "socialists" than those that would ignore the laws that safeguard our election process and system of decision making. Simple economics will take care of socialists provided those socialists don't gain control of a government where the laws don't matter anymore.
How is your criticism of Bush any different than any democrats?
Everything the dems have tried to bring down Bush's poll numbers has failed....so now they will try to peel Bush away from his base.
We are only defeating ourselves with all this infighting.....bet you the DU crowd is eating this up tonight!
"Ronald Reagan was in my judgment the greatest president of the 20th century...
Now I agree with Pat. Reagan - perfect no, the greatest yes.
But, just to show how pathetic some of the perpetually un-happy whiners are, I am going to research all of the gripes these same folks were saying about Reagan at the end of his second term.
Believe it not, through threads such as this we may be influencing 100000's of potential voters ... the lurkers who read these threads and the people they talk to. We may be influencing some in government who stop by to feel the pulse of their "supporters". We might even influence some in the media who to reading what is written on this forum. Or are you a "cynic"? :)
Is everything just fine when everyone agrees with you but when there is disagreement you want to leave?
I am tired of the continual sniping and trashing of my President and those of us that support him. If this is what conservatives are all about, then I am not Conservative --
You are now understanding what the Clinton supporters felt.
You are supporting a president who's actions do NOT conform to Conservative thought. Maybe if you and others would start by admitting that Bush is much closer to a Moderate than a Conservative mush of the heat would dissipate. Half the argument is whether or not Bush is a Conservative.
I am just a flat out a Republican who happens to consider Taking Back the Senate and Keeping the House as my #1 priority.
Even that statement goes agains the grain of the forum. This isn't a Pro-Republican come-hell-or-high-water forum, but one to advance Conservative ideas. Constitution first, not party first.
What do you have if you gain the world and lose your soul, I think is what some famous teacher once said.
During the Civil War, rights like Habeous Corpus and others were suspended by Lincoln. Critics said it was the end of Democracy. They were wrong.
During the Second World War, the same thing. The critics said the same thing. They were wrong.
Nothing as drastic as occurred then is going on now and the critics are bringing the curtain down on Democracy once again. I'm willing to bet they're wrong, again. And if I'm wrong, well I still have my guns. And there's still the ACLU. They're idiots, but they can be useful idiots.
"People like myself" have not rolled over to expose our necks to the boot of totalitarianism. But neither are we running around like chickens with our heads cut off proclaiming the end of the world. Reports of the Republics demise are a bit premature at this point.
"My way or the highway." If these whiners sit on their hands in the 2004 election, it will probably mean Bush loses 0.0013% of the votes he got in 2000. They are a pimple on the bum of the body politic.
I'm guessing it would look something like you.
I get your point, but that group is so utterly beneath us that why would you give them parity. I care as much what they think as I care what a bunch of homeless winos in the Bronx think.
Don't think so highly of yourself. See the final comment in Post 229.
Then there are CINO moderates.
Do you really want to digress into name calling? I think we can do better.
aH yES, tHE gOOD oLD dAYS on fREErEPUBLIC ..sure do miss them..
With such a defeatist, unappeasable attitude, we might be better off just to let them have the "conservative" moniker and just be plain old Republicans, a word I happen to admire.
They way they are going, the word "conservative" is never going to mean anything except mean and nasty anyway.
Hysterical that GWB is dared questioned?
Actually you know what would make us "perpetual gripers" happy? If we could get a president who would simply do no harm. No one expects utopia.
If congress and the president would just stop trying to fix every little thing with a new law, a new agency, a new program. Just stop growing,intruding, taxing. Just stop! That would make us happy. Congress should be in session no more than 1 month a year and please, they need to follow the constitution.
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