Posted on 01/31/2004 6:16:33 AM PST by George Frm Br00klyn Park
WorldNetDaily / Commentary
Henry Lamb
Republicans: Don't give up on 'W' now!
Posted: January 31, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
The most serious threat to President Bush's second term is not a Democrat; it is the growing mass of disenchanted Republicans who are accepting the proposition that there is little or no difference between the two major parties.
"Where are they going to go?" says a well-placed Bush operative. "You know they'll never vote for Dean or Kerry. And there's no Ross Perot on the horizon."
Where will they go? Nowhere. And that's the point. Republicans, especially the more conservative variety, are likely to stay home in droves. So far, the Republican strategists appear to be oblivious to this possibility.
Perhaps conservative Republicans expected too much too soon from a Republican administration. The Democrats had eight years to fill the agencies of government with activists from their special-interest groups. It is true that President Bush quickly dumped the most egregious of these types, whose positions are political plums. The underlings hired by the political appointees, however, are protected by civil-service regulations and cannot be fired, or even reassigned, without non-political justification.
The disappointment of conservatives goes much deeper and questions the fundamental philosophy which guides the administration. After eight years of watching the Clinton-Gore team march the United States directly into the jaws of a global socialist government, Bush supporters expected a screeching halt and a major course correction.
Conservatives cheered Bush's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol – a screeching halt and a major course correction – while socialists abroad and Democrats at home condemned the president.
When Bush defied the U.N. Security Council, and created a multi-national coalition to eliminate Saddam Hussein, conservatives split, some cheering the action, some joining the Democrats at home and socialists abroad who condemned the action.
The Patriot Act, the prescription drug program, the "guest worker" program, the so-called "free trade" programs and a half-trillion dollar deficit have left conservatives reeling, wondering why a Republican administration and Congress have produced results that look so much like what they would expect from a Democrat administration and Congress.
Consequently, many, many Republicans have thrown up their hands and have decided to either join some doomed third-party movement or simply stay home.
While this reaction may be understandable, it is not only self-defeating, it violates the first law of true believers: Never, never, never, never give up!
It is true that Republican hold the White House and a razor-thin majority in Congress. It is also true that the nation is divided, almost down the middle, between people who want to continue the Clinton-Gore path toward global socialist government and those who want to abandon that path and move the United States toward more individual freedom, free markets and voluntary cooperation among sovereign nations.
Rather than give up and stay at home, a better strategy may be for conservatives to realize that the election of President Bush in 2000, and securing a slim majority in Congress in 2002, is just the first step in a long journey. Conservatives should realize that it takes 60 senators to prevail over the Democrats' filibuster.
Rather than throw in the towel, conservatives might throw their effort into the campaigns of conservative candidates for the House and Senate, and for the state legislatures and county commissions.
Democrats alone cannot regain control. If conservatives give up, throw in the towel and fail to show up for the November battle, the Democrats will win by default. Conservatives who truly believe that freedom is better than socialism, those who want freedom for their children rather than a world socialist government, will never, never, never, never give up. They will show up in November.Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International.
Still, your answer is no excuse for not knowing WTF is going on Austin.
Thus you must support another try at alcohol prohibition. Nothing less would be logically consistent. Alcohol intoxication makes you very dangerous to others if you are so foolish as to drive but probably does no harm if you do so in the confines of your home. Long run health effects make alcohol much more dangerous on many counts. Short run health effects again make alcohol much more dangerous. You can actually consume a lethal dose of alcohol (or Heroine, cocainc, etc) at one sitting. That is not possible with MJ. No lethal dose has been identified since no one, in all history, has ever died of an overdose of marijuana.
Most substances are dangerous in some large dose and useful in lesser doses. It is just NOT the business of government to make mere possession or responsible use of some, politically selected, substances a crime since no one is hurt.
I don't think he had thought it through to that point.
BTW, I do not agree w/ your last sentence. That leaves no room for adhering to principles. That leaves us no better than them.
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