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Posted on 06/30/2004 9:38:32 PM PDT by Reagan Man
Colorado Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo is in big trouble with the GOP leadership. And just what, you may be wondering, is his great sin? "Team America," a political action committee originally founded by Tancredo, worked to unseat Representative Chris Cannon, a liberal Republican from Utah, by supporting Matthew Throckmorton, his challenger in the Republican primary.
Chief among those organizations caterwauling about the actions of Tancredo is the liberal "Tuesday Group," a coalition of approximately thirty liberal Republican House members whose goal is to steer the party to the left. Hiding under the cloak of a grossly distorted rendition of Ronald Reagan's "Eleventh Commandment" ("Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican"), the Tuesday Group is now expressing concern that party conservatives are finally making efforts to strike back.
Apparently, undermining the conservative agenda by abandoning the party at key junctures during the legislative process is perfectly fine with these Republican "centrists." But any discussion of such matters by conservatives, who have tired of seeing their party abandoning its principles, is strictly taboo. By such hypocritical assertions, these liberal "Trojan Horses" hope to continue dominating party politics from within.
Of course Ronald Reagan never intended for his "Eleventh Commandment" to be arbitrarily invoked as a means of allowing liberalism to spread, unchecked, within the ranks of the GOP. Rather, it was supposed to prevent the sort of backbiting and mud slinging within party ranks, which can ultimately undermine the credibility of the entire party.
House Majority leader Tom Delay, a longtime champion of conservatism, has found himself in the middle of this row. Seeking to maintain a cohesive Republican majority, he is promoting themes of "team spirit" and "comity" among party members. Delay even referenced Reagan's "Eleventh Commandment" in a meeting with Tancredo in which the Colorado Congressman was apparently warned to change his ways and endorse a unified party, or face retribution within Republican circles.
Unfortunately, such rhetoric fails to deal with the fact that it is the Republican liberals who regularly undermine party unity by voting with Democrats at critical junctures. With such people constantly placing the philosophies of liberalism ahead of traditional Republican principle, the only manner in which even a facade of "unity" can be maintained is for the entire party to shift to the left. This, of course, is precisely the strategy of the liberal Republicans.
Tancredo's major issue of concern is unchecked illegal immigration and the resulting compromise of America's borders. Hardly a miniscule "pet issue" of a fringe constituency, the immigration problem goes to the very core of maintaining America's national integrity and heritage. Little else of GOP principles or goals can be regarded as significant in any way, as long the party remains indifferent to the invasion of the nation's borders by a flood of illegal immigrants who, as soon as they are able to do so, will vote against such things. Yet, major forces within the GOP are once again actively working to insure that at best, the Republican counterpart to Democrat plans of opening the borders will only amount to a watered-down version of the very same thing.
By supporting truly conservative Republican challengers, Tancredo's PAC hopes to specifically target key players of the open borders advocacy for defeat during their respective state primaries. While it is not entirely clear whether or not Tancredo is still officially participating with the work of the PAC, his political ideology remains consistent with that of its members. Tancredo realizes that threats to the future of the nation are no less virulent when advanced by so-called "Republicans," than when spawned by their traditional advocates, the Democrats.
Tom Delay has, in the past, shown himself to be extremely principled, with the one notable exception being his support, under severe White House pressure, for an education bill that was essentially crafted by Ted Kennedy. He knows that if his party persists in its claims to uphold both high and low standards, only the low standards will prevail. Though presently striving to remain within the boundaries of party loyalty, he is surely aware that, as a principled conservative, his own future is no less threatened by the underhanded actions of the "moderates" than is Tancredo.
For Delay and Tancredo, whose differences are far outweighed by their political common ground, the most pressing matter is to maintain the party according to conservative principle rather than allowing the "centrists" to reinvent it in the image of the Democrats.
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Good heavens, you are out to pick fights today... even to the extent of defending Kerry's plan LOL
Shoo...
And he openly challenged the Liberals at every opportunity.
I wish George Bush would do more of the same.
Good heavens, you are out to pick fights today... even to the extent of defending Kerry's
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Certainly not, but I definitely put more thought into my response than 4freedom deserved.
To: onyx; Cultural Jihad; Admin Moderator
Unprovoked personal attacks are what aren't tolerated on this forum.
Onyx, it's you and CJ that should butt-out, if you don't have anything better to contribute to the thread than flame war-baiting cartoons and words like "masturbatory"???
No, they're not and you were not "personally" attacked
by me, despite your silly attempt to convince the AM.
And what do you contribute? Like a broken record, you
post the same feeble rant about casting a 3rd party vote
to "send a message." Guess what? You'll send NO message.
It is a masturbatory vote. Enjoy yourself, but this
forum's owner is supporting Bush/Cheney, as are most
thinking people who realize the choice is between Bush
or Kerry, and Kerry is a dangerous man this nation cannot
afford to have in the White House.
I don't have time to play your divide-the-right games today... sheath the claws and shoo, kitty.
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Best to ignore the libs....
They always do. It's the party clique, always putting party before country, regardless of policy.
Oh, and thanks!
Re: your exchange in the last few posts...It's a shame some folks find it so difficult to admit when they're wrong. It certainly calls their integrity into question.
Correct, the majority do come looking for work.
That does not change the fact that they are criminals and should not be here.
That does not change the fact that even the ones that do find work, take jobs away from American Citizens.
That does not change the fact that even the ones that do find work, still use our social welfare programs, paid for by American Citizens tax dollars.
That does not change the fact the ones that don’t find work; stay and either commit crimes or use our social welfare programs that cost American Citizens their tax dollars.
That does not change the fact that the overall tax burden outweighs any the good illegal aliens do.
Change the smell all you want, it’s still shit.
I never blamed Bush for anything.
Now here is a snippet from this article
Clinton embarked on a program to reshape the electorate in a way that was more to his liking. In addition to using his considerable powers of persuasion to win back public support, he set about creating a new American public. The administration directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to mint new citizens in time to vote in the 1996 elections. Under the direct control of Vice President Gore, the Citizenship USA program was tasked with naturalizing as many noncitizens as they could possibly find in time to participate in the next election.
End of snippet
Despite the manipulating of the electorate by the democrats, GWB did a job to get himself elected in 2000. I voted for him then and I don't plan on voting against him in 2004.
I don't see GWB carrying either one of these states come Nov.
More faithless posturing by those who think Bush may lose.
I never said he'd lose, I said he'd probably won't carry California or Illinois. He won last time without those states. He'd be better off trying to take a state like Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin, or New Mexico. I'm just being realistic.
The bottom line is that GWB's legalized status program is so much better than Kerry's Amnesty proposal. Before any program is implemented, illegals need to be stopped cold in their tracks at the border. Otherwise, we'll never solve this problem.
Some conservatives and a lot of disruptors are effectively using this issue against both the GOP and Conservatives...
I see it differently. Debate on the Free Republic sharpens up our debating skills for the democrats when we run into them at work or out in the street.
And of course, joe and nittany will say to their dying day that they don't belong to a clique.
Yet you two do. The, IMO, foolish clique called "I am an independent and if you don't agree with me 100% you belong to a clique, clique."
You two epitomize foolish and arrogant pride, IMO.
It's the Saturday before the 4th and the catnip is flowing, IMO.
I sure didn't see that one coming...LOL.
I sure didn't see that one coming...LOL.
You are in full rabid animal(true conservative) in the corner drama queen mode today, aren't you.
Dane, I suspect you're the only one who doesn't see irony in the fact that, on a conservative forum, you equate conservatives to rabid animals.
Your embarrassing conduct do more to persuade folks that my cause is right/just than I ever could. Keep up the good work!
Guilty conscience?
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