Boy, am I glad you are in a very small minority group. Your stuff is not going to sell. We know the importance of re-electing our President over the fraudulant John Kerry.
1. What "small minority group" would that be that you categorize me in?
2. I'm not selling anything.
3. I don't claim to know everything, but I'm not holding out much hope for this country regardless of who wins. At this stage of the world "chessboard", if Ronald Reagan rose from the dead and won election a third time on a technicality, I still have my doubts as to how much even he would be able to accomplish.
Let's at least be honest, shall we?
In this very thread, we have people insisting that "We're at war. This isn't the time to split hairs over GW's conservative credentials."
That statement is troubling on so many levels.
Apart from the problem of the continual war we're "currently" in, which, by the poster's logic, means we should never question any Republican's "conservative credentials", there's the implicit concession that said "credentials" are somewhat lacking.
I think that most of us would not argue that last point, save for the most hardcore partisan hacks.
So, that leaves us with a neorealpolitick that asserts that we are always going to have Republican candidates with less than sterling conservative credentials, and, we are to always be prohibited from making this an issue in the political process.
The conclusion, of course, is that we will experience an ever-increasing slide to the left, as the other side imposes no such restrictions on their politicians or constituency. In fact, they go to the other extreme, insisting on dogmatic purity -- to the left.
When one side insists on push, push, pushing to the left, and the other side insists on a don't-make-waves/go-with-the-flow avoidance of "the right", it's not really difficult to plot the course that the nation will follow.
These observations are of course academic, as they're based on a closed system, and in reality, we are operating in a system in which there are many external forces insistent on changing everything there is about us -- and about the world in general.
The world is in a similar situation to the runup to World War One, but this time the players are armed with weapons of incredibly greater potency, and for that matter, some of the key players are endowed with tragically monumental instability and irrationality.
In short, I am of the opinion that much of our "debate" is at best pathetically recreational, because nothing that happens in this coming election will be of very much effect regarding the turn the world as a whole is taking.
I see a dark age descending on this world, the likes of which it has never seen before.
You (in the "collective") may call me cynical, but I would appreciate it if you would keep the personal attacks to a minimum. That means no accusations of my being a democrat, a leftist, or any such BS. If you don't like my opinions and beliefs and analysis that forms the basis for my opinions and beliefs, then attack them, and not ME.
Thanks in advance.
Well now. I've said much more than I intended to say. Your "shot from the lip" at me -- your thinly veiled accusation/attack offended me greatly, and I said what I needed to get off my chest.