Posted on 08/22/2004 6:15:20 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
I posted facts,EV;you just don't like them.
I kept my word to not post until you all had lost your free hand to attack and slander conservatives. You have. Live with it.
The people who were being thoroughly trashed,impugned,insulted,heaped with invective,and threatened,were,for the most part/majority of the time,those who are not Keyes' avid supporters.Those people have now been told that there is no place for their posts on FR.The vast majority of them did NOT reply in kind,personally attacking those few,who were responsible for the kinds of acts,which heretofore got the poster suspended or banned.
It's Jim's decision and yes,we'll live with it;just as YOU have to now live with what you have to live with.Enjoy your time in the sun,EV. :-)
I of course was the first to flat out support Obama on this forum (that I know of), and EV was very gracious about it. Maybe EV was just in an irritable mood this time.
pinging? just a reply, which I won't do again here
You have to have an appreciation for "nuance" Jorge. ;-'
You are supporting Barack Obama?
BTW, I didn't wsy I agreed with him. I can disagree with an important conservative leader, including Bush and Keyes, while still supporting them.
Call me too agreeable, if you must. ;-'
wsy = say, after I wake up in the middle of the night
Thanks for your kind remark. Much appreciated.
You're still my favorite honest liberal...that most rare of creatures...
;-)
A good decision. :-)
Go, Keyes, go!!
Yes, the battle is for us. The victory (or victor) is decided by God.
[You, substituting snideness for a response] You're kidding right?
Read his quote a few more times then get back to me.
The 2004 GOP platform does not contain the word "conservative" anywhere in it, and only a few things in it could be said to be "conservative" -- and those are all economic issues.
Elsewhere, the size of the government and the budget are substantially expanded -- by the argument of the American Conservative Union, more than in any single proposition since the New Deal.
George W. Bush and his family are not now, and never have been, conservatives. Bush senior ran for his congressional district, and later for the senate, as a Republican liberal -- a "Rockefeller Republican", on principia that Olympia Snowe and Lincoln Chaffee would find palatable. Dubya has been more conservative, or actually less liberal than his father, but could not be said to be any more conservative than a typical Republican moderate from the Midwest or North. Look at his cabinet: he has no conservatives in sensitive positions other than John Ashcroft. Rumsfeld is a northern, moderate Republican. Colin Powell is a moderate, and Condi Rice is a moderate Republican from California. There are no Newt Gingriches or Bob Barrs in Bush's cabinet -- no conservative, white Southern Republicans. Rod Paige, the Secretary of Education, is from Texas, but a) he's black, b) he's a moderate, c) he's a professional education bureaucrat, and d) the fact that the Department of Education and the Department of Energy still exist are further convincing evidence for Bush's big-government, moderate Republican views.
That George W. Bush has turned to such people for counsel indicates that he is not a conservative, but a moderate, cafeteria Republican. Bush's actions as governor of Texas further support the view that he is not a conservative, but instead has opposed conservatives for statewide office, putting up business-wing RiNO's to run in the GOP primaries against conservative incumbents.
Alan Keyes said something that is a palpable truism; that is not an attack. It is time for you to uncurl your lip and recognize that.
Now, what is your problem with Alan Keyes?
"Go Keyes!"
This will be shouted the day after the election for Keyes to go forth and run and lose for yet another office.
I love this saving for future use ;)
I so fondly remember the old days of the first amendment.
Since when does the 1st amendment apply to privater internet forums?
Does this mean I have to start calling Bush a cokehead too?
I don't get it.
And point well taken. However I've got some issues from the standpoint of what Keyes knows about the politics of the state he is running in. Unfortunately I've seen this once too often where someone out of state feels the need to run in a state they either have never lived in or say haven't lived in for oh, I don't know, 30 years?
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