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To: inquest
Actually, this is especially the time we can risk it. Believe me, it's would be better to have her in the White House than some RINO who'll pursue much the same policies she would, but without serious conservative opposition

I bet this thread is making a lot of people here very uncomfortable, and I'm glad.

For too long, we have not talked about many politicians who call themselves Conservatives, but whose actions say otherwise.

In many ways, and I'm just as guilty as anybody else, we are like somebody who is confronted by something that we don't want to deal with, and so we close our eyes and hope it will go away. It won't, and in fact, by our inaction (in this case, our inaction is not talking about the issue), we are only making it worse. In effect, we are encouraging this, because they become a little bolder.

Many RINO politicians take us for granted, because they know that in the end, we'll usually toe the party line, and so they can tailor their messages and policies to people who call themselves moderate or in fact lean to the left of the center.

It's almost like we are facing our own "Great Schism", so to speak.

We have two choices - we can take the next few elections and use them to return the GOP back to the right (pun intended), and it'll be painful as hell, or we can continue to close our eyes and pretend everything is okay, and our children or grandchildren will pay the price (and the taxes).

It's uncomfortable to talk about, but it's good that many of us are talking about it, and that many of us are on the same page.

Even if our numbers are small at first, chances are, proportionally as a group, we probably vote more than most people. That gives us a lot more power than our numbers would indicate. We might even influence others around us to vote the way we vote.

We could do great things, we could at least force the GOP to reconcile it's present state with its Conservative roots, or, if need be, discard the GOP and setup a new party, or bolster an older third party. It's almost ridiculous that we've turned into a two-party system.

If we busted up this little monopoly the two major parties have, we could actually force the politicians in Washington to listen to us a lot more, and they would have to work with more Conservative elements.
411 posted on 03/24/2005 4:13:15 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: af_vet_rr
Fortunately, it seems like more and more conservatives are recognizing the same truths that you've stated. Unfortunately, it appears as though the hour is getting very late. I'm definitely not saying that it's time for rash measures; I'm just saying that it's also not time for complacency. The heat, the pressure, and the momentum need to be kept up.
420 posted on 03/24/2005 5:07:59 PM PST by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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