"Don't hold Saddam accountable by standing up to him. We had better compromise and play soft, else we might have to go to war and that would be a rough time, so the best thing to do is just roll over now."
"Don't hold the lefties accountable by standing up to them. We had better compromise and play soft, else we might have a Democrat win and that would be a rough time, so the best thing to do is just roll over now."
Funny how the Bushbots change! It's transparently about a personality cult and short-term pragmatism and cowardice without principle, rather than integrity and willingness to risk short-term losses to stand firm for long-term gain. Principles and the future are important to me; count me as a conservative, not a Bushbot.
Another funny thing...I recall when the Conservative Party almost got more votes than the Republicans did for Governor in New York State.
Last time Ted Kennedy was elected the Libertarian got more votes than the Republican.
What that during Dinkins' tenure ?
Something's wrong somewhere when a Republican president wouldn't relish a bloody, high-profile political fight against the likes of Chuck Schumer, Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin, and Joe Biden. Heaven couldn't hand deliver such unpopular and unattractive foes. An ideological showdown with President Bush and Priscilla Owen (as an example) on one side, holding firm to constitutional principles, and Dunce Cap Row (the Senate judiciary committee Democrats) on the other, would result in floods of phone calls & e-mails to senate offices, running 4 to 1 in favor of confirming Owen. The base would rally. We here at FreeRepublic would be united instead of torn asunder. 'Rat senators from Red States such as Landrieu, Bill Nelson, and Conrad would be begging the Democrat leadership to back down. I'll never understand why the President didn't hit Schumer right in the teeth with an ideological baseball bat on this one.