Posted on 05/17/2006 7:47:58 AM PDT by Pukin Dog
Edited on 05/17/2006 8:30:59 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." – Abraham Lincoln, 1858
It is getting somewhat strange around these parts when not only the President, but yesterday the First Lady was personally attacked by someone claiming to be a ‘Conservative’. Can there be any doubt that there are forces among us looking to drive a wedge between us?
A few weeks ago, this forum’s owner attempted to remind all of us of the big picture, that regardless of any personal animosity towards the President or Republican Party over their adherence to Conservative principles, that they are still a clear choice over the alternative Democrat Party rule. At that time, I assumed that FReeper-sanity had been restored, and that some of the negative rhetoric aimed at those in Washington D.C. would be dialed back.
Free Republic is a political forum with a proud history and vision, responsible for dragging Dan Rather from his post, and providing countless radio-talk shows with their daily talking points. FReepers are unique in their determination and energy towards protecting and defending the goals of our Founding Fathers.
We are also quite a powder keg of emotion and anticipation, expecting our Republican majorities to take advantage of this opportunity to make permanent gains in our Conservative agenda. Some might argue that this opportunity has been squandered, but those persons would be ignorant of history, lacking understanding that change cannot occur overnight in Washington, and that this is the way our Founders designed our Republic.
In frustration, impatience, and ignorance, we have allowed this forum to become a haven for those who do not share our Conservative goals. I do not blame our enemies anymore then I would blame a scorpion for stinging me. If anger and stupidity were one’s nature, I would expect the trolls that infect this forum to be angry and stupid consistently, which also makes them somewhat easy to detect.
The trolls are not the problem, though. The problem is that so many of us are allowing ourselves to be taken in by those who seek only to prevent us from going to the polls in November to keep their stinking hands off our government for another term. There can be no doubt, that no matter how disappointing our current government has been in promoting the Conservative agenda, that the alternative, enabled by our staying home will be MUCH worse.
The way to deal with Republicans who have actively worked against our goals is to defeat them in Primary elections. We do not even have to defeat them all, only enough of them to send the message that we will indeed target them if they work against our agenda. It should be the goal of EVERY conservative to see that Lincoln Chaffee is defeated in November. His seat is one we can afford to lose. Were I a Rhode Island resident, I would vote for the Democrat if only to send a message to Snowe, Hagel, Collins, Graham, and especially that bastard Specter that their primaries just got a lot tougher.
We only need to get one of them, and Chaffee is the one to get. It does not really matter if a Democrat takes his seat; he will be junior and mute as long as we maintain our overall majority in the Senate.
The one thing that bothers me here like nothing else, is the simple disrespect of the President. Am I am Bush-Bot? Damn straight I am. If you want to know why, click on my handle to read Southack’s excellent list of Bush’s accomplishments in office. But if Bush had done almost nothing in office, it would be no excuse for some of the slights and disrespect he has received from some of us on this forum.
Some of the things I have read here this past week match in tone what one can find on our favorite Democrat sewer site. Someone calling himself or herself a FReeper was promoting shooting aliens at the border until they stopped coming. Is that what we are about? Obviously not, and that so-called Conservative has been eliminated from this forum.
I think it is important to remember that you and I have just as much responsibility as George Bush does in changing our culture to better reflect Conservative values. Right now, this very moment, Conservatives have the government they deserve. We put them there. They are not our mommies and daddies sent out to bring home our Conservative bread. That responsibility lies with all of us. These Republicans represent us, they don’t serve us. Our job is to pick the best individual and send him/her to Washington in the hope that their CHARACTER will see them through.
This is why it is such a nutty thing to consider punishing the Republican party, when we should be letting them know that we’ve got their back, but if they cant do the job, we will replace them with ANOTHER Republican, instead of handing the reigns of government to the party of anger, hopelessness and despair. We sometimes like to think that those people we send to Washington are different from us, that they are capable of meeting our every need and desire.
I want every one of you to think about what you would consider to be your perfect mate. Maybe some of you think you have found that person. If you are married and totally in love with another person, that is great. Now I want to ask you to think about the last time that person you love, who is PERFECT for you, completely pissed you off. Remember, this is your perfect mate, your one true love. Do they do everything you want them to do? Obey your every desire? If you answer yes, I am going to put you on my troll list.
Those people in Washington do not even cut your lawn, yet you expect perfection. Get over it.
I am issuing a challenge to every person who considers him or her to be a Conservative; why don’t we all commit to a return to HONOR? Do we honor our Conservative agenda when we comport ourselves in disgraceful ways? Is it an honorable thing to suggest that our President is a moron, as I read here a few days ago? Is it honorable to attack Laura Bush or any other person representing true Conservative values?
Some of you might argue that George Bush is not representing Conservative values to your liking. I would remind you that the first thing Bush said upon taking office, is that he was going to be President of ALL the people, not just some. You know that if you followed Bush from the beginning that he campaigned of the very immigration platform he is defending right now. Did you vote for him? Yeah?
If you have ever had a steak at a Ruth’s Chris restaurant, you know that sometimes they bring that wonderful steak to your table with a sprig of parsley on it. I hate parsley. Hate it. If I were to treat my steak the way some of us want to treat our President, I would have to throw out the steak, due to that nasty parsley that comes with it. I can deal with the parsley to get the steak, and that is what I am asking FReepers to do.
Expecting perfection from any person, group or team is a recipe for disaster. George W. Bush is my president. You can disagree with him, you can blame him for your problems if that is your desire. If you disrespect his office, his service, his risking his life to be with our troops in Iraq, his steadfast desire to bring a new tone to Washington, or if you just like the way he keeps Democrats so pissed off they lose their minds on a regular basis, I ask you to treat him and his wife with respect and cut the personal attacks. If you call him ‘Shrub’ or ‘Jorge’ consider yourself my enemy.
Right now, our real enemy are the Main Stream Media, the Democrat Party, and all who follow and support them. If you want to jump-ugly on someone, why not start with those leaky bastards and give our side a break?
Do it for Pukin.
I knew that you could.
"Sorry. I cannot support a national ID card."
I don't like it either.
P.S. --- I hope you acquired your LAT's FREE.
There are huge numbers of the stupid voting. Kerry got almost 50% of the vote last election.
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THAT and HOW CLOSE the election was in several areas and respects was an incredibly loud wakeup call to another level of alertness, to me.
I knew we were in sad shape--but for that many clueless idiots to be running around with voting fingers intact was astonishing, shocking and otherwise freak out material.
It was kind of like watching Clockwork Orange the first time at a Hollywood theater (having traveled from Long Beach at 15:00 arriving in my VW bug at about 20:00) . . . the audience was laughing in all the wrong places--that is--proving that the nihlism the movie was illustrating had consumed at least a generation--and that generation was clueless about that fact.
God have mercy on us.
Thanks PB. I am as well sick to death of these venomous hatred and attacks against our President. If those people who claim to be that conservative really care about National Security as they claim when talking about illegal immigration, they will not savage the Commander in Chief during a time of war. Now the President send the troops to the borders, and instead of thanking him for this because they have been barking for the last five years about doing that, they moved the post once more and they do not like the idea that it is an impossibility to deport 12 million people.
Yes, but unfortunately the two largest enclaves for the Islamic fundamentalists are in Canada, each within a few miles of our northern borders. None of them in Mexico, Central and South American come close in size and organization as those two. So far we haven't been too successful in getting Canada to cooperate with us in issues regarding those centers.
"The reason for the southern focus is the 2 million plus folks that sneak in undetected, which is far less then the few thousand that sneak in undetected up north. The biggest hole gets the most attention."
Actually the biggest hole is the Canadian border, not just in physical size but in visibility and levels of protection; the southern border just had the greatest flow of illegal immigrants. This is knowledge that our Islamic enemies well know...why try to sneak explosives in on the most protected border when they have so many miles of open borders just a few miles away.
I have 2 national IDs, a passport and a ss card. I don't need a third.
"Yeah, but if you've ever driven out there, it's clear that this fence will stop most of the current crossings."
I've driven practically the whole thing, much of it on the Mexican side of the border.
It's clear to me that if you fence the current "riverbeds" of immigration, the "stream" will move inland and cross in the harsher and more remote places.
That will save the majority of Americans less then $150.00 each year.
$70 billion tax-cut package today...?? tax increase for the wall tomorrow.
That's $150 a year less of my money that Congress confiscates. I'll take it.
Yes! Always look for the negative. You're catching on. Quick study, you, lol.
I was surprised the LA Times actually came out and admitted that the Dem party was a Jewish-Black operation. The whole focus of the article was how the Latinos are driving them out of power within the party.
I don't like it either. (Nat ID card)
Great!
I'm shocked at how many Christians are clueless about it all.
Conryn Amendment squeaked through.
48-50.
Whichever Amendment that was. I thought his was the no felons or three time misdameanors, but I guess this was a different one.
It's going to be very difficult for the people who are constantly preaching both "selling us out on the border" and "big government spender" to reconcile their complaints.
Please. A social security card is a de facto "national id card" is it not? How else are you supposed to determine immigration status???
Was this LA Times article posted on FR?
For sure.
Oh wow, you mean you just got dragged into the illegal immigration/Bush fiasco? I sure don't envy you. For a while, I thought you were JimRob, but since you haven't posted as a mod before you can't be. Right? LOL Oh, btw, please put in a request for a longer tag line, so it could hold the quote shown below? ;o) Thanks!
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