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.
Hey, you are not as bad as some would say! Oh, wait, I remember that trick from the beginning of Saving Private Ryan.
KIDDING!!!!!
i stopped voting for rinos
Per diem was great.
And the PX over on the army side was really, really nice.
And it's half a country away from any of my ex's.
What isn't to love?
/johnny
Oops, was that Band of brothers?
Pease excuse me, I was having a debate with nopardons, in which she threw many insults my way, I kicked her ass and she just vanished. A serious poster would have at least siad OK I can see your point, but I disagree. nopardons is not a serious poster, she is a "drive by poster".
Well, I didn't read your debate, but frankly if your tone during the debate was the same as your tone in that post I'm not surprised she "just vanished". That was hardly the input of a "serious" poster.
Please return to the most interesting debate in the Trouble ahead for the American middle class" thread. Thank you. Pretty please with sugar on top.
Ok, point taken, sorry.
Good rant.
I have noticed a lot of attacking around here on both sides of this issue. Everyone should re-think this. We should be discussing ideas and not attacking posters.
If you have no ideas to share, stay off the thread.
My mommy called it the tard cart, daddy the window-licker bus.
No OldFriend I will be voting in fear and trembling and praying to God that I am not voting for a globalist.
One thing we could do is stand up and tell them all that we know exactly what's going on and we reject it and the perfumed princes they place forward for nomination. We don't have to keep our heads in the sand, and we don't have to take it.
Our troops deserve the best. Are we giving them our best?
We train them to kill the enemy, then ask them to win the hearts and minds of a culture so ancient and inbred with hatred for each other and the infidel that it seems to be a mission impossible.
There is a way that it is possible, there are those citizens of Iraq that are sincere in their gratitude to the USofA, that want democracy. The only way to make that possible for them and not drown them in a decades long civil war, the way to success, is to leave them the only ones left standing in that nation. Even if that means collateral damage. Yet we seem to be over there giving as much respect to those that openly hate us as we do those that are hoping for a better future. There should be no Fajuta, only sand where it use to be, not a pot, nor a shard.
The thought of going to war with the United States should strike such fear and dread in our enemies that N. Korea and Iran would be trembling in their boots, not thumbing their noses at us. That is what we owe our troops.
In 2008 I hope the base will be demanding the Republican Candidate have no history of globalism, or designs on our sovereignty. It should be a question asked up front and an answer demanded of the candidate. We should make globalist a dirty word and a career killer. We could trust our troops in the hands of a Comander in Chief that actually takes his oath of office as more than a mere formality.
I didn't "vanish". Just because I didn't answer you, IMMEDIATELY, in the wee hours of the morning, nor get back to you today, doesn't mean that I either "gave up" or somehow should have acknowledged that you "won"; nor that I vanished. I actually have a life and you don't matter one whit in it.
A "SERIOUS" poster wouldn't get his knickers in a twist ( especially when he lost the battle ) and stalk a poster to another thread and spew the vile, spurious, patently ridiculous drivel that you just did.
There are rules. We meet the requirements.
And then there's the cultural requirements. The 9 year olds have to be able to talk the 7 year olds into experimenting with diddling on the fence, without killing the 7 year olds
NOTICE!
KEEP THINGS SAFE! DON'T PLAY WITH WATER(OR OTHER LIQUIDS) and ELECTRIC FENCES!
NOTICE!
I've told 'em. They won't listen.
Been there, done that.
I lived.
/johnny
That WAS the tone of his previous replies to me.
what ever, see ya.
Make that 2,131 LOL's!
can I buy ya a drink?
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