Excellent rant. Only thing worse than an 'Rat is the RINO.
Cheers,
OLA
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.
You're right; this is NOT being fair to PD's thread at all and I, for one, will quit the thread. Thank you for bringing this up. It's a crime, really, that a handful of ill mannered people hijacked it and I allowed myself to be drawn down to their level, on it.
Unfortunately, that's probably true - - along w the new absentee vote only in many counties.
Good night............:-)
They don't have a Clinton or Kerry to tear up right now, so some of them are trying to eat their own out of sheer boredom, I think.
Excellent rant. Only thing worse than an 'Rat is the RINO.
Cheers,
OLA
"after that massacre in Iraq during GW1"
Ummm... you make that sound like a good thing?
Actually, he had been posting since March of 2002. He had to change his username. Googled a cached image of his home page.
It's all mined electronically in the wee hours of the morning PST...
Oh yeah, well you're a freaking OSFThreader. This thread is fast becoming the joke of the internet. Why don't you take your tagline that you've stolen from every minuteman banned from this website and go buy yourself an illegal concubine somewhere.
Bring back Dasher and Peacebaby and place yourself on a watch list, then stick this watch list up your OSFT. OSFT monkey.
Voila! I think you've figured out the secret to how things work around here...
Sez you, which is your problem.
You post unsolicited drive-by insults,......
Define "insult" -- disagreeing with you and your buds, right?
And "unsolicited" -- I need to be "solicited" to post anything in an open forum? Not.
And same thing right back to you -- "foo-fighter", you posted it, you repeated it. Insults, yourself. Get an IQ and post something original. You guys whine about the "level of discourse" and stuff like that, and now Pukin' Dog and the others appealing for "civil discourse" have to be embarrassed by guys like you who are supposedly on their side. Excellent.
.......but don't have anything to say about HOW to bring winning, conservative principles back into the GOP.
Not to you, I don't. Guys like you are the problem. You call me names, and I'm going to discuss anything with you? Drop dead.
See you at the polls, insult-monger.
"The Minutemen as recently as LAST MONTH asked for National Guard to be put on the ground.
A month later, Bush delivered.
Now they say that's not enough."
Yes, they asked for the National Guard to be used in INTERCEPTING illegal aliens. Not "surveillance and support role". So Bush delivered a smoke-screen instead. Hopefully the House will remain steadfast against the Senate when it goes to conference.
If you are confused about what the word means I will give you examples. Anyone can join Rabble and no one becomes such involuntarily and it is characterised as those who do things such as celebrate championships by rioting in the streets and burning cars and property.
We have had some real nice displays of the rabble in action in Los Angeles when the crackheads took to the streets burning, looting, assaulting and killing after the King trial. Rabble raised its ugly head in Central Park when bands of men assaulted women in celebration of their Puerto Ricaness.
Rabble drag women off the streets and gangrape them. Rabble take part in drive by shooting at other rabble but unfortunately all too often miss and kill little girls sleeping in their beds.
Rabble bombed a church in Birmingham killing little Condi Rice's best friend. Rabble dragged black men from their homes and lynched them. Rabble cheered the ripping apart of Christians in the Colliseum by wild beasts. Rabble cursed and spit on the Lord on his way to Cavalry.
Are these enough or is it clear by now that there is no implication, in spite of dirtyone's attempt to deceive wrt my statement, that this term is applied by me to any decent, upright person with values from any socio-economic strata? Or anyone expressing their opinion on political websites.
Decent humans of all classes and people avoid the rabble like the plague that it is.
You are only "little people" if that is how you think of yourself.
Not when I consider the Lynch Mob howling at the GOP.
I fear that might whet their appetite for champaign and cause an unconsicionable rise in its price. Then how could I get a proper bath without sufficient Old Bubbly?
And my mistresses get cranky without their Vueve Cliquot.
Elitists like me prefer the company of good people to bad, smart people to stupid, people of morality to those with none,
people who stand against the herd rather than run mindlessly with it. We prefer religious people to non, thinking people to thoughtless ones, loving people to haters.
My standards are high. So shoot me.
I don't think any of the bad guys in the Senate are up or have serious primary challenge (?)
correct me please
this is why they are vote pandering to the future likely plurality here...of their own doing
Mais oui, we can't have that. By the way, when our limos drive by, should have Pat Buchannan tied to the bumpers as well?
TRY reading the post again. I cut and pasted Pukin Dog's comment, so don't try to misquote me with your "Ummmmmm" silliness.
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