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Deliver a Spanking
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | October 22, 2006 | Colin McNickle

Posted on 10/22/2006 8:49:20 AM PDT by Conservative Goddess

I am your typical Republican "supervoter." .... But I'm seriously considering ending that streak this Nov. 7. ...

I'm also a contrarian -- a conservative with libertarian leanings. Combine all these characteristics, then mix in the aggregate Republican record, allow the ire it has created to rise and bake it for a few years and here's what comes out of the oven:

A party base that's mad as hell and no longer willing to rationalize GOP failures. It's a base whose crust grows darker and thicker -- i.e., angrier -- when prominent conservatives and Republicans -- politicians, pundits, radio talk-show hosts and think tankers sensing impending electoral doom -- pop out of their pumpkins and upbraid the watered-on for complaining about being wet.

....

...Pay no attention to the recidivists behind the curtain who, once every two years or four or six, make grand promises of fealty to conservative and party principles only to repeatedly fail to deliver. ... What's the definition of insanity again? In this case it's constantly returning Republicans to power and having the audacity to expect different results. And what could be more stupid than that?

....

Look, folks, it's time to take a stand. Returning this current crew of Republicans to power will only embolden them to spend more time, not less, off the conservative reservation. This is no time to dance the Rationalization Rumba. It is time for the GOP base to deliver a very big SMACK. It's the only way to start the process of true Republican/conservative reclamation.

Fellow Republicans and conservatives, do what you must on Nov. 7. But I, for one, refuse to yet again enter my polling place, vote for the usual GOP suspects...

It's time for the long-spanked to do some spanking.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demoralization; dramaqueens; dutroll; headuprear; insanedefeatism; lesbianinsanity; redbottoms; spankme; takemyballandgohome; votegop; votesuppression
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To: brazzaville

Sure.

Isn't it interesting that the very people who are not willing to sell out their "principles" are more than willing to sell out ours!


201 posted on 10/22/2006 10:38:35 AM PDT by Howlin (Why Won't Nancy Pelosi Let Louis Freeh Investigate the Page Scandal?)
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To: Rokke

I have to tell you...they're driving me crazy, from the government on down.

That said, this kind of thing sure has a way of separating the wheat from the tares and I have an all new perspective on who to trust. So it's not all bad.


202 posted on 10/22/2006 10:39:44 AM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: Tamzee

I'll never find a candidate that agrees with ME 100 percent of the time, will you?


203 posted on 10/22/2006 10:39:53 AM PDT by Howlin (Why Won't Nancy Pelosi Let Louis Freeh Investigate the Page Scandal?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
"I'm not sure how electing a democratic congress strengthens the GOP." It certainly doesn't and the writer is either a fool hoping Libertarians can fill some of the void created by handing government over to the democraps or the writer secretly desires democrat control of this nation. What the fool writer fails to understand or doesn't give a damn about is the effect democrat control over our courageous military personnel and the effort to fight terrorist islamofascism will have and the inability to recover from Democrat clintonista style forewign policy ... and only a blind fool thinks the clinton machine is no longer controlling the demcorat party destiny.

To sit at home and not vote more pubbies into office is to hand our sovereignty over finally to the democrat party which is Sorosesque in the extreme. This election cycle is probably the last great pportunity to show democrats, the whoredom of democrat media, and the Republican party just how powerful the conservative vote can be in America. Rather than play spoiled brat voter, as the fool writer of the column encourages, conservatives ought to be turned out in record numbers, to bury the damned demcorat party and their sycophantic whore of alphabet media, giving the real brats a true spanking. Lazy tantrum suicide improves nothing. Period.

204 posted on 10/22/2006 10:40:28 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Beagle8U

LOL. Well, retarded pretty much cuts to the chase.


205 posted on 10/22/2006 10:40:28 AM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: Oberon

Character is putting your country over your personal agenda.

But you knew that.


206 posted on 10/22/2006 10:40:50 AM PDT by Howlin (Why Won't Nancy Pelosi Let Louis Freeh Investigate the Page Scandal?)
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To: MadIvan
What's the definition of insanity again? In this case it's constantly returning Republicans to power and having the audacity to expect different results. And what could be more stupid than that?

Voting for a democrat.

And not voting at all is the same thing, IMO.

207 posted on 10/22/2006 10:40:52 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: Howlin

The Owner of this site posted his warning on the PA. board where these fine folks have taken it over....

He is REPUBLICAN and he intends on keeping this site that way....

WTG REPUBLICANS!!!!! VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE


208 posted on 10/22/2006 10:41:35 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: MHGinTN
the writer is either a fool hoping Libertarians can fill some of the void created by handing government over to the democraps or the writer secretly desires democrat control of this nation

Or C) All of the above.

209 posted on 10/22/2006 10:41:57 AM PDT by Howlin (Why Won't Nancy Pelosi Let Louis Freeh Investigate the Page Scandal?)
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To: Muzzle_em
I agree.
There HAS to be a way to punish the GOP without punishing ourselves with a Dem controlled congress. It is just TOO abhorrent to imagine!

Hold your nose in 2006; punish 'em in the primaries in 2008.

210 posted on 10/22/2006 10:42:27 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Non-smoker who hates smoking nazis)
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To: Howlin

Maybe they'd like old Tom Daschle to make a comeback!

211 posted on 10/22/2006 10:42:56 AM PDT by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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To: Howlin

It never ceases to amaze me how three or four people can go tearing into the wilderness assuming everyone will follow...and when everyone does not, call THEM apostate.

LOL.


212 posted on 10/22/2006 10:43:08 AM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: HarleyLady27
The Owner of this site posted his warning on the PA. board where these fine folks have taken it over....

No kidding???

213 posted on 10/22/2006 10:43:18 AM PDT by Howlin (Why Won't Nancy Pelosi Let Louis Freeh Investigate the Page Scandal?)
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To: ghostrider

I agree. I am not voting for any individual candidate-with one possible exception-but will be voting on the initiatives here in Kalifornia.


214 posted on 10/22/2006 10:43:35 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: brazzaville; RasterMaster

Well, Raster's working on a plan to send them to Cuba. Which side of the island shall we choose. ;-)


215 posted on 10/22/2006 10:44:37 AM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: Howlin

Yep, go to the PA. board, its there for all to read....hopefully we won't have them poisoning our board anymore...


216 posted on 10/22/2006 10:44:48 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: Howlin
Why are you all always living in the past?

I'm not living in the past, I'm learning from it. You're not much of a conservative if you can't.

217 posted on 10/22/2006 10:46:01 AM PDT by edsheppa
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To: smokeyb
Channel your frustration more productively into promoting libertarian and conservative ideals within the Party.

Let's get to work!

218 posted on 10/22/2006 10:46:17 AM PDT by TheDon (Angry at the Republican Party = Democrat Tool)
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To: Oberon
"Hey...since when is voting "Republican" the acid test for character?"

Ever since the opposite of "Republican" became "Democrat" on most ballots. As has been stated countless times on this website, vote for the most conservative candidate in the primary, and vote for the Republican in the general election. If a person espouses conservative values but thinks giving democrats the leadership of our Congress is a good way to "Deliver a Spanking", they reveal a true shallowness of character and a patently immature lack of judgment.

219 posted on 10/22/2006 10:46:22 AM PDT by Rokke
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To: pollyannaish
Who cares what side....as long as they are "in range"....


220 posted on 10/22/2006 10:47:08 AM PDT by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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