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.
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...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?
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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 ...
I will not participate in this Oprah-like "spanking" drama, my SMACK is going towards our enemies, the DNC/MSM.
I'll breathlessly await the counterpart article that tells Democrats to "teach their leadership a lesson" by voting Republican.
The time to teach a lesson is in the primaries. Stupid voter...
YEAH! Let's allow the pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-gay marriage, terrorist appeasing, tax raising, open borders, big government Democrats run the show for a few decades. That'll teach those wascally Webuplicans a lesson they'll never forget!
You know most of the people spouting this drivel never supported the GOP or Bush; and they come back every election cycle to post crap just like this.
Exactly!
The "I'm a Republican but..." contingent! Sure.
You know what cracks me up about all this?
If we lose the House, Republicans are going to think they have to be MORE moderate and when they run again, it will be from a left of center position.
So freepers and voters who think it's wise to deliver a lesson and not vote are just plain naive.
While a Democrat controlled Congress seething with hatred for Bush might consume all of its time crafting an impeachment, I'm worried about other consequences. The cut and run crowd will do everything it can to withdraw forces from Iraq, largely by defunding the war. This will leave our service men and women unequipped and more vulnerable to the insurgents. This cut and run will also embolden Islamic fascists worldwide and I think would be a prelude to more 9-11 size attacks on US soil.
This does not reduce the size and scope of the federal government. It may make it easier to know how the size and scope of the federal government is growing, but it reduces nothing.
The Republicans only slow the growth but they do not reduce it, and you can't point to any evidence that they do.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108066,00.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9307-2005Feb8.html
http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=479&sortorder=articledate
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/05/01/david-frum/republicans-and-the-flight-of-opportunity/
The Republicans have squandered opportunity after opportunity in their domestic agenda. As a party, they are not interested in shrinking federal authority.
It's saying to Repubs "I'm not voting for you, but my not voting will by default enable DemocRATS to win the election
WHO HAVE OBSTRUCTED OUR AGENDA OF COURT APPOINTMENTS,
WHO WILL RAISE OUR TAXES,
WHO HAVE SOLD OUT OUR NATIONAL SECURITY WITH LEAKS,
WHO HAVE PUSHED FOR THEIR AL QUEDA BILL OF RIGHTS,
WHO HAVE SOUGHT TO CRIMINALIZE CONSERVATISM WITH TRUMPED UP CHARGES...
ETC. ETC. ETC.
Absolutely. I was one of the very angry conservatives when the Senate, in its infinate wisdom, chose to vote in favor of amnesty for illegals. I spoke strongly against the move, and I questioned why we would bother supporting a party that chose to invite 15 million future liberal voters to stay in the country. Add in the excessive spending on the part of our Republicans and the result was me being a very disgruntled voter.
But then I took some time to think about the issues - all the issues.
Consider the next appointment or two to the supreme court.
Consider two years of needless impeachment hearings.
Consider re-enactment of the "fairness" doctrine, whose only result would be silencing of the few remaining conservative voices (and we know by the persecution of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter that the dems want them silenced).
Consider the re-enactment of the assault weapons bill, along with some additional gun control bills used to further restrict the second amendment (and consider the purpose of the second amendment).
Consider how the tax cuts will expire, and would likely be replaced by tax cuts for those that already pay little or no federal income tax.
Consider drastic expansion of the socialism that democrats support.
Consider federalized health care.
Consider "means-testing" for social security recipients so that any remaining connection between "paid in" and "collected" is permanently severed.
Consider cutting and running from Iraq, thus presenting to the world another defeat for America, and a defeat for freedom in the middle east. That would certainly embolden our enemies.
I'm sure I've missed plenty of the leftist's pet ideas, but I will say that all things considered, there is no reason to let the democrats win in any election this year. No reason at all.
There may be a need for spanking of many Republicans, but there's no reason whatsoever to spank the entire country. I'll be voting "R" on November 7th, and if you consider all the issues at stake, you should do the same.
This web site is supporting the Rs this year.
excellent post
We've won without them before in 2000 and 2002 and 2004.
I suspect that's what all the whining is about.
So it's "Cut-off-nose-to-spite-face Time?"
How is "Speaker Pelosi" going to help the COnservative cause
Amen. A few weeks ago, I was with a liberal friend of mine who's normally very nice and approachable when he doesn't talk about politics, and he actually said that he thinks if the Republicans win these elections, America will become a police state. The fact that I greatly value his friendship was the only thing that kept me from laughing out loud when he said that. I think he's watched 'V for Vendetta' a few too many times. I'll be voting GOP, without a doubt.
We do have a genuine conservative running for governor, J. Kenneth Blackwell, but, if the polls are correct, people who think like you in my state, want to punish the GOP and elect Ted Strickland, a man who will raise taxes even more most likely to pay for his "pie-in-the-sky" programs and (as evidenced in how he ran his own campaign office some years ago and his vote in the House in 1999) most likely be soft on sexual predators!
Ken Blackwell has been Ohio's son for years, devoting his life to public office and doing Ohio some good. Again, if the polls are right, he may not even save Ohio because of stupid idiots not wanting to make the distintion that he is NOT Bob Taft! He could be punished because of the very person whose policies he campaigned AGAINST! This is what happens when those who want to "punish" the GOP get so myopic, that all they see is "GOP" AND IT MUST BE SPANKED!
So, excuse me if I don't jump on this bandwagon of "punishing the GOP". I MAY get to see this type of "cutting off the nose to spite the face" mess up close and personal in my state.
I have a very strong hunch that Hillary will run as an independent. She'll try to do what Joe Lieberman is doing and start scolding out democrats.
This could especially happen after Al Gore wins the dem nomination.
She and her buddy have been pushing this crap as long as I can remember.
Alas, Badray is "absent" today.
Put the Democrats in congress and the senate and we're done in Iraq.
Which is even one more reason to question the current Republican candidates who have deserted the conservative cause.
Today on Fox Joe Biden, of all people, confided that at least three Republican Senators promised him that they will come out AFTER the election to condemn the war in Iraq. Add them to the Hagels and Chaffees and Snowes and Lugars and Warners and McCains and it looks like the same people who backstabbed America on illegal immigration will now do it on the war.
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