Posted on 11/08/2006 11:54:25 AM PST by Ol' Sparky
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Well-said!
You think it is psychotic to not vote for a candidate who supported something you didn't?
Frankly, Republicans gave REPUBLICANS no reason to vote for them, or very little, certainly not enough to get them to turn out in numbers sufficient for a victory. In my case, I've simply lost the ability to deny the glaring truth that we should not still be in Iraq. This should have been over long before this election. What good is it to control the planet's most powerful military if we lack the conviction to project the force necessary to prevail?
Unfortunately, I see it playing out much as you've described. We will win this clash of civilizations, but only after much more bloodshed. We woke up for a minute after 9-11, but if there's anything Bush should be faulted for, it's for letting us fall back asleep.
If the wacko conspiracy nuts had been right, we would have had another 9-11 a month ago...
I think it's psychotic to think that 1 person is going to do what you want them to do 100% of the time. YES.
Exactly right. Rush has just admitted to lying for the sake of expediency.
"Rush didn't say anything that any self-respecting conservative hasn't said over the past 12 years. If anyone is made uncomfortable by Rush's remarks, it's those who sought to liberalize the Republican party with their RINO candidates. And personally, I hope they feel every steel-toed strike of those kicks. They bleeding earned it...and worse."
Absolutely.
Your comment sounds exactly like those of so the called (R's) who wanted to punish the GOP by being the "cut-N-run" "R" "voters"!
Do you belong to one of those?
What happened to the Contract with America???
Well, then avoid Pennsylvania and possibly a few other states because there are some psychos out there. :()
BTW, I don't know 100% for certain that there are folks who voted against Santorum or avoided voting at all due to the Specter deal. I am recalling the posts about the subject from 2004. There were multiple FReepers who said they would not support Santorum after that.
Your comment sounds exactly like those of so the called (R's) who wanted to punish the GOP by being the "cut-N-run" "R" "voters"!
Do you belong to one of those?
What happened to the Contract with America???
At this point we should be helping the shattered Arab and Persian societies by eliminating ALL of what remains of their predestruction leadership and rebuilding the societies with heavy use of Christian missionaries and schools and prohibition of madrassas and mohammedan teaching in schools. The religion cannot be effectively prohibited but as an occupying force in devastated countries we can control the schools. This is, indeed, a religious war, if not for us, it is for the enemy. We must change their religion for our own security. What it is changed to is not terribly important for security but Christianity is the available tool.
You just made my point. Thank you.
Frankly, Republicans gave REPUBLICANS no reason to vote for them, or very little, certainly not enough to get them to turn out in numbers sufficient for a victory. In my case, I've simply lost the ability to deny the glaring truth that we should not still be in Iraq. This should have been over long before this election. What good is it to control the planet's most powerful military if we lack the conviction to project the force necessary to prevail?
Unfortunately, I see it playing out much as you've described. We will win this clash of civilizations, but only after much more bloodshed. We woke up for a minute after 9-11, but if there's anything Bush should be faulted for, it's for letting us fall back asleep.
If the wacko conspiracy nuts had been right, we would have had another 9-11 a month ago...
lol
"It's time we all grow a set the size of grapefruits, take off our gloves, and pound the liberals down into the ground."
Damn right.
There hasn't been a pair of balls in this administration (with the exception of John Bolton) since I can remember.
We've been getting pushed around by everyone, including Iran, Syria, Russia, China and the new government in Iraq. Chavez and Achmadinejad mock us with impunity. Oh, excuse me, I remember now - we can bully Israel all we want. Do the Islamo-fascists fear us? Not anymore.
On the streets of our own country, illegals march by the hundreds of thousands, and what was done? Nothing. Was there a statement made, like militarizing the border? No.
In Congress, they pass a ridiculous restriction on freedom of speech, called McCain-Feingold. Bush thought the campaign finance law was unconstitutional. Did he veto it? No.
I could go on and on, but I'm just too disgusted and dispirited. This country is a laughing stock, now. We've been pacified, feminized and sensitized, and we're being led by cowards and socialists.
I get a kick when I see Freepers deluding themselves as they talk about turning Riyadh or Tehran into glass. We have the might, but we so lack the will. We will never win another war, because we can't stand casualites, ours or theirs. And noone will be stupid enough to fight us with a set-piece army after witnessing the destruction of the Republican Guard in Gulf I.
Thank God I'll be dead for the finale - but my poor grandchildren will have to witness it. And don't forget, the America we knew from it's birth to 1950 or so will disappear when the history books are re-written.
Feh.
Find the guy (or his descendant) who figured out that shaking up Nagasaki and Hiroshima would end WWII. I'll vote for him.
Are you prepared to put 500,000-1,000,000 troops into Iraq to secure the country and protect those missionaries? I think you just decribed the perfect way to prove to the entire Muslim world that bin Laden is "right" about us. You have outlined the perfect plan to reunite the people of Iraq (Sunni, Shia, and Kurd,) against us forever.
If so, you'll be among the lucky ones.
Yeah. Good points. On the 9/11, he could have done a commission---with Mark Levine, and Michael Ledeen, etc. Let THEM torch Clinton. The point is, you cannot, as you point out, in this age of media dominance, cede entire debates about motivation and behavior out of "niceness."
Well, they have two years to do this. It wouldn't occur overnight, and by the time enlistments run out, the Dems could have done their damage.
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