Posted on 01/19/2007 6:28:23 AM PST by knowseverything
I think maybe this belongs on your profile page
The experience of caring for children is what makes us caring human beings. Everything else is sophistry. Your head will continue to spin in circles until you focus on that which is most important in life - your family and children.
It is good to know that you have learned some things, IN SPITE of having been through the public school system. I believe that their is a huge number of people out there who believe exactly as you do.
nuconvert is correct; and btw, you're probably still more liberal than half of the freeper population.
Well written! Always good to know that some younger people use thier head and common sense. I agree with everything you wrote. I had a discussion with a friend yesterday about being a conservative today seems to be a man alone on an island. We live in Richmond, VA where Gov Kaine, Sen Webb have taken over. Other "conservatives" in our office have started the old "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" BS and it makes you wonder about this country and where it's headed. People throw in the towell so quickly over anything that represents a hassle. The War in Iraq, higher taxes, turning into a blue state et al is met with a "Oh Well" attitude. Good post on your part!
I concur with most of what you say, especially the level of frustration at finding the "perfect" conservative candidate.
Years ago, watching an old Bill Buckley interview, he said "I vote for the most conservative viable option"...it is not perfect, but it has made it easier for me to join the practicalities and the realities of politics with my individual, opinionated views.
For me, the advent of Fox news and the internet was like a swift kick to the gut....I knew at some level I had spent the better part of my life not getting the full story, but there was an actual feeling of loss and disappointment (as dorky as that sounds) when I realised the depths to which Rather, Brokaw and Jennings betrayed my trust...
Makes sense to me. I don't think of myself so much as "pro-life" as "anti-abortion". Sadly, capital punishment is necessary for the safety of the rest of us and self-defense should always end up with harm or even death to the aggressor. I personally have no interest in going into the woods to kill my dinner, but might change my mind if there weren't grocery stores readily available. We are left with very little to actually vote for and what we do vote for seldom happens anyway, so I can agree to the simple "pro-life" standard. Not that it's not subject to the same deceit and obfuscation as everything else, but, if I do my best to ascertain that there aren't good reasons to believe the candidate is lying about their position, I've voted in good conscience.
Or something to that effect...
Just wait until you approach 60 and realize that "Lord of the Rings" wasn't just a book/movie but something you are living through.
Kind of explains why the left is so frantic over the rise of FNC. They know that the truth is spoken by Brit Hume, every day!
> As I approach 30
Sounds like you have your head screwed on pretty straight to me.
Even for such a young pup, who still knows everything.
"Just wait until you approach 60 and realize that "Lord of the Rings" wasn't just a book/movie but something you are living through."
YES, YES, YES. A metaphor for our times. Must history always repeat itself?
All I can say to a 30 year old is get involved and learn what it takes to get things done. It all you do is vote every few years, you can't expect much. Don't succomb to the Lone Ranger syndrome which at its most extreme will have you conclude that you need to isolate in a cabin like Ted Kazinski.
To bad the Republican party has moved away from this kind of voter .... because he is just like me.
See, getting older isn't so bad . . . especially when you consider the alternative.
Me too.
My oh my, I thought I was alone! Great piece!
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