Posted on 02/28/2007 7:54:19 AM PST by Al Simmons
EV turned down a job offer from Karl Rove in Philly at the RNC convention in 2000.
Hopefully. But this thread is a good example of what we're up against.
Yeah, those all-or-nothing Christian voters sure did show the American citizens by preventing a liberal like Bob Dole from becoming President. Good Lord.
You are forgetting something in your calculations: 9/11.
I don't think you guys have a clue about the number of voters whose main issue is the war on terror. Or you do, and that scares you more than terrorism on our own soil.
Gonna be hard to do when you alienate so many who do not share your pup tent.
"Yeah, he's a socialist."
Hmmmm...a socialist who believes in free enterprise, tax cuts and is anti-affirmative action....something wrong with this picture?
I'm talking about returning the party to the same condition it was in before 2000, and not the 1800s.
There was purpose and unity in the party then, and people like yourself were independents and most had voted for Perot or backed pat Robertson.
Those days were a hell of a lot better than the present.
When your house guests trash your property, you have only one course of action, and that is to remove the guests who offend.
See ya!
Better get goin'. Hunter went from 2% to a footnote asterisk in the latest ABC/WaPo poll.
"They'd rather be irrelevant than compromise."
Irrelevant under a Dim admin
Irrelevant under a Republican admin
Either way it's still irrelevant.
I am not even registered Republican anymore. Here in NC, there is no registration for "libertarian" so I am independent. That said, I am fervently pro-life. THAT said, I am for the sovereignty of the states in deciding the issue, the way it was before ROE (legal issues which touch on personal morality, including porn, homosexuality, etc, are best decided locally). I believe in EVERY SINGLE PLANK of the Christian Right, I just don't believe in the usurpation of Federal power to do so. I believe that judges should have a "litmus test" regarding their views on federalism, not abortion. The Christian Right, which I grew up with, has whored itself out to the pursuit of political power on the federal level. It should repent and get back to the job of espousing the happy state of being cleansed by the grace of Jesus, and the personal responsibilities to repudiate the false god of more and more trinkets and toys, while hoping that they can get some guy in power who will stave off cultural collapse. This is worshiping a false god, or what the old faithful called "idolatry."
Seems to me this thread is about you being as divisive as possible. This is what scumbag fifth columnists do, infiltrate a group and try to turn the group against a common cause.
I have no idea where this comes from. I remember Common Tator as a huge Blackwell supporter and local party (Ohio) Republican official. The last I heard was that he had some health problems and needed our prayers.
Common Tator was no liberal, and its shameful to post your obloquy when he can't be here to defend himself.
That is the only name calling you recognize? That's pretty dishonest.
OK. I AM GONNA POST IN CAPS SO EVERYONE SEES THIS REPLY.
BY 'RUDY-HATER' I HAVE REFERRED (AS I EXPLAINED EARLIER) TO ABOUT A HALF-DOZEN POSTERS WHOSE VICIOUS POSTS ARE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS SUCH. THOSE ARE THE FOLKS THROWING WORDS LIKE "TRAITOR" AND "LIBERAL" AT THOSE WHO ARE OPEN TO A RUDY CANDIDACY.
IN USING THIS TERM I IN NO WAY INTENDED TO LUMP THE VAST MAJORITY OF POLITE FREEPERS, WHO HAVE LEGITIMATE RESERVATIONSW ABOUT RUDY, WITH THE FORMER CROWD.
IF ANY OF THE LATTER FOLKS HAVE BEEN OFFENDED, I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. I WAS NOT REFERRING TO YOU, AS I BELIEVE I HAVE HAD TO REPEAT A FEW TIMES ON THESE THREADS.
OTOH, MY USE OF THE TERM AS A 'HOOK' TO GET PEOPLE TO READ MY LAST TWO THREADS HAS WORKED WELL. TO THE EXTENT THAT HAS ADVANCED DEBATE, I THINK IT WAS ON BALANCE WARRANTED.
SOAPBOX OFF.
Ecclesiastes 3
1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Id rather hang out in your kitchen
As I see it, we would pick up the blue dog Dem's who are in the fight of their lives right now with their party.
We could have them all, and send the Dem's our fine upstanding moralist friends who would rather saw off the limb they are sitting on, then sit next to a social moderate or learn the art of politics.
Great post and thank you for making it. I remember those days too.
It's gotten so bad around here that the other night we were treated to a vanity piece that Rudy supporters are treasonous liberals, a position held by the powers that be around here.
A lot of veterans and others were outraged that supporting a Republican could cause such overheated hyperbole.
Most of my posts on this thread have either been Jim Robinson's views, which I agree with, or responses to vicious personal attacks similar to the ones you regularly employ.
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