Posted on 02/28/2007 7:54:19 AM PST by Al Simmons
It's obvious that's what you meant. You said "he", not "it".
Well said, Cold Heat.
I'm thinking it was more of a team effort.
What are you babbling about?
My "type"? What "type" is that?
You have proven yourself unable to tell the truth about this matter.
If only you were somebody who mattered.
That's the peril of a democratic republic. It functions on the will of the people, and is subject to national mood swings. That mood is like the wind. You can sail with it, tack (i.e. zigzag) against it, or sail dead into it. We can't sail with it, and we're dead in the water if we sail into it.
We might not like the idea of a guy who will be strong on national defense, and weak on domestic issues. But the voter will go with him, or go with an outright weak-on-everything leftist. They aren't looking for Newt Gingrich or Dick Cheney.
Call the voters what you want. Irrational, immature, childish, spoiled, you name it. They may be all of those things, but it's America, and you either play the system, or it'll play you. I'd love to see some meat eating, fire breathing conservative jump to the fore and start reading liberals the riot act, but it's not in the cards for 2008.
If they kept driving by with their lights-a-flashin' and their siren-a-blarin', I'd be a little more than ticked off.
It could have been a flaming lesbian.
Placemarker
I am certainly not a Rudy-Hater. I would just rather have a real true conservative win the Republican nomination, and there is still a chance for that to happen. I am supporting Duncan Hunter and hope he wins the nomination. If it does not happen, then I will have to vote for the winner no matter who it is. In that case, it will be anyone but the Democrat!
Not sure I agree entirely with his premise. It does make sense that about 1/3 of Americans are doctrinaire liberals and 1/3 are doctrinaire conservatives. But defining what constitutes the middle ground is the issue.
I refuse to believe that middle of the road Americans support unconditional abortion, illegal alien amnesty,
homosexuality as an equivalent lifestyle to heterosexuality, and disarmanment of law-abiding citizens as a neccessary or wise objective.
Yet the far left - that 33% of Dems believe this.
Their candidates reflect it and they manage to get nominated and elected. And I believe this happens because the Democrat party is more dedicated to the premise that their ideas are the correct ones, they are more ideologically unified, less willing to compromise, and they are far more dedicated to achieving their objectives.
Republicans on the other hand, are NOT ideologically unified, they frequently are willing to compromise on issues in a manner that provides the Democrat left with a moral victory, they more frequently fail to deliver to their base, they become retrospective and defeatist when they loose, and are willing to shift positions to the left in an effort - generally failed - to secure left wing voters. A far larger percentage of Republican leaders are more than willing to compromise what they present as their core values in an effort to win an election, than are Demcorats and I believe every time they do this, they loose.
A Republican can't win an election running as Democrat light.
Criminals and convicted felons should NOT be allowed to own guns and that is a national law, isn't it?
When we are facing a world wide onslaught by Islamonazis, abortion, as a topic, needs must be placed on a back burner.
Where DID those "principles" get people who stayed home or voted for Perot, because they were upset by President Bush the elder's "READ MY LIPS" remark and then had the Dems make him break it. They never have condemned the Dems; only the elder Bush.
If only I cared what you thought.
Which I don't, btw.
Me, too!
I can't follow your little hen party cluckings, no.
I am curious. Who does matter?
Honest question.
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