Posted on 03/04/2007 4:46:35 PM PST by johniegrad
Sadly, I agree. We're much better at strategy than at planning. Imagine that! Socialists are always better at planning, because they like telling other folks what to do.
The reason I'm a Republican is not because I agree 100% with the GOP platform, but because the GOP is closest to my beliefs:
- Follow the Constitution
- Lowest common denominator government
- Every penny taxed that is not necessary is legalized theft
- Strong defense, including protection of our borders
- Separation of Church and State does not mean banishment of religion from public life
- Our rights are, indeed, God-given rights and we should acknowledge that
- Constitutionalist judges and justices
- Encourage entrepreneurs
- Encourage marriage, which consists of 1 (one) man and 1 (one) woman
- Be good stewards of the Earth. In other words, drill and mine carefully.
- Second Amendment rights, etc.
- Abortion in limited sitautions (life of the mother, etc.)
Anyway, oh yeah, we were talking about planning . . . See how easily distracted I can be?
Thanks for the pingg...oh, you didn't ping me to that.
Why not?
Good for you for keeping an open mind, rdb3. That's all we can ask of anyone.
I don' think there is any reason to jump on the bandwagon if you don't wish to do so. I can only speak for myself when I say that I've hoped Rudy would run for the presidency long before he announced.
I'm back :-)
Open minds. Fertile ground for future injections of mush.
Thoughtful, good post.
Here's a recent one by me:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794672/posts?page=206#206
Exactly so, CWOJackson.
It may not seem a big thing to you, but the truth is a bit different and a significant factor in the degrading of our culture. At the time Goldwater ran for President, abortion was legal in all the United States and territories to save the life of the mother. What wasn't legal was abortion on demand, to terminate the life of an alive unborn child just because the pregnant female wanted to be rid of the pregnancy burden.
If you cannot see how this difference in perspective pre and post Roe has debased out culture with abortion on demand, then you will find it hard to comprehend why we 'social right' conservatives are still fighting this battle of wholesale slaughter of alive unborn children.
When Goldwater ran for President, homosexuality was defined in Clinical Psychology texts (and I know because I sold them to colleges and universities shortly after that time) as aberrant behavior, with deadly consequences to life and health ... and that was prior to the emergence of HIV and AIDS (and I know about that too, because I was a pharmaceutical rep when that epidemic broke upon humanity). And we could go to other 'social issues', but I trust you get the point.
Ping, if you get back to this thread on Monday.
But I should have, Registered. My old fingers aren't what they used to be.
"This has led to some acromonious discussions"
It's hard to get serious attention when your very first paragraph has a simple spelling error easily correctable by the use of the built in spell checker. It is worse yet to make, as the body of your argument, the improperly credited mission statement as though fault lies within its body.
In short, this site is not for the casually interested, but more for the serious student of the political winds that blow; and, if indeed they blow from the conservative corner of our world, we need honor the tradition which gave birth to this current and stand steadfast toward where the current takes us and ensure that when all the dust has settled that the trail behind us is not littered with the castoffs of our inconvenient baggage.
I am as guilty or more guilty than most for indulging in sesquipedalianism; but I am and remain as serious as a heart attack.
Every time I see this site sideswiped, I grimace and wonder whether not it was a simple, glancing blow or an aggressive shot across this proud bow.
I preach; I'm out of character, I shall resume jesting.
Over.
Preach on, Professor: none are too old to learn; none are so informed that they cannot comprehend a new thought; and none are so damned right that they cannot be edified.
Very nice post, SoA.
Conservatives do well when we talk about the underlying philosophy of our beliefs. We need a foundation for our beliefs (and if you want to wax Biblical on this, of course, the house built on stone and not on sand) because without one, our beliefs just become a list of issues. It should be more than that.
I wonder if political liberals understand that they are mostly several single-issue groups lumped together? It is very hard to find a political liberal who will talk about his/her underlying beliefs. Try one sometime; it's great entertainment.
you must do selective reading...the mud is being slung at the Rudy supporters who do try to do just that...someone posted today that 15% of the people post 70% of the threads...my response to that was why don't the 85% post any threads...I'm still waiting for an answer...I'll still be waiting tomorrow...any thread right now on any forum of FR is fair game to bash Rudy supporters....no matter what the topic...
Who posts which threads is irrelevant. If all of us tried to spend more time posting threads than responding to them, we'd never have any discussions. Free Republic would simply be a site where people could read internet news stories from other places.
Bill
takes all kinds doesn't it?
>>> "It is very hard to find a political liberal who will talk about his/her underlying beliefs. Try one sometime; it's great entertainment." <<<
I missed the memo too dang it
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