Posted on 04/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents.
One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They never intended God or religion to be written out of public life. They never intended government to be used to deny God's existence or for government to be used to force sexual perversions onto our society or into our children's education curriculum. They never intend for government to disarm the people. They never intended for government to set up sanctuary cities for illegals. They never intended government to “rule” over the people and or to take their earnings or private property or to deprive them of their constitutional rights to free speech, free religion, private property, due process, etc. They never intended government to seize the private property of private citizens through draconian asset forfeiture laws or laws allowing government to take private property from lawful owners to give to developers. Or to seize wealth and redistribute it to others. Or to provide government forced health insurance or government forced retirement systems.
All of the above are examples of ever expanding socialism and tyranny brought to us by liberals/liberalism.
FR fights against the liberals/Democrats in all of these areas and always will. Now if liberalism infiltrates into the Republican party and Republicans start promoting all this socialist garbage, do you think that I or FR will suddenly stop fighting against it? Do you think I'm going to bow down and accept abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, global warming, illegal alien lawbreakers, gun control, asset forfeiture, socialism, tyranny, totalitarianism, etc, etc, etc, just so some fancy New York liberal lawyer can become president from the Republican party?
Do you really expect me to do that?
“Meanwhile, the pro-gun crowd has to show up and PICKET and PROTEST whenever Rudy comes to town, just to show that we still support gun rights. I don’t want a candidate I have to picket before I vote for him.”
Neither do I.
The only front-runner status Rudy has is his name recognition combined with people not being familiar with his positions yet.
Facts are facts.
I can see the bumper sticker now “I Picketed Rudy Before I Vote for Him.”
“I expect liberals to trash Reagan. I expect liberals to attack people who support conservative candidates. But this is Free Republic and we’re supposed to be conservatives. These types of attacks on conservatives should not be tolerated here. If they want to attack conservatives, they can go do it at their own stupid little site that they created to do just that. But it shouldn’t see the light of day here.”
Amen!
Maybe Im not here anymore ...
“without mentioning his outstanding fiscal conservative positions and tax cutting policies and his strength in terms of national security and hating the Arab jihadists.”
His fiscal conservative positions?
Like public funding of abortion, social services for illegals, opening a gay & lesbian health clinic etc?
His tax cutting policies? Like when he opposed eliminating the commuter tax, opposed pataki’s proposed 25% tax cut, and dismissed the flat tax?
What’s his strength in national security? What’s his experience you can point to in foreign policy or military experience? Does his kicking out the squeegee men count as experience?
So now we are left with “hating the Arab jihadists.” Wow, that’s a real qualification!
“Thankfully not in the eyes of the conservatives I know.”
The conservatives you know are probably not conservatives, they’re liberals like you. Sitting at a table of Republicans at the local GOP Club doesn’t make your opinion conservative. You keep saying you see natsec as more important, but it certainly appears that you simply don’t care (at all) about social issues...and honestly, that’s fine Peach, but that makes you a Republican not a conservative.
““I Picketed Rudy Before I Vote for Him.””
ROTFLOL!
Facts are your friend. You failed the test. Sad. You need help.
National security?
If you're so concerned with national security, why would you support someone that has created a sanctuary city for people that have entered this country illegally?
You recently picked up Steve Forbes, who is a flat-tax advocate, as an adviser. Do you also support a flat tax?
Rudy: I support simplifying the tax code. I think of the flat tax as theoretically a very good solution—and probably what we should have done when we first started the income tax. These days it would be unrealistic to go all the way to a flat tax. But you can use it as a guide to figure out how you're going to simplify taxes.
Thanks for noting it Beagle8U, this was a case where I had fallen for the pro-rudy postings and thought Rudy had endorsed the flat tax. I don't know why I keep making that mistake.
If you actually believe that, you are certifiable.
Great Post.
And it's going to be Republicans that elect the next president.
Last I heard, that Sally Hemmings stuff was unsubstantiated garbage.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_19_17/ai_75021627
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b1e31964372.htm
No, seems like everyone here is just OK with bannings instead of constructive conversation.
You want to make the tent smaller, then don’t be outraged when the bigger tent wins and runs the policies of this nation next time.
Poppy Bush introduced Bill Clinton at events as well. Says something about something? no, unless you believe in equivalence.
Nope. Facts trump emotions. Those who support infanticide will vote Democrap if a conservative wins.
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