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?
I too suspect that he was a retread. Don't know who he was, but management has NO tolerance for retreads. None.
No one is denying you that right. Certainly not I.
You’re not content on a Rudy sliming thread to stop there, EVie, you’ve got to slime the favorite of many of us here. You are a slime boy.
Which will cease to exist if Rudy cons his way into the WH.
No need to ask him. He’s already stated the truth. And he says if we don’t like it, don’t vote for him. Thanks. We won’t.
The road to the nomination is an ugly one, but I am not a party to it -— I am content to wait until the first of the candidate debates to select my favorite and at this point I do not have a favorite “announced” candidate.
I am, however, hoping and humbly praying for Fred Thompson to enter the race for the GOP nomination.
I much prefer to be FOR a candidate than against his rivals, since one will eventually emerge the winner and that man will get my vote in the general election.
Why do you insist upon ignoring his ENTIRE political career?! What he says NOW is meaningless when compared to his flaming liberal history as Mayor of NYC.
Have a good night everybody.
It’s important to remember he was scraping the bottom and in december of 2003 had started loaning money to his campaign.
This is why citing all the polls showing rudy leading the pack or hillary leading the pack or rudy beating hillary are rather ridiculous at this point in time. Those aren’t the numbers that matter now.
Hyperbole much?
I don’t care about Badnarik. He’s not an elected official. You said Paul was pro-homosexual rights and he’s not.
But, evidently, hyperbole will still exist?
Go to bed.
Keep shooting in a circle, soon you will be the only one left standing.
the problem is going to come, when Thompson is fully vetted on the abortion and gay issue. President Thompson isn’t going to be able to do a thing about gay civil unions in the states, and when he is forced to give full and complete answers (as opposed to the “hot button” answer “I’m against gay marriage”) on the topic, it will become clear. On abortion, Thompson is pro-life. OK, so let’s say Roe goes (on constitutional grounds) in a Thompson presidency - what’s the pro-life movement going to do when no more then 2 states vote to outlaw abortion for adult women in the first trimester? Is Thompson for a constitutional amendment banning all abortion, which is the next logical, legal, conservative step in the pro-life advance? I doubt he will take that position.
What is sad is to support someone that advocates breaking most the other 10 commandments.
BUT HE HAS AN 'R' NEXT TO HIS NAME!
I'm convinced if Obama switched to republican and doublespoke some conservative values thing, there would be a crowd here screaming "HE CAN BEAT HILLARY!"
Did I mention ANYTHING about any other candidate ???
Nope .. I don’t recall doing that
I just commented that Ron Paul is a Loon, which he is
Good news is always grand is it not?
I agree. Let's bring all idea's to the table through the debate process, then we can start gleaning our candidate.
I have faith in the American people. This idea that we have to filter out candidates before the first debate is ever held is absurd.
"I'm not ready to go there yet."
Conceding that McCain-Feingold hasn't worked as intended, and is being riddled with new loopholes, he [Fred Thompson] throws his hands open in exasperation."I'm not prepared to go there yet, but I wonder if we shouldn't just take off the limits and have full disclosure with harsh penalties for not reporting everything on the Internet immediately."
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