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?
It won’t happen because there’s a conspiracy against it. ;-)
Excellent point, tarheel. I think Dominic will find he can't reconcile his contradictory positions, though I'm willing to watch him try.
Your politeness does you credit, Dominic.
“”’It is possible, in a few years, that folks here on FR will have a very, very different perception of Rudy. It might even be that every single prediction of gloom and doom turns out to be 100% wrong. “”’
A few months ago when I realized that we could end up with Rudy, I made an effort to warm up to him, hoping that I would find that since the years of being mayor, that he had become more reasonable.
What I came to see was that he was worst than I had realized, it wasn’t just that he isn’t conservative, it is that he really believes in many of the hard left’s positions and he is an active leader in promoting those views and implementing them into law.
It may have been pissant for instance that posted an article that showed Rudy as not just a mushy anti second amendment RHINO, but instead as an active anti-gunner politician that had a personal ambition to end gun ownership. Over the last couple of months I have learned the same about other issues such as abortion.
Now when I look at his strengths that troubled me but that I mostly admired, such as his willingness to roll over anyone to get what he wants and believes in, I realize that as President, most of that would be directed at conservatives.
JR and this thread have really knocked off some of the moss that I had accumulated, especially after our 2006 setback.
Rudy Giuliani is not just a bad conservative, he is anti-conservative.
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CPL Baum says he got the idea two days after this site was already registered:
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On Sunday November 12th I was sitting in my living room watching protesters on TV displaying Bush/Cheney signs. I turned to my loving and adoring wife and said “The campaign is over. Someone needs to come up with something more appropriate - like - oh, I don’t know - a Gore Lieberman sign that says ‘Sore Loserman.’” ...
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Moreover the site had the “Sore-Loserman” graphic before anyone at FR came up with theirs.
“Complete meltdowns” are how the dross gets removed. I wouldn’t call this one. There are still scads of liberals posting here. Jim’s barely made a dent in ‘em, IMO.
Shoot, a number of them are still even posting on this thread.
And no KITTENS. LOL
Okay, I get your point. Reagan focused on a limited number of issues, but in the end, his successes covered a multitude of issues. There is nothing wrong with debate among conservatives and we shouldn't be limiting that debate to 4 issues. The liberals didn't limit themselves when they began their leftwing crusade back in the 1960`s. Conservatives shouldn't limit their agenda today. That plays right into the hands of liberals and Democrats. Conservatives need to be broad based and proactive.
>>>>> ..... the editorial boards of mainstream conservative publications such as the WSJ, NR, and Weekly Standard have all seemed to align with a version of Bush’s plan.
I'm not so sure those three publications are as conservative today, as they once were.
One thing that surprised me was that the democrats surged left and won. The right coddled the middle on tinsel toes and broken glass and lost. It is about time that conservative principles are put back on the front burner. Someone has to move the party to the right, otherwise conservatives lose, and lose big.
Keep pushing.
It would be interesting to know how many were in the class of '97.
MEMORIES!!!!!!!!
So, maybe I’ll write a non-opus-opusi too.
NEVER to be outdone by yours...oh, trust me. Yours was The Best!!!
Semper Fi Cap :)
You’ve been spot on throughout this thread. Keep up the good work.
If a real Ronald Reagan conservative with charisma doesn't come out of the woodwork in the next 10 months, we will:
A. Support Rudy in order to keep the Hildebeast out of the White House
B. Wash our cat/hair/rug on election day
C. Run a third party pro-life, anti-gun control, anti illegal immigration candidate who will pull a Ross Perot and siphon votes from the GOP nominee
D. Drown our sorrows with our friends Jack Daniels, Jim Beam and Bud Weiser as we watch Hillary give her acceptance speech
E. All of these choices stink and we are in a world of hurt right now
Choices F-Z would be welcome at this point if anybody out there has any good ideas. As Ross Perot famously said in the '92 debate "I'm all ears".
101,267 posted on 7/23/2007 2:43:08 AM EDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store)
Thank you!
A) There was no such mission statement up in 1999.
B) None of this would have prepared anyone for Mr. Robinson’s uniformed and vicious attack on the Bush family and our intelligence agencies.
All of this occurred long before your time.
Your tolerance to liberalism and incompetence is astounding.
I hear the violins warming up now.
Work as hard as you possibly can to knock him out of the primaries. Tell everyone you know that he’s totally unfit to run as a Republican. Hit them hard with the raw ugly truth. Write letters. Post articles. Join everk stop Rudy organization you can find. The RINOs have no plan “B.” If Rudy becomes the nominee, the Democrat waltzes in and we all lose. Rudy must be knocked out NOW!
There was something at least similar. From the wayback machine, Jan 1999.
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