Posted on 05/17/2007 3:07:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
How can one support someone who won’t get off the darn fence? What’s more important, running for president, or a Hollywood contract? I like Hunter, but can he beat the machine?
I’m not much of a Christian, but I get the feeling we’re facing the “end times”. A Hillary presidency will make George Orwell look like Mother Goose. Time to buy another copy of Alexander Soltzinetzin(sp), “Gulag Archipelago”. Ayn Rand wouldn’t hurt at this point, either...
Who do you support?
I’m not much of a Christian, but I get the feeling we’re facing the “end times”.
You're right about that (the "end times" that is... :-) ... ). If we have to pull out of Iraq without really finishing the job (and I don't think it can be finished for a few years), then this will plunge us into further terrorists attacks, being emboldened by "driving out the infidel". Heck, they could lose and they would say the same thing, the way they are...
I think with a potential disaster coming down the pike (with 2008), we're looking at a lot of trouble and a build-up to that disaster scenario in the Bible called "Armageddon". It might not be too many more years down the road.
Regards,
Star Traveler
p.s. JimRob. There seems to be quite a few anti-conservative trolls on some of these threads.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. I say that, because I've been labeled anti-conservative in several ways, just by saying something about the last elections that we lost the Congress and how it's not looking good for the 2008 Presidential elections, either and a very good possibillity of the U.S. pulling out of Iraq, even though we shouldn't (we just might not have a choice, being in the minority).
Some have called me Pelosi, or Reid, or a troll, etc. So, that's why I was wondering. I was glad that someone else could see the "looming problem" -- when JimRob posted this...
Regards,
Star Traveler
You need to add: Failure for conservative politicians to really have any successful “public relations machine” in place to successfully overcome the continuous political bias of the mainstream media.
Another thing to add to this list is the fact that political correctness and the “dumbing down of the entire world” keeps getting worse everyday for everyone, and political correctness should instead be successfully put into reverse until it’s successfully and finally eliminated forever for everyone’s sake. Political correctness helped to contribute to just about everything that you mention in your list.
18 - especially 3-4
bttt
At this point, I don’t know who to support. The primaries are just getting started, and everyone is at each others throughts. It was easier last time, because Bush was already a sitting president, and we all got to watch the Dem version of Calvalcade of Clowns. Okay, Kerry worried me a little bit.
I want to support a Hunter/Thompson ticket, but Thompson has not officially declared. Some have a good point regarding his timetable, but to me it’s going to be too late. Tancredo is a good guy, but will get the Buchannan treatment.
I’m almost tempted to stay home.
I agree that the war against militant Islam is the most important issue of our time. Trouble is, Bush is bungling the job - badly. He continues to believe some things about the issue that simply aren’t true; eg “Islam is a religion of peace” and will not see the larger picture - that allowing immigration to continue from Islamic countries is only making the future situation worse.
As it is, I believe now that Bush has set us up for a now nearly inevitable attack by playing a weak hand. Bush, being a “compassionate Christian” clearly lacks the resolve necessary to crush enemies. In order to win against the Islamic mindset, one has to be ruthless. I don’t mean a little ruthless. I’m talking Vlad the Impaler ruthless. Bush is utterly incapable of doing this.
eg: The press and the liberals want to make a big deal about Gitmo and how unlawful combatants are treated. Were I in Bush’s position, I’d give the order that no more unlawful combatant prisoners are to be taken. Just kill them in the AO. The various treaties to which we are signatories make that fully legal. Armed, non-uniformed combatants on a field of battle are fair game. The Gitmo program is fully legal, but the press, lawyers and the courts want to make treaties the Islamists have never (and will never) sign apply.
Solution: use the other legal option allowed under the Geneva Convention for unlawful combatants: kill them on the field of battle. Toss their bodies into a hole and get on with the rest of our day.
Another example: Bush, in his “new tone in Washington” nonsense, has allowed Democratic operatives in the intelligence agencies to severely harm the US. Again, because he is unwilling to use power as a leader should, he refuses to deal with these people properly.
In the fullness of history, we will see how Bush was weak. He’s like Carter: a nice guy, but not capable of using force when force is needed. Yes, he has used force in launching us into war, but he wanted war fought the way nice guys fight wars, eg, Fallujah. That city should have been dealt with the first time we took it. Instead, because the local imams complained about how we were dealing with it, we withdrew.
The Democrats would not be any better on this issue, but again, a solid GOP Congress could contain much of the foolishness a DNC president would offer. As it is, look at how much trouble the GOP Congress is having trying to push back on some of Bush’s foolishness. They get their heads beat in by guys like Rove in private meetings. If it were a Democrat in the Big Chair, people in a GOP Congress wouldn’t have to take a meeting with the president’s political operatives due to “party loyalty” — the GOP members of Congress would be able to tell a Rove-like character to go pound sand.
Is it time for a new party yet?
18 Most of the Above & 20 Other.
Why Other? Because they have another year and a half to find new and creative ways to stab conservatives in the back.
It wouldn't be the first time a Bush handed the presidency over to a Clinton.
18
It will be #21 - The betrayal by conservatives who stayed home on election day 2008.
At least that’s what the bots on FR will try to claim.
I mean, it’s working so well for them WRT the 2006 election.
You can be a pretty gruff guy Jim, but I have to agree with you on this one. I am shaking my head at what Bush and the GOP have done to their advantages since the mandate they won in 2004.
I hate to say it, but the war. At the least, the popular thing now is to say Bush has royally messed up in Iraq. At the worst, far too many Americans want to put the heads in the sand and not recognize the need to attack our Islamo-fascist enemies.
I heard a speech from Rick Santorum lately, and he says that Tommy Franks told Bush it was mistake to portray this war as a war against cowardly terrorists. This is a real war against a completely determined enemies who will kill themselves to impose their church and state on the world. Sugar-coating this truth has only made things worse.
— JoeRepublc
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