Posted on 02/03/2008 6:34:57 AM PST by callisto
In fairness, I did at first not intend to include Ron Paul because Ron Paul is not a conservative and to my knowledge he does not claim to be one. He is a libertarian, and unfortunately for other libertarians he occupies the lunatic fringe. Some of the things he espouses are spot on. Others are just plain insane and lunacy. I don’t think he is totally in possession of his sanity, so I don’t take him seriously.
What we need is more vanities, not action!
THAT is what will save the Republic!
No. I’m not willing to saddle America with a Democrat president just because I don’t think the Republican field is good enough. And never have been. And as long as the Democrats are as they are now, never will be. I’m especially not willing to saddle America with Hillary Clinton just because I don’t think the Republican field is good enough. And never have been. And as long as Hillary, and Bill, and their followers, are as they are now, never will be.
Are you?
Sure. You and 50 other people have constrained themselves to a single vanity recently.
No problem. Enjoy.
I just think the fact that so many people are being stirred to espouse the ultimate political philosophy of all time just really says more than the individual posts.
It's the golden age of inactivism!
Excellent post.
However; do we really have a choice? Our choices look a lot like what the voters in the Soviet Union had to choose from.
What would our founders do?
Thank you Callisto. I do appreciate that others are wrestling with the same decision I am this year.
The status quo just doesn’t seem to be the answer any more. We have continued to support the people our early primaries foist off on the rest of us election after election, until now we are evening willing to take the dumbed down (with regard to conservatism and sound policy), John McCain. Folks, John McCain? I haven’t been a big fan of President Bush, but John McCain when he took him to task, did it from the left side of the isle in nearly every instance. Where was John McCain when Bush was implementing leftist policy. If not right there with him, he was criticizing it for not being leftist enough. Doesn’t that tell you anything? As bad as Bush has been on many issues, we’re about to sign on to a worse fate. Not no, but HELL NO!
The Republican party has adopted rules that allow crossover voters (read that democrats and independents) to decide who our nominees are going to be, before good solid Republicans even get a chance to vote. We’ve had a few million people cast votes for our nominee this year, many of them being democrats and independents, yet the decsion is nearly made. Essentially all but two candidates have been eliminated, under the rules the Republican party has devised to usher in a still more leftist individual election after election. When will this end? If we vote the status quo this year, it could actually mean the loss of portions of our sovereignty. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
I realize it’s a very hard thing to ask. It is hard for me too. I hate being in this position. I hate being confronted with four years of leadership with one of the four people left in the races. The problem for you and I is that if we don’t take a stand now, in four years we’ll have candidates that are even worse than these. And if we go along to get along then, in eight years we’ll be faced with something even worse than that, and in twelve years, I cringe to think what we will be facing.
Folks why are the candidates worse every four years? They are wose because our situation becomes more critical. And when the election comes, we’re blackmailed into poor choices. This year the boogie man is Hillary or perhaps Barak. Are the choices in four years going to be any better if John McCain governs from the left and puts us on the verge of some cataclism? No. And that is what he will do, because controlling us is paramount. Some of you think this election is about saving the nation. Get real. It is about the continuation of herding us into the decisions they have caused us to have to make.
Isn’t it obvious to you that the status quo isn’t working. Serioiusly? Please be very careful what you do this election. I don’t know how many we have left.
Thomas Jefferson, 1787And, no, I am not advocating violence. I will wait to see the direction our country heads before ever contemplating any such action. I feel we have tried the first idea expounded by Jefferson and I pray we never have to return to the second.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson, 1820
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
The problem is, that a brokered convention pretty much gives John the nomination.
He has the most push with the K street boys, and the most history in the GOP elitist circles from which the electors are certainly going to be culled.
Other than vote, write letters, donate and talk to friends and co-workers, etc., what can one do? Half the country wants full on hard-core socialism. We’re about half way there I recon.
I heard an audio clip of a crowd cheering when Clinton said she wanted to raise taxes. It’s sad we’ve come to a point where Americans are cheering for a politican to raise their taxes. That’s what we get for allowing socialists to take over education, the media and entertainment. The non-stop socialist brain-washing seems to be working.
bit dramatic
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A good one too!
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Post away but don't credit me. Two other FReepers put it together and I was grabbin stuff so fast one day that I clean forgot to get their names.
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