Posted on 11/09/2008 5:08:10 AM PST by vietvet67
I'm sure you are correct, however I demand that they cease and desist immediately. The reason the conservatives have lost control is because they have allowed this psychobabble to continue unabated.
Take back the language!
Republican and Conservative are NOT synonymous!
Yet it was rock ribbed conservative South Carolina that
sealed the deal for Bush 2 and McCain.
I understand the premise...a lesser evil is still evil.
My point was that I cannot believe a real conservative would actually VOTE FOR the greater evil. Abstain from voting-yes, write in a conservative-yes, vote for the greater evil-NO!
BULL
Has there been a report on how the PUMA's voted?
If their 18 million voted for the "R" than he sure didn't have many actual republicans or conservatives voting for him.
Democrats voted for Obama is almost precisely the same percentage that they did for Kerry, four years ago.
The so-called "PUMA" phenomenon was (roughly) about 99% hype.
Yeah, that's what I thought, but was wondering if anyone had the guts to say it, since we welcomed them with open arms and all.
Even excising Aztlan will not change the electoral makeup of the citizenry of the remaining USA. The border with Aztlan would just be the border which they have to cross to reach Los Estados Unidos del Norte. The will wet thier backs on the Sabine River or the Platte or maybe the Mississippi.
very insightful of you
I think most Republicans have been in Washington, DC, waaay too long (as I also think most Democrats have been) and that their ability to see the forest is hampered by their ability to see the lobbyists and the 527’s and their own cushy benefit plan.
Democrats do not know what they’re doing. Some of you will think I’m crazy for saying that, but look at the whole picture. Pelosi doesn’t want Union Vineyard workers, but the Democrat agenda includes Unionization without secret ballot. Doesn’t she pay attention to what that can mean to her? Nope. She got caught in the Followership or Followorship of Barack Obama. And it will probably come back to bite her. There are a lot of people who think that Obama is going to instantly “share the wealth” and pay their mortgages and car payments and get them free gasoline. Why do you think there were so many street celebrations? Obama is their Sugar Daddy, they think.
The bigger picture of what Obama promised as opposed to what Obama can actually accomplish in the next twelve to eighteen months before the Followorshipers finally wake up and smell the coffee is minute in comparison. No one’s mortgage is going to get paid and no one is going to have a free Obamobile complete with lifetime gasoline. It’s not going to happen. And not just because old-line Republicans are going to fight tooth and nail against it in Congress. It’s not going to happen because Pres GeoWBush threw a One Trillion Dollar bailout into the economy. And into Obama’s lap. It’s his ‘hot potato’ and now he has to find a way to handle it. Although I think it was innocently done, it was a fantastic move on Bush’s part. “Here, PresElectObama, hold onto this and let’s see what you can do with it.”
The bigger picture is that BIG Government just gave away those mortgage payments and free cars to BIG Companies who have no plans to share their wealth (except to CEOs and for vacation trips). And it’s too late to call that back. Open ended and no preconditioned bail out from Congress will destroy the US economy faster than Obama can raise taxes or get his agenda of freebies to his adoring Followorshipers.
What Conservative VOTERS must do is hang onto the coat tails of their Representatives and Senators and make a LOT of Conservative, Traditionalist, Constitutionalist NOISE! And we MUST remain active in local politics so that we can promote good, solid, American Conservatives to run for Congress in 2010. We CANNOT allow the old-guard comfy Republicans to remain in Congress any longer. We must replace them and any Democrat we can, with Pro-USofA Republican (or even Libertarian etc) Congresscritters.
AND we must contribute the money these fresh Republican faces will need to get elected.
GWB was a pretty good candidate, even if his performance in office was somewhat lackluster.
At least GWB had the guts to run hard and win.
Dole and McCain had this loser "we have to be gentlemen" mentality where they were afraid to hit too hard.
Actually, I think it has something to do with the era they were raised in, with these "Queen of Marquesbury" rules.
Meanwhile, the lib Democrat media (triple redundant) long ago began practicing 2008 rules of deep cover leaks, ACORN registration frauds, and investigations of joe-the-plumber and other private citizens.
In reality, GWB is getting a bum rap. If the banks hadn't frozen the past two months, the GWB record wouldn't have been all that bad.
Average 3.5 % GNP growth the past six years, fairly low inflation, successful in Iraq, and NO MORE TERROR ATTACKS after 9/11.
Yes, oil spiked but that issue was a winner for Republicans, not to mention that oil is back down to below $60 thanks to GWB's announcement of off-shore drilling.
This election was so lopsided because a majority of people were REALLY TICKED that their investments just got halved, and the press easily blamed the Bush Administration.
In 2006 the press likewise harped on Iraq over and over and over...
The Republicans still have winning conservative issues, but they must find new dynamic candidates who can articulate the message with confidence and class.
McCain had none of those. This might sound mean, but if McCain hadn't been a POW and a Vietnam hero, we wouldn't have given him the time of day.
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