Posted on 09/15/2009 8:09:19 AM PDT by dangus
A lot of Republicans are in a foamy rage against the grass roots, whom they feel failed to be adequately supportive of the Bush administration, helping the Democrats take over Congress in 2006. A lot are showing up on Free Republic making comments to the effect that Obama's communist regime is what we get when we fail to stand up for the Republican Party. But the fact is that President Obama was merely an employee of sorts of ACORN. President Bush was the one who funded it with millions of dollars of taxpayer funds. President Bush's justice department broke banks' arms to force them to lend money to Alt-A and subprime lenders, ruling that failure to provide equal loan access to illegal alien day laborers at the same rate they gave loans to well-establishd, middle-class, financially sound Americans they would prosecuted for discrimination on the basis of national origin.
The Bush administration's EPA gave ACORN $100,000 for ACORN's Louisiana Environmental Justice Project in 2004. President Bush's Department Housing and Urban Development $8.2 million from 2003 to 2006, and another $1.6 million to other affiliates since 2003. Even the Justice Department gave NYC's ACORN office $136,000.
President Bush's rabid fixation on growing "civil-rights" organizations led directly to the housing boom and burst, as millions of "upside-down" home owners had no money put into their homes, and no identity, so they lost nothing when walking away from their loans as soon as they went under.
President Obama is a radical unlike any ever elected President, but the answer is not to simply vote Republican. Vote conservative. If that means voting Republican, great: there are many conservatives in Congress who deserve re-election. But that doesn't mean voting for liberal Republicans like former Rep. Simmons, running for Senate in Connecticut, Rep. Castle, running for Senate in Delaware, or Rep. Kirk, running for Senate in Illinois. The surest way to destroy America is to settle for Republican socialists, believing that they are more electable than conservatives. All that accomplishes is pushing the center hard to the left, discrediting conservatism, and giving the radical left the cover of "bipartisanship."
Soros loves you!
This process is not traditional, and is likely to be illegal, and it largely stands today as a legacy of "reforms" instituted by the Democratic National Committee under the leadership of George McGovern after 1968 and Jimmy Carter after 1972. (Interesting that both these people went on to win their respective presidential nominations after heading up those reform efforts.)
They became part of the process followed by both parties because Democrats used to control a vast majority of the state legislatures, in the big primary states, and the presidential primaries for Democrats "naturally" became the presidential primaries for Republicans.
Unless we toss out the presidential primary system, as it stands today, we will end up with another Bob Dole or John McCain (or George W. Bush, for that matter) and be left wondering "what happened," yet again before the snow melts in New Hampshire in the Spring in 2012.
Republican establishmetarianists will effectively resist all challenges from Conservative until we quit ignoring the ridiculous and illegal basketball tournament of a presidential primary process...
We quickly forget what a stupid mess that it is just as soon as it is over, and forget also that it needs to be tossed out and replaced with a legal process appropriate to a Political Party.
This effort to permanently trash the Bush presidency has really gotten disgusting and stupid. It also won't work.
The whole nauseating Liberal emotional blackmail machine went into their typical, self-induced hysteria and faux humanitarian indignation when Conservatives attempted to force some responsibility on these entities.
Nixon’s fault!
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Yes, but the Republican party demonstrated that socialism is okay if it is Republican socialism. Look at all the freepers excusing Bush. No wonder Rush thinks that last weekend’s 9/12 event was only directed at Democrats.
Chump change compaired to what Obammy gave them.
I seem to recall that there was a bit of noise from the R’s about ACORN and they were promptly ignored by the LameMedia.....however the great new media has made sure that ACORN will not remain unknown and hopefully unfunded by tax $$s.
Agree,but he did it too shows how logic blanks operate.
Damn
Yup. Ross Perot worked so well for us.
President Obama gave ACORN the census connection, this is Obama’s case for ACORN.
President Bush showed his extreme left-wing side in his last 4 years as POTUS.
I dislike Bush and his dad.
He is a socialist.
Why would you say at this early point, before any Republicans are nominated, that you’re going third party? If we can’t win back the Republican Party, how can we win back the nation as a whole?
What's the difference? Bush lied and raised taxes, gave us a host of new programs including the Americans for Disabilities Act, and jacked up spending. Clinton, for all his many sins, actually reduced spending compared to both Bushes. Please tell me one significant different between both administrations.....other than Clinton was ALSO a liar.
***President Bush’s justice department broke banks’ arms to force them to lend money to Alt-A and subprime lenders, ruling that failure to provide equal loan access to illegal alien day laborers at the same rate they gave loans to well-establishd, middle-class, financially sound Americans they would prosecuted for discrimination on the basis of national origin.***
April, 2001: Pres. Bush advocated oversight of Fannie and Freddie. He said, in essence, that it would lead to disaster if they continued as they were going. Bush reiterated this statement 13 times while he was president. Congress, led by Barney Frank and Charles Schumer refused to act. Zero, as usual, did not vote.
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