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."
So
Your point is?
Yes, the answer is to vote Republican.
Democrats are collectivists and are soft on terrorists.
Voting for a liberal Republican because he’s more “electable” would be like Eisenhower making Stalin the head of the CIA because he knows how Russians think.
BUSH’S FAULT!!!!
I understand your point, but didn’t Bush also give money to “Faith Based Organizations” to do good work?
Can you put up the numbers on those?
I’m never voting for Bush again.
I agree with you. We need to overhaul the Republican Party and restock it with conservatives!
Yeah...blackmail happens in government too....
Thanks for the info. I don’t like getting sideswiped by this kind of crap in a political debate.
Doesn’t mean the funding has to continue does it? Follow the sentate’s lead and shut off the funding.
A number of liberal organizations received taxpayer money under both Republican and Democrat administrations.
I can only guess that is was "news" to you.
Me either...Bush is definitely NOT getting my vote
They simply toss out the race card, and all is forgiven.
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Of Course. Blame Bush. So disingenuous.
It’s ok since Bush did it.
But congress writes the laws!!!!
I haven't seen this argument here on FR and I don't believe it exists in any noteworthy way. I have I have seen on FR it being said where we fail to stand up for Conservative ideals this is what we get (Obama).
Voting 3rd Party = electing Democrats.
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