Yes I know you well enough to know where your heart is. I have no beef with you, and I honestly don’t have a beef with other people on this thread.
What is done is done. I predicted for twenty years where we were headed. I was dead on target. Now I’m saying where we’ll be in another twenty years, and folks are telling me I’m dead wrong again, just like others did twenty years ago. Folks, wake up.
I’ve spent twenty years fighting this fight. Even now, we have people who simply refuse to grasp what just happened.
Every step of the way over the last twenty years, I have had people tell me, “It really isn’t that bad.” That’s what is being said again here. Aw, it’s not really that bad. We can fix this.
Folks, I will be very surprised if this gets fixed.
We’re asking the same party that was all for McCain/Kennedy in 2007, to nullify Obama’s plan that does much the same things. In 2007, they had the votes to do it. McCain wanted to run for the Presidency the next year, so he backed off supporting his own bill. That’s the only reason this didn’t happen then.
Guys, if this is blocked, nobody will be happier than me. I think you’re kidding yourselves, but that’s okay. I’ve been wrong before.
Let’s hope this is one of those times.
Hope you are well, my brother...
The folks who are taking you to task on the thread are good people too, D. Also friends of mine; we’ve been battling with a couple other freepers over the course of the last year or two concerning defeatism. Some folks sign on and do nothing but run the country down, no matter what good or positive thing may happen. And folks just had enough of it. So, to clear things up, your post may have rankled someone in that way.
There was a clown posting here, an ex-pat, who was sitting offshore, daily posting crap about how we should all run away, nothing worth fighting for, etc., etc.
I took the guy to task over his comments, and he went completely BATSNOT over it with me. Came up with some snarky little name “dog in a manger”. A bunch of the folks - Windy, I’mNotlying, Bobby.223, to name a few, and a whole bunch of others basically came on board to help me out.
So this guy began calling us “dogs in a manger”... and I changed it to “The Manger Dawg Pound” - proudly so.
Anyway, that’s the genesis of it. I wanted to inform you of this, to avert any more arguments here.
For the record, I understand your distrust of the GOP. I don’t trust them either; what did Patrick Henry say - “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided,and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past...”
And in relation to the GOP, the experience we’ve had with them for the last twenty years has been... sorely disappointing, to say the least. But I will take a wait and see stand here - for now.
Way I look at it, the Leftards hate ALL of us the same. They need to be stomped into the trash can of history, and I believe we should whatever it takes to accomplish that.
Up to and including the Constitutional Remedy in the Bill of Rights that we all avoid speaking out loud so far.