What Makes a Republican - a REPUBLICAN?

NewsCorridor ^ | March 10, 2002 | Sartre

[ThePythonicCow]

Could happen.

Is happening -- right here.

[goldstategop]

Short answer: Any one who's a true blue conservative and NOT a RINO is a Republican.

[The Raven]

At your local library ....Conservatism for Dummies

[ThePythonicCow]

I find it very depressing.

I agree that we are disagreeing over whether the glass is 90% empty or 10% full. I vote for 10% full.

[Jhoffa_]

You're the leader.. and you have a good product.

It's proven, we need no studies.. It sells.

Please consider a market and a product that suits our company. A way to capitalize on our strength, and profit from it.

Then, take advantage of it.. and as shareholders we will all reap the benefits.

Ways to expand our time tested, proven product.. Unvarnished Conservatism.

"Conservatism.. Here today, here tomorrow.. "

[GeronL]

If Republicanism isn't about opposing the Federal Income Tax and the Federal Reserve System, just what did the party ever stand for to begin with?

uh, if I remember history it began with opposition to slavery

[The Raven]

How may Capitalists can we expect to elect this cycle?

I'm the only one I know and I'm not running for office.

[GeronL]

If you make the whole government conservative it will be run by liberals.

A GOP Majority in the Senate will have them beholden to do everything they can to keep 'moderate' members from defecting. Moderate Republicans are about as good as Democrats, RINO's are as much the enemy as Dems'.

[ThePythonicCow]

At your local library ...

I'm afraid that with the 17th Amendment (1913 - Changing the Senate to not be explicitly elected by State legislatures, if I recall correctly) and subsequent liberalisms such as the Income Tax and The New Deal, that the Constitution, as written, no longer much helps our understanding of the political landscape.

[GeronL]

Republicans gave us CFR didn't they? illegal alien amnesty?

Republicans control the House, but the RINO's get their way

[Jhoffa_]

Radio!

[The Raven]

Here, in Tennessee, RINO Lamar Alexander will probably be the next Senator, but expect the Dems to put big bucks here, or convince Gore to run.

[goldstategop]

Au contraire my friend. They're worse than Rats cause they burrow into the Republican Party from within and work to undermine and discredit conservatism from without. The RINOs are the true bane of all who love freedom and limited government.

[goldstategop]

We haven't had a GOP CONSERVATIVE majority since 96'. Since then the House has been run by a defacto Rat RINO coalition.

[GeronL]

before you ask, no I don't know what to do about it, I am just a pathetic follower after all, =o)

[Jim Robinson]

"Conservatism.. Here today, here tomorrow.. "

Heh, heh. Yup, could happen. But first you have to sell it to the great brainwashed masses, most of whom have never heard of conservatism. Remember, "The Democrats are for the little guys and the Republicans are for the fat cats!"

I laughed like hell when I first heard the Bush campaign say Compassionate Conservatism. But what the heck, can't argue with what works. At least the folks down home are being introduced to conservative lite.

[GeronL]

yup, the Rat-Rino Coalition, good name

[GeronL]

hey, FR could make a little money selling copies of its software can't it?? It sure beats all those other message forums..

[goldstategop]

"Republicans are for the fat cats!"

ROFLMAO!!! The fat cats and the country club Republicans are all unvarnished LIBERALS. And people still think conservatives represent the rich & powerful? Dear friends, the masses have been laboring under a misleading delusion this entire time!

[Jim Robinson]

I think the vast majority of the Republicans in the House voted against CFR. It was something like almost all of the Democrats and 41 turncoat Republicans. I repeat, the key is to replace more of the Democrats. If there were about 22 more Republicans, the thing probably would not have passed. Actually, a dozen more would've taken care of it. It would've been a lot easier to sway the rest. Doesn't do us any good at all to replace a Republican with a Democrat. That only makes it that much harder to gain a majority.