Posted on 06/22/2002 9:46:05 AM PDT by quidnunc
Very well said...MUD
No president in the 20th century has "rolled back" government.
You'd better give up that quaint notion; the best you can expect is that government growth will be slowed, and not even Ronald Reagan did very much of that.
You do a piss-poor job of trying to sell your ideology on FR, much less to the vast majority of voters out there. They rightly see a shabby product sitting on the shelves and walk away from it. As usual, the fault must lie with the consumer rather than with the product.
What "learned men"?
Your RIGHT about the QUEEN and her family. Americans dont want to go to a 50th Anniversary and they do not want to get 50th Anniversary CUPS or even PLATES. The QUEEN seems OK but she IS not an American and never can BE. I am sorry to see that your wrong ABOUT President Bush. President Bush may not BE a good political speaker but he is a VERY good listener. Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes are great SPEAKERS but they dont ALWAYS know how to listen. President Bush cares what OTHER people think. Do you think Keyes and Buchanan know what OTHER people want or THINK? Do you think they care what you think or WANT?? How come they never GET any votes??? That is why Keyes and Buchanan should stay ON TV and out of elections. President Bush WINS because he listens. Then he knows what PEOPLE think and what they want. I bet that if you wanted TO win an election you would listen to what people think MORE. We are in a WAR now. President Bush is ON our side. He has to win the WAR and also LISTEN to what OTHER people think. Keyes and Buchanan do not HAVE to win a WAR and they dont have to care what OTHER people think. That is why they stay ON TV and out of elections. They talk and talk and talk and thats OK because they dont have TO do anything. If you go ON TV or the radio then you would BE OK just like you ARE but if you ever GET in an election you WILL have to CHANGE yourself. LISTEN harder. That is WHAT President Bush does.
Malcontents like DoughtyOne, need not apply.
Militants like tpaine, need not apply.
Why don't all you extremists, reactionaries and absolutists get together and just walk out on that political fringe a little more and jump off into the empty void of unreality.
Spoken like a true coalition-builder.
Nice use of alliteration on the gratuitious insults to the posters you didn' have the courtesy to flag to your bile.
Luis, I agree that just advocating big cuts in the welfare state without explaining to the public why it is absolutely necessary is a political strategy doomed to failure. Our "leaders" in the GOP need to educate the public why expanding socialism is a dead-end for America and why smaller, limited government is far superior to the ever expanding socialism (Marxism) that the democrats are successfully peddling. But that's NOT HAPPENING! We haven't had anything like that since Reagan.
Bush and the GOP leadership are in fact doing the exact opposite by running away from their partys historic principles and passing the democrats socialist legislation without, in many cases, even debating it. Bush in particular seems to have in effect painted himself in a corner with his constant concessions to the likes of Tommy Dashole. I mean how can we ever gain back the moral high ground when we are always agreeing with the democrats? Thats not how one wins a war against an enemy that is relentless and hell bent in their pursuit to destroy everything that made America the greatest country the world has ever known.
Look at it this way, if the public perceives that the republicans dont have much confidence in their own conservative ideology then why should they? And if this route on the very conservatism that our country was founded on continues unabated while Bush remains silent is it not logical to assume that Bush has very few differences with the democrats?
That's something for conspiratorial minds like yours to contemplate.
I have to wonder .. are these posters who want Democrats in control so that the government to collapse the reason we have such a mess in Congress today??
Good question. He won't answer it.
Take care and have a good day. I'm not going to waste more time over here.
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