Can any true conservative actually state that we wouldn't be better off if the Republicans had been crushed in 2000? Sure we'd have the same things going on, and quite frankly some of the decisions that have been made would have been made for the worse. But on the other hand, Gore would have been too much of a chicken-sh_t to offer up some of the carpolla Bush has. There isn't a chance in heck that Gore would have increased the DOE by $40 billion. Gore would not have signed onto a healthcare plan alla Hillarycare offered up by Teddie like Bush has. And I doubt very much he'd have had the gutts to try and legalize all illegal aliens. I doubt very seriously that he could have gotten through the Patriot act in it's present form, and there's no way the intrusive federal mandates would have been propagated the way they have been.
Right now the Republican party would be searching desparately for a true conservative that they could run in 2004. Now they're planning on running Bush Albert in a canm, again. It will be at least 2008 before we could hope for a true conservative in the White House. And if Bush wins in 2004, you can bump that back to 2012 at least. There is no way a conservative will gain footing towards the end of a Bush Presidency. We would have been four to eight years ahead of the game if we as Republicans had taken one tactic in the year 2000.
What I would advise today is that we don't vote Democrat, we simple carry out a nationwide protest on election day with millions of frustrated Republicans standing on main streets across this nation, demanding a conservative before we'll ever vote Republican again.
My thought about voting for a Democrat wasn't misguided. Your suggestion was right on target. If the Republicans couldn't run a conservative, we should have stiffed them at the polls. You surmised that voting Al Gore in by a landslide would send a message to the Republicans. But after thinking about what message we'd be sending, I think we'd be sending the message that Democrat Liberalism sells better than Republican Liberalism. That would be a mistake.
Today I'd advocate the massive election day protest which would see Bush wind up with about 10% of the vote, the opponent about 40%. The massive protests would leave no doubt in the Republican's minds that come the next election day, there damned well better be a conservative on the ballot.
In 2004 there is either going to be a true Conservative on the Republican ballot or the party won't get 35% of the vote. Bush is in dire danger of becoming toast politically.
Today I'll bet there are far more than 100 people on this forum that would get what we're talking about here. Still, there's too many idiot sticks to hope that we could pick up a conservative by 2004 or 2008. I suggest it will 2012 before we have a chance of electing a conservative. By that time there will be between ten and twenty million more illegals within our borders in key states. I'd like to think we might have a chance. Fact is, this nation is likey doomed.
There, we did not leave anything out or gloss it over.