Posted on 06/23/2002 10:25:55 AM PDT by redrock
Doughty:
You couldn't have said it better.
It seems to me, that in the last few years, FR.has been subjected to the Napoleanic Principle.
Divide and Conquer.
Why is it that when we are supposedly all on the same side we have to debase ourselves by calling each other names.
This is exactly what the enemy would like to see us do.
Regards
But...the average member of the Democratic Party...is not.
The average democrat has no idea what a Constitutional Republic is, it's like their leaders work to blindfold and inveigle them on every issue. The democrat leaders are accomplished liars that would make Stalin proud. Average democrats are uninvolved in politics, and therefore can be easily fooled.
Funny. Truly. But I was being serious. I DO want my freedom back. And it's not going to happen by virtue of either "Party" - Socialist Party D or Socialist Party R - being in power.
Essentially, the Republicans are now philosophically where the Democrats were a few decades ago. The Dems are where the Communists were those same few decades ago. And where the Republicans were back then, there are only a few of us standing around listening to a sound remarkably like a wind blowing through a ghost town.
Precisely. Unfortunately, neither does the average Republican.
I simply replied to someone I respect and admire on this forum as to my actions and for some reason you were compelled to take issue with my choice of action. Oh well, I think that is your prerogative as well. But you really didn't need to give me a history lesson. I think I knew the circumstances involved at the "Impeachment Trial" that wasn't. And the GOP sure gave the DemocRATs the cover they needed by not having a real trial, with real evidence and real witnesses where the DemocRATs would have had to stand in the kitchen and take the heat for supporting a President that subverted the law, perjured himself, and suborned others to perjury. Heck they didn't have to as we had a Republican Majority leader that gave them all the cover they needed.
Of course the odds are there would have never been a conviction as the numbers to convict weren't there, but hey we will never really know as there was never really any trial. Majority Leader Lott made sure of that and was backed by a majority of the GOP Senators.
But thanks for your pithy remarks, jack!
I learned a few months ago that a baby boom is hitting 18 over the next 5 years, who do you think has trained them over the last 12 years, and what party line is going to attract them?
I think we have let the Dems chip away without a fight, and exposure for so long that it will take a act of God to save us. Perhaps a case could be made that 9/11 was one, but will our now popular leader make anything of it? Not yet.
Agreed. 25 years ago I swore before God to defend the Constitution against all enemies. By the grace of that same god, I was never required to tramp a jungle, nor take another human life in order to fulfill that oath. My lot has been easy. All I have been required to do is vote.
Vote to defend the Constitution by casting ballots against those who lose sight of the principls found within. I did it before, and know that I will do it again!
The GOP has been sending me letters trying to get me to renew my membership. I won't do it and I told them so. Maybe this way I can make my views heard before going to the extreme of not supporting GWB. An informal vote if you will.
The fact is that the Democrates are offering to trample the Constitution for free whereas the GOP wants $40/year for the service. I have a political party, it's the NRA. Thats the way it will stand until someone thinks I'm worthwhile enough to change my mind.
I do not need to convince anybody to vote one way or another. That is not my job. I am not running for office.
I have only one responsibility. To uphold my own personal principles.
The "line" that must never be crossed is the Constitution. Deliberate violation of the Constitution for aquisition of power and money is not redeemable. Violators must be prosecuted and jailed. They must not be voted back into office merely becaue they are Republicans or Democrats.
Grow Up America. Start acting like adults, and act with honor. Stick to your principles.
People who think this country will collapse without the existence of Republicans or Democrats have no faith in themselves or the strength of a constitutional republic. They are childlike and REQUIRE somebody to take care of them.
7 posted on 6/23/02 10:41 AM Pacific by semper_libertas
Your entire post not only bears repeating, but highlighting -- good job, friend.
Most people are comvinced that you must have a "party" to make the system work. The problem is, originally the system was not designed around any of that. It has been bastardized IMHO to include it by those who crave power.
We need tp get back where pople vote for people based on their beliefs, proposals and record ... and based on their integrity.
FRegards.
Broom; Could you please explain this to me. I was always under the impression that a Democracy is a majority rule by a free election<.p>
Two years ago we had a free election by which GWB won with a few more votes.
Does this constitute mob rule and chaos?.
Regards
There is as much danger from having two like minded parties, as there is from having one like minded party.
The Republicans did not allow a full trial and did not allow chinagate evidence to be brought forward. the Republicans (according to Shippers) did NOT want a real trial.
THOSE are the facts, and the reason why I, too, left the GOP after the farse of a trial.
The Republican leadership is too connected and too similar to their Democratic counterparts to ever be trusted again. Ever.
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