HOW CONSERVATIVE IS PRESIDENT BUSH?

The Cato Institute ^ | August 3, 2002 | By Veronique de Rugy

[mrsmith]

Stick to spamming poor Goldi's helpless site with your endless whines about Freepers.

[deport]

dd will defend anything that's anti Bush.... always has and most likely always will... nothing new about that

[Luis Gonzalez]

BTW...I was on that thread at the time Reg posted that information, there were several names posted, people who do not have a thing to do with FR, and whose personal information was posted here without their permission.

There could have feasibly been some legal repercussions to something like that.

[Texasforever]

So why did Bush bash House Republicans in the previous campaign (using Democrapic rhetoric, no less)?

Why did Reagan tell Republicans that the Brady Bill was a good law and that they should support it? I can do this tit for tat all night if you really want to do it.

[Luis Gonzalez]

You forgot Justin Raymundo!!!!

[Roscoe]

Libertarians spouting off about how to win elections and run successful websites are just too funny.

[applemac_g4]

"To be replaced by?"

Dick Gephardt. Don't laugh. I've been a lifelong Republican voter, and I did vote for Bush last go around despite some serious misgivings about his views. Those misgivings have, unfortunately, been justified.

I'm a fiscal and social conservative in the populist tradition. I have no use for a big-business minded Republican administration that does little or nothing for the cause of social conservatism. And Bush Jr has done just that - nothing.

Enter Dick Gephardt, stage left. We know who he is and what he is. In a Gephardt administration, leftist social causes will advance (as they have in the Bush Jr. administration), and deficit spending will continue (as it has in the Bush Jr. administration).

However, Dick Gephardt is a protectionist, while Bush (like Clinton before him) is a died in the wool, let's sell our souls to China while we promote NAFTA, free trader. A booming trade deficit and falling dollar has proven once again to anyone who cares to listen that free trade does not work.

Perhaps a Gephardt administration will be able to accomplish at least one thing that's positive for the United States - a return of our economic freedom.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Registered was suspended for posting another member's personal information on the forum.

Wow, that is getting almost into CGEB territory!! And he only got a one week suspension for it!!

[sinkspur]

So why did Bush bash House Republicans in the previous campaign (using Democrapic rhetoric, no less)?

Turned out OK, didn't it?

[Texasforever]

Oh man you just soured my beer.

[Twodees]

He posted publicly available info from a website which anyone could get and he posted it after being told to post it by your pal. Did you think nobody would know any better, Missy?

[budwiesest]

I fully expect to give him my support for the nomination, and enthusiastic support in the general election.

He'll have yours and a score of others as well. However, when you look around at the company you'll be keeping, you may be disheartened by those with hands extended, palms facing up.

Not that you or any other freepers depend on govt handouts, or succumb to pre-election promises made in an effort to 'buy' votes, but an awful lot of the electorate do.

Our politicians are a product of the 'Age' we live in. Were I a brewmaster and this 'product' the result of my efforts, I'd have serious reservations about bottling it for consumption--and labeling it "American" to boot.(Born on Date? FDR?)

Some voters have acquired an insatiable thirst for principled candidates and detest having to enter a voting booth holding their noses. Clothespin anyone?

[Miss Marple]

Social conservatives should approve of the president's pro-life positions, his emphasis on faith, his dignified and non-vulgar behavior, and his emphasis on responsibility.

Therefore, I do not believe that you are a social conservative. In fact, if you are touting Gephardt, you are not a conservative at all.

You really need to read those talking points Terry hands out a little more carefully.

[terilyn]

Bull!

I was on that thread and you are a liar.

[Texasforever]

However, Dick Gephardt is a protectionist, while Bush (like Clinton before him) is a died in the wool, let's sell our souls to China while we promote NAFTA, free trader. A booming trade deficit and falling dollar has proven once again to anyone who cares to listen that free trade does not work.

You are on the wrong forum and in the wrong era. Huey Long is dead.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

There could have feasibly been some legal repercussions to something like that.

Why can't everyone just be civil when we disagree, like you and I! ;-)

[sinkspur]

Perhaps a Gephardt administration will be able to accomplish at least one thing that's positive for the United States - a return of our economic freedom.

Perhaps, at 6 minutes to midnight on August 4, you were trying to qualify for the "stupidest post of the day."

Well, my boy, you've not only qualified, you've won the prize.

You'd stand a better chance of winning the presidency, from a standing start, than Dick Gephardt.

Too funny!

[Luis Gonzalez]

Wrong again, I see your revisionist streak is alive and kicking.

Howlin did not tell him to post anything of the sort.

Beyond that, the other people whose information he posted gave him no authorization either.

[Twodees]

BTW, you aren't including yourself in the "oldtimers," are you?

No, i'm not. I do include you in the "clique of Busbots", though.

[Enough is ENOUGH]

Lobby money, PC, Corruption, Deception, Greed, Political Parties over Country....It's all down hill.

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