[mhking]

Black conservative ping

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[xsmommy]

this is great!

[Wait4Truth]

Bump!!

[RAT Patrol]

Good column. Smart guy.

[RAT Patrol]

Oh, lol, I just realized that author could be you. hmmm. Good work.

[Steely Tom]

Just a dad, a husband, a son, a man.

Darn it mhking you made me tear up.

(steely)

[WhiteGuy]

I like you.....

I'm a little disapointed about the "Purdue" thing though....

Go Bucks

[A_perfect_lady]

She-who-must-be-obeyed, eh? LOL! Bump!

[VaBthang4]

Hehe...

I was waiting for someone to say it. I was way too lazy to address and besides, it rings louder from your fingertips.

[RikaStrom]

This is absolutely wonderful, I'm glad you wrote it.

[NeoCaveman]

Does that make me a "Bush-bot?" I don't think so. Perhaps a bit zealous in my beliefs. But not a slave to anyone's "cult of personality." Just a dad, a husband, a son, a man. One who is proud to be conservative and proud to be an American

Great article.

[facedown]

BTTT!

[maica]

It is possible to respect true leadership without being a 'bot.

I commend your courage in being a vocal conservative when people are trying to put you in a category because of your parentage. It must be so infuriating that after all the painful prejudices that Americans of African ancestry have had to endure, that the current prejudices are coming from people within that 'category.'

Does it make you want to scream, sometimes?

[rintense]

Just for you! A beautiful article!

[William McKinley]

You rock.

Those who throw around the "bot" label are the biggest bunch of hypocrites. They tolerate no dissent from their lockstep march, and squeal like pigs when their methods are turned back on them.

They are perfect examples of "projection".

[Just another Joe]

Some would call me a "libertarian" - little "L"

I consider myself a conservative with libertarian - little "L" - leanings.
You sound like much the same.

[Hugin]

Does that make me a "Bush-bot?"

Nope. Those who throw that epiphet at anyone who supports the president are the type who are what I have coined "Conservatively Correct". They demand that conservatives only support people who agree with them 100% even if it means that instead of someone who they might agree with 65% of the time they get a Democrat that they will disagree with 100%. Anyone who dares support a candidate with less than Conservatively Correct credentials is therefore a hypocrite or a mind numbed robot. They OTOH revel in their moral superiority of never compromising, despite the fact that they only help the Democrats by doing so.

[Fred Mertz]

When you become a 'bot, I'll be the first to let you know it.

[blam]

BRAVO! Proud to be a fellow FReeper.

[gcruse]

 I've found that the independant thought that goes into
that doesn't do much to support the conservative cause.

I see libertarianism as being a direction, rather than
a destination.  We will never reach a point of federal
government being restricted to defending the country
and delivering the mail.  However, pursuing
smaller government is necessary, and the last
I looked that was part of the conservative cause.
The gulf between conservatism and the Republican
party leads, IMO, to the bot characterization.
That is, throwing out conservative principles to
defend whatever line the Party is taking today
is the mark of unanchored partisanship.

The steel tariffs are a good example.  When
criticized for this attempt to buy votes, the
hardliners defended it a being necessary to
defeat Democrats.  Now that the administration
is watering down and pulling back from these price
supports the bots are hard pressed to
shift principles fast enough to keep some
sort of fig leaf in place.  Don't be a bot.
Think and vote what you really believe.
That is the essence of democracy.