Republicans, All Dressed up, But Nothing More Than Empty Suits

Vanity ^ | 10/09/02 | B. A. Conservative

[B. A. Conservative]

The state motto of New Hampshire is "Live Free Or Die!"

Mr. President and Members of the Republican Caucuses of Congress: Read My Lips; No More Socialism!

The terms for winning conservative votes are simple and reasonable. I believe Republicans need conservative votes in order to win elections. I am a conservative voter. Every part of my heart, body and soul wants to vote for you. But whole generations of Republican candidates have let freedom and our people down. No More! If you want my vote,

MY VOTE IS FOR SALE!

[B. A. Conservative]

The American Dream is in danger of becoming a patriot's nightmare. Ronald Reagan's Shining City on the Hill is being dragged down into a socialist's swamp. Democrats acting alone spawned this debacle in progress. Republican capitulations to the demands of Democrats have been responsible for the perpetuation of this atrocity. Now is the time to put an end to this lunacy before it becomes a complete catastrophe. No one but fools or liars will deny these self-evident truths.

We have a choice to make in every election. We the people of the United States have fewer than five elections in which we can choose to save the legacy given to us by the Founding Fathers. I am going to cast the four votes that I have left within the time frame while it is still possible to make a difference for the Reagan Renaissance. Blindly voting Republican as the lesser of two tyrannies preserves the serfdom of our citizens and maintains the downward spiral of the Social Security sewer until bankruptcy blessedly ends our suffering and slavery.

I hope every Freeper will think carefully before they choose.

[William McKinley]

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[dalereed]

A woman who had escaped from the Ukraine speaking at one of our conservative Republican functions in the early 70s said something that I have never forgotten.

I escaped and came to America, I had your country to run to. The same thing that happened to the Ukraine is happening here and you people have no place to run, you had better wake up and fight it with all your might.

[headsonpikes]

The Republicans may be stupid and greedy, but the Democrats are evil.

It's not hard to understand the partisanship on this site.

[ffrancone]

I will simply leave and find another country that is willing to respect my freedom and the God-given rights of its citizens.

And what country would that be? As far down the road to socialism as we are, the US is it. I would love to have a conservative congress. But that is not possible now. Read the polls. In the real world, a Republican congress is way better than a Dem congress.

Those who say we should just let the Dems run the country into the ground and then pick up the pieces are dreaming. The endgame to that mugs game is not a restored Republic but a South American style despot.

So VOTE REPUBLICAN. A straight ticket. Slow down the march to despotism and then teach your and your friend's children well.

[Dog Gone]

The only way to stop Democrats is to vote Republican. If you want to change Republicans, then vote for the right Republicans in the primaries.

If you think you have all the answers, run for office yourself.

VOTE REPUBLICAN.

[Cold Heat]

You ignore the fact that your views are in the minority. If you persist in threatening to not vote for a republican candidate over ideological grounds, then you help to elect democrats.(the real enemy)

It would be my hope that you would vote a straight pary ticket and hold your nose if you must.

We need a plurality in congress to stop the democrat machine. We need much more than we presently have in the house to avoid costly compromises! That is what is happening now. We are not dealing from a position of strength!

[marron]

The problem is a real clash of civilizations within our own culture.

In a democracy, 51% can vote to enslave 100%. If you are part of the 49% that still wants to live in freedom, what do you do? You can complain that the 49 were too weak willed, but the fact remains that the culture as a whole has lost its love of liberty.

And that is precisely my observation. The average American now will gladly give up his freedom for the right to control his neighbor. And the average American will gladly give up his freedom in order to get a free payday.

The lottery, lawsuit, SSI mentality has won out over the work ethic of putting on foot in front of another. And who in America is not happy to sign on to the subdivision rules dictating the color of your house paint, banning you from fixing your car, and the like?

[Moby Grape]

The problem with folks like you is that if one doesn't agree with your view 100% than they are fools or statist or lessors than you PURE conservatives (by YOUR definition)...it is the OVER the top generalizations that show you to be unable to see the forrest for the trees that YOU planted...NOT all republicans are empty suits, but folks like you usually roll out the "deeply thoughtfull" there-is-no-difference-between-republicans-and-democrats childish rant....If what has just happened in New Jersey, if three democrats in Bagdad, if denied and delayed judicial appointments in the Senate, if having ONE view of war with Saddam when a democrat is president, then making a 180 degree change when a republican is president, if missile technology to RED CHINA for campaign funds is NOT enough to convince you that republicans ARE different, then you will never be happy...stay with your small phone booth convention soul mates and continue to turn your arrogant noses when a republican passes by....There are too many moderates in the republican party...there are NOT nearly enough true conservative in the GOP, but it is GOOFY to say that they are ALL empty suits...besides they are the ONLY party that has a chance of holding a majority in both houses, and are far better than criminal law breaking democrats.

[Cicero]

Freepers are not all that fond of the Republicans. It just happens that in most cases they are the only game in town.

Will you be pleased if your vote helps elect Jean Shaheen?

Every election has to be approached by asking, what vote will do the most to help move toward what I believe in, or at least move away from it more slowly, within the realm of possibility? Voting for a candidate who will only get 1 or 2 percent of the vote usually isn't helpful, except in very special circumstances.

[billbears]

You ignore the fact that your views are in the minority.

And you ignore the fact that there are more conservatives in the Republican party than some care to admit that have become dissatisfied with who the national party endorses for office. I used to vote straight Republican ticket every election. Now I do not, at least at the local level. In some of our local elections the Democrats are more conservative than the Republicans. Strange but true.

So my decision this year is to vote for the Republican candidate for Senate or not vote at all. I will not vote for the Democratic candidate. But I'm not sure I can honestly vote my conscience by voting for someone who on most issues I strongly disagree

[Torie]

I intend to excercise my God-given rights and secede if there are sufficient like-minded souls

Henry David Thoreau didn't need a crowd to do that. Why do you? Just find your own little pond.

[mhking]

Is that anything like blindly voting Libertarian? Or Democratic? Or Green? Or...

Point is, that most here aren't blind, contrary to your rantings.

And in most cases, the GOP candidates in various races are better than the Democratic or Libertarian or Tax Reform party candidate. Most of agree on this point. You, obviously, do not.

Perhaps if you amended your message to not voting blindly, period, you'd get a better response.

[jjm2111]

That's an excellent line. I read somewhere that some Hungarian lady was a speaker at Columbia University. She said there were more Communists at Columbia than in Hungary.

[Diddle E. Squat]

How are sales for your latest book, "Eeyore Shrugged"?

[Protagoras]

You will be lucky if this thread sees 30 minutes. The RBAs (Republicans before Americans) will lobby to kill it.

[colorado tanker]

"I intend to excercise my God-given rights and secede if there are sufficient like-minded souls. If not, I will simply leave and find another country" Mind that the door doesn't hit you in the butt on the way out.

[Protagoras]

The average American now will gladly give up his freedom for the right to control his neighbor. And the average American will gladly give up his freedom in order to get a free payday.

Spot on. The former are in great attendance here.

[IronJack]

Will you be pleased if your vote helps elect Jean Shaheen?

Will you be pleased if your vote helps elect Jim Jeffords?