Replies

"You have faith in the people you trust.."

Half of all Americans are Democrats and by definition only have one oar in the water. And by that I have several different implications. Democrats are absolutely wrong about everything they believe. There is no truth in any of the Democratic agenda. It is the classic example of the old saw that the majority is almost always wrong, and on the rare occassion when they happen to be right, it's for the wrong reasons. Worse Demorats are not rowing with the only oar they have in the water; they are using it as a drag to stiffle the efforts of those rowing on the other side of the boat.

Republicans advocating socialism or those Republicans who are not opposing socialism are rowing, but backwards. When only 25% on one side of the boat are rowing, we are going no-where fast and we are going in circles. We have been doing this so long, our ship is trapped in a vortex being sucked down into the depths. I am offering you an anchor that can pull the ship to safety. There is only one port in this storm that offers safety or that has provided refuge in the past. Ronald Reagan guided our ship toward saftey twice and Newt proved that Reagan's path was the only path. You may not believe it yet or be willing to accept it, but the United States is very close to the point of no return. God forbid that I am wrong and we have already passed it. But if we keep steering the same course, we are going to miss the fork in the road or be unable to turn.

Your instincts are telling you that I could be right. And in your heart, you know we are on the wrong path. No one wants to admit to themselves how close we are to the edge. The thought of going over the edge is almost too painful to acknowledge. I really do understand your anxiety.

I am sorry that you cannot go back to prior election threads. I fought the Peroistas, the Buchanites, the Reformers and the Libertarians. I pleaded with conservatives to support Republicans no matter their stance. I have known my entire adult life that only the Republican Party can save the United States from the fate of all democracies. I believed that they would rise to the occassion no matter what. I have always believed in the people of the United States, even in a lot of Democrats. Most Democrats are not inherently bad, just misguided or delusional. Even the delusional sometimes have an awakening to reality or can be curtailed sufficiently that they don't drag the rest of humanity into their delusions.

To my chagrin, I was wrong. I am a recluse and don't easily make friends, in part because my views are not shared by many, and in part by choice. I preferred my own thoughts to the thoughts of others and enjoyed learning about the world in which we live for myself. There is so much to learn and discover that it was my entertainment away from work and when working, medicine was a jealous mistress leaving little time for anything else. I realize now that I neglected some important needs of my own family. After I retired, I had more time to consider others. It was when I realized how many of my friends and even how many of my own family were participating in the delusions of socialism that I began to take seriously the status of the problem and to look at the potential consequences.

Before you charge off jousting only at Democrats and rooting for any Republican, spend a little time thinking about past elections and where the Republicans, including Bush, seem to be taking us. Think about what I have said regarding the hope that Bush and the Republicans will morph into significant Constitutional conservatives after they are in power. Ask yourself if it is reasonable, let alone rational, that they really are more conservative and that they are just acting as socialists until they get enough power to unleash conservatism on all those socialists out there and there won't be anything the media or the socialists can do because Republicans have the power at the time. Those really are the assumptions you have to make if you think Republicans are going to undo socialism your way. I don't think the Alice approach has much chance. If I am even close to the truth about the timing, and I think the current recessionary trends could bring the cliff closer to the present, then we are or could already be in serious trouble. Based on the past 70 years of failure and the progressive loss of freedoms that we have already suffered, how long will it be before your plan starts to work. Tell me your time table so that I know what to expect. And tell me which generation of my heirs are going to be free at last?

And another thing, I am a retired physician. I can tell you with certainty that socialism is very much like cancer. If you delay diagnosis or treatment, cancer will advance and become incurable. And when you start treatment for cancer, the only acceptable goal is quick and complete eradication. Containment of the disease is used only for those whose cancers have progressed to the point of being incurable. We attempt to prolong their lives and make the life they have left more comfortable. How does your treatment regime fit into the grand scheme of treating the cancer of socialism?

Freepers, I am asking you all to consider my admonitions and my plans carefully. One man with a plan convinced a little over two hundred brave men to make a stand for freedom. Those brave men bought enough time for a few thousand other brave souls to defeat a vastly numerically superior force who were only serving a tyrannt. This is not the Alamo and we are not at the last desparate battle for freedom. At least I don't think so. Washington crossed the Delaware and attacked the tories in their beds. The socialists are winning the war of attrition. We too must arouse the Republicans from their beds and attack. If you are willing to join me in the battle, keep this thread alive until election 2004. If the Contract with Congress has not achieved victory in this election and if no one else has offered a better alternative, it may be our only canon when we are forced to refight the Battle of the Alamo in 2004.

I think your cancer analogy is the most appropriate. When you complain about Republicans, people say, "You can't stop an aircraft carrier on a dime. You have to slow it before it can be reversed." If doctors took that approach with cancer, the mortality rate would be about 100 percent. Now, I have no medical training, but isn't removing an entire malignant tumor the best way to get rid of it? It seems the current Republican treatment for cancer is to simply chip away at the tumor little by little over time--the problem is that the tumor is growing at a much faster rate than it is being removed. And that, of course, is assuming they are even attempting to remove it in the first place!

The problem I have with your analogy is that the cancer patient has a sucking chest wound courtesy of the Dems. Anything done for the cancer will be negated if you do NOT deal with the sucking chest wound first.

First job, deal with the sucking chest wound. Kick the Dems out. Unless you deal with the sucking chest wound, the patient dies, and it ain't the cancer that kills them.

A sucking chest wound is a much more urgent case than cancer.

Its me again. Like I said, I do agree with you but I think you would be better served trying to educate the people.

The Heritage Foundation is one such group that does this. They take on the national view and attempt to shape it with the truth. They pushed the Welfare Reform package through and work around the clock to further Conserative ideas, and they have done quite a bit. Compare the 1970s to waht we have now.

I agree with your ideals 100%, it is just that I think your tactics and strategy are offbase. I may be wrong but what you are proposing is letting the Dems take control of the government(AT THIS TIME!?!?!) so the GOP will be punished by the Conservative voters. Call me silly, but I STILL think that most of the country is not pure Conservative and my agenda would be definately halted and probably destroyed by such an action, all to punish a GOP that is the ONLY tent that Conservatives can act in with power. Now you may see why people might think you a disruptor.

I am obviously a fan of Realpolitik, so I will ask you this... if the dems gain total control and flood our shores with ilegal immigrants and give them the right to legally vote by default(Moter-Voter law.), what makes you think the GOP will even be able to HOLD power again even after they have been chastised by the Conservatives.

It makes me think that you are either an True Conservative that is worried about the turn of events and wants to take a morally just course or a disruptor. Since Conservatives are realists, and realism dictates that this path is suicide, I must conclude you are a disruptor. Of course, I think you speak well and I agree with much of what you say but I have looked at all of your previous posts and with the exception of a few(INvestment types.) your primary message has been vote out the GOP because they are not Conservative. There is NO other message. Look up my name, you will find plenty of variety, yet you are just asking us to drop the GOP.

As I said, the GOP is generally Conservative but not wholly Conservative. You tell me I am wrong, yet what I speak is FACT. I know the whole GOP is not Right WIng, so I try to change it. Yet you tell me to abandon them.

This IS the Alamo and we have the chance to be the FIRST at electing an all GOP government, and I will not be dissuaded from this.

Why dont you try to persuade us once we have won EVERYTHING... until then I am not turning back. Once we have it all, then you can threaten the GOP with defection. You are either a clever disruptor or an Idealogue that is discontent.

Lee Atwater would have jumped through hoops to win what I am proposing, regardless of left-right schisms and I am inclined to agree with him. Also, except for North East RINO's, the GOP is in sync with the right wing.

I could go on but I think I have made my point. Adios!