Who said I did? You people are beginning to believe your own rhetoric.
A million times I've said criticize Bush and the Republicans on their policies all day long where criticism is due, but don't come in here like a sopped out DUh troll bashing them with leftist propaganda and smear.
If you want to say that spending is too high, I will agree with you all day long. Or that we should be cutting rather than expanding federal healthcare and education programs, etc, etc. I'm 100% behind cutting taxes and government spending to the bone--and then some.
Also 100% behind cutting government regulation, red tape, entire departments, agencies and volumes and volumes of useless and unconstitutional law and or treaties not in our best interests.
That said, I'm also 100% behind backing the war on terror, wherever it may lead. I'm also 100% behind a complete turnover in the judiciary within the next decade or two and replacing as many liberal activist judges as possible with conservative judges, therefore, I am 100% behind reelecting President Bush and increasing the majority in both houses of Congress by as many seats as humanly possible.
I'm sick and tired of my life being controlled by the feminist/abortionist/homosexualist/gungrabbing/American hating cowardly liberal, thus I am 100% behind removing as many of their evil carcasses as possible from our government and keeping them out!
All of the above means that I will not tolerate for long anyone posting garbage that is designed or will lead to promoting or campaigning for Democrats, likewise any plans proposed to dump Bush or dump Republicans to the point we lose the majority.
Free Republic was never intended to be a liberal debating society. It has a purpose and goals. The long term goal is to promote the cause of conservatism and to work for a return to the constitutionally limited republican form of government as established by our founders. If these are not your goals then I don't want you here. I am defending my first amendment right to freedom of association. I only want to associate myself and FR with people who will work with me to achieve my goals.
And I feel these goals will never be achieved until we first break the liberal stranglehold on the judiciary and the rest of our government. And this cannot possibly happen if we swap back and forth between Democrats and Republicans every four or eight years. The only thing that this causes is a further leftward drift. Both sides have to cater to the middle to get elected. Every time the democrats get in, the leftists get deeper entrenched. Then the Republicans come in for a short time and can't get much done, so they move left to try to draw more of the center vote. And then the conservatives get pissed and throw the bums out, and the cycle continues.
The only way to break this cycle is for the Republicans to hold on to the majority for at least three or more full eight year cycles in a row. We need several cycles to appoint and confirm as many conservative judges as possible as the old liberals die off or retire. As long as we leave the liberal activist judges in place, we're gonna suffer under their unconstitutional rulings that are destroying our families, our youth, our society and our liberty. We can't turn it around until a generation or so of our young are brought up without the liberal agenda being force fed down their throats at every turn.
There is no other way that I can see short of armed rebellion. And you all know that that's one of the reasons for FR. To head this off and reverse the trend before violence is the only possible alternative.
We've lost a lot over the last century or so, but one thing we have left and plenty of it is our vote. Use it don't lose it. And don't waste it either. Don't fall for the Ross Perot or Patrick J. Buchanan pied piper bs. All that does is elect Clintons... and damn near elected a Gore.
I thank God for President Bush! We could've had gore.
Long live the Republic!
Concur, sir.
I'm more hawkish than even Bush on foreign policy, but domestically, I'm not impressed with his spending spree.
The only way to break this cycle is for the Republicans to hold on to the majority for at least three or more full eight year cycles in a row. We need several cycles to appoint and confirm as many conservative judges as possible as the old liberals die off or retire. As long as we leave the liberal activist judges in place, we're gonna suffer under their unconstitutional rulings that are destroying our families, our youth, our society and our liberty. We can't turn it around until a generation or so of our young are brought up without the liberal agenda being force fed down their throats at every turn.
But don't forget while the forces of freedom control the GOP, the socialist -- Dems+RINOs -- still set the agenda in Congress. And while the freedom-loving media has made huge gains over the last decade, the left still dominates and this is something any politician who wants to further his agenda must consider.
Thank you sir. This to me bears repeating because the more I think about it the more I agree with you completely. The proverbial lightbulb just flashed on and I see the folly of my ways. I will be changing enrollment to GOP. I see now that if we really want the GOP to represent us then we need to make sure we are represented from the inside. I was a republican about 3 cycles ago but when the GOP started actually coming to power locally some entrenched Libs switched parties and the Rinos already in started becoming very influencial.
I guess instead of working for unelectable 3rd parties it would pay more dividends to work for good GOP primaries that highlight Liberal versus Conservative differences. This site has become a source of learning and joy for me. Thanks again.
We are all playing in Jim's sandbox. He could shut the whole thing down tomorrow if he wanted and we have to remember that. We are not entitled to ANYTHING at Free Republic. If we start thinking that this is an entitltement, then we are intellectually no better than the denizens at DU.
jriemer - member since 6/1998
There's the entire problem in a nutshell.
If the Republicans would learn to hold their philosophical ground, they would find that the "center" would come to them.
So, was it a good idea for President Bush and Karl Rove to try and get Richard Riordan installed as Governor of California last year?
