Topic: Conservatism
Ron Paul vs a Third Term for George W. Bush Americans need to separate their love of country and true patriotism from their novel fantasies of a jingoistic demi-god who bleeds red, white and blue and sits on a throne in the oval office championing the faux War on Terror throughout the world.by Jake Morphonios
(Conservative Libertarian)
Friday, February 29, 2008
In 2004 I wrote a review of Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism". McCain has rubber stamped, as a US Senator, almost everything that Bush has done. It is easy to predict what a McCain presidency would be like by comparing him to Bush. The new Democrat battle-cry, in reference to McCain, is: "No Third Term for Bush!" They've got a point! A McCain presidency will be a repeat of the same garbage we've had for the past 8 years. Have Republicans forgotten how bad things were/are?
2004
Bush promoted himself as the father of "compassionate" conservatism. What does that mean? Were conservatives not already compassionate? Why did Bush [McCain] feel the need to draw a distinction between himself and existing Reagan-conservatives? The answer was,and still is, that Bush [McCain] hasn't a conservative bone in his body - neither fiscally or socially.
Bush has driven America into the deepest financial turmoil in decades. The federal deficit created under Bush is the largest in US history. The unemployment rate has risen steadily since Bush has put his fiscal policies into place and today stands at a 9 year high. Last month marked the 5th straight increase in job losses and the trend is expected to continue.
Bush [McCain] has teamed up with the likes of Teddy Kennedy, one of the most liberal members in the history of the Congress, to develop and ram down conservative lawmaker's throats the biggest spending increase and bureaucratic mess since the establishment of the Department of Education: aka, No Child Left Behind.
Speaking of the size of government, Bush [McCain] has created through the spending of billions of dollars an impotent organization called the Department of Homeland Security that has yet to accomplish anything significant that was not already being accomplished by existing agencies. Scratch that. Bush [McCain] HAS managed to accomplish significant things, though they are not positive accomplishments. Bush [McCain] has put America on the fast track to becoming the next super-power police state in the world....and not just a policing of other countries, but of America's own citizens. There are more than enough horror stories on the internet for us to read of average American citizens being spied on and harrassed by the new Bush mod squad.
On the subject of not paying attention to the people's business,Bush [McCain] does seem to find enough time in between photo ops on aircraft carriers, to interject himself and his flawed policies into the affairs of OTHER people's business. Namely Israel. G.W. Bush, for good or bad, is the President of the United States of America. He is not the prime minister of Israel and has no business pushing his demands and "roadmaps" into the lives of citizens of other nations.
I will state emphatically, that it is absolutely impossible for someone to consider himself a conservative while at the same time rejecting the fundamental principles of the Constitution that prohibit America from interjecting itself into the affairs of other nations. One could no more call himself a conservative, while supporting America's brokering of "peace" in the middle-east, as a person could call himself a liberal while rejecting the principles of tax-funded welfare policies. All true liberals support tax-funded social welfare policies and all true conservatives support the principles of the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence that speak of the rights of nations to determine their own destinies, without the aggressive intervention of other nations.
Even if you do support Bush's [McCain's]interventionist policies, you can't honestly say that he has done a good job. He hasn't found Osama bin Laden. He hasn't dismantled ANY terror group, let alone al-Qaeda. He hasn't found the tons and tons of chemical weapons that he bogusly claimed existed in Iraq. He has left Iraq and Afghanistan in a shambles, neither of which will recover anytime in the near future (why? because Bush [McCain] still hasn't defeated the enemies of the new governments...they continue day by day picking off American soldiers and will continue to do so). Face it, Bush [McCain] has been a total failure in his role as Commander in Chief. Even a dipstick like Tom Daschle could have done the bare minimum that Bush has accomplished.
Americans need to learn to separate their love of country and true patriotism from their novel fantasies of a demi-god who bleeds red,white and blue and sits in the oval office championing the war against evil throughout the world.
Let's just be honest. Moderate Republicans, under Bush's [McCain's] banner of "compassionate conservatism" is nothing more than a political ploy designed to win votes. If you support Bush's [McCain's] handling of the economy, you are not a conservative. At the least, you are a moderate. Look up the web sites of conservative groups on the internet....the largest ones in the nation are decrying Bush's [McCain's] fiscal policies. American conservatives do not support Bush's [McCain's] social welfare spending, his intervention into the affairs of other nations, or his role as Commander in Chief.
Bush [McCain] once said that fundamentalists have hijacked Islam and have corrupted it. Well, Mr. President, moderates like you have hijacked conservatism and have corrupted it as well.
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McCain is a Gun-Grabber!!!
SPRINGFIELD, Va., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the Gun Owners of America:
"John McCain has actively worked against the Second Amendment and self-defense during his time in Congress. He also has been a spokesman for gun grabbers during state initiative campaigns," said the three top officers of Gun Owners of America - Founder and Chairman Sen. H. L. Richardson (ret.), Vice-Chairman Tim Macy and Executive Director Larry Pratt.
"John McCain's so-called 'Straight Talk Express' will derail if he attempts to con gun owners into thinking that he is really their man. If he had wanted the support of gun owners, and conservatives in general, McCain should have thought about that before chalking up his long string of unacceptable votes and initiatives.
"Gun Owners of America urge the conservatives gathering this week in Washington, D.C. for the CPAC 2008 to remember that John McCain is no conservative. He worked with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) for amnesty for illegal aliens. He worked with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) for protecting incumbents by gagging political speech. He voted against President Bush's tax cuts, although now Senator 'Straight Talk' says that he is for making them permanent. He supported Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) when his presidential bid was beached by the Swift Boat Veterans. He even explored running with Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
"He appeared in radio and TV ads in Colorado and Oregon on the behalf of an anti-gun group, in an attempt to cripple gun shows and register gun buyers.
"Conservatives should not support John McCain for president. It is for sure that gun owners will remember who has burned them and undermined the Second Amendment," concluded the GOA officers.
Gun Owners of America
The only possible good that could come out of McCain being elected president would be watching him pull a Clinton when he decides to cheat on his wife.
good point, heres the thing though in the history of the Congress there has never been more people in the house and senate that support having what Dems want, to compromise the Reps, decided hey lets make a new wing of republicans that could very well be Democrats. Its a great tragedy when the Republican party has to start copying the Democrats on issues the government should not be involved.
I believe in Compromise, you however do not compromise the parties integrity to continue the wars that have been started since before the new deal.
Its a pathetic excuse that Americans have for awhile now been so conditioned into being lazy, entitlement driven mobs that bottom-feed off of the economy and our taxes.
yes, i do believe that there are people the government is helping but wouldnt leaving it up to the states (ie the voters in those states) have a better impact on the actual problems by breaking them down into, i dont know, maybe 50 smaller portions instead of 1.
Just use some logic people it would be way easier for you to get involved in your local communities and get things changed if the Federal Government didnt clip the wings of the state governments.
I was just wondering how ron paul can get 4,5,6 even 7 thousand people to come and listen to him speak. and john mccain is doing lucheons and town hall meetings......yet mccain is winning ????????? where are the people that are voting for him...no im serious......
Look at the demographics of the exit polls from any of the early primary states: the people voting Republican are predominantly older folks, retired or on the eve of retirement. They rely on the highly editorialized news provided in classical mass media (newsprint, TV) and are under the influence of the "Weapon of Silence" as described by Theodore Koop in his 1946 title.
Their allies, the baby boomers, know better but are too invested in the system to be willing to chance any sort of consensual change-- they'll ride our ship of state down to Davy Jones' locker before they relenquish their death grip on what they believe they're "owed" in the form of expected social security and medicare benefits.
As if one group can indenture their posterity into contractual servitude for generations; as if said posterity has any moral duty to perform under such an unconscionable contract. The baby boomers wish it, their own progeny won't tolerate it, and so we approach the twilight of the age of credit facing the largest intergenerational economic conflict America will ever witness.
Hi guys and gals of the revolution, McShame is finished, Pissing off the Catholics, good move monkey boy, I really thought that this guy might get elected, If we don't elect Ron Paul, by 2010 the baby boomers will cause all the entitlement programs to go blammo, Thats ok, any of my brothers and sisters from the Revolution will be welcome at my hotel and tarpon fishin spot in Nicaragua. These guys in charge don't care about the United States of America. RonPaul 08,
Dean, as to why aren't the huge numbers of people coming to see Ron Paul matching the numbers voting for him, that is a really good question.
I think we have a pretty clear case of vote count fraud going on here, especially evidenced by the difference between the primaries using Diebold & opti-scan and those caucuses that were hand-ballots and count-watched. Not to mention the skullduggery that is still going on in the New Hampshire recount. I'm pretty sure that the electronic voting machines can only be riggeed to suction off just so many votes, so in order for Ron Paul to overcome this fraud, he must win by a landslide.
That means for everyone to continue to campaign to get his name out, get as many people as possible to become a delegate, and even distributing free copies of the DVD America: Freedom to Fascism (if they don't vote for Ron Paul after seeing that, then I give up).
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