The amount of rhetoric that comes from the Republican Right is amazing. Especially when you have several assaults on basic Republican values.
First, the massive federal budget deficits. When Carter had deficits, the Republicans called him a TAX AND SPEND LIBERAL ! But when Bush gives them to us at ten times the Carter numbers, the Republicans stay silent.
Second, Iraq. Republicans have generated the policy of "if it isn't in America, we shouldn't get involved." So much for that.
Third, states rights. Today the Supreme Court struck down the use of medical marijuana, all after an appeal from the Bush Administration that challenged 10 states policies over that law. So much for States Rights, a basic issue of the Republican Party.
At this rate, the Republican Party should just change its name to the "BUSH PARTY" or maybe the "BLIND SHEEP PARTY". Either name would better describe their evolving "principles".
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Well all I can say is THEY VOTED FOR HIM!!!
There are many things that we Repubs do not like about Bush. He IS spending money like a drunken sailor, is totally refusing to protect our borders and is crazy if he thinks that the Muslim world will ever foster Democracy.
But John I was in Vietnam Kerry would have been a 1000 time worse.
Admittedly I have never liked George Bush, but he did manage to get us through the very difficult immediate days of 9/11 pretty well. So what I am really saying is "you never really know what you got until you need it." Kerry might have handled the Hurricane response much better than Bush - But then again he might not have - no real way to tell unless he had been there.
It isn't tough to be a Republican--just heart breaking. What exactly is a "regular" Republican? Bet you don't know. It certainly isn't represented in our current batch of %$%$@%$$%#@%@^$#&^%&^%#^$##*&^^%$6 in Washington. Any more than the "normal" Democrat being represented with those %T%$%^^**%%#$!@~~@ in Washington either.
I am a "Goldwater" Republican. Here are a few things I believe in:
I believe that the body of laws for this country need to be maintained. If a law is outdated or obfuscated it needs to be cleaned up--not "interpreted" by the court. (Frankly, I feel that the court should be able to hold Congress in contempt and force them to do their frikking job.)
I believe that the obligations and authority of each level of government should be well defined and enforced. Define: a local issue, a regional issue, a state issue, and a Federal issue. Weaseling, gutless, and stupid pols are the cause of many of the problems we endure today. The most direct representation is local, but few will take the responsibility to learn about the candidates; all we get are weasels, clowns, and paid-for pols. Then people demand redress from the Federal government--argh!
I believe in the responsible and "intelligent use" of public lands--and that means also preserving them for future generations. Most of the forest lands today are composed of fast-growth hybrids; as diseases from imported lumber and plants wiped out existing stocks. They need to be maintained or they burn really well. I don't consider "clear-cutting" to be "intelligent use" it is damaging and just plain stupid. (I would like more people to get involved in the different programs to re-introduce re-bred-disease resistant varieties of original species to our forests.) "Public lands" are also the bodies of water, both fresh and salt, which reside within our sphere of influence. They should be preserved and maintained. (That means cleaned up, no dumping, and no overfishing.)
I believe that it is very important to maintain and preserve an economic environment which allows individuals to build personal wealth, to be able to create opportunity for themselves and others. An environment which is robust enough that there is opportunity for employment.
I believe that there should be a process which allows those who have, through their own actions, lost the rights of citizenship to prove that they have made permanent changes in their behavior and have those rights restored. It should inexpensive, but not easy. It should mean something.
I believe that if a means of doing something "cleanly" exists; that everything which can be done to make it economically possible be done--and those which do not comply when possible should be held personally responsible. Drop an Acme anvil on them.
I believe in fiscal restraint. That every dime of tax-payer money be accounted for, and the assignment of actual responsibility for how it is spent. Malfeasance should result in a prison sentence.
I believe that there should be an actual audit performed upon all levels of government on a regular basis--as the normal course of any bureaucracy is bloat. We know this from the study of history. It is a fact, not a party affiliation.
I believe in "capital crimes" and "capital punishment". Not because execution is punishment, or that it may "frighten" someone enough that they won't do heinous things, but because it is very unlikely that the individual in question will repeat the offense. (I also believe in a big enough budget for law enforcement that the investigation of a capital crime involves the assignment of detectives to attempt to prove the suspect didn't commit it as well as those to prove they did. This would eliminate arrests of convenience, as well as more OJ trials.)
I believe that the current education system is a shambles. Research and education are two different things. Split them up. I believe that each course (and instructor) itself should go through the process of accreditation--not the school, and that the credits of such courses should be valid regardless of the location in which the instruction takes place. I also believe that medical school should be subsidized heavily, open to anyone who can pass the entry exams, and very intensive; without the unofficial quotas dictating the number of graduates to create an artificial shortage of doctors. Law school, on the other hand, should be terribly expensive.
I believe that if one catches a "suicide bomber" before they can act--torture them, a lot, more than that; then--. . .put them in a volkswagen and see if the commercial is really true.
It is tough being a Republican in 2007. Somehow you have to believe concurrently that:
• Jesus loves you, but shares your deep hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
• Republicans are somehow tough on terrorism and American security when their track record clearly shows that they are absolutely not tough on terrorism, or protecting our borders and our citizens.
• It is OK to advocate illegal unconstitutional wars from afar as long as it is someone else or someone else’s children who die in vain for that self serving republican cause.
• Republicans are paragons of virtue and morality when they are just the opposite.
• Republicans are a party that is of, for and by the people when republicans are only good at producing presidents who always make laws that favor large corporations, the rich and the elite of the nation at the expense of the middle and lower classes.
• Republicans are conservative while being in favor raiding our nation’s treasury, squandering our nation’s resources and lives while driving our nation into debt that will last for decades all for self serving unconstitutional republican gain.
• Republicans are for less government when they let their daddies bush and cheney create the largest most expensive, most wasteful government in history.
• Republicans are for fewer taxes while their daddy bush decreases taxes for the rich and elite while hiding the fact that they increased taxes on the middle and lower classes to offset their wasteful corrupt spending practices.
• Republicans are good stewards with everything when they have actually raided our national treasury and diverted to towards the rich minority in this country while wasting our nation’s surplus and creating the largest national debt in history.
• It was wrong for Clinton to screw outside of marriage but OK for Bush to screw the entire USA and other countries as well.
• It is OK to say “God Bless America” in church and on bumper stickers while the blood of innocent people on your hands flows like water from a faucet on a daily basis.
• John Kerry flip flopped on Bush’s illegal unconstitutional personal war against Iraq and at the same time, turn a blind eye to the fact that Bush flip flopped on every single thing he promised Americans during the 2000 presidential campaign.
• A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all humankind without regulation.
• The United States should get out of the United Nations, but our highest national priority is enforcing U. N. resolutions against Iraq and Iran.
• "Standing Tall for America" means firing your workers and moving their jobs to India.
• Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.
• The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches, while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.
• A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense. A president lying about WMD existence to enlist support for an unprovoked, undeclared war and occupation in which thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands civilians die, is, somehow, solid "defense" policy in a "War against Terrorism".
• Group sex and drug use are degenerate sins, unless you someday run for governor of California as a Republican.
• If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.
• A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, but then demand their cooperation and money.
• Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.
• HMOs and insurance companies make profits and have the interest of the public at heart.
• Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.
• Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him and Rumsfeld reassured him he was our buddy. A bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him. But, then a bad guy again when Bush junior needed a prop for his re-election campaign as the "war president".
• Iran was a good country when Ford and Rumsfeld and Cheney, along with General Electric, gave them our nuclear technology in the 1970's. Good guys when Cheney did business with them in the 1990's. But, then bad guys when Bush junior needed a prop for his re-election campaign as the "war president".
• Iraq was a good country when Reagan and Rumsfeld gave them our chemical warfare technology in the 1980's. Bad guys when we authorized their over flights to gas their own population, and then good guys, again, when Cheney did business with them. But, then bad guys when Bush junior needed a prop for his re-election campaign as the "war president".
• It is okay that the Bush family's "Carlisle Group" has made millions doing business with the Bin Laden family.
• Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which should include "banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet".
• The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's illegal insider Harken Oil stock trade should be sealed in his Daddy's library, and is none of our business.
• What Bill Clinton or John Kerry did in the 1960s was of vital national interest but Bush & Cheney's drug and alcohol felony arrests in the '80s are irrelevant.
• Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a "spirit of international harmony".
• Affirmative Action is wrong, but it is OK for your Daddy and his friends (here and in Saudi Arabia) to get you to graduate from Yale without studying much; to dodge the draft in the Texas Air National Guard; to bail out your company Harken Oil and the Texas Rangers; to get the Governorship of Texas and then to have the Supreme Court appoint you President of the USA.
• You are a conservative, but it is OK to spend like there is no tomorrow and run up deficits that your grandchildren will have to pay, while at the same refunding as much tax money as possible to rich people who do not need it.
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