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Isn't there somebody else running as a Republican?
Allen West.
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To be serious, I really, really want this party to die. I volunteer for a charity, and about 50 percent of my "clients" are US boys. We only deal with boys, another charity handles the girls.
I really, really hate people like this, and I'm totally honest and serious. I want a lighter workload. I want fewer clients. And the only way for that to happen is if this party is ground into dust, destroyed, and become politically impossible. I want them to gain the reputation of the KKK in general politics.
This is pretty heavy. I have to throw it out there that I don't believe "Republican" makes a person anti-gay. Certainly not in my case. I am pro-gay, all-in.
I don't think the party has to die, but I think some changes are definitely needed. Granted, the GOP gets the votes from the (in my opinion) politically ignorant Bible-beaters. But that's just not everyone. It's just NOT. I'm so tired of the all-or-nothing view of conservatives; why does a fiscal conservative such as myself have to be a Fundamentalist Christian? Because I'm not. A lot of us aren't. There's a lot more to the conservative stance.
And I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure none of these GOP candidates are going around saying "If I am president, gay-bashing will continue unimpeded!!! Hooray for me!!" (Although, I know there's more to it than that. I don't want anyone who's going to ignore the bullying and the inequality.)
Here's the thing. Roomney wants to run the government like a business. That's also my view of how government should be run. (Still can't stand him, but that's another story...)
Ron Paul wants to send members of Congress home for six months, back to regular jobs. And pay cuts across the board. That's also my view. (Still, he scares me, for other reasons, but that's another story....)
Less government is my view. Less spending. The government is like a giant, slow-moving, poorly-functioning enterprise that would have gone bankrupt a long, long time ago if it weren't for their ability to borrow money from Social Security and foreign countries.
Point being, this is why I'm conservative. Not because I want to impose my idea of how a person should live his or her life on them. Quite the opposite. I think people should be able to do whatever the hell they want to, as long as they're not hurting anyone else (Also a Ron Paul view).
Chrissy
P.S. I seem to keep showing up on Santorum threads. Just for the record, I don't like him either (that's another story....)
This is pretty heavy. I have to throw it out there that I don't believe "Republican" makes a person anti-gay. Certainly not in my case. I am pro-gay, all-in.
I don't think the party has to die, but I think some changes are definitely needed. Granted, the GOP gets the votes from the (in my opinion) politically ignorant Bible-beaters. But that's just not everyone. It's just NOT. I'm so tired of the all-or-nothing view of conservatives; why does a fiscal conservative such as myself have to be a Fundamentalist Christian? Because I'm not. A lot of us aren't. There's a lot more to the conservative stance.
And I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure none of these GOP candidates are going around saying "If I am president, gay-bashing will continue unimpeded!!! Hooray for me!!" (Although, I know there's more to it than that. I don't want anyone who's going to ignore the bullying and the inequality.)
Here's the thing. Roomney wants to run the government like a business. That's also my view of how government should be run. (Still can't stand him, but that's another story...)
Ron Paul wants to send members of Congress home for six months, back to regular jobs. And pay cuts across the board. That's also my view. (Still, he scares me, for other reasons, but that's another story....)
Less government is my view. Less spending. The government is like a giant, slow-moving, poorly-functioning enterprise that would have gone bankrupt a long, long time ago if it weren't for their ability to borrow money from Social Security and foreign countries.
Point being, this is why I'm conservative. Not because I want to impose my idea of how a person should live his or her life on them. Quite the opposite. I think people should be able to do whatever the hell they want to, as long as they're not hurting anyone else (Also a Ron Paul view).
Chrissy
P.S. I seem to keep showing up on Santorum threads. Just for the record, I don't like him either (that's another story....)
This sounds good to me. I'm a conservative who is unhappy with the 4 remaining candidates - and don't like the social conservatives.
Barry Goldwater would die all over again if he could see what's become of conservatism in this country.I couldn't have said it better myself. I'm a conservative, or rather, what a conservative used to be, once upon a time. I'm pro-gay all-in as you said . I hate what both parties have become. I hate them both. The parties. And most of the people in them.
Besides, do you think Democrats can't be equally powerhungry themselves?
hmmm... intriguing... you can almost hear it in rush limbaugh's voice...Um, the Democrats, as currently constituted, are not liberals. I have not viewed them as such since Tip was Speaker. They're revolutionaries. Their goal is to destroy the United States and replace it with something where they'll be in power forever.
Um, the Republicans, as currently constituted, are not conservatives. I have not viewed them as such since Newt was Speaker. They're revolutionaries. Their goal is to destroy the United States and replace it with something where they'll be in power forever.
And I also wasn't surprised it came to this. Thirty odd years ago, people like Richard Vigurie and Terry Dolan became big players in Republican politics. They specialized in attacks ads and worked hard to bring the fringes of right wing politics into the party. How could such an effort ended up anywhere other than here?
ding, ding, ding... we have a winner. More "anybody but Romney" churning from the uninformed voters who picked their candidate in the last 48 hours before the voting.the lack of exit polls last night make it difficult to make the case that america is being blasted by a fresh surge of santorum or whether the combination of growing awareness of newt's unelectability (and his absence on the missouri ballot) coupled with santorum's adeptness at turning obama's contraception quagmire into a lightning rod issue for catholics and evangelicals informed the outcome in a significant way.
This is pretty heavy. I have to throw it out there that I don't believe "Republican" makes a person anti-gay. Certainly not in my case. I am pro-gay, all-in.
When I was young, the concept of the "melting pot" where all the various people and cultures ran together to make one America, was accepted as both an ideal and as truth.Tribalism, ideology, radicalism of various kinds, run deep in the US, and does the cult of romanticized individualism.
I don't think the melting pot was ever real. I think it was kind of a weak, problematical analogy for something that was, maybe, an idealization of an ordinary reality, namely the way immigrant families assimilate into the culture over time and what parts of "the old country" get preserved.When I was young, the concept of the "melting pot" where all the various people and cultures ran together to make one America, was accepted as both an ideal and as truth.
I'm not sure it ever was, but things have certainly become worse over the years.
We at least used to have shared goals and ideals -- the divisions between Republican and Democrat were mostly about the methods we should employ to reach those goals.
But no longer. The very goals have changed. It's hard to come up with "bipartisan" solutions, when the arguments are not about how to best achieve a desired result, but the value of the results themselves are subject to profound disagreements. We now have very different ideas about what kind of country we wish to live in.