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What confuses me about all of this is…as a conservative thinking person…I see that Bush and McCain have shown themselves to not be conservative thinkers, especially McCain, on most issues, and except for the Iraq policies, would probably be welcomed in the Democratic party if he chose to use that name. Party politics seem to be more important than the American people.
Bush has disappointed me on many fronts, when it comes to issues, which I could give you concrete reasons for without being ugly about it, and I could do the same as to why I think Obama and McCain are poor choices for a president, without being ugly or misleading. There is way too much of that going on in the Media…trying to get people to hate a person.. and put all the blame on them, as if the Congress has no say so.
I don’t pay so much attention to organizations that want a particular candidate to win and SAY that a candidate believes such and such. Their actions and records SHOW what they believe and that is the best gauge for me.
Unfortunately, the party behind the man establishes the direction of the president and country to a large degree. I’m a fiscal conservative and a democrat; I don’t want to spend money on programs that do nothing for the US or even end up trashing the reputation of our nation. Is that ugly–I don’t think so. It’s just true. People will believe to a large degree what their friends and family believe. I challenge Americans to start looking closer at the issues at stake and what a party represents or more importantly in some cases don’t represent. :o(
Well, that was more than I wanted to hear about litlle b and little c. I already knew those things.
I already knew this about McCain….as a registered Republican I will NEVER vote for McCain! That party lost my support, money, and loyalty. If McCain is the best the GOP can offer us than they deserve to lose. Obama gets my vote. God help him if he does win trying to fix the mess Bush led us into.
Interesting video. You sound like a Blue Dog Democrat. Being fiscally conserative isn’t ugly; it’s very sound. Many Democrats I know are fiscally conservative. But of course, I live in Virginia where both parties tend to be fiscally conservative.
Jim,
I wasn’t referring to you when I mentioned "ugly", and was thinking about a particular website that had many gleefully hateful comments about Reagan and his alzheimer’s, and how such sites don’t stick with issues, but make ugly personal attacks on individuals they despise. Can’t see professional journalists accepting such comments on their sites…regardless of which side of the aisle…and it is UGLY…yet they accept and promote it.
You are not someone I have ever considered ugly in your personal representations and I wasn’t speaking of you.
Sincerely,
L-Beth
P.S.
I see in Stephanie’s comment that she thinks I consider you being a fiscal conservative as ugly…which is not all the case either… as I am fiscally conservative myself. The trouble with making comments is how easily they can be misunderstood.
The last paragraph of my original comment says what I think about MoveOn.org…nothing about ugly…and nothing about you.
No worries. I wasn’t sure what you meant; but I am now.
Politics and talking about politics is scary stuff sometimes. I kinda expected someone to jump down my throat and defend Bush and *heck of a job* he and his administration is doing. There are people out there that think Bush’s reign as been exemplary. I kid you not.
Both parties at least to me represent some form of disaster as a former registered Republican I have finally had it I am now joining the Libertarian party and will be voting for Bob Barr in “08” at least He makes sense! The 2008 campaign has left me cold so many other candidates would have fit the bill so much better at least there may have been hope. What I see is simply politics as usual the two parties rest assured they will not bring change, nothing new except more debt, the loss of more American soldiers lives, more programs we can not pay for, earmarks aplenty, and my favorite stay dependent on foreign oil, well at least the polar bears will be all right wow I can sleep at night knowing that one!!! Please I love all animals but really we can harvest our own resources without endangering the darling babies…Bob Barr or God help us all! Great Post Darling….Kisses Catherine
I tried to like the Libertarians, really I did. But everything I read from their own people sounds like chaos. No taxes, no military, and almost no government. There’s got to be some middle ground. It’s like the people who think if there were no cops there would be no crime. Sad in a way as I suspect it’s based on wishful thinking more than anything else.
Darling I agree with you that the Libertarian party can be confusing but they do believe in National defense with a sufficient military to defend against aggression. We should however not attempt to police the world. They believe in securing liberty and I do too we should have our individual rights and freedoms protected. I agree with their premise on our natural resources and our rights to explore then environmentally by state rights as well as their refusal to let government control any form of energy pricing, allocation and of course production. I also agree with the right to bear arms. I happen to love the Constitution and believe our founding fathers were right
. ”Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny, when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” “ All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. “ “ Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operation, perverted it into tyranny.”>> Thomas Jefferson.
” Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” “ Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.” “ Guard against the imposters of pretend patriotism.” “ It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” >>George Washington.
Thank God for Wishful thinking. With a dash of hope for our future. Kisses Catherine
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