Dougf,
Please, you post embodies the whole idea of a tantrum. And, proves my whole point. With McCain in office, the march continues towards European Socialism and the integration with the Socialist Democrat party. With out him in office, yet in the Senate, he “gets to punish conservatives” by staying his lifetime course. The outcome is the same, either with him as President or Senator. One thing he could do is to resign his Senate seat to show me it is about serving as President and not just his ability to wield political power.
What the now moderate Republican Party leadership seems to not see is just how much damage they have done to our Party and the country over the years. Their most recent travesty of Medicare Part D and the ratification of the LOST treaty will punish generations of Americans and is but a drop in the bucket since they regained power in 94.
When to draw the line? Well, the conservative members of the party drew it in 94 with the capture of the house and the “Contract with America”. And then the Republican Party promptly threw Newt and the ideals overboard. Just prior to the 2006 election, the conservatives raised the flag of immigration – which AMERICA is concerned with – only to be told to shut up and be compassionate and realistic. The RNC got their answer.
So please, you will get the government you want. You obviously want European Socialism; otherwise you would stand against it. You obviously want European Healthcare; otherwise you would stand against it. You obviously want 12-20 million illegals and their immediate family welcomed to our country; otherwise you would stand against it. America gets the country we want, and I suspect OHB will deliver it to us. A socialist, quasi-Marxist mix that will restrict freedom, empty the treasury and leave us defenseless.
And, if McCain is elected we will get – well, the same. Restrictions of free speech, a continues march towards Universal Healthcare, the amnesty of illegals and the extension of an invitation for their immediate relatives to join them, SCOUT judges that pass muster for the Socialist Democrat members of the judicial committee, elimination of Gitmo, continued dependents of foreign oil – I see no recognizable differences.
I am a realist, I am a pragmatist and it will be a long and difficult fight against these enemies of our Founding Father’s ideals. And the fight is made all the more difficult by people like you.
