138: “What’s that? By “we” you mean we Republicans? Oh pull the other one, my distinguished friend. You are no more a Republican than, Arianna Muffington or Kostas Menolikus. Every single one of the points you make are Muffpost talking points.”
That’s true if the GOP is defined as social issues over those more crucial to the country as a whole. I appreciate, by the way, your very decently toned post that does not accuse me of having a Che or Ayres photo on my wall. I can’t leave the GOP entirely, even if their conventions are more fun, since I don’t agree with the Kos or Ms. Huffington. So move over,because I am not leaving (although I might if Senator Craig from Utah nudges my foot).
Idolizing losing GOP candidates that block stem cell research while victorious opponents preside over an out of control budget, schools infested with unionized “you pretend to pay me so I pretend to work,” teachers and Pelosiites wanting to release abuse photos for “transparency” -while refusing to audit ACORN-seems stubbornly self-defeating.
Surely you can’t want the free spenders, high taxers, etc to win just to avoid voting for someone like me? I’d leave those social issues out of politics and focus on secular issues–like that budget. If the catholic church had listened to erasmus, they might have prevented the big fracture, but noooooo, they had to fight over nonsense while the big picture was lost. We should be doing that.
And you need people like me for the GOP: Conservative mores tend to come from an economically stable society, which requires conservative office-holders, not adventuresome “what stupid old policy will we change today?” legislators.
When the economy is stable people save, invest, build, plan for the future. When the economy is controlled by social spenders (since their stodgy religious opponents scared everyone and lost), the dollar erodes, saving is penalized and people go nuts. They spend. They focus only on today to the exclusion of the future. People start speculating in commodities instead of building a business. Rather than elect the stodgy religious nut, people opt for the one that seems to have the best grasp on what matters to them. Ask anyone who lived through the mid 60′s.
Let’s be the party of good government principles and freedom, not polls, policy wonks born yesterday or religious mores that divide people that ought to agree.
