Makes some very good points, but I don’t agree with the hard/far right stuff. I am beginning to realize that I am a “Liberal Conservative”, especially in the eyes of conservatives. The liberals always regard me with suspicion LOL.
Either way, I am still Republican to the core basics of what the country stands for, (A Republic!) and I believe you shouldn’t SHOOT the messenger. I’m only trying to share both sides of the picture as much as possible. Any time the Obama camp begins to make sense (real sense) I share those things too. What I don’t share, and am not willing to entertain is promises which are impossible to keep, regurgitated and repeated over and over again.
I am sorry but I am not that gullible.
Extreme Liberals, I love ya, but listen to my side of the story for one second,
The “Givernment” (my word people) is not to be trusted, period, right? So how and why continue to give all of our freedoms away, shedding the responsibility for vigilance.
All in all, I fear that our willingness to tolerate the ridiculous demands of the extreme leftist/socialists, (not you true in the flesh liberals) who certainly seemed to romance & influence those who were easily led away from both the more extreme American values, all of which I may not agree with and the most basic of American values MOST of which I completely agree with.
Many people who call themselves “liberal” have been easily led away because of what a “liberal society” (which ends up being revealed as socialism) offers but never seems to really deliver.
From where I sit, more extreme Liberals believe that they will still have all of the freedoms they still have left such as free market economy, while gaining all of these benefits and carrying less responsibility which is conveniently transferred to the "givernment" (this is my new term for our slave owner/puppetmasters) along with all of the decisions regarding our well being. If we continue to trade away our freedoms for a dole, we will be soon living on “reservations” similar to what the American Indians have endured. I truly believe this.
I believe in a sense that I am getting “kicked out of” the republican party because our values are parting ways. I also feel the same about the democratic party, which to me has always teetered on the brink of being “taken over” by those who want to destroy us. Think I don’t absolutely LOVE some of the great presidents? Kennedy and Lincoln are my favorites.
There is nothing wrong with Liberals. If they stopped attacking us “middle” or “Liberal Conservatives” long enough to truly listen to what we have to say, maybe they would understand and possibly even find common ground with why we feel that throwing caution to the wind and allowing the down slide of conservative America so chaotically wasn’t such a good idea.
I mean: Look at where we are now. You can’t possibly blame this mess (society, the erosion of the family) on conservative thinking.
You need to remember that “Liberalism” is a bedfellow to Democrats; they are NOT one in the same. There are conservative Democrats.
On the other hand.
Conservatives are bedfellows to the Republican party. There are Republicans who believe in Liberty, in fair play which means a level playing field.- That’s me.
“neo” or Elitist’s have “hijacked” the far right, and wage war NOT to preserve the good and solid basics of American values but to preserve the PROFITS & benefits from it.
Plain and simple people; That won’t do either.We allowed "liberalism" to slowly take away the freedoms we had in order to "spread the wealth", when simply and honestly leveling the playing field would work much better while preserving the incentive to be "self made" instead of living on “givernment” handouts. PLEASE understand that I am not against, or blaming nor am I willing to demonize liberalism or democrats. My belief is that the Liberal movement has been perverted or maybe hijacked to a certain extent (in the same way the conservative movement has been hijacked by (corporate elitist’s) to the point where even expression of faith in GOD, many liberties, and Liberty itself has become fair game. Reminds me of two people standing on one tree limb, opposed to each other so much so that they are both sawing the limb they stand on.The only real conclusion any intelligent person can come to is that this dismantling of our country and its values not only began many years ago, but it was much more carefully planned and thought out than any of us, even the most extreme "conspiracy theorists" dreamed of.
BOTTOM LINE:
Take American BACK now, or forever hold your peace.
We need to ask ourselves: Will McCain OR OBAMA do this for us?
Please don’t delude yourself. They are two sides of the same coin!
Juan Iota
Excerpt:
THE FOUNDATION
“In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate—look to his character.” —Noah Webster
“Under an Obama administration, it is not far-fetched to see the day when liberal federal judges decide that religious organizations must lose their tax exemptions should they refuse to employ homosexuals or others they regard as engaging in deviant behavior. Court challenges against those who believe homosexual behavior is sinful seem to be occurring with greater frequency... The aim of the gay rights lobby is to destroy all remnants of biblical values and societal norms. Gay rights advocates will take their agenda to federal courts as soon as sufficient numbers of liberal judges are there to give them what they want. Watch them vote in overwhelming numbers for Barack Obama. He is their future. This election is, among other things, about the future of the majority and whether we want this country to be shaped by the courts, or by ‘we the people’.” —Cal Thomas
LIBERTY
“The left subscribes to the French Revolution, whose guiding principles were ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.’ The right subscribes to the American formula, ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.’ The French/European notion of equality is not mentioned. The right rejects the French Revolution and does not hold Western Europe as a model. The left does. That alone makes right and left irreconcilable. The left envisions an egalitarian society. The right does not. The left values equality above other values because it yearns for an America in which all people have similar amounts of material possessions... The right values equality in opportunity and strongly believes that all people are created equal, but the right values liberty, a man-woman based family and other values above equality.” —Dennis Prager
OPINION IN BRIEF
“Consider the magnitude of these problems or the sheer, dumb size of the institutions. Another phrase of financial usage familiar everywhere now is ‘too big to fail.’ But if something is too big to fail, isn’t it... too big? Look in any direction and what you see are institutions that are Too Big. Too big to fully understand, and thus too big to manage efficiently. Faced with Godzilla-sized problems, logic flees: If they’re too big to fail, the solution is... make them bigger! The big, fat government we know about, with its $2.942 trillion annual outlays. The problem of unmanageable public bigness is also seen in state legislatures in a condition of permanent nonperformance, as in New York, California or Michigan. We become numb to these outsized and failing public institutions, which grind in circles while the pols purport concern about massive, forward-crawling monoliths like Medicare, Social Security or public pension debt. By contrast, the starkness and hourly reporting of the financial crisis has made the dilemma of size impossible to duck.” —Daniel Henninger
GOVERNMENT
“The government is seeking to buy up shares in healthy, well-run small businesses all across America so it can get those businesses to behave as the government wants them to behave... But isn’t that how we go into this mess—with the government trying to get banks to make more loans? Just as one lie leads to another, imprudent government intervention in the free market leads to further imprudent government intervention in the free market. Each step of the way, we are told we have no choice but to do what the government wants us to do. The original transgression that led us to the current crisis was committed by elected officials in Washington who wanted to buy additional incumbency insurance for themselves by saying to voters: We will help you buy a house. They worked to accomplish this through legislation (such as the Community Reinvestment Act) that pressured banks to make riskier loans and through tax-exempt government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which started buying up riskier loans (so the original lenders did not have to carry the risk) and wrapping them into mortgage-backed securities (which mixed bad loans with good loans)... So we have gone from government pressuring banks to make riskier mortgages, to government-sponsored enterprises buying riskier loans from banks to facilitate even more risky lending, to government buying stakes in the banks themselves... What will be the next unprecedented measure government officials never thought would be necessary?” —Terence Jeffrey
“The major issue of this campaign is the direct political, personal and moral responsibility of Democratic Party leadership... for this unprecedented calamity which has befallen us. They tell us they have done the most that humanly could be done. They say that the United States has had its day in the sun; that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems; that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities.
My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view. The American people, the most generous on earth, who created the highest standard of living, are not going to accept the notion that we can only make a better world for others by moving backwards ourselves. Those who believe we can have no business leading the nation. I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation’s highest offices, and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it.” —Ronald Reagan
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