Tuesday, November 4th is election day
Nov 4, 2008 politics
The choice is yours: elect a moderate Democrat, or a Socialist? (or a statesman?)
Of course, the moderate Democrat is John McCain, and the Socialist is Barack Obama. Of course, Democrats will defend Barack Obama to their grave that he is not a Socialist, but his words speak otherwise. Although Democrats have a great point that Republicans have supported Social Security, Medicare, and a progressive income tax, all socialist ideas, coming right out and saying that you want to implement wealth redistribution is rather frightening. It should be no wonder that Obama has socialist tendencies after being mentored by Frank Marshall Davis.
Republicans, however, are not off the hook. Besides the above mentioned, McCain is pro-amnesty, anti-gun, pro stem cell research, anti-free speech (McCain-Feingold), and loves to vote with Joe Lieberman, a man who also should not have a big “R” in front of his name, for obvious reasons. McCain either swindled the American people or the American people are in fact more liberal than I thought. Then again, why did both candidates have to shift right in their rhetoric in order to gain acceptance? Why did McCain have to choose Governor Sarah Palin in order to appeal to his conservative base? That begs the question then, are conservatives just plain ignorant? I think the answer is plainly obvious.
The only real choice today is a third party candidate, and preferably Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party. The only real hope for America (sorry Barack) is to restore the principles of the Constitution of these United States of America.
Now, get out and vote!
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Why the GOP is a one issue party
Sep 9, 2008 Ron Paul, politics
Major points of the video:
After Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Palin became the life of the party, and an admittedly formidable foe to the Democrats because of her out-of-the-beltway conservatism, and has made everyone forget that party leaders are uninterested in the conservative values that she represents.
Conservatives have been uncomfortable with John McCain because of his support for capaign finance reform, opposition to drilling in ANWR, his vote against the Bush tax cuts, his suscribing to global warming histeria and his support for a bill that would have granted amnesty to illegal aliens.
However, despite McCain’s liberal positions on other issues, Republicans seem to think that he is the best man to fight the war on terror.
Rudy Giuliani and Joe Lieberman were selected to represent the party at the RNC. Giuliani is extremely similar to Hillary Clinton in almost every area except for the war, but his ability to invoke 9/11 suddenly makes him a Republican star. Lieberman, despite being further to the left than Obama, is also selected to speak. Lieberman was Al Gore’s running mate in 2000. He supports universal health care, supports partial birth abortions, he is anti-gun, and opposed Samuel Alito’s appointment to the Supreme Court.
When WTMA host Richard Todd asked Cindy Mosteller why the Republicans were embracing Joe Lieberman, she said “Because he understands the importance of 9/11. This is a big tent party.” However, the tent was apparently not big enough for Republican congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul, who was not allowed normal credentials at the RNC, despite his own convention (rally for the republic which drew more than 12,000 people) discussing reducing the size of government, returning to the constitution, and bringing the Republican party back to its conservative roots, and Ron Paul being introducted by Barry Goldwater Jr. whose father, Barry Goldwater, was the conscious of the conservative movement for half a century. Paul was not even let into the doors at his own party’s convention due to his opposition to the Iraq war, despite him getting more votes in the primaries than Rudy Guiliani and Fred Thompson, who both had speaking roles at the RNC.
When Cindy Mosteller was asked why anti war Republicans like Ron Paul, North Carolina congressman Walter Jones, or Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel are not given a voice at the convention, she replied, “If you get a tent too big it’s bound to have holes in it.” She added, “Hagel could not even get up on a national stage and even make a case… and you know why? Because the surge has, by God, worked.” So much for the big tent.
You are not to be tolerated in the Republican Party if you agree with the majority of Americans who are against the war in Iraq, yet being pro gun control, pro socialized health care, pro-choice, and pro-amnesty is perfectly acceptable as long as your are pro war. If you are a staunch conservative, yet against the war, you are no longer welcome in the Republican Party.
The definition of a neoconservative is one who believes that America’s greatness is measured exclusively by our willingness to dominate the globe politically and militarily. For neocons, foreign policy is primary and every other issue is secondary.
The 2008 McCain campaign (and nomination) represents the takeover of the Republican Party by neoconservatives. Sarah Palin, who once supported anti-war conservative Pat Buchanan for president, now mouths the same neoconservative foreign policy rhetoric that defines the new GOP.
Sarah Palin, like Spiro Agnew to Richard Nixon and Dan Quayle to George H.W. Bush, will be a conservative vice president who has virtually no impact on the moderate President they serve. McCain will more likely appoint Joe Lieberman as Secretary of State than give Sarah Palin any responsibilities more important than office secretary.
The only reason McCain picked Sarah Palin as Vice President is to pacify traditional conservatives on the many issues they still care about so that in Republican victory, McCain and the neoconservatives can get to work on their only issue – War.
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