http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=98060&page=4 [edit] I mean, it must be an email because neither of you linked it. Right?
Compared to my core beliefs, yes it is. Both satisfy and dissatisfy but at the end of the day, you choose one... unless you want to throw your vote away and vote Libertarian.
should've included the link, but i think you'll be chagrined at the source: http://www.gaypatriot.net/blog/archives/000327.php
Yawn. I thought this thread would be about a RINO that I had actually heard of like John McCain or Chuck Hagel.
Most of those quotes are accurate and only a tiny few seem to be against military action in Afghanistan. Some question the strategy used, some actually seem to call for military action on a larger scale, some call for a more comprehensive strategy. Some merely go more idepth than the simpleton "just bomb 'em" response and actually attempt to figure out where OBL is getting his support, and ways in which we could limit that support, and win some support for us. Very few called for a total lack of military response.
This is the part that speaks to me and explains one of my biggest frustrations with the current political alignment. I personally consider myself a reformed liberal democrat in the way that Sinead O'Conner consders herself a reformed Catholic. In highschool and as an underclassman in college I believed in all the big government, protectionist and moral interventionists viewpoints. As I travelled to developing countries and saw how important trade was, started working for a living and having to deal directly with governments when it came to planning my I've realized just how starry eyed, utopian, arrogant and even unproductive those kind of views were. Yet last year I found myself in a democratic caucus where Kucinich overwhelmingly won the straw poll with people seriously debating banning all trade done by corporations. It pains me that thanks to the absolutists rigid dogma that its treasonous to question this Admin that now I'm a lumped in with those same liberals who I've outgrown when I believe my views better represent the historical views of the conservative movement. Views that are suspicious of the idea of using US power to impose a narrow moral view both here and abroad. That are cautious of foreign entanglements. That knows that government has as little place in the bedroom as it does in the boardroom. That recognizes the separation of the power and resists the concentration of power in the executive. That respects Federalism. And finally that doesn't just ask the American people to trust them while they conduct themselves with more secrecy and less accountability.
Don't tell me I was the only one on this BBS who got this. Bravo, basso! Classic p*rn! I love it! G-d Bless America!!!!!
I am no longer a Democrat honestly . .looking back . . only reason I was was because they were the lesser of two evils I am not a republican either We *NEED* a third party I though Perot's Party had promise then the CHRISTIAN RIGHT infiltrated it and destroyed it [innate resistance to something that would disrupt the 2 party system] Third Partys are now use as more leverage to pry votes from the other MAIN party rather than actually offer a different position then again . . i maybe derailing this threat Rocket River
