I AM GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF REPUBLICANS IN GENERAL AND CONSERVATIVES IN PARTICULAR!
By David Hinz Posted in 2008 — Comments (33) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
While it is entertaining as H*ll watching Democrat Presidential Candidates bite and scratch at each other like bunch of rabid dogs, I am getting sick and tired of watching Conservatives doing the same!
Bloggers for McCain relentlessly attack Romney as too liberal and Rudy for his stance on gun control and gay rights...
Bloggers for Romney flood the blogosphere with praise for Mitt, (which is fine and good), and attack Rudy for his multiple marriages and shifting stances on social issues...
Bloggers for Rudy flood the blogophere with praise for Rudy, (which is fine and good), and attack Mitt for his religion and shifting stances on social issues...
ROUND AND ROUND SHE GOES, AND WHERE SHE STOPS NOBODY KNOWS...
I'll tell you where she goes, she goes to a Democrat victory in '08 because Conservatives have so damaged their own candidates through a thousand cuts with little knives, and the candidates have BLED TO DEATH!
As I said, I, for one, am sick of it!
Civility? Anybody ever hear of it? It is one thing that separates us from the barbarians! That's right, this loss of civility on the part of Republicans has the barbarians laughing in their latte! As we knife each other in the back, the MSM makes note of every cut, to be resurrected and displayed as soon as a champion on the left has been selected, to use our own words against us!
The last few months leave me little hope as the vitriol usually saved for the other side has been turned inward toward our own best candidates!
Way to go...
Welcome to Dhimmitude!
And just walk away from the candidate blogs. Its worked for me, anything I recognize as pro candidate from the title I stay away from. Admittedly if I get suckered in I am there defending my guy, but I try hard not to go negative on the other guys.
A quote from a man who learned the hardway
Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Romney, Rudy, McCain, Hunter, Hucklebee, Brownback, Newt...one of them, or another like them, will end up as the Republican candidate in '08.
Over then next year and a half, the Dims and their willing accomplices in the MSM will turn that standard-bearer into a heinous monster. They will vilify whomever the Republican Party puts forth as a candidate. It Ill behooves us to do their work for them!
Hmmmm . . . Didn't he beat Romney's father for the nomination? Something about being "brainwashed" as I recall.
Most of us have to overcome difficulties and sometimes not so successfully. Nixon did so very very well. He is also the best exemplar I can think of for never ever letting your enemies get under your skin.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
but you cannot be serious. Richard Nixon was the antithesis of "never ever letting your enemies get under your skin." As just one of countless examples, have you heard of or read about his "Enemies List"?
Thats the point he was done in by letting his enemies get to him. He managed to get past that, though and rehabilitate much of his legacy. Its a pretty impressive legacy, even if it does include things like the EEOC and the EPA.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
it's "never ever letting your enemies get under your skin" after you destroy yourself by letting your enemies get under your skin? (And I would, sadly, disagree with the proposition that Nixon let go of all his grudges after he left office - but that's too much of a debate to get into here.)
No its learning from his mistake so you don't have to make it yourself.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Attacking candidates makes you look bad, but seriously evaluating each one makes it look like you actually care. It DOES matter who makes it to the final round.
The world only goes round by misunderstanding - Charles Baudelaire
there is a huge difference between evaluating each candidate and attacking your perceived enemies.
seriously evaluating each one makes it look like you actually care.
Not sure exactly what you are implying here, but the hair on my neck went up! Not a good sign! Yes indeed, the final candidate IS important!
Mearly pointing out that a candidate has been MARRIED 3 times is not an ATTACK..poor Dah. Don't you think that REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTERS will FIND THIS OUT BEFORE the PRIMARY? You need to think about the word "ATTACK" and what it means. You need a dictionary.
Why are YOU trying to be the arbeter of who's OPINIONS are allowed on this website? You are not ALL that! Don't ask me why you think you are, you won't like the answer.
No personal attacks.
No harassment or demonization of a particular individual.
No disruptive behavior or off-topic remarks for their own sake.
The purpose of this site is promote conservative and Republican ideals. This is our home, and we ask you kindly not to track mud into it. Revocation of posting privileges (banning) will take place after a warning of behavior which violates the intent and spirit of these rules.
Well done is better than well said. —Benjamin Franklin
blog I AM GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF REPUBLICANS IN GENERAL AND CONSERVATIVES IN PARTICULAR!
(and I am finally situated now in my new house, and honestly think one could not be in a better locale for all-purpose city living in the United States)
raises a number of issues for me, the first of which concerns the recent opinings and analysis of Q (Wales not Star Trek); the accelerated campaign we now witness and the increasingly front-loaded primary-caucus schedule and the second of which concerns a fear that the conservative movement has lost its momentum, if not its way.
The combination of the above is the cause of the disturbing dialogue within the republican party which so disgusts you, I think.
But what is a movement con to do?
see my blog for more
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/gamecock/2007/mar/04/gc_is_sick_of_politic...
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
but not McCain. I guess you would not want to criticize a favorite pastime of Red - State. Your principle would seem to apply to McCain though since there is a chance of him winning the nomination.
than I am prepared to undertake at this time. I actually DID consider going back and wording the McCain paragraph to read exactly as the other two, but gave it up as hopeless! :-)
For my part, you will find me critical of many of the positions taken by most of the candidates. None of them are Reagan! We cannot hope for any of them to be.
Increasingly so.
After taking 5th place at CPAC and wooing conservatives with, what? I'm pro-life. Kinda, sorta.
McCain is running aground. No one trusts him to extend Bush's tax cuts. Not after he sided with the Dems in undermining and gutting the tax cuts.
No one expects him to open up Northern Alaska for drilling. Not after he fought to keep it off of the budget bill (one of only 6 Republicans to do so. Had McCain simply allowed the majority leader to attach the drilling bill to the budget bill, 100 billion barrels of oil would be reducing the price of gasoline TODAY).
McCain has basked in the sun of the media cameras, let him rot in it. Let him run for president as a democrat. We'll see if the party that he has supported for the last 10 years is willing to make him its nominee.
Sorry. Did I just do what you were complaining about?
I can't help it when it comes to McCain. I'm just so finished with that guy.
you have to lay the blame at the entire Republican Party AND the current President. This is one issue where there has been NO leadership at att.
We give lipservice to energy independence, and then allow the environmentalists to block the building of new refineries; block the drilling of new wells within the contiguous 48 states;block the new drilling of oil in the Gulf of Mexico; block the drilling of oil off the Florida or California coasts; block the drilling of oil in the Great Lakes; block the building of coal fired electrical power plants; block the building of nuclear power plants!
In an ever expanding world economy, conservation gets you only one thing; third world status! Without new energy and power resources we will conserve oursleves into minor power status.
And, while alternative fuel is a nice pipedream, it is decades from being a viable reality, while we have had six years of nothing in the way of expanding our own traditional energy resources.
You want to lay that at the feet of John McCain, go right ahead...it makes as much sense as any other senseless attack on one of our candidates.
While you are at it, however, why don't you attack Mitt Romney for not building windmills off the coast of the Kennedy compound off Cape Cod!
And blame Rudy for not building a new nuclear power plant at Three-mile Island to add needed power to our power grid.
And blame Sam Brownback for not turning Kansas into a sea of ethanol by turning every acre of Kansas into corn!
Drilling in Alaska...that is the stupidist attack on JM yet! The entire Party has been weak kneed and cowed by the envirnomentalists for the past 20 years!
Sorry, I better go get my coffee...I'm in a bit of a foul mood now!
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There was a blog entry a few days back which was process oriented about postings here on RS, how the editors are telling folks to self identify when they are associated with a campaign and posting here, a very good start in my book. I commented there, and will in this thread that there's a new category of SPAM appearing in BLOGS, let's call it Blog SPAM.
Blog SPAM is sort of hard to spot at first, then it becomes easier once you learn to look for the signs.
An example of Blog SPAM
"Candidate X recently announced that his fecal matter is free of odor and has always been free of odor sense his swearing off of legumes over 10 years ago."
An example of a posting which is not Blog SPAM but instead an excitable supporter of Candidate X posting information on why his guy is the greatest.
"I read a news article where 9 out of 10 people who care about fecal odor say that Candidate X leaves no odors in the water cabinet and thinks that all Americans should swear off of legumes for the betterment of mankind and reduction of gasses leading to global warming. "
So relax, take a deep breath (whoops), and make a game out of spotting the Blog SPAM. Heck, you might even start labeling those very nuggets of posting information you see sprinkled about as Blog SPAM or not.
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Comments about coffee spiting on keyboards acknowledged in advance!
So long as hate speech is tolerated by the party of family values, there will be no attempt by anyone to conduct this campign with civility. CPAC paid Ann Coulter when it is well known that she is a crass, vulgar, needy individual. What does she need? Money and attention. Thanks to CPAC she is getting both. Redstate will soon be Blue States. Take my word for it.
Considering the context and it being your first utterance here, I think that's the biggest steaming pile of liberalisimo drivel I've read at RedState.
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. --Edmund Burke
My Newest Blog: Global Tepiding?
of America that goes uncommented upon, apparently since the speech comes not from a witty blond vessel with nice legs.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
"I'm just beginning...The pen's in my hand...Ending unplanned"
... November, 2008.
A precedent embalms a principle.
- Disraeli