windansea on May 3, 2008 at 9:20 PM

Here’s a surprise, I agree. The closest Republican congressman we have is not my district, I’m in John Barrow (D) district, and yes, I voted for Max Burns, even though I knew he was a crook because he was a Republican.

Back to the Local Republican Congressman. Jack Kingston got a million dollar earmark for a company that was under investigation for, misappropriating taxpayer funds.

I have said I’m a Conservative, and regarding Fiscal Issues, I’m certainly hard core. I think Congress should come in under the budget every year. I think it could happen, and I think it never will. I think the President could end a lot of this by pardoning every man and woman for all tax related crimes if Congress doesn’t change the hundred thousand pages of tax laws into something average people can understand and manage without a law degree. The tax form should be so simple that a sixth grader could do the math, instead it’s so complex that the only people who understand it are the tax lawyers hired by the rich and shameless, which is exactly the reason it’s so convoluted.

I think nuclear power should be extensively used, especially if you’re in favor of the asinine theory of Man Made Global Warming. It produces no carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases. Instead, even when we had the majority, we slid on that issue too. Oh sure, we had a vote on a bill, and then threw our hands up and said. Sorry, that’s what we can do for you. Cheap and efficient electricity is not available, instead you’ll just have to deal with it.

So yeah, I’m pissed at the Republicans. The only thing they managed to do was take care of the Credit Card Companies with Bankruptcy reform, which applies to individuals, but not companies. Companies still get to write off the debt, including retirement plans, in bankruptcy court. Good for the goose, not so good for the gander though. We passed the national ID card and called it the Real ID act. Now, if my state doesn’t comply, I’ll need a passport to board a plane flying domestic. Yeah, great plan there guys.

The Republicans haven’t governed as Conservatives, but pretend to be conservative come election time. I’m tired of being suckered. McCain is going to raise our taxes sure as the sun rises in the east. He voted against the tax cuts after all, and that was because it was too generous to the rich folks. They earned that money too, you didn’t John.

So I’m not supporting the Republicans, because they aren’t conservative. I’m not supporting John McCain because he’s not a conservative, he’s a liberal. He’s as conservative as he had to be to keep getting re-elected in Arizona. He’s as liberal as he could get away with in other words. Give him a chance, he’ll show us all how liberal he can be to get the NY Times writing fluff pieces about him again.

No, I’m not falling for the hype this election. I know that no matter who wins the White House we’re going to surrender in Iraq, McCain will just as fast if not faster than Clinton or Obama. I know that taxes are going to go up, McCain will do it with wide Bi-Partisan support. I also know that more socialism will be here, especially under McCain’s Global Warming nonsense.

Tell me again about the difference that my vote can make? I can have a Democrat, or a Democrat wrapped in an R in the White House. Gee, that sounds like a fun choice.

How about None of the Above.

Snake307 on May 4, 2008 at 2:53 AM

I think most people are tired of the war and just want it to go away and they are pissed about the price of gas. That is about as political as a lot of folks ever get.

I think some people thought immigration would be a big winner for them in 2006, but they were wrong largely because they were too strident. I understand how they felt, but the only thing a lot of that accomplished was to hurt George Bush. People can complain about him all they want, he is the Republican President and backstabbing the Republican president does not usually help Republicans. It just does not work that way.

That does not mean they can not disagree, but there are respectful ways to do it. And the same holds true with McCain.

Terrye on May 3, 2008 at 11:03 PM

No, it wasn’t the immigration issue in 06, at least not the getting tough with immigration. The politicians who pushed tough on illegals won their elections. 06 was a lot of things, but it wasn’t immigration. It was Duke Cunningham, war hero, ace fighter pilot, and convicted as a corrupt politician. It was the audacity of the Republicans to campaign as conservatives, and then govern as liberals. It was the Real ID act, Bankruptcy Reform, the abuses of the PATRIOT ACT, and the PATRIOT ACT details.

The Republicans campaigned on fiscal responsibility, and promptly forgot it when they were in charge. Go back to 1994 and the Contract with America. Those were the ideals that got the Republicans elected in the first place, and those principals left the party about fifteen minutes after they got elected. We waited, and had to keep writing and telling them to get their minds right on the issues. We had to twist arms to keep them even pretending to notice the right.

It was a thousand things, the Republicans lost in 06, death by a thousand paper cuts. It was disgust at the entitlement attitude, which is even now affecting staunch Republican districts like Alaska. The people are sick of the “I’m the elected official you worthless peasants” mentality that is literally oozing from too many elected officials, and it’s not just the Republicans, it’s the Democrats too.

However, the Republicans were elected by the base for the most part. The Base that failed to turn out and support them in 06, because the Washington Elite got to the mentality that we Conservatives and the Christians were just going to show up and vote Republican because it was time to do that.

We got tired of the stalling, and we got tired of the obfuscation. Here’s the sad truth, Americans will forgive an honest mistake. We will generally speaking. If you turn right because your GPS told you to turn right, not noticing that it was a one way street going the other way, we’ll forgive you with a minor slap on the wrist. Especially if no one gets hurt.

The WMD Iraq issue. Hell, you were hard pressed to find someone in 2003 who didn’t think that Iraq had WMD’s. We all thought it, and when it became obvious that there were none to be found, the thing to do is go public and outline why you thought they had it and why you were wrong. The people would have forgiven Bush. I was arguing at the time that Intelligence work is like trying to figure out what a jigsaw puzzle picture is going to be when you are missing about half the damn pieces. You do the best you can with what you have.

I love Condi Rice, she’s a brilliant woman who’s way smarter than I am. Hell she’s smarter than any ten people I know combined. She’s an honorable woman who will work tirelessly for this nation, and this administration, in that order.

I admired Attorney General Gonzalez. Another real smart fellow. I could list more but you get the point. For a bunch of smart, and I mean real smart people, why couldn’t one of them say we need to go public and tell the American People we screwed up? Is the idea that fantastic?

“I did the best I could, made the best decision I could, with the information I had at hand. After 9-11, I felt it was more important to error on the side of protecting American interests, and American lives, than worrying that Saddam may not be the total embodiment of Evil. It turns out he was only 95% evil.” Then run down the charges against him that were proven to be true, and outline where they were in the Powell Presentation.

They didn’t do that. Instead, they took us for granted and continued to do stupid things like push Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants. Then McCain and the Bush administration took a page from the Liberals, and called everyone who opposed Amnesty, which was more than sixty percent of the nation, racists. Talk about audacity. That’s the literal definition of audacious. Calling a majority of the nation, and people who have supported you faithfully in the past, racist because they don’t see the reason why every twenty years we have to do Amnesty all over again for the next batch of illegal immigrants is audacity at it’s utmost.

The War in Iraq wasn’t going well, and sometimes that happens. We understand that. So when you run into a brick wall, you look at the wall and see if there is another way around, over, or through.

Bush said we’re staying just the way we are. No changes. Period. Now you don’t change plans when one day goes bad, but months later you got to be thinking it’s time.

It was time, right after the election. Then it’s time to do what almost eighty percent of the nation had been calling for months ago, a change in plans in Iraq. Then we had to have a surge, and equipment upgrades, and changes in our structure and organization. Well hell, why didn’t you do that ten months ago, or even six months ago?

I was in the military, and I know better than most that sometimes, soldiers die. It’s the risk we take. Fine, however don’t we have a moral obligation to spend each life as though it’s the precious commodity that we pretend it is? If we do, then Bush admitted he spent how many lives trying to keep from looking weak or mistaken in his plans?

It’s one thing to make a mistake from good intentions. That’s forgivable and understandable. I tried to do it the best I could is something the people would generally understand. I let people die for the last six months because I didn’t want to look like a wussy isn’t quite as forgivable. Then when you do change, the very next day, you look like a complete jackass.

Bush had the writing put on the wall in 06, the writing said the same thing that the voices had been saying. Pull it together, and do the right thing, do your best. He did it, right after the election, when it was too late to help the Republicans maintain any power.

I love our troops, was once one of them. I don’t think I was terribly afraid, because I had faith in my leaders, and my commanders. Faith that they were honestly doing their very best. Perhaps not perfectly, but the very best they could. No one could ever ask any more from any man or woman on earth, than they do the best they can. You can make a mistake doing that, and it’s sort of understood that you failed while trying, you went down swinging, or whatever. If you aren’t doing the best you can, then that’s a little harder to forgive.

So yes, I’m a little disgusted with Bush. Yes, I’m disgusted with McCain and his McAmnesty, and his McCampaign Finance BS. I’m disgusted with his McGlobal McWarming McNonsense. Show me the science, and so far you haven’t been able to, all you’ve been able to do is show me the conclusions, and then swear there’s consensus. Consensus means everybody knows, therefor it’s true. Everybody knew the earth was flat too didn’t they? They knew that the sound barrier would kill a man, you couldn’t get through it.

Snake307 on May 4, 2008 at 6:37 AM