If so, then you should be outraged at what has been done to the republican party.
They have been turned from the party of small government to the party of massive governmental bureaucracies, surveilling every aspect of private American lives.
Turned from the party that disavowed the re-distribution of wealth into the party that is actively re-distributing tax wealth from the middle class to the pockets of, maybe, 5,000 people who are already staggeringly rich.
The party of no-bid sweetheart deals awarded in secrecy and refusing public access to governmental records.
From the party that believed in the strict interpretation of the constitution and it LIMITS on government... to the party that has dissolved habeas corpus... created the first American Gulag, endorsed torture and denial of due process, embraced unwarranted search and seizure, and actively suppressed free speech.
A party that has tacitly endorsed the actions of a president who has bald facedly stated in legal documents that the constitution does not apply to him.
A man who publicly stated that the constitution is "nothing but a piece of paper".
This is the same party that has not only embroiled us in our longest military conflict since Vietnam... but has, at the same time, cut funding to and PRIVATIZED veteran's medical hospitals so that corporate boards could squeeze profits out of providing a lesser standard of care for our wounded servicemen and women.
They turned the care of our war veterans into a profit center for one of their buddies....
If you really are a conservative at heart... then you should be able to see that nothing being done in the name of the republican party is conservative.
None of it reflecting ANY American values...
The only family values they embrace are those of the Medici family... the family values of a mafiosi.
They are squandering everything of substance, for the quick return of huge profits right now.
They are offshoring their rapidly accruing wealth... and when the shit hits the fan they will be lunching on their yachts in Monaco... what do they care if American sinks as long as they got theirs.
Red, The fact that you were raised with a mythology of what it meant to be republican is no excuse for not recognizing that the reality falls far short of that myth.
I used to lean republican myself...
But what they have done these last 12 years has turned my stomach.
Give me a good old fashioned blowjob scandal any day.
I am tired of mopping of up blood with the shredded remnants of our constitution.
) or religion. MR...I was not baiting you to throw anything in your face. You stated quite clearly that you are a conservative republican, and a staunch supporter of Bush, in all it's forms, :smile: and that you were raised that way and didn't seem to have a choice...to this day. The traditional definition of identifying with and voting for the republican party has always been...small government and fiscal conservatism. I was genuinely curious how you perceive or even recognize any difference between what you believe and how that may conflict, or not, with reality. I'm sorry you felt threatened by that and chose to insult me. I would still love to hear from anyone else who still supports this administration. Please explain to me, without bile, why and how. I'm an independent individual, without any biased affiliations. Observing this administration from a completely neutral standpoint, I don't see any way to justify or defend its actions. Which would lead one to believe that everything that's been done long before this administration and will continue to be done long after...is only done with intent for the benefit, and in the interests of a relatively small minority and has nothing to do with what we think is important. Of course, it does make it easier for them when the majority is more concerned with petty squabbles about who said what about whom, anonymous color coded threat alerts, reality TV, no discernible health care, all combined with a chronically declining education system. George Bush aside...the people who are actually running the machine are not dumb. There is an agenda and it has nothing to do with any political parties. What we perceive as a sudden problem, the state of the dollar(get ready for the North American Union) the rising price of, and rapidly declining supply of oil, to only name two examples, did not sneak up on anybody. That they will be fixed by just voting for the right person, whether they be Democrat or Republican (wow...two whole choices, which shade of blue do you prefer?) is a bit naive. Then again...I could be completely wrong. :smile:
