The Republican/Conservative Manifesto

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

"You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

"You cannot further the brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred.

You cannot establish security on borrowed money.

"You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

These are precisely the reasons I can no longer vote for democrats or republicans.

 

Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for evil.

You seen how Bush courted the evangelicals, professed to be "pro-life", but his first appointment after winning was a man who as a judge had cast the deciding vote not only for minors to get an abortion, but to prevent their parents from knowing about it.

He must be laughing about how easy it was to fool them.

 

Galatian,

I have requested that you make the facts of this case that Gonzales ruled on in the TSC available for all of us to see. You have chosen to ignore that request and keep on spouting what you've read from the Religious and Conservative Right.

Until you back up your accusations with FACTS - your regurgitation of these accusations only detract from your sterling reputation of being totally fair and balanced!

 

Originally posted by The Galatian:
Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for evil.

And whose candidate was without sin?

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

 

Has anyone, anywhere, at any time, on any thread, in any post, anywhere on the Baptist Board implied that there could be a candidate without sin?

That is totally, entirely, completely, 100% irrelevant, and misses the point entirely. It neither proves nor demonstrates anything whatsoever.

It is nothing more than the statement of an obvious fact that is irrelevent to the discussion.

 

I guess that's the only possible response from Republicans.

It's really indefensible. Bush presents himself as "pro-life", but his appointments tell a different story.

"But some conservatives have quietly questioned his ideological credentials—in a Texas abortion case, he voted to allow a teenage girl to bypass a parental-notification law. Interviewed in his corner White House office, he wouldn’t acknowledge that he’s a candidate for the court. But in the same breath, he seemed eager to send a message to anyone trying to divine his position on abortion. “It wasn’t a constitutional issue,” he said, of the Texas case. “It was purely a statutory interpretation question.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3067731/site/newsweek/

"None of this should be surprising, of course. Only months before being appointed by Bush as his top lawyer, Gonzales cast the tie-breaking vote in the Texas Supreme Court against a parental-consent requirement before a minor could obtain an abortion in the state.

The Parental Notification Act was passed by the Texas Legislature in 1999. It required, in most cases, that at least one parent of girls 17 and under be notified before abortions are performed. The law did provide for special circumstances for judicial bypass of parental notification if the minor is sufficiently mature and well-informed about her decision. And Gonzales continually approved such petitions for judicial bypass of parental notification"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41398

 

Everyone on the ticket was evil. That includes the Peroutka and Nader as well.

 

So why did you bother to vote? Your statement implies that there is no dofference, since Billy Graham, Jonathan Edwards, Idi Amin, and Saddam Hussein were all born imperfect.

 

We should hold our elected public servants accoutable to, among other things, their oath of office.

 

I voted because I speant years in the INS line dealing with holier-than-thou mental midgets who treated me like I was a subhuman for not being born here, and did it all for love of this country. I voted because, after uncovering mounds of documentation to apply for citizenship, which the INS lost not once, but twice, and, after passing the citizenship test that most native born citizens would fail, and, after taking a solemn oath to be faithful to the US, and defend it from its enemies, I figured that it would have been terrible for me not to excercise a basic right that I had to wait so long for.

It's distressing that so many nateive borns either don't vote, or treat such a cherished right so flippantly with the off the cuff "lesser of two evils" comments and the like.

 

WallDoctor, welcome to the USA. I heard a bunch of liberals who are upset about the election are planning to move to Canada. Now that's what I call "Fair Trade."

 

As they say, "denial isn't just a river in Egypt."

Bush is snickering at how easy it was to fool everyone.

When he nominated Gonzales, it was almost like he went out of his way to rub pro-abortion in so we'd know for sure.

 

Me, too. I also wish it was the standard that Kerry would stand for. But neither of them do, so I voted for someone who does.

 

Why be critical of them? They are just sinners like everyone else, no?

 

Yup, they're sinners, like everyone else. Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.