Quote Originally Posted by BlueCat
I just love your posts XTC....
I agree Cat.

Nobody can ever say I didn't give Republicans a chance. I voted Republican in 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992. I just could not vote for Mr. Dole in 1996, as I liked the way our economy was going in the early 1990's, and would never vote for the idiot we have now.

The problem is that the Republican party has seized a political weapon in the extreme right, and the great deal of money it brings them. They use churches as a pulpit to get elected, something I personally think should remove a church's tax-free status, regardless of what particular political slant they choose.

I am truly a conservative.....I believe we should not spend money we don't have, and should not raise taxes to create it. Hard core liberals are truly tax and spenders, but the current strain of "conservatives" are borrow and spend credit card users, but it's like they have stolen the ID of the American people and are spending money that's not theirs to spend. Our incredible debt and mismanagement of the nation's money will haunt us, our children, grandchildren, and beyond, for decades if not centuries to come.

LBJ did the same thing in the mid-60's. He borrowed tons of money to pay for his little police action in Vietnam, and do you know that we are STILL paying off that debt? Aren't you happy we are still paying money for that war? Well your grandchildren will be paying off our current administration's "war".........to rid Iraq of WMD's.....no wait, liberate millions of people who would welcome us as conquering heroes.....no wait, to spread democracy to every country in the world....no wait, what is the reason they feed us now? I can't keep them straight because they change so often.

The other part of being conservative is wanting the government to stay out of the lives of it's people. I would imagine that most of us on here want the government to lighten up on what we desire to put into our bodies, such as what we smoke or drink. I want the government to let us lead our lives and find happiness as we desire. That's what conservatives used to believe. Now it seems that the far right thinks they have to decide for us all what is moral, what is acceptable, what we are to think, what we are to say, how we are to express ourselves, what music we can listen to, what we can see on tv, what we can look at in movies, and how we are to find our own happiness.

I feel really sorry for GOOD Republicans that I voted for in so many elections, both locally and nationally, over the past 30 years. Many, many of them are really distancing themselves from the party because of the ilk of people running it now. And the sad thing is that millions of good people are naiively following their lead because they think blind loyalty is the only way to be a good American. I'm just glad Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Hancock, Hamilton, and others finally realized that just isn't true.