Ah, pre-emptive defense. Quite silly
On Jan 25, 9:14 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > The Conservatives’ Awful Choice for PresidentPosted byDavid Frankeon January > 25, 2011 01:00 PM > Well,now we knowwho Morton Blackwell, Brent Bozell, Dick Armey, and Richard > Viguerie are supporting for president. > I’ve seen Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) described as “a great conservative” so many > times without checking him out, so I spent 5 minutes going tohis > website–didn’t have to spend any more time. Trying to figure out where he > stands on “foreign affairs,” I sawdiscussion ofnothing butIsrael, and > predictably that was a paean to the Likudniks. Well, at least give him an “A” > for honesty–that’s what an establishment conservative position on foreign > policy amounts to today. Just give that plank to AIPAC to write, as Pence > has. Pence also brags that he supported Bush’s invasion of Iraq, that “I > helped craft” the Patriot Act, and “I supported creation of the new > Department of Homeland Security.” I could not find anything about invasions > of civil liberties under the Patriot Act and by the Department of Homeland > Security, nothing about getting out of the no-win invasion of Afghanistan, > and nothing about cutting the dole for the Military-Industrial Complex. > That’s all I needed to see and not-see. Obviously he is a member in good > standing of the ruling establishment, representing its > big-government-conservative wing. I hope he decides to run for governor of > Indiana, where he might actually do a teeny bit of good, rather than for > president of the United States. > There is no hope that the “conservatives” will nominate anyone who takes a > serious stand against Big Government. You cannot fight Big Government by > supporting interventionism around the world. It’s all conservative smoke and > mirrors. > And, although I have a little hope for a few of its members, there is also no > serious hope that the Tea Partiers will work to nominate anyone who takes a > serious stand against Big Government. (Note that their Republican Pied Piper, > Dick Armey, signed this petition for Pence.) > We all have a limited amount of time–the clock does not have a flexible > number of minutes or hours–so any time spent on the “conservative movement” > or Tea Party is a waste of a valuable resource. Ron Paul still stands alone. > Let’s spend our time trying to convince him to run again for president in the > Republican primaries and debates. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
