Personally I think the current climate of the right is benefitial. I think competition is a good thing and it looks to me like politicians, and people in general, are in competition to become more conservative. Think of all the RINO politicians that have been called out lately. If you looked at their voting record alone, you probably wouldn't know they were Republicans if not for the (R) in front of their name.

Now comes the next step; finding good candidates to replace these failures.

Too bad they don’t produce any wealth.

That NYP editorial was doing great ‘til the end. Those CEO’s and upper level managers may have less to give, but they will, or hussein and the dp will just take it by fiat like they are. They’ll funnel it back to the party through their federally funded ‘community’ organizations. Don’t worry, the dp will get their cut. What a racket. If those businessmen “don’t know who they are dealing with,” yet, they soon will.

How could jacking the taxes on the guy that signs my paycheck do anything but help their employees like me and ‘boost’ (now there’s a word with two meanings) small businesses like ours? Around 70% of our business is with small print shops, they won’t be able to hit my boss up for much if we don’t turn a profit because our customers are short on money and can’t buy our parts.

The sfgate job shedding recovery article was amusing. When they say, “Many of those workers will never recover financially,” they can only mean they will be dependent on government to some extent for the rest of their lives (dp policies ARE ‘successful’…at creating government dependents). Economic growth while losing jobs sounds like the economy is cannibalizing itself, which isn’t sustainable.

The dp is considering an opt-out option they can later remove once their system is passed. How long does anyone think the other states will go along until the opt-out states are forced in?

I think hatch is probably right, it’s the dp MO, like the Iraq vote. They pitched such a fit over having to vote on it before the election that year. Weasils.

The dp can say what they want, but they’ll never be able to run 17% of the US economy for under a trillion bucks.

Perhaps the Secret Service is just experiencing more reports of threats.

Scared of kerry? Get that dork out front and center of the dp, he PO’s Americans without even trying.

If you can’t communicate with a police officer asking questions in English, what are you doing driving?

I don't think you want to work together if you can't just let that go. What do you call a real conservative, maybe that is the problem. Ready to compromise at every issue? Not stand up for your beliefs?

What tactics do you think the 16% are using? Not allowing people like you and Voter to peghole us into Rushbots? I guess you have fallen for the ploy. And yes sometimes you do seem like you are fighting us more than trying to work together so what is your real agenda, one has to ask. There is no real conflict, all you have to do is go google "republicans listening to Rush" and every single item that comes up is a leftist site! DUH! Quit talking about it and it won't be pushed on people. Unless that is what you really want.

So let's find out what you consider a real conservative.

"Maybe it's time to stop wasting time on these forums and get to the real work we have ahead of us."

You're wasting a LOT of time with this crap. And you automatically assumed Voter was a "he", hmmmmm.

"I'm not guilty of anything other than trying to get RINO's out of office and replace them with real conservatives."

The problem is that 16% you mentioned and those like them have self appointed themselves the task of defining who a "real conservative" is. And this 16% uses all kinds of tactics that a real conservative never would. We're supposed to be winning people over to conservatism and the Republican Party, not act like a bunch of school snobs seeing who we can keep out because they're not good enough.

"It is a ploy to try to separate us into subgroups that will work against each other. Voters Remorse is one of them OR has fallen for their crap."

All one needs to do is to watch the news, read the news, or participate in discussions (online or in person) to see that the conflict is real. Last week someone posted that he was ostracized from the Republican Party for making one unfavorable comment about Rush. I want to end the conflict, yet no cooperation from the 16% is forthcoming.

"Now, how can we get anything done, if we don't weed out the very ones who are hurting the party."

So let's establish who is hurting the party. Those of us standing for conservative principles and making our positions with factual points of discussion; or that 16% and their followers that have to resort to wild accusations that are easily discredieted and make us look bad?

"You haven't been viciously attacked,"

I've been falsey accused of being someone else, I've been called a liberal, RINO, troll, and every other name in the book. I know it says more about the namecallers than anything else but it does give weight to Remorse's obervation.

Joyce M/B......go to the bottom of this page.......then go to your room......

constitution........

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WHAT did I do now?

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0910/obama_ties_bush_on_golf.html

Hey, Afghanistan sure could use your attention! Either do, or bring them home.

I guess he could always sign it via proxy!

Watched all those videos btw, thanks.

Dangers of the swine flu and regular flu vaccines - I especially love the news report on swine flue from the 70s!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71BbsjsyfsU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.generationrescue.org/desiree_jennings.html

"You seem to believe the solution is to think just like you and your easily manipulated core beliefs. No thanks."

HAHAHA! The conservatives just keep at it. Where did Voter's remorse say that the solution was to think like him? Or anything about his hardcore beliefs. From what I read, his message was simple, stop being children about who is a "real republican" and get to the business at hand.

BTW, let me agree with Joyce on one point. I think the idea presented last week abiout the news channel is a bad one. I'd prefer to keep the handful of networks that slant their coverage towards our side and the one that makes conservatives look wacky (FNC).

Here's one for Neal, I just HAVE to share this car chase video, dunno if the perp is really DRT, but he ain't going anywhere soon, too bad two cars got totalled in the process - the interesting part is at 58 seconds in:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2009/06/29/vo.car.chase.crash.cbs11tv.html

Remember, criminals (as if someone running from Police would be reading this): look both ways before pulling out into a busy intersection...

We already have an opt-out option! It's called the tenth amendment. It says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." Do democrats in CONgress not know this, or are they just ignoring it?

While I appreciate your honesty, I respect your judgment less than a hardcore leftist. You seem to believe the solution is to think just like you and your easily manipulated core beliefs. No thanks.

Why doesn't the Statist in Chief declare war on our real 'enemies', you know, the people who want to murder millions of Americans, the Islamofascists, remember them?

I love the idea of states being able to opt-out of the government healthcare plan however, unfortunately I can predict what will happen. All of the smart, self-sufficient people will move to the opt-out states and all of the idiots will move to the opt-in states, but when they actually need medical care, they will come to our states and use our resources to get it. Sort of like the way the English and Canadians come to the U.S. when they need good medical care.

I graduated just a few years ago, and let me tell you. I agree with this survey. I was short-tempered, hard-headed, and not open to other people's ideas in general. Several of my young colleges at the office were the same. Our problem was that our whole staff was basically fresh out of school, therefore the entire group just didn't operate. A couple of mentors outside the department told me flat out what I needed to work on, and they were 100% correct. I have since moved on and changed my style to what would be considered a more professional style. It has certainly opened doors that were previously shut!

There are too many of these international treaties, agreements, etc., that are conflicting with our constitution and should NOT be signed without congressional approval.