How can Republicans claim to be against Big Government when they
are generally the biggest threat to civil liberties, dissent, and personal
freedom that exist in this country?
Exhibit A: The Meese Commission
Exhibit B: John "No Lady Justice" Ashcroft
Exhibit C: PATRIOT ACT
Exhibit D: Bush critics Ted Kennedy and John Lewis, and French
exchange student Alexandra Hay, turning up on terrorism No-Fly List
Exhibit E: Shoehorning theocracy into American life against the wishes of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington
Exhibit F: FISA
Exhibit G: NSA
Exhibit H: Nixon’s Enimies List, as well his ordering the execution of
four Kent State students.
Exhibit I: Kanawa County, West Virginia
I should like to make before Bob Barr
got the nomination, I was planning to
vote for libertarian Steve Kubby, so I
am not an orthodox liberal.
They always say that! Thinking that the American public is so dumb. They even had the nerve to say that Obama was for BIg Oil Companies! The Republicans will say what ever they can and get away with as long as they win the White House!
November 13th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Your information is facinating, I had no idea Nixon ordered the national guard to shoot those Kent state students.
Thanks for the info!
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November 13th, 2009 at 5:00 am
They oppose BIG governement, not STRONG government, there is a big differenece.
Republicans are for control to lie in a SMALL centralized government that is strong
Democrats are for control to lie in a BIG and well distributed government that is weak.
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November 13th, 2009 at 5:43 am
They always say that! Thinking that the American public is so dumb. They even had the nerve to say that Obama was for BIg Oil Companies! The Republicans will say what ever they can and get away with as long as they win the White House!
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November 13th, 2009 at 5:54 am
You mistakenly assume that all elected Republicans are actually real Republicans. Also not all of them are conservatives and it’s conservatives who want small government.
In any case, you still have to look at what the side of the Democrats looks like
What about the freedom to develop and run my own successful business from scratch? Or the freedom to make my health care decisions. Or the freedom to manage my own finances. Or the freedom to make my own decision of who to help and who not to help along with how much to help (donations, if monetary). What about the freedom to try and fail, thereby learning from mistakes in order to better yourself and better your life into the future?
Creating an environment in which everyone is dependent on the government in their daily lives is not the kind of freedom I want. Yet that is exactly that sort of country that Obama wants to create.
Third party options can seem to get into the spotlight enough to ever have a chance, due to the stranglehold of the two-party system.
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November 13th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Libertarians are what Republicans used to be, so I would think you should already know the answer if you were planning on voting Libertarian.
There is a big difference between a true Republican and a Neo-Con
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November 13th, 2009 at 6:58 am
Actually, Republicans were the biggest supporters of Civil Rights and were founded to oppose slavery, something the Dems supported and upheld. MLK was a Republican.
The Republicans in Congress passed the nation’s first ever Civil Rights Act, extending citizenship and equal rights to people of all races, all colors, and all creeds.
What we now know as the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — is a purely Republican achievement, because every single Democrat in Congress voted against the 14th Amendment.
In 1869, the Republicans proposed another constitutional amendment, this one specifically guaranteeing blacks the right to vote.
The first woman on the Supreme Court? Everyone knows that. But you may not have known that before she became a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Arizona Republican Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman to be Majority Leader in the legislature of any state.
The first Hispanic member of the President’s Cabinet? Republican Lauro Cavazos, Secretary of Education under President Reagan.
It was President Ford who, in 1976, repealed FDR’s notorious executive order interning 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
SO, biggest threat to Civil liberties? You’ve been brainwashed by the oppressive DNC. Oppression is the flavor of today’s kool aid-enjoy your mind shackles!
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