A kick in the AC
If you’re not reading Kleinheider’s new blog, Volunteer Voters, you should be. Kleinheider on DeLay stepping down:
Republicans are getting closer and closer to the flipside of that national wave that brought them to power in 1994.
A disasterous (sic) war, deficits, and the rank corruption of dirtycons like Delay could spark a backlash bringing Democrats more seats than they could’ve dreamed in ’06.
Kleinheider on modern Republican conservatism:
The President is indeed the face of Modern Republicanism and Conservatism. The Republican Party will be paying the price for this for many years to come. A failed, elective, preemptive war, unchecked immigration and exploding deficits. This is now the face of conservatism. Almost nothing Bush stands for has been historically called conservatism. It is now though. That is the perception.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:45 am
And you think that a Donk is going to protect your gun rights? Assault weapons bans, national handgun registries, that’s where following Kleinheider’s scorched earth tactics on Republicans will take you.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Not at all. But I’ve realized that the party in power (no matter the party) is not my friend.
April 4th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Who said they’re supposed to be? The way I see it, every time I walk down the street, 99% of the people I encounter are “not my friends.” Neither is that one S.O.B. who wants to mug me. That doesn’t mean I equate the two.
April 4th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
I’m not equating friends or enemies or anything. The 99% who are not your friend, you probably wouldn’t loan money or vote for.
April 4th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
I would, though, if faced with the choice of either voting for a non-friend/non-enemy, on the one hand, or having a legitimate enemy take control of the government, on the other.
April 4th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
I would, though, if faced with the choice of either voting for a non-friend/non-enemy, on the one hand, or having a legitimate enemy take control of the government, on the other.
A realization that too many Democrats failed to make in 2000.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Sorry you don’t see it that way, Unc, but that’s how it is. My memory’s not so short that I’ve forgotten the gun-grabbing 90s. “Common sense” cosmetic gun laws, the equation of gun ownership with white supremacists and domestic terrorism because of the Evil Talk Radio(tm). Stonewall Reno keeping records on gun owners in spite of the law prohibiting it. Feinstein having a fricking say so.
I chose Lesser Evil and have been hard on this administration whenever they go astray from what I support. As have a lot of people – despite what some might say that we’re all dusty kneecapped knobgobblers who just can’t get enough of that Bush bukkake spracking in our faces.
He’s a liberal Country Club Republican – but was Gore a choice? Was Kerry? All Democrats would have to do is nominate somebody not so liberal and disaffected people like you (and me) wouldn’t go and vote for them, but you also would not vote for the Rep offering. Not getting your vote is the same as losing your vote and the Donk can’t lose what he never had.
I voted for two Supreme Court judges (and possibly a third). I voted to keep a Nut of the First Order like Gore from deciding the future of this country through the Judiciary. Same with Kerry. And now that the judge’s issue is through, I’m content to wail as necessary on the rhetorical shins of the party I voted for to adhere to their promises.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
smantix, i was not specifically referring guns this time. The Rs sold a bill of goods that they didn’t deliver.
I voted for W in 2000. I did not in 2004, rather, I wasted my vote on a crazy man.
And you can dress it up and call it Sally all you like but AC is right: You can’t polish a turd.
April 4th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
*That* was polishing a turd? I justified voting for a turd, not wrapping the turd up in aluminum foil and trying to sell it to you as earrings. Albeit, a shit job either way.
There’s a strong argument to be made for having checks and balances against one party rule but I’m not going to be complicit in handing Hillary Clinton the keys to the White House. Or Charlie Rangel the head of Ways and Means Committee or Leaky Leahy the power to rule over judges. Just looking at who ran that committee over the last 50 years helps explain how f-ed up everything got and why it got that way.
There are other consequences to “punishing us” for our heretical deviation from ideological purity and that’s why I’d still make the same choices I’ve made to get 50% of what I want versus letting a Gore, a Kerry or a Clinton in and giving me 100% of what I don’t.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
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