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Republicans voting for Al Gore for President - Election 2000 |
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Republicans voting for Al Gore for President - Election 2000 |
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Al Gore supports more Republican values than Republicans
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This isn't a sporting event where we pick a team to be loyal to. This is our future. We as a nation have to choose what direction we will take and what kind of a future we are going to have. It is important that we choose wisely. Loyalty to our country and our future is more important than loyalty to a party. We don't have an obligation to be loyal to any political party. The political parties have an obligation to be loyal to us. They are here to serve us. We are not here to serve them. The constitution says, "We the People" not "We the Government". If the Republican or Democratic parties want our loyalty, they're going to have to earn it. I don't think either party understands that they work for the people, not the other way around.
What is a Republican?
What is a Republican and what do we believe in? A Republican is supposed to be for fiscal responsibility, small government, keeping the government out of people's private business, traditional family values, and a sense of basic morality. The government and the Republican Party are here to serve the people, not the other way around. The Republican Party is here to serve us, not for us to serve them. We are not here to be loyal to the party, but for the party to be loyal to us. It's not just about talking the talk, but you have to walk the walk. And when you look at President Clinton's Record, you'll see a record that would make any Republican proud.
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I am tired of the right wing extremists and the Moonies trying to redefine what a Republican is. Republicans are not moving away from the party. The party is moving away from Republicans. My Republican views haven't changed. I still support traditional Republican Values. But the Republican party is turning into a bunch of self serving slobs who only care about being elected and the power it brings.
I'm creating this page to put the Republican Party on notice that America comes first. We will no longer tolerate our party putting it's self interest ahead of the citizens of our country. We will no longer tolerate petty partisan political bickering. We are not stupid and we deeply resent what our party is doing and the direction the party is heading.
Standing here with my Mouth Open
I stand in utter amazement at the antics of the Republican Party. I can't believe it when I hear that Republicans are angry because Clinton fixed the economy. How can Republicans be angry at a good economy regardless of who did it? How can Republicans be angry because Clinton and Gore balanced the federal budget for the first time in 30 years and cut the deficit to zero? How can Republicans be angry because Clinton and Gore have cut the size of government? These are things that Republicans are for, and if a Democrat did it, then in my view that Democrat is a good Republican!
The Party of Hate and Bigotry
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The Republican party is about limited government. That is, keeping the government out of things they shouldn't be in. Clearly any conservative can see that freedom of religion is central to our beliefs. And freedom of religion includes freedom from religion. To not have the religious beliefs of others thrust upon us. I do not want to live under the moral thumb of right wing Bible Thumpers, the Moonies, nor left wing New Age freaks. You can believe what you want, but get it out of my face and my government.
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Selling out to the Tobacco Lobby
As a non-smoker who realizes that nicotine is an addictive drug that kills 400,000 people a year, I resent that our party leaders have chosen to take up the cause to defend the interests of the Tobacco Industry to market their poison to turn the children of America into drug addicts! In my view, there is no moral difference between R. J. Reynolds and the cocaine cartels of Columbia. And if there is any substance at all to our claim that Republicans are the party of family values, certainly we should be on the opposite side of the Tobacco Industry and not it's friend. The Republican Party is the party of the people and not the party of big tobacco!
Haley Barbor, former chairman of the Republican party is a tobacco
lawyer who soul is wholly owned by big tobacco. Haley has been
pressuring Republicans in state government to back down on legislation
that would help protect Teenagers from smoking. Our
Republican leadership is fighting the efforts of Republicans who are
trying to do the right thing.
Bob Dole was so sold out to the tobacco lobby that he questions if tobacco is addictive. Then he attacks C. Everret Koop, the finest Surgeon General America has ever had as being brainwashed but the liberal media. And Bob Dole lost his brother to lung cancer from smoking! There's family values for ya.
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What happened to freedom of the press?
What's going on with the Republicans wanting an FBI investigation into
Salon Magazine breaking
the Henry Hyde affair. I certainly think it's relevant that Mr. Morals
who is investigating the President for having attempted sex with Monica
Lewinsky, had a 5 year affair with a married woman and broke up he
family. I suppose it takes one to know one? Someone might argue it makes
Hyde more qualified. That someone wouldn't be me. Now the Republicans
want to prosecute the press? What the hell is going on here?
I'm beginning to feel like the only sane person left on the planet. I wake up in the morning to a world that is stranger that what I was dreaming, and I've been having nightmares lately. It's like some alien culture came down to America and inserted a mind control device in everyone except me and I'm the last normal person left. I'm somehow supposed to accept that we are going to start an FBI investigation for running a news story about an affair that actually did occur? Surely I'm not the only one who is outraged by this?
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Republicans undermine our Constitutional Freedoms
Monica Lewinsky, a private citizen, was forced to testify in front of the "secret" grand jury against her will. She was compelled to speak under threat of contempt of court and jail. Susan McDougal is an example of what happens if you don't comply. Kenneth Starr made it clear to Monica that if she didn't comply that he was going to go after her family, which he did when he dragged her mother in front of the grand jury. She was forced to testify fully and truthfully under threat of prosecution for perjury about intimate sex act that she performed with her lover, President Clinton, who she probably still cares about.
Her "secret" testimony was then delivered to Congress who then put it
out unedited on the Internet so that the whole world can know how she
gives head. I was so outraged by this that I filed a Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit against
the United States House of Representatives to stop it. And
because the government posted this X-rated material, hundreds of
newspapers printed it and delivered it to the homes of Christian
families where their Christian children can read it. All this in the
context of "Whitewater" which was a land deal that occurred in Arkansas
when Monica Lewinsky was 4 years old. And Judge Russell Clark ruled that this is
legal. Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
If they can do it to Monica Lewinsky and the President of the United States, they can do it to me or you! |
Czech President Vaclav Havel, one of the moral beacons of Eastern Europe's liberation from Communism, expressed concern in his recent visit to America about American justice by agreeing with Czech commentators who compare Kenneth Starr's investigation to tactics used by the former Czechoslovak communist secret police. These secret police would dig deeply into political dissidents' private lives under the guise of national security and the public interest. Havel had been one of their main targets. I contend that we have a moral imperative and a sacred duty to the Constitution to take whatever steps necessary to ensure that Vaclav Havel is wrong in his comparison of the Independent Counsel and the Communist secret police.
The Moonies Control the Republican Party
What really disturbs me is the influence and control of the Republican
Party by the Moonies. There really is a Right Wing Media Conspiracy
and the Moonies are behind
it. The Moonies own the Washington
Times and Moon has spent over a Billion Dollars to influence the
press and to buy elections of Republican candidates who will do Moon's
bidding.
The Moonies are a dangerous mind control cult and they have no place controlling the Republican Party. I find it very disturbing that George Bush would take $100,000 to endorse Moon's new South American newspaper and help spread the influence of the Moonie cause. How does it make us Republicans look when our former president is selling out to the Moonies? I sure as hell don't want to become a mind slave to Reverend Sun Myung Moon and I damn sure am going to stand against the Moonies attempt to control the Press, the Christian Coalition, and the Republican Party.
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Selling out to the National Rifle Association
We Republicans used to be the party of law and order, but not any more. The NRA now holds the lease on our party's future. It was President Clinton who, at great personal and political costs, stood up to the gun lobby on behalf of Americans and Law enforcement, and passed the Brady Law. I also want to thank the 1/4th of our party, including President Reagan and President Bush who stood with President Clinton to make this bill law. Bob Dole, who's soul is owned by the NRA lead a filibuster to stop this bill and was eventually defeated. Bob Dole does not have what it takes to be the leader of the free world.
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It's the Economy Stupid
All Republicans say they are against deficit spending. Talk is cheap. When President Reagan took office the national debt was 1 trillion dollars. After 12 years of Republican rule the debt grew to 4 trillion and the deficit kept rising in spite of "Read my Lips" tax hikes. The economy was in a triple dip recession. Then came President Clinton and Al Gore who turned the economy around, cut the deficit in half, created jobs, and cut government. Government grew under Reagan and Bush. It shrank under Clinton/Gore. The results speak for themselves.
Now we have a Congress who can't even pass a budget that Republicans can agree on let alone one that would actually work. And Republicans are taking credit for talking about balancing the budget? OK, Republicans talk about it more, but look who's actually doing something about it. Talk is cheap. You're not going to get a balanced budget by giving a big tax cut to the rich.
I'm just tired of hearing Republicans talk about the debt that we are going to leave "our children and our grandchildren" while they continue to gut education, head start, Medicaid, and funding for college loans. It's just bullshit! It's just a slogan. You people don't give a damn about anything but a tax cut for the rich, who don't need it. I'd like to have a tax cut someday too, but lets balance the budget first. You can't do both.
The Republican Party doesn't really care about Abortion
There are a lot of Republican Party posers who say they're pro-life who really aren't. They make a big deal about "partial birth abortions" yet pass up opportunities to actually do something about it. President Clinton has said he would pass a ban on partial birth abortions if it had an exception for the life and health of the mother. That way a woman who is in a car accident can get an abortion if she and the baby are seriously injured, but she might not actually die from it. Clinton signed a law like that when he was governor of Arkansas.
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What Party owns what Issues
Republican leaders are yelling, Bill Clinton is stealing our issues!
Well what does that mean and what makes an issue a Republican issue?
First of all, what's so bad about that? If Clinton and Gore do the right thing for America, who cares who's issue it is. On any issue that Clinton passed with the help of Republicans, Clinton is always gracious enough to share the glory with all who helped them. He will always say that the Republicans deserve credit for helping to do what's right and he encourages them to do more things right and share the credit in the future. Why can't the Republicans thank President Clinton for doing the right thing rather than being petty and childish about it?
Republicans have talked for years about the issues that Clinton and Gore accomplished. So who owns the issue, the party that talks about it, or the party that makes it happen. I give credit to the party that makes it happen.
The Republican Party needs to wake up to reality and realize that there are a lot of Americans like myself that base their decisions on what politicians do, and not what politicians say. And it's time for the Republicans to do something useful and quite whining about who gets the credit.
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