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Originally Posted by Ferd

Mike/Stew let me tell you why I am a partisan.

I believe in keeping taxes low on everybody (the rich too). I believe in getting taxes lower for businesses because high taxes force manufacturing jobs over seas, increace the cost of goods and services and reduce the number of people a business can employ.

I believe in putting people on the supreme court who will NOT create legislation out of thin air.

I believe that a person should have a right to both join a union and also to keep a job or get a job without being forced to join a union.

I belive in a strong military and that losing in Iraq is a horrible reality that makes America both weaker and more vulnerable to islamic terrorist attack.

I believe that you cannot make the economy stronger by taking money out of the economy and handing it to the government.

I believe that we must drill for oil in America and cut off the middle east.

I believe that the government spends far too much and needs to stop spending like drunken sailors.

I believe that while the cost of healthcare is too high, the fix does not include socializing 1/5 of the American economy.

I do not believe the Republicans have accomplished all or even most of this, but I do know that ONLY the Republicans are the only ones who can do this.

I am pragmatic enought to realize the main reason these things have not gotten done completely since 1980 when the conservitive movement really formed, is because there are enough Americans that DO NOT agree with me at all.

This is the tug of war.


I am also pragmatic enough to believe that some Republicans (and many recently) who either believe these things or have said they do, have flinced and backed down.
while I believe those people need to be replaced, I do not believe you replace them with someone who will work to prevent everything I believe in from happening.

So, I vote for republicans and will work to get rid of bad republicans by replacing them with other republicans.

I am a partisian republican because I will NOT vote for someone, or find political value in someone who believes the opposite of what I believe.


So, call me a partisian. but dont be bewildered when i dont buy it when a democrat talks about change and being different when they clearly believe in exactly the opposite of what I believe and have said as much.love you guys.


PS, I am also a partisian republican because voting for Bob Barr will get Barak Obama elected.

Ferd, the Republicans are not the only people who can do these things. Any people that the American people put into elected office can do these things if they are made to pledge to do these things and be held accountable for doing these things. As it stands, noone is going to do these things because neither party has to do these things and there are some people benifitting from the way things are right now. If everybody actually had to work for our vote and line up to the ideals and convictions we have in order to get our vote, things would get done.
And for the hundredth time, let me clarify that none of what I am saying is being said to try to solicit votes for the Democrats either.

Oh yeah, and I love you too.