Theodore's World

Mark Twain once said, "The French are governed by prostitutes." Sadly, we are now governed by pimps and prostitutes for power!" I'll $UPPORT the NRA but NOT the GOPhers. I didn't leave the GOP... they 'LEFT' me. GOP = GOPhers!

Everytime you get something in the mail from the GOP asking for money, print this out:

http://docoda.files.wordpress.com/2006/04/BushPeso.jpg

and send it back to them. Especially if you ahve a color printer. I can't tell you how satisfying it is.

Everytime you get something in the mail from the GOP asking for money, print this out:

http://docoda.files.wordpress.com/2006/04/BushPeso.jpg

and send it back to them. Especially if you have a color printer. I can't tell you how satisfying it is.

We are hurting the RNC. I have always thought their real purpose was raising funds for themselves rather than influencing politics. Money is their life support. Lack of incoming funds lets the Stupid Party hacks really know just how upset their base is.

I doubt seriously that the Bush group will figure this out. One of his legacies will be that George W Bush, and his father, destroyed the Ronald Reagan republican Party.

Good tact Nick.

I don't even bother to open their solicitations anymore. I've struggled for over 35 years to speak in words of more than four letter phonemes, their callers get an earfull in the vernacular each time they call, because they bring out my best verbs. Maybe we're getting through to them, but like Tom said I doubt they can figure it out. I will not send them one red cent. It's time we chose and supported our candidates not theirs. They're pushing their Democrat McCain, Leftie Guiliani, and another New York Socialist and Bloomberg Republican, Romney. No more RINO's, I'd sooner vote for Hugo Chavez than any of them, and that just isn't going to happen.

If they are the best that money can buy we need to shop elsewhere!!!

Soap Box time...If you want to change the top
ya gota start at the bottom....City Council,
school board, county supervisors and on to State
goverment and at last the Federal leval...make
it illegal for ex politicos to be lobyist...
Most of all you need voter turn out 75-90% then
they will listen...Most of all the American
public needs to get their s**t together and stop
the whining and complainig. As bad as some think it is it doesn't even rank on the top 10 list
of hard times for this country..Get over it and
get to work on a change for the better...

Darth, me too, I didn't leave the GOP but they sure as heck have left me in the dust.

Nick Byram , that is great, thank you.

Tom....."One of his legacies will be that George W Bush, and his father, destroyed the Ronald Reagan republican Party.".....I truly believe that.

Jack me too, no more Rhino's. I will not sell my soul to be able to say yes I voted anymore.

Tincan Sailor, you made some good points about how it starts at the bottom. I agree with that. And also that we all need to do whatever we can not to let our country go down the path it has been going. It truly is up to us.

The USA has been through a lot and most of it way before I was born. So now it is my time, my America that I cannot let down and I won't as I will and have done as much as I can to keep it the America I have known and loved so much.

When I was of voter age and registered to vote I registered as a Republican and have been one all my life. I am not a sit in the stands kind of person and I have worked very hard every election for my party. Very hard.I stood on street corners with many others and held up signs of Sorelooserman, as well as many times standing there with support the troops signs, wrote tons of letters, fax's, phone calls to let my representatives no yes or no how I felt on Bill's being voted on. Written more letters and phone calls about how NOT to give in to the Rhino's and left in our government.

LOL...My conscience is clear as to me personally getting over anything. I have earned the right to complain loudly and I am and will continue to.

Even now I have written, faxed, phoned everyone from the President on down to the local offices of my being upset about the giving in to the illegals, not securing our borders and what will happen to America because of all of this.

This is not just a simple thing that is happening, it will destroy my country. It will not be just the millions right now they want to deal with, it will get worse and grow with illegals again. We did Amnesty before years ago and it did not help, we have leaders not willing to use the laws we already have and that just encourages this mass input of illegals and that does start at the top down when it comes to Bush.

They could not even stop a man with TB from getting on a plane, and yet they want me to believe they will have rules for illegals to follow and make it work.

Jack: You think Romney is THAT bad? Hunter or Tancredo he isn't, but I have always thought a Mormon, based upon the ones I have known, could never be THAT much of a RINO. It is a religion, after all, that encourages its followers to have a gun and food supplies stockpiled in their homes. At least Mitt came out firmly agaist this immigration crap. That may be just having enough sense to wet his finger and determine the way the winds blow, but that's a far cry better than Johnny or Rudy, both of whom have jumped into political coffins as far as I am concerned. Is Mitt salvageable? Time will tell. If he picks Hunter or someone like him as a running mate, I would be sold.

The Big Question is this: Does/Did Mitt just pretend to be RINO because he is in Commiechussetts, or is it terminal? For me, to even be a Mormon and get elected there is something. Then again, where I live Ah-nold sold us all out. So I am taking a calculated risk.

And then there is the issue of the local political topography. For example, my state is pro-choice, lock stock and barrel. I have watched promising Republicans from Bruce Herschenson to Tom McClintock (apologies to anyone who doesn't know Cali state politics) who foundered on this reality, and I know too many otherwise gun-toting women who run for the political tallgrass at the mention of "The A-Word". Sometimes one has to tack in the face of overwhelming political winds. Tincan Sailor might understand.

Then again, some issues are dealbreakers, and for just about all of us the border is one of them. A foolish new prescription entitlement I could forgive, this I can't.

When I get callers from the Republican Party, I have been telling them that while I will support candidate X who is good on this issue, I won't ever send money to the party as a whole again. If the caller is a college student or otherwise a low level party functionary, be nice. It's not the kid's fault; s/he's reading from a script most of the time. Just tell him/her to pass the message on to his superiors and hope for the best. If enough of us do it, surely they will get the message?

PS: "If a well-regulated militia be the most natural defense of a young country, it ought certainly to be under the regulation and disposal of that body which is constituted the guardian of the national security...!" -- Alexander Hamilton, 10 January 1788
Thank GOD over 250 million of US & our 2nd Amendment will DEFEND our country in the end!

Darth, yes thank God. whew Darth, thanks for the quote.
I just can't stand this feeling of helplessnes not to be able to do more to let those in charge know how truly bad this is for America.

Nick. Yes, he's a lifelong politician, he left Michigan to rule in Massachusetts, he enjoys the RNC support and is a media darling, that's enough makes me wary. Cal's Arnold is a Kennedy family member, unapparent to some voters. The only religious restraints I hold sacred is no Moslems!!!

Jack: I know Mitt Romney is a lifelong politician, but then again, isn't Tom Tancredo? And after Duncan Hunter left military service, didn't he become one? I don't hold that against a guy--if he actually does what is right.

Of course, I know, Romney isn't Hunter, nor Tancredo. And those two get my vote before him, that's for sure. (For the good of this issue, Tancredo ought to step aside for Hunter now, but I digress).

Fred! Thompson would also get my vote before Mitt, assuming Fred! isn't just playing with us, and assuming Fred! doesn't have serious cancer. Murphy's Law says that Fred! probably does. :-(

But the real question is: is Romney good enough? I'm taking a calculated risk that he is. He's a far cry better than John or Rudy, let alone Hitlery Clitler. Never let the best become the enemy of the good. Or even the mediocre.

Of course, sometimes there comes a "sine qua non" issue, a transgression we can't forgive, one that goes beyond mediocrity. With Bush, everybody who isn't a hopeless Republican hack just had theirs. Then again, he's a lame duck and he probably doesn't care anymore.

McCain went over the line with bogus campaign reform, never mind going along with this immigration monstrosity. He's toast. Rudy has WAY too much personal baggage, and he made NYC a "sanctuary city." Also toast.

Which brings me to Ah-nold. At the time, we didn't know about any sine qua non issues. We knew he was married into the Kennedy Klan, it wasn't unapparent, but (1) we wanted Gray Davis out SO bad, and (2) he had star power. We had no idea Ah-nold would turn around and stab the rest of the Cali GOP in the back. That calculated risk failed. It's a tough call sometimes.