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Originally posted by fastpat
[B]In my opinion, he's betrayed it all. Aggressive warfare isn't a conservative value and never was. It runs counter to everything the founders wanted for America, and runs counter to those of the old right who opposed America's worst fascist, Franklin Roosevelt, before he plunged America into World War Two. Roosevelt forced their silence during that time, but we genuine conservatives won't be silent now and never again.
One of my favorite people, James Bovard, an author with one of the finest minds in America, whose prose skewered Clinton and his supporters many times, has now written several books doing the same to the Bush'ists. You might take a look at them.
We may not be offered such a choice in our lifetimes, that argues strongly to each of us to be loyal, not to men and a party, but to principles, morals, and ethics; and demanding that politicians do the same.
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Thanks Pat, I'll take a look. The concept of remaining loyal to principals, morals, and ethics may be the only thing that pulls us through in the end. Blind loyalty, or blind hatred towards men and a party are equally destructive. It helps to be able to take an objective look at both.
It is apparent that some of our more intellectually challenged OT contributors believe I am some kind of Bush'ist, blindly following him wherever he leads. Nothing could be further from the truth. These same simpletons clearly believe that whatever wrong Bush has done is because he is a Republican and a conservative. Again, nothing could be further from the truth. There goes that blind hatred approach again. If only we had a liberal Democrat in the White House, everything would be better, right? Right...
The fact remains that either major party, and any man that lands in the White House today, is likely to commit the same transgressions against the American people and our Constitution as has Dubya, Bubba, and a long list of their predecessors.
Bush's opposition, particularly here on OT, tends to focus on the war. They think it is simple enough for them to understand (they are wrong about that too, by the way) so they focus on it to the exclusion of much farther reaching abuses of power. Our political leaders count on this. They play these people like a fiddle. And, unlike tabs pushing his retards down the stairs, they will never even feel any guilty pangs...