[quote]GDollars37 wrote:
Great posts from you on this thread, I agree 100%. Conservatives should be a lot more concerned about their culture and communities than about winning elections, with the last two decades as all the evidence you need.
But without dragging this thread into the usual debate, it makes me wonder how you so happily vote Republican. The Democrats may well be the Party of Death, or close, but the Republicans are the Party of Greed. And as Andrew Bacevich has written, Ronald Reagan, conservatism’s Dear Leader, was probably the apostle of that cultural shift.[/quote]
I am not happily voting Republican in this election. I am much more willing to vote for them now that Palin is on the ticket, though. In fact, if you will look back at my posts prior to Palin being picked, I was begging for Kinky Friedman to join the race.
This election is about the Supreme Court. I do not want to be a party to allowing Opie to pack the court with 3 more Ginsberg’s. Voting 3rd party is helping Opie just as much as pulling the lever for him.
I have to take issue with the notion that Republicans are the party of greed. Take a look at Freddie and Fannie. Who are the profiteers in that? Well, 2 of the biggest are on Opie’s economic team. Look at Biden. He’s made over 200K a year for several years, and his charitable contributions for the last 3 years total less than $3000.
Greed isn’t defined exclusively as the desire to make money - it is also what you do with the money you have.
I’m not going to apologize for the fact that I want to make as much money as I possibly can. Is that greed? I certainly hope not.
I can’t be a democrat because those guys think that the gov’t can do a better job raising my family than I can.