I agree with you Shogun, but I also think this guy is reasonable. He seems new, so probably doesn't realize that we have to deal with totally one sided neo kooks on these boards so we're a little defenses. I think this guy is willing to be intellectually honest. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Republican talking points had merit, about 10 years ago. I think the only wrong with this guy is he is willing to believe/trust that McCain & Palin are being honest.
And I assure you, they are not. They are giving the voters what they want to hear.
And remember, people like him have been brainwashed to think Liberals are crazy and want to make America socialist. We need to extend the olive branch and let him know we aren't one sided lefties.
Well I'm touched... Let's review.
Being pro choice doesn't make me a lefty. It makes me an American.
American’s ARE pro-Choice... But no American believes that there is ever a valid choice to strip an innocent human of its life. American's understand that there are only two valid justifications to take a human life:
First: to defend one's own life from Death and or Serious Bodily Injury.
Second: to defend the life of another in one's sphere of influence from death or serious bodily injury.
American's understand the principles on which human rights rest and that human rights rest on nothing BUT the responsibilities inherent in each one... and that the failure to uphold those responsibilities can only provide for the forfeiture of that right. For instance, where one exercises their right to their life and the fulfillment of that life by causing harm to another human or in such a way that prevents another from being able to exercise their own right, that person has failed to uphold the responsibility in their right to life and as a result, has no basis on which to stand when someone else does the same to them...
So yes, Americans are pro-choice... but Americans understand that the choices we make cannot violate the rights of other humans; Americans defend,
offering no quarter, against lazy thinkin' which seeks to strip the individual of responsibility because Americans know that
it is the responsibility that their individual rights rest.
Being anti war does not make me a lefty
That's true; being anti-war does not make you a lefty... Being anti-war makes you irrational. Those who are not prepared to defend their life are what nature has designated as FOOD.
Leftism is certainly not anti-war, as leftism has caused hundreds of wars; leftism has murdered hundreds of millions of people... Leftism merely advances an anti-war perspective where the war is challenging leftism. Leftism is against the US engaging in war, because the left wants to weaken the US and undermining US cultural resolve to defeat their leftist enemies is an effective way to do that.
Being pro social security doesn't make me a lefty
Again you're correct, being for a secure society does NOT make you a leftist. However being pro-strong armed confiscation of the product of an individual's labor for the purposes of distributing that product to others
is a leftist position. So while that does not mean, per se, that you're a leftist, it does indicate that you are ignorant of the principles on which your human rights rest.
Being against the tax break to the rich doesn't mean I want warshington to keep and spend it. I want them to redistribute it to all of us.
This position is an incontrovertible indicator that you're a leftist... You've no right to the product of someone else's labor; and that principle doesn't change just because an individual has more than you have and you 'need' some of what they have.
And, I want the GOP to not spend double what the Democrats spent.
Well the GOP could never outspend the Democrats and sure as hell has never done so... They just as surely spent too much but they did so with the ascension of the left and for that there should be no forgiveness. My opinion is that 'he who compromises with a leftist, surrenders their liberty and that of their grandchildren in so doing.'
Deficit spending is 100% a function of social entitlements... period.
Gut all social spending from the Federal Budget and the budget is balanced immediately. It's completely unconstitutional and will inevitably destroy the US culture.
They may have been able to convince me that the Republicans are better than the democrats had they only been fiscally responsible. But they were not, so the GOP has NOTHING to offer me. Except lies, bullshit and scare tactics.
Republicans are simply members in a political party... It is meaningless. Olivia Snow is a Republican, but ideologically she is indiscernible from Ted Kennedy.
What you're looking for are Americans; AKA: US Conservatives. They don't spend tax money outside the principles of the US Constitution and there is absolutely NOTHING; no principle, no words... in the US Constitution which provides for the redistribution of the product of the labor of the rightful individual.
