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Friday, October 19, 2007
Michael Reagan :: Townhall.com Columnist
Promises, Promises
by Michael Reagan
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In 2006 Nancy Pelosi promised the American people that if they would vote to give Democrats control of Congress, making her Speaker of the House, they would come to Washington and “drain the swamp.”

More than a year later, Democrats have converted the alleged Republican swamp into a vast pit of quicksand into which America’s national and financial security are slowly sinking.

Democrats chortle over the president’s dismal 24 percent popularity rating, but they have to look up to see it from their own popularity rating of a tiny 11 percent.

Madame Speaker, once hailed by the media and her fellow Democrats as a shrewd politician who would turn her tenure as the first woman to occupy the Speaker’s chair into a stellar performance, has been revealed as a bumbling San Francisco-style far-out liberal Democrat with nary a notion as to what this nation really stands for.

Despite their protests to the contrary, her party has revealed itself to be Marxist in every sense of the word. Without exception, the social programs they espouse are rooted in socialist doctrines. They distrust the American people to manage their own affairs without the deadly hand of the federal government gripping them by the shoulders and draining their wallets.

No matter what the problem, they have two approaches to solve it – spending vast amounts of money on socialist-style solutions, and paying for them by raising taxes -- allegedly on the “rich,” who appear in Democrat eyes to be any family earning more than $50 a week.

That, however, is not the most obvious result of the voters’ decision to oust the Republicans from control of Capitol Hill (a fate they brought upon themselves by acting like wild-spending Democrats). It’s the revelation that the Democrat majority is absolutely incompetent and totally unfit to govern any nation.

You need look no further than the Speaker Pelosi’s willingness to poke a sharp stick into the eyes of one of America’s closest allies in the war on terror, and one of our strongest supporters, Turkey. Continued...

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Michael Reagan, the eldest son of Ronald Reagan, is heard daily by over 5 million listeners via his nationally syndicated talk radio program, “The Michael Reagan Show.”
for wiseone
wiseone claims: "Most conservatives knew, that's who. It's why many of us have held our noses and voted for RINOs for several election cycles."

No, that's not why.

What stopped you from running your favorite candidates before? Hunter didn't suddenly drop out of the sky this year, he's been a Congressman for years.

What stopped you was that Republicans are accustomed to voting for the obvious "heir apparent". In every election since 1956, there has been an obvious GOP heir apparent by the time the primaries began. The few times that an insurgency arose against the heir apparent (e.g., Reagan against Ford in 1976), it was unsuccessful and just weakened the party causing an election loss to the Democrats.

This year, there is no obvious "heir apparent." Since McCain's 2004 GOP convention speech, he was supposed to be the 2008 heir apparent. But he self-destructed over McCain-Feingold and immigration. So now you have a chance to field the candidate of your choice.

And so do the rest of us.

for Beeblebrox
Beeblebrox writes: "May I humbly suggest that socially liberal republicans need to vote Conservative (fiscal AND social) and vote for Hunter or Thompson (if you need someone a little more moderate) in the primaries."

I intend to vote for whoever I think is the best candidate to beat Hillary and go on to serve the job of President, as I interpret the responsibilities of that office to be. Not you.

As I've said before, you social conservatives do NOT own the GOP or the conservative movement and you have NO RIGHT to give anyone else orders as to whom to vote for.

I think Thompson would make a terrible leader of a nation at war because he's dull and uninspiring. I think Hunter has absolutely no chance to beat Hillary.

And I'm not going to vote for them just to make you happy.

GO AWAY.
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