Open Letter to a Conservative Friend
An open letter to a Conservative friend…..
The election in November showed many of us how the American voters felt about our Federal Government. You tend to blame all the evils on the Liberals and you could not understand how McCain/Palin lost.
Looking back at the campaign, you felt that McCain was a Conservative as was Palin. But looking back 20 years ago, both Bush Presidents and McCain classified themselves at Conservatives. None of them fit the agenda of a balanced budget and an honest limited government. But all were announcing they were pro-life Christians.
Let’s get out of the past and discuss the future. How can we repair the damage that both parties have done to Americans? I want to discuss a plan to repair our nation. We can no longer count on the Constitution as it was trashed in the last 15 or more years.
We agree that the world is under terrorist attacks. Tearing down the new President Elect in the eyes of the world is not acceptable. It is simply another way to divide Americans emotionally. The problems lie in America not Islam. It is up to us to figure out how to live with and avoid these terrorist attacks.
Destroying Islam will mean killing off several billion humans, before they kill off Christians and Jews. Not a good plan….. Is there any place in your mind for peace? Can we ever accept different Gods or no Gods as our choice of freedoms? Your support of the Bush doctrines shows me you lean into homophobia and prohibitions promoting only life. Your willingness to kill Americans for oil is no longer acceptable.
I know for a fact that the GOP will continue to declare wars with Islam even when it has bankrupted the American people. Rather than read your personal attacks against Obama, it is time you offered some solutions for America.
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Malibu I think you are
Malibu I think you are making an important point. However, Bush didn't start out at war with the Muslims. After 9/11 he urged people not to deface Muslim property, Powell and Bush helped negotiate a cease-fire between India and Pakistan, in the fighting on the Kashmiri border following the attack on the Indian parliament. He humbled himself in front of the King of Jordan, giving the harried ruler respect in the eyes of his people, which had something to do with Queen Noor leading the psych-war against Al Qaeda until Al Qaeda agreed to leave Jordan alone.
But guess who is most responsible for the war against Islam? The bin Laden wing of Al Qaeda is trying to turn Islam into a permanent warfare culture, baiting the US to attack non-involved or peripherally involved Muslims. Right before the start of the Iraq war there was a huge inspirational peace demonstration in England. It was cut off the TV screen, by a terror attack in Turkey. When it was back on the screen, my friend's gut reaction was "Why don't they protest that.” If the antiwar movement continued to rapidly grow near the start of the war, the terror attack might have been an unstated cause of the war. Nick Berg was beheaded just as Bill Frist was calling for bipartisan detention reform, while reporting on the additional Abu Ghraib photos. And hawks love to quote, al Qaeda telling us that Iraq is the important part of the war. The surge seems to be working because al Qaeda is only investing a relatively handful of suicide bombers for maximum disruption.
The problem isn't that Republicans are mean, but that Americans are gullible.
RichardKanePA
"The Bin Ladin Wing of Al
"The Bin Ladin Wing of Al Qaeda is turning Islam into a warfare culture." How do we stop this? This is turning into a religious war between Christian America and Al Qaeda Islam. Once the terms are defined. what do we do next?
What I am picking up is that President Elect Obama may be responsible for furthering this warfare. These Conservatives are beyond gullible and they want the whole mess to come to a final war. Some want the Christians to win and others want Israel to be destroyed.
It is that One World Order at work under the auspices of the world bankers. How can we get the American people under one plan for peace? Will it ever be possible to agree on a balance of government? I don't think many understand the power of Limbaugh and Murdock television. Throw in the Christian churches and we are doomed for civil war. Hell, at least Hitler had a plan he could sell to everyone. We can't seem to sell freedoms and we will search out the first handout that brings control over our freedoms.
The government is not our friend and has never been.
Malcolm
You should not be having to
You should not be having to explain the obvious to someone who is actually a genuine conservative.
The election of Mr. Obama resulted in only one significant "change" - the change in the feeding order of the usual swine at the public trough. Otherwise, there is no change in anything except the label on the half of the single party and the specifics by which the remains of our republic and our liberties will be ravaged.
Most sincerely,
T. J. Flapsaddle
My dear friend is a Rush
My dear friend is a Rush Limbaugh Conservative and will continue to write his commentaries slamming President Elect Obama as a foriegn born Muslim Marxist Communist.
You could be right Flapsaddle but it would seem to me that Obama is speaking for all the minorities with his extreme desire for individual freedoms.
I have not met up with a genuine conservative since Reagan's first term. Even he changed his colors after he was shot. One or maybe two can be found on line but that pro-life litmus test always gets in the way. I am pro-life but not to the extent that involves an Amendment to ban abortions or gay marriages. I never caused a need for any woman to need an abortion and I am not threatened in the least when gays marry.
I would have prefered a candidate who ran on balancing the budget but only Ron Paul mentioned it. He got my vote. He has for years been a write in for me and my wife.
Do you consider yourself a genuine conservative? Is Flapsaddle a Republican or a Democrat? But of course, that is not your real name.
Douglas Malcolm, registered Libertarian
A "Rush Limbaugh
A "Rush Limbaugh Conservative" is like Bertrand Russell's Golden Mountain: It does not exist. Limbaugh hawks neoconservatism, that Straussian philosophy that enables the manipulative to camouflage themselves in a few shreds of vague similarity, ape conservatism, and subvert the GOP and its faithful to their aims.
I would say that your friend is not really a conservative. He appears to be either a neoconservative or a severely deluded GOP votary who would not recognize genuinely conservative principles if they ran up and bit him on the behind.
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Ron Paul was my candidate and he got my write-in on 4 November. Fortunately, he remains my congress-critter.
I have tried to be a devoted conservative all of my voting life. I am not now nor have I ever been a member of either the Demublican or the Republocrat half of the bull in the china shop - nor do I have any formal or informal affiliation with any other party.
Flapsaddle, you will have to
Flapsaddle, you will have to direct me where you discovered Obama is a "religious zealot bent on reestabnlishing an Islamic theocracy"....You are beginning to sound like my Rush conservative friend.
After the Goldwater defeat, many of us decided to stop voting all together. Harry Brown put that idea in our minds. When he introduced the LP, and began publishing many of his essays, it looked like the right direction to go. I returned to the GOP when Reagan ran for Governor and then for President. I had to be a good example for my sons and we studied the various platforms to choose how we would vote. It was important to vote for the propositions that allowed us freedoms over complete government control. In California, the state, being so large, lets the voters decide on many issues. We won some and we lost just as many.
We lost one of the boys in an accident and my wife and I headed out of the area and took our grandson with us to Arizona. He is now attending Arizona State University and seems to have a fair opinion of smaller government. He seems interested in how the state runs and we are guiding him from his usual beach surfing into a more stable existence. We are doing what we should be doing and hopefully happiness will soon be a habit with us. It is hard to explain.
Malcolm
Unfortunately, I doubt that
Unfortunately, I doubt that Mr. Obama is that intent upon preserving our individual freedoms; he is simply another politician from the other half of the common party and his only distinction is the manner whereby we will further be deprived of liberty - i. e., a distinction with no real difference.
As pointed out by Mr. Thompson in his current Rant, it looks like more of the same. Since about the middle of the campaign, Mr. Obama has been carefully morphing himself into the all-purpose candidate - politician - leader; all politicians are, in the last analysis, evolved from Polyphemus. Given his instillation of a bureaucratic body of advisers that is Clinton redux, I expect more of the same.
Most sincerely,
T. J. Flapsaddle
My bad! Mea culpa magna! I
My bad! Mea culpa magna!
I did not have my reading glasses on and misread Obama as Osama. That's what I get for using my "walkin' around" glasses at the keyboard.
I'll edit my post to remove the flagrantly incorrect reference.
Most sincerely,
T. J. Flapsaddle
All is forgiven; after all
All is forgiven; after all none of us is as young as we should be. I think this forum is terrific!
Malcolm who is extremely near sighted.