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Republican vs. Conservative

6.5.06 @ 12:01AM

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The politicians see not people, but potential voters, and they wish to give amnesty to those that will vote the "right" way. Business decision makers see labor costs and determine to reduce them, regardless of what that entails. The elite of society, whether by wealth, position, or education see jobs around the house that need doing and conclude that there simply must be a serf class to do them for next to slave wages. Heaven forbid that Madam should ruin her nail polish taking care of her own brats. Heaven forbid that the Master should miss his Saturday golf game because he has to cut his own grass.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have to obey the laws. We can't pay three year's taxes out of every five. We can't shield documented proof of lawbreaking in our office (or anywhere else) from law enforcement. What's more we can't understand and don't wish to tolerate elite folks that don't think they need to obey the laws that we obey. Whether it is immigration or political corruption, we must first enforce the current laws. We can determine any new laws needed after we see the enforcement. That enforcement has to start at the top with George Bush. I want to see some business folks sitting in jail for violating the laws against hiring illegals. Let us not forget that they too are getting amnesty.
-- Ken Shreve

This is precisely how an unprincipled pragmatic political process cheapens everything that has been paid for in blood, sweat and tears to the point that the argument isn't about the right thing to do (Rule of Law) but the convenient thing to do (pragmatic) for political gains. This is why the Founders of our Republic feared Democracies almost as much as they feared a strong central government. You will have no rule of law if the meaning of words changes with the political winds.

-- "Three thousand tyrants one mile away or one tyrant 3000 miles away," from the movie Patriot

-- "Liberalism is an easy choice to make; it requires no effort to be liberal," Rush Limbaugh

Conservatism is not a choice; it is a way of life. You live conservatism; you choose to be liberal. Professional politicians choose to throw any principles they have to the winds because it is the easy choice to make. If the general population holds no principles dear, those in Congress simply have to make an easy choice. They don't have to live the values they ran under.
-- Thom Bateman
Newport News, Virginia

"A MODEST PROPOSAL"
Re: R. Andrew Newman's Big Time Opportunities for Small Perverts:

I have a modest proposal to aid jurists like Judge Cecava. I urge the legislatures of the fifty states to end the shortage of cadavers for use in medical education. This would be done by allocating that portion of the population that preys on children to the dissection tables of our medical schools. In that way those people would atone for their repugnant
transgressions and society as a whole would be assured it had nothing further to fear from such individuals.

In the words of Jean Francois Kerry, N'est-ce pas?
-- Jay W. Molyneaux
Wellington, Florida

As the court almost certainly knows, the small pervert's life expectancy in general prison population can be measured in weeks, if not days. Just think of the judge as unwilling to impose the death penalty for this crime.
-- Ty Knoy
Ann Arbor, Michigan

"CROCKER'S CROCK," ROUND III
Re: Brandon Crocker's reply in Reader Mail's Not in the Mood, Reader Mail's A Bad Mood Worsens, and Brandon Crocker's
Room for Compromise:

Sir, you got what you deserved. Your reprehensible immigration suggestions are only exceeded by the arrogance of your response. You say, "Opposition... does not consist of any reasoned argument?" May I coin a new term here, please? You have invented the Grand Hominem: where you simply dismiss all opponents to your irrational rantings as being crazy themselves.

What a grand fellow you must be. After offering no substantive defense of your positions, you declaim, "As such, further discussion of the matter would be fruitless." That's equivalent to the rich kid saying "The game is over, and I'm taking my ball home."

Faced with a phalanx of logic, it is you who backed down and left the playing field.
-- Handygraph
From Yet a New Undisclosed Location

Reading these past weeks about illegals has recalled to me a stand-up comic of the '50s, Brother Dave Barbour. He proposed that we make everything legal, "then we wouldn't have no crime." A man ahead of his time.

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