Originally posted by Nash
I wanna know what you think about it.
Is it still the same party that your dad voted for? Or does that even matter?
Dad didn't vote the Republican party. He used to vote democrat. In his words.. "I didn't leave the Democratic party, IT leave ME!"
Now, why do you suppose he said that, Nash?
Do you like the state it's in? Do you like what it professes? Do you like what it actually does? Do you like where it's going?
I vote issues, not straight party lines. Considering most of my votes went to the republican side of the isle (although I did vote for at least one state democrat) in the last election, I would say that yes, I like what it professes, and where its going.The Republican Party more closely represents my personal convictions and the Democratic Party moves farther and farther to the left. Do I agree with everything the Republican party does and offers? No. I just happen to find more issues that I agree with on the right side of the line, than the left.
But I'd like to hear your best defense of it, because I find it so utterly beneath contempt, and lacking of any redeeming value whatsoever, that I strain at the notion that good men can knowingly leash themselves to the mast of a ship gone so astray.
Starting in the late 50s the democrat party became more and more liberal. I don't mind the liberal agenda provided they support it with their own money. Both parties buy votes with liberal policies but the Democrats have perfected the practice. But to abandon America, I cannot tolerate that. I'll use Jim McDermmot for a typical example of the senators from the liberal agenda. Jim McDermott is a unique product of liberal Seattle, but the truth is McDermott hates America, he despises our heritage.
Upon his return from Baghdad, (where he had accepted a check from the Baath Party for $5,000,apparetly for legal reserves from Shakir al-Khafaji, an Iraqi businessman with close ties to Saddam Hussein, and retured the money after he was exposed)McDermott addressed an anti-American rally at downtown Seattle's Denny Park, continuing his rants against Bush and justice. The truth is McDermott hates America. Congressman Jim McDermott who disgracefully aligned himself with Saddam Hussein and against the US in the run-up to the Iraq War, and was actually given a public official of the year award by radical Islamic front group CAIR, now has his own Daily Kos diary.
Daily Kos, for those of you who don't know is a far-far-left group blog, infamous for the kind sentiments of its leader (all anti-American sentiments) towards Americans murdered and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.
McDermott is just one of the rants I have about many just like him on the left side of the isle. I could go on and on, talking about Kennedy, Senator Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Patty "Osama provided daycare in Afghanistan" Murray... but I do not have the time to explain someone who doesn't live in this country what I feel.
But what I will say to shorten the length of this post is this:
The Lefts goals have changed from extending the boundaries of what was considered "right" to having no boundaries at all. Moral relativism has become status quo.
