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    I grew up ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    No, they are not. You can cling to that pile of stupid if it helps you to sleep at night snowflake. But I would argue that anyone who argues FOR Government welfare and dependency isn't smart at all. They are naive and really quite ignorant of economists, history and human psychology.
    You are actually way too feeble and mind-numbingly boring for me to waste my valuable time on. Bye.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    You are actually way too feeble and mind-numbingly boring for me to waste my valuable time on. Bye.
    Wrong; you're way too stupid and cowardly. Good riddance you pompous dumbfuck.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Repubs think they are millionaires in waiting. Someday the unfair tax breaks and exemptions will become theirs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    I am glad you asked that question. I began life in my youth being very liberal. Then, as I got older and went to college to study sociology, business and economics, and learned much more about our founders beliefs and the Constitution, I realized that liberalism was based on a lie.

    What is that lie you might ask? The lie that Government should provide for the people. This is exactly what our founders feared the most and, I believe, why they stated that America's demise would not come from outside of her borders, but from within. The insidious ideology of the liberal left that argues that we should trust Government to protect us and provide for us which breeds professional politicians who realize that with low information voters, they can get and stay elected by promising them stuff extracted by the government from others who "have too much."

    Our Democratically controlled urban sewers are a small microcosm of the result these policies would bring to the rest of the country. Our founders didn't trust the voters, therefore, the electoral college. Our founders didn't trust politicians, therefore, the idea of a PART time legislature.

    I realized that the Democratic Party was morphing into everything our founders warned us against. It's end game is a Marxist Fascism where the Government controls everything of importance and controls what is considered politically correct speech.

    While the Republicans have not had a stellar record, they still represent much closer, the original intent of our founders. Therefore, I tend to vote Republican. The ultimate goal of Conservatism should be to prevent the left from gaining political power and putting their anti-Constitutionalists on the Supreme Court. The left cannot win honestly anywhere it runs; therefore, it turns to dishonest jurists who attempt to legislate from the bench.

    That is why I seldom vote Independent even when there are times they are not lunatics and actually make Constitutional sense.

    I believe that individuals do much better when they are educated and independent with a limited Government and have choices in a free market. I believe that a Government that is limited to defending our nation, our borders, creates and defends our laws and copyrights and patents is best for the people.

    Liberals will argue that they care more when they create dependency on Government handouts. I say they are creating slaves and nourishing poverty and societal decline. History is littered with the failure of the Liberal progressive ideology; why anyone would foolishly believe it is a good thing defies commons sense, intelligence and logic.

    That, is what drew me into the party.
    So I guess you missed the "providing for the ..... general welfare" and "promote the general welfare " phrases in the Constitution, funny how the Founding Fathers, who you said this is what they "feared the most," took the time to repeat the same thought a number of times in the same document

    The rest of your post is pure talk radio rhetoric, which probably better describes how and why you became a Republican

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    So I guess you missed the "providing for the ..... general welfare" and "promote the general welfare " phrases in the Constitution, funny how the Founding Fathers, who you said this is what they "feared the most," took the time to repeat the same thought a number of times in the same document

    The rest of your post is pure talk radio rhetoric, which probably better describes how and why you became a Republican
    Actually he ignores that the Constitution was created precisely to be able to control people as the founders discovered unchecked freedom was sending the colonies spiraling out of control. Despite their belief otherwise, conservatives are piss poor Early Americanists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    If enough felt like me we would have had Ron Paul for eight yrs., smaller gubmint, Obamacare, reduced deficit, no Iraq debacle and the hildebeest would be a footnote in history as the weak willed first lady who didn't have the temerity to divorce BJ.
    You're basically making the old argument that I wasted my vote. We all pretty much do. Our one vote one way or another wouldn't have changed a thing in any election with the exception of Florida in '00. If I lived in a swing state like Ohio or Florida I'd definitely take your advice into consideration. AK is solid red. As far is the hildebeest is concerned , she's so hated here that she got something like 10 or 15% in the caususes. Dims either voted for Trump, Johnson or stayed home.
    You must think Melania is a real gold digger wimp then.


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    I always think it's an interesting question to hear how people came to their current political beliefs. As we know not everyone is a democrat or republican. We also know many people have changed their beliefs over the course of their lifetime.

    As far as the OP goes someone else already said it, the only answer for her is racism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    You must think Melania is a real gold digger wimp then.
    She seems to be standing up to him lately. I wouldn't be surprised if she eventually divorces trump. But yes, she's a gold digger.
    I also have no respect for Jackie O.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    What drew you in?

    What was it about the party that made you vote for them?
    I was a Republican at the beginning of my political life, but Nixon ruined that for me.

    Time has brought me to the point that I don’t like party. I support people. That’s becoming a problem as well, the candidates “ain't what they use to be”. I am excited about a few people on the local level. I have hope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    I always think it's an interesting question to hear how people came to their current political beliefs. As we know not everyone is a democrat or republican. We also know many people have changed their beliefs over the course of their lifetime.

    As far as the OP goes someone else already said it, the only answer for her is racism.
    To her credit this is one of the few threads where she hasn't spouted the usual " racist white males".
    Actually shows a little curiosity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    I was a Republican at the beginning of my political life.
    Whereas most people get smarter with time - you got dumber.

    No surprise here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    What drew you in?

    What was it about the party that made you vote for them?
    I detest dishonest, deceitful, two faced people who will do anything regardless of the morality or lack thereof involved. FYI: I am not a "republican", I am a registered democrat from a mold that was broken decades ago.....I did move away from a great party that once represented the working class families of this nation....that party moved away from my personal values, it now leans so far left they have to stand on one leg to take piss, a party that continually attempts to revise history and change the basic, fundamental founding principles of this nation from a Constitutional Republic that guarantees individual liberty, property ownership, and he pursuit of individual happiness regardless if that right is the freedom of speech, self defense, or the freedom of religion...……………


    I ceased supporting such a party when the communist party USA took control of its leadership in the 60s and began calling themselves social progressives...……. The simple answer? Evil vs. Righteousness, I choose righteousness. You have no choice, you are either to support the atheist, anti-god, anti-individual liberty, social fascist party, that walks in lock step with satan that demands everyone fit into a certain mold.....or you vote against such evil regardless of what political affiliation that righteousness resides within. Lately....its the middle Independent voter that is the only thread holding this once great nation together.


    Its a simple matter to determine where someone or some party is going by looking at the tracks they have left behind (where they have been in the past). What do these asswipes on the left have to offer? High Taxes, Open Borders, Crime, Unemployment, Welfare, Porn, Hate, Segregation.....and war mongering. You will find that a great many of the peoples responsible for putting The Donald into the white house were never Republicans and will never be republicans....they were simply pissed off American Citizens that grew weary of the elite politicians taking them for granted....while catering to the illegals, terrorist nations, everyone but the people who actually made this nation so great.
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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    So I guess you missed the "providing for the ..... general welfare" and "promote the general welfare " phrases in the Constitution, funny how the Founding Fathers, who you said this is what they "feared the most," took the time to repeat the same thought a number of times in the same document
    I am hardly surprised that you are ignorant as to what those terms mean snowflake. Of course in dumbfuck land where you wallow, it must mean the Government steals from one group and gives it to another in order to win elections. But you're a moron on steroids and understand very little. That is why you are a blind rabid hyper partisan shill for the Democratic Party of the Jackass.

    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    The rest of your post is pure talk radio rhetoric, which probably better describes how and why you became a Republican
    All of your posts are the rhetoric of a buffoonish idiot on steroids.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Actually he ignores that the Constitution was created precisely to be able to control people as the founders discovered unchecked freedom was sending the colonies spiraling out of control. Despite their belief otherwise, conservatives are piss poor Early Americanists.
    The Constitution wasn't created to control the people, that is ignorance. It was created to control the Government. THINK.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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