mino,
a) i am not a "leftie" as you describe, but it is typical for anyone from the extreme far right to accuse me of it. i have WAY too many GOP affiliations to be called a leftie or anything derrogatory or suggests that i don't look fairly at all sides of the aisle. i held elected office as a republican, my family has held office, run for office and ran campaigns for MANY gop causes. look and see who runs Joe Wilson's (R-SC, and a personal friend of george bush) beaufort office, it's my mom. it's a position she took after getting him elected twice, and his predecessor (the late congressman Spence) elected before him. she was also given an award from the REPUBLICAN dominated south carolina legislature, "The Woman of Achievement Award for leadership and exemplary service to the community and to The State of South Carolina."
i could go on and on about my republican ties, my father chairs a GOP organization, my brother and my uncle have both run for office on very conservative GOP platforms. but where my political stances come from is critically discerning facts over the years. i don't lean left, i don't lean right...i lean towards truth. and it's funny to me that only far right wingers try to peg me as some liberal wacko, just like they do anyone who speaks any truths that may hurt their power hold on this country. but that's ok, i'm used to it.
by the way, if you really need to know my affiliations, the only party affiliation i have is that i'm still registered as a libertarian. not that i agree with them all the time either. when i vote, i vote my concience...party affiliation doesn't ever really come into play.
but what i do see as a more impartial observer than most is the right wing driving more wedges in this country than ever has happened for us. i see the left merely trying not to get buried in ruthless propoganda wars. i see them reacting, not really driving the way the GOP has done under Bush / Cheney leadership. I have seen that accelerate under ken mehlman's tenure. no, neither party has an exclusice on negative advertising, but when objectively fact checked, the left does score many more points. i see the right attempt to twist more facts and get involved in actual doublespeak vs. the left trying to have a more (but not totally) honest debate.
as far as draginol's article, i never saw it, sorry,,,but i do remember responding to a sim. question last week on what one likes about this country and what i dislike. i don't know if it was a spin off of this aritcle, or vice versa, as i don't remember any exact dates and frankly i don't pay that much attention here as i t simply doesn't matter to me.
i can say that sometimes i just stop responding to trollers (and they know who they are) when stuff just starts getting silly or i simply have things to do in my real life. but i think everyone of reason does that, regardless of any political affiliations. and like everyone else, i get suckered into nonsensical debates over strawmen and red herrings. but that's blogging, for better or worse...
the reason i would think right wing republicans here might defend george allen is that up until a month ago, he was their boy. he was the name that right wing circles were touting as the next pres. nominee after people realized mc cain and giulianni were only R.I.N.O.'s. but since the "macaka" crack last month, the yhave seemingly abandoned him. that appears to be the case here too. but i fail to understand when i attacked anyone personally/...just facts.
i see times when the left is speechless as well, but i'm guessing you wouldn't accuse me of personally attaking someone if i pointed something out over there. to you, and your perspective, i would just be reporting facts.
this attack the messenger stuff, and trying to "turn tables" on anyone who questions the administration' s policies is really getting quite stale. the fact of the matter is that any republican who can honestly look at this administration and say they have ben true to any real conservative ideas and policies is really just fooling themselves. this administration has grown goverment, is engaging in nation building, nosing around in people's private lives and have not reflected any real conservative values. real conservatives are actually closer to libertarians than anything this administration has put forward in their whole tenure. real conservatives believe in seperating america from the world, not trying to reorchestrate the world according to their specifications. real conservatives abhor growing goverment. real conservatives are about as strong on personal liberty as anyone throughout the political spectrum. this administration used republicans and conservatives to hijack the party and we are now seeing the distaster of all that.
if the administration put as much effort into actually having some winning strategies about winning against our enemies abroad as they do attacking good americans, maybe we wouldn't have the mess we have now.
and without checking out the link, i'm guessin anyone calling themselves "democratic underground" is probably not part of any mainstream movement. it's probably 1 guy and a computer and hardly represents anyone else.
this is just nonsense mino, i didn't personally attack anyone...just merely posted a video and no one has questioned it's facts...so, does that mean case closed, george allen isn't supporting our troops as promised? i don't know...you tell me.
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