The Conservative and Republican Thread

<p>Alright, it's time for the conservatives/republicans of CC to rally up and show America what the youth ** really ** think.</p>

<p>Here I am! looks like it's you and me, tlak.</p>

<p>Well, though I'm a registered Democrat, I will be at Bush's inauguration, and I'm buddies w/ the editor-in-chief of the very conservative National Review magazine. Who said that liberals and conservatives couldn't be friends?</p>

<p>Bush is gonna have an inauguration? I didn't know that. I though since this is his 2nd term he wouldn't have one. oops. anyway, I thnk that red is a gorgeous color. The elephant is also a very fascinating, beautiful creature. lol</p>

<p>ahh, i love how educated america is...
when is the inauguration? i'd love to go protest.</p>

<p>hey, let me join you at that protest. Shouldn't we just share to the world that we have a worse staged election than Bolivia?</p>

<p>I mean, come on, we are liberating Iraqis and giving them Democratic elections!!
It's not like we are sapping all of their natural resources and handing them over to private corporations, who in turn have the rights of a private citizen and don't have to disclose what they do with their assets.</p>

<p>It's not like this administration didn't support a secret black-ops attempt to assassinate the leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, because he, along with Saddam Hussein at the 2001 OPEC convention decided to vote against using the US Dollar to trade oil. Nothing of that could ever happen in this great land of ours....</p>

<p>Not to mention the fact that this administration has increased the military budget to 66 cents of every dollar. All we need is more powerful bombs to use on third world countries using rocks as weapons...</p>

<p>It's almost a good thing Bush got reelected again. The Republicans are going to go so far to the Christian right that there will be a break off and the moderates will join the Democrats...hey...maybe the dems did win overall...</p>

<p>Hmm, I don't think you read the title of the thread, my friend...maybe you should take your liberal whining to a different area of the board.</p>

<p>lol, Frylock, I agree. I'm another CC Republican! Thanks for starting this tlaktan. It's always nice to meet politically like minded people.</p>

<p>I'm here guys and gals</p>

<p>nice Frylock</p>

<p>Republican checking in here</p>

<p>Republican here! It's good to hear from other conservatives on this board. It seems everyone is liberal and that can get on my nerves sometimes. All they ever do is complain and dis, what?, OUR OWN COUNTRY. Forget "America the Beautiful," they're turning it into "America, the cruel, heartless country that I was unfortunate enough to be born into."</p>

<p>I'm economically conservative.
But I'm more socially liberal than Ralph Nader. By a lot too.
Why should the government be able to tell me what to do with my money or body?</p>

<p>Libertarian, in case you couldn't tell.</p>

<p>Okay, that statement should have some qualifications, but as I don't feel like explaining my entire political philosophy right now, just ignore the 3rd line of my post.</p>

<p>more and more I'm convinced that the Democrats are becoming obsolete. I almost wish they would regroup and get better, so we could have some real opposition in the coming four years. :)</p>

<p>Once again, it's proved that the Republicans are better organized and more dedicated than the Democrats. -- Michael Moore, speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, December 6th, 2004.</p>

<p>And yes, Mr. Moore, we are.</p>

<p>Michael Moore is the kiss of death for any political candidate. You had better believe it.</p>

<p>lol, you're right ameechee.</p>

<p>flipchick1127: my thoughts exactly</p>

<p>admittedly the democratic campaign was dysfunctional, I realize Kerry failed to relate and appeal to the working class America that he wanted to champion, but you cannot claim to say that Kerry was not "real" opposition the margin of your win was miniscule, but at least you actually won majority this time around. Liberals are not whiners, they merely recognize that things could be better for the underprivileged of not only our own society , but of the world. Just because things are fine for you doesn't mean that they are for everyone else. Liberals want to lend a helping hand to those who our government tramples over because of greed. I know I am fortunate to be born in this country, to have good food to eat, a bed to sleep in, a right to an education, and a government who cannot shoot me for questioning its actions. Still, in a nation where working class families with two incomes cannot make ends meet and could never hope to give their children the kind of college education so many of us CCers expect, change could do our nation good. People say they voted for Bush for "moral" reasons, well I would've voted for moral reasons to because it isn't moral to simultaneously kill and liberate Iraqis with our bombs, it isn't moral to exploit the middle class for the interests of greedy corporations, it isn't moral to destroy the environment, it isn't moral to stereotype the poor and call them "lazy" as if they chose that life, it isn't moral to allow the outsourcing of American jobs overseas,
btw: If you want to read something that will open your eyes check out "The Two Income Trap" or "Nickled and Dimed in America" The economy isn't as perfect as you think and these situations will be something we cannot ignore as we graduate especially those of us with tens of thousands of debt</p>

<p>one last thing neither is it moral to criminalize dissent and trample civil liberties with measures such as the patriot act</p>

<p>Thank you collegeconfusion for pointing out with we as liberals really stand for.</p>