Republicans Only: What should our Party be?

[Keystone Phil]

When Don can't debate, he resorts to his usual rhetoric and total mischaracterization of most conservatives.

[Keystone Phil]

Similarly, 55% of the electorate voted against Republican House candidates in 2008 not because they were too moderate, but because the party has become a stubborn, divisive monolith which seems to think the only solutions to today's issues are making the Bush Tax Cuts permanent, waterboarding, and attempting to contact Ronald Reagan on the Ouija board.

Get real. People vote against this party these days for one major reason: George W. Bush

2008, like 2006, had very little to do with ideology.

[Keystone Phil]

Similarly, 55% of the electorate voted against Republican House candidates in 2008 not because they were too moderate, but because the party has become a stubborn, divisive monolith which seems to think the only solutions to today's issues are making the Bush Tax Cuts permanent, waterboarding, and attempting to contact Ronald Reagan on the Ouija board.

Get real. People vote against this party these days for one major reason: George W. Bush

2008, like 2006, had very little to do with ideology.

Yeah, it obviously wasn't the Bush tax cuts and waterboarding, it was all that stuff people associate with George W. Bush.

No, I really don't think it was those issues. I think people still like those tax cuts, my friend.

[Keystone Phil]

Similarly, 55% of the electorate voted against Republican House candidates in 2008 not because they were too moderate, but because the party has become a stubborn, divisive monolith which seems to think the only solutions to today's issues are making the Bush Tax Cuts permanent, waterboarding, and attempting to contact Ronald Reagan on the Ouija board.

Get real. People vote against this party these days for one major reason: George W. Bush

2008, like 2006, had very little to do with ideology.

Yeah, it obviously wasn't the Bush tax cuts and waterboarding, it was all that stuff people associate with George W. Bush.

No, I really don't think it was those issues. I think people still like those tax cuts, my friend.

Especially those making more than a million dollars a year. They adore them

Good for them. My middle class family certainly enjoyed it.

[Keystone Phil]

I think people still like those tax cuts, my friend.

Our grandchildren will love them too, it will give them something to remember us by when they are slaving away in a Chinese-owned factory trying to pay off the debt we created.

Don being critical of George W. Bush? I must be seeing things.

Anyway, I'm sure the tax cuts were the straw that broke the camel's back when it comes to our grandchildren slaving away in a Chinese factory. 

[Keystone Phil]

Anyway, I'm sure the tax cuts were the straw that broke the camel's back when it comes to our grandchildren slaving away in a Chinese factory. 

Tax cuts.  War.  Bailouts.  Earmarks.  Pork.  Entitlements.  All things for our grandchildren to ponder while they are learning Mandarin.

All things that your hero wanted, by the way. 

By the way, I opposed half of those things listed and so did most conservatives.

[Keystone Phil]

You know, Don, you lecture us in another thread about our alleged fears of different languages and cultures (which is totally false in my case at least) and then you go on this fear campaign against the Chinese. Just take a step back and think about that for awhile before you go branding others xenophobes.

[Keystone Phil]

You know, Don, you lecture us in another thread about our alleged fears of different languages and cultures (which is totally false in my case at least) and then you go on this fear campaign against the Chinese. Just take a step back and think about that for awhile before you go branding others xenophobes.

My fear campaign is against the debt, and China is the largest foreign holder of our public debt. (22%)  Feel free to insert "Japanese" (19%) or any other country you please.  Hell, the British own 12%, could you imagine if we all had to stop speaking American

And you're using fear tactics about having to speak Chinese. Speaking Spanish isn't a problem for you (which would be for economic reasons as well) but this is? Hypocrisy at its finest.

[Keystone Phil]

Amused the debate, or what little there is here, has devolved into bickering over a tangent about speaking Chinese. 

Maybe Don shouldn't lecture some of us, calling us xenophobes and stuff (when it isn't true) and then go on to actually post something that was xenophobic. Just a suggestion for next time.

I like Don personally but it's never a debate with him. We always get bogged down with his ridiculous rhetoric and political hypocrisy.