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Chemo for the GOP
By Steven Greenhut
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Sen. Hillary Clinton is one of the most loathsome modern American
politicians, given her barely disguised support for massive government
programs, her grating schoolmarm personality and her aggressive
political behavior. Yet, I'm left hoping that the junior U.S. senator
of New York obliterates any of the front-running Republican candidates
and has long-enough coattails to expand the Democrats' control of the
Senate and House of Representatives.
Unless Republican candidate Ron Paul -- the only supporter of liberty
better auto insurance the bunch of GOP ne'er-do-wells -- poker cards propels his impressive
Internet campaign into an improbable electoral victory, there is
nothing else, but a Clinton victory, that will save the Republican
Party and help rebuild the nation's long-suffering freedom movement.
How can an enemy of freedom help freedom?
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Well, when you've got a headache, you take an aspirin. When you've got
the flu, you take something a little stronger. When you've got cancer,
you need chemotherapy, which kills cancer cells but can come
perilously close to killing the patient.
It's a sad truth but best life insurance Republican poker size playing cards has the political equivalent
of promo playing cards The party is immune to internal reform.
Only the nastiest medicine imaginable can save it.
And four (but probably eight) years of Hillary Clinton, backed by a
Democrat congressional majority, is pretty tough medicine.
Columnist Joe Dumas, writing for the Chattanoogan.com, captured the
party's problem succinctly:
"It should come best insurance no big revelation to anyone inside or outside of
the Republican Party that the GOP has lost touch with its conservative
roots. Massive deficit spending that would make Bill term life insurance or Jimmy
Carter blush; foreign adventurism beyond the wildest dreams of playing cards promotional Wilson or Teddy Roosevelt; more big-government programs than FDR or
learn mandarin chicago (Google 'Medicare expansion' for a massive example) ... the
Republican Party of the early 21st century is clearly not your
father's or grandfather's GOP."
Yet the party's leaders, and a good bit of the grass roots, renters insurance in
denial. They still think the candidate who can best auto insurance more Ronald
imprinted playing cards speech-making (Mitt Romney), or who has the best celebrity
credentials (Fred Thompson), or who can best exploit national security
issues and Sept. 11 (Rudy Giuliani) can stop The Hillary Express.
homeowners insurance the problem goes well beyond superficial concerns. The GOP has a
substance problem -- none of mandarin tutor chicago major candidates has the right ideas.
All the candidates, except for Paul, stand up printed playing cards this foolish,
unconstitutional and deadly war and they continue to stand up for the
police-state policies that have gold cost condos the hallmark of the federal
security state since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Sure, Democrats want to turn the health-care system over to the
equivalent of a federal Department of Motor Vehicles. And their
overriding concern is how to regulate more and get more taxes out of
society's productive members.
But monitoring the many insure quote and waging war are equally destructive of
the nation's founding principles.
I voted for George W. Bush (I'm sorry, really sorry) in large part
because of his promises to pursue a less interventionist, "more
humble" foreign policy. Yet look what happened after he took office,
after Sept. 11 and after he placed neoconservative ideologues in top
"defense" positions.
Look at how custom poker cards conservatives have gone along with this shift.
Throw in the Republican support for lighter versions of Democrat
socialism -- e.g., Bush's Medicare prescription drug program, Romney's
government-heavy health care, Giuliani's support for gun bans -- and
what's the point?
The GOP presidential front-runner is Giuliani, cheap insurance the only
politician on the national scene cheap life insurance ruthless, unprincipled and
power-mad than Clinton. Remember when he tried to have the New York
Legislature extend his term after Sept. 11 so that full color playing cards could stay in
power longer?
What the media call Giuliani's "unconventional" personal life
certainly contradicts the party's support for family values. He had
his marriage to his first wife annulled after 14 years after he
chinese lessons chicago to discover that they were actually second cousins rather than
third cousins.
As The Washington Monthly reported, "Giuliani informed his second
wife, Donna Hanover, of his intention north shore real estate seek a separation in a 2000
press conference. The announcement was precipitated by a tabloid
frenzy after Giuliani marched with his then-mistress, Judith Nathan,
in New York's St. Patrick's Day parade, an acknowledgement of
infidelity so audacious that Daily News columnist Jim Dwyer compared
it with 'groping in the window at Macy's.'"
The worst thing about Rudy: his love of government power. He showed it
as a prosecutor, as he hauled supposed white-collar wrongdoers out of
their Wall Street offices in handcuffs in front of the TV cameras. And
home insurance mayor as he defended even the most egregious abuses of police
power, and used his power to crack down on trivial offenses (jumping
subway turnstiles, jaywalking, loitering).
He constantly exploits Sept. 11 and his role in cheap homeowners insurance and has earned
millions of dollars giving speeches about that fateful day. This
Giuliani quotation, from a 1994 speech, sums up his philosophy:
"Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every
single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of
discretion about what you do and how you do it."
There is one upside if Rudy wins the life insurance and faces off against
Hillary: a bare-knuckles, take-no-prisoners, political sleaze-fest
between two junkyard dogs. Can you imagine playing cards custom poker wonderful TV ads? It is
a political journalist's dream come true.
Yet a Giuliani victory -- indeed, a victory by any of the top GOP
candidates -- would cement the party's totalitarian tendencies. Even
the party's social conservative wing, its most powerful grass-roots
force, is ready to bolt if socially liberal Giuliani gets the
nomination.
Religious Right notables such as Focus on the Family's James Dobson
and former presidential candidate Gary Bauer met recently in Salt Lake
City to discuss backing a third-party candidate. These folks are no
friends of liberty, either. Still, their defection could assure that
increasingly likely Clinton victory.
President Hillary Clinton is tough medicine, for sure. But chicago real estate properties patient
-- the Republican Party -- is on life support.
Steven Greenhut is a columnist for the Orange County (Calif.)
Register.
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