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Sorry Micheal Gerson, but I do think you have been part of this problem all along, so why would you suddenly claim to want something NEW?
I have been a long time conservative - a true conservative - and have been horrified by the recent theocratic fascist turn of my beloved Republican Party. I was the Vice-President of the College Republicans in the late 80s at my college.
The Palin pick has absolutely horrified me. For the first time in my life - I donated 1000.00 to a political campaign - that of Senator Obama. Indeed, the donate button on the Obama website was so overwhelmed on his servers last night - it took me till 1:29 AM to get through to donate.
My entire indepedent and/or conservative family - as of my conversations with them this AM - sat through the Palin speech last night slack-jawed. I just felt nauseated. It is a sad day in America when someone can sit and read
prepared talking points - smile as she torpedoes American virtues (Community organizers, etc -- BTW - Whatever
happened to the 1000 Points of Light? - I guess that got snuffed out too in the darkness of Abu Ghraib) and have the
press and media fawn over her all day - and an entire half of the country feel that she is the second coming of
Ronald Reagan - a true conservative - and an awesome leader. Ms Palin - YOU ARE NO RONALD REAGAN - and certainly no Harry Truman as you stated last night.
WOW
I have come to peace with the demise of the country. We are literally days away from a financial meltdown --
patients of mine are suffering financially and spiritually like I have never seen before - we are in 2 wars that are
going nowhere (Can McCain, Palin, ANYONE - explain to me how you "WIN" an occupation - can anyone point to ONE
SINGLE time in history that has ever happened the way we are going about this????? ) We are getting ready to start
another - the chimp has been checkmated in the Caucusus by the grandmaster Putin - the Chinese and Japanese and Koreans have us by the balls financially - and yet NOT A SINGLE WORD is spoken about any of these grave dangers.
Rather we sit through speech after speech bashing liberals, reveling in the past, and talking about our POW status
in a 40 year old war. I am a doctor - I have worked at the VA for years. I have not met a single POW EVER that is
emotionally fit to be in the position that McCain will be if he wins - and yet no one even talks about it.
I often wondered in all my years of history courses how the citizens of the Roman Republic or of Nazi Germany let it
happen. I do not have to wonder anymore - I am now living through it - it is hard and painful to see a once great nation going down the crapper. I had a patient about 6 years ago - who was a lieutenant in the Nazi Army. He was older than 90 - and had become a double agent for the Allies in the 1940s. He was rewarded for his bravery with American citizenship. In the middle of the 2004 election, he began the process of dying. It is amazing what people
want to tell their doctors when they are dying. He said something that has haunted me to this day - "I never
thought I would see this happen again - and I never dreamed it would happen to my beloved America". He handed me a book called "They Thought They Were Free" - and I would encourage everyone to read that during this short election season. It changed my life.
I am deeply concerned about a comment on numerous conservative blogs about choosing McCain Palin because Mr Palin is cute. I agree. So was Goebbels. So was Attila the Hun. So was Caligula. And Eva Braun was a real dish. WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF YOUR COUNTRY DURING THIS TIME IN HER HISTORY - GIVE ME A BREAK. Is it all about American Idol???? Mr. Palin is a man who belonged to a political party who at its core believes that Alaska should be a separate republic - that the USA is a socialist communist state that should be destroyed - that all Jews, Blacks, Latinos and gays should be expelled from Alaska - Don't believe me? - please - be my guest and look it up - it is on their web site for the world to see. If Obama had picked a running mate with a spouse like that - he would be on a one way trip to Kenya as we speak. How did the great Republican President Abraham Lincoln feel about secession? - What do you think he would say about this - to paraphrase John 11:35 - ABE wept. That party membership is but one of many absolutely devastating revalations that is coming out about this woman - and yet the truth is met with derision. The "liberal" media is hatefully reported to be out of control - and the truth becomes what is spewed forth over and over again on the news cycles. George Orwell could not have been more prescient. Truly. (Just imagine a bunch of people sitting in a room - chanting WE HATE WAR - WE LOVE PEACE- right out of 1984 )- that is what our political discourse has become. I am reminded of the closing act of the Taming of the Shrew - when the Shrew is finally tamed - her tamer just tells her it is broad daylight when it is night and she says it - unfortunately - many of my fellow citizens have become just the same lemmings. Another example, -- I have been a medical doctor for 20 years. The picture of Mrs. Palin taken in March 2008 during Super Tuesday circulated all over the web this weekend - one month before delivery of Trig - is supposedly at 7.5 months gestation. I have seen literally hundreds of women at 7 or 8 months - that woman is SIMPLY NOT PREGNANT. Who am I going to believe -- my own trained eyes that the State of Oklahoma paid over $100,000 to train to heal people - or the crap that the fawning campaign and the news media spewed that was a lie and out of bounds. "My friends", I have no idea what the story is, however, it is germane to her character - and I can tell you in the dozen or so pictures of her in March and April of this year that I have seen- she is not pregant. But the campaign and the media have decided she was - so the lemmings naturally shut up about it - and now she is Joan of Arc. If there is one thing that I know from life - Jesus was right - "ye shall know the truth - and the truth shall set you free" - The truth - whatever it may be - will come forth - and often does so at very very inconvenient times. Ask Mark Foley or Larry Craig or John Edwards.
As a Republican - I am heartsick about this whole thing. I have not been a supporter of this party since it went to the dark side with Gingrich, Delay et al. The choice for America is starkly clear. I have made my peace with whatever happens. If Obama wins, he will be the liberal Reagan - and there will be years of liberal reign. I am voting for him. That is far better than what happens if the theocrats take over. I am OK with whoever wins - I have come to peace with it - Obama will MAYBE and I mean MAYBE forestall the collapse. With McCain - you can be guaranteed that America will hit rock bottom - the question is how much of the world will go with us - and what will be the catastrophic consequences? - Look what happened as the European empires hit rock bottom in the 1940s.
This election is far too important to me and my country -
Just some words from a true conservative from Texas.
Sincerely
Dagan68
It boggles the mind when you stand back and really take a look at what has occurred since 2000 to our country. It has become downright Orwellian. and while we were all looking at Sarah, W. was busy trying to make the war on terror permanent. "Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia." <--paraphrased.
and they keep repeating they are the party of Lincoln. that just KILLS me!
and thanks for the book reccomendation. I seem to recall hearing about it a while back. but it had such a profound effect on you, I will get to it this week.
and while you are at it. take a look at some of the other web links. Rawstory.com and thinkprogress.com are good at keeping you informed about what is being sneaked under the radar.
It boggles the mind when you stand back and really take a look at what has occurred since 2000 to our country. It has become downright Orwellian. and while we were all looking at Sarah, W. was busy trying to make the war on terror permanent. "Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia." <--paraphrased.
and they keep repeating they are the party of Lincoln. that just KILLS me!
and thanks for the book reccomendation. I seem to recall hearing about it a while back. but it had such a profound effect on you, I will get to it this week.
and while you are at it. take a look at some of the other web links. Rawstory.com and thinkprogress.com are good at keeping you informed about what is being sneaked under the radar.
Thanks for your heartfelt statement of repulsion with the current Republican position/s. I have to hit the hay, but I wanted to tell you that reading your post...made my day!!
We are fighting the good fight out here in Portland, OR and I have been carrying signs for almost 3 years alerting people to the fascist condition we face...thanks for heeding the call!!
Styve
Just thought you might want to see how well received your comment was when reposted over at DU: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/du... Thank you for your eloquence and passion for America.
Wow your letter brought me to tears. You have what I have been feeling for a long time. I have been a lot of blogs since Ms Palin's speech. A lot of people act like this is a popularity contest. I just don't get these people acting the way they do. The really hatefull stuff they say about Obama is so unamerican. American people don't truly understand what war is. We got a taste during 9-11. My mother was from Italy and she would tell how they took turns at night waiting for the american planes to come over dropping bombs. She had a brother that was handicap and they had to carry him to underground tunnels for protections. She would say that we americans were so easy to go fight a war. She meant Korea, and Viet Nam at the time. I can't understand why people just can't see how evil this Palin woman is. My sister is a dentist and she thinks the world of Bush. I told her he may have been good for business but not for the middle class workers and poor people. I think the middle class wants a break. We are not getting a fair shake. But what worries me more than anything is her position on religion. Now I go to mass from time to time. I am pro-choice. I don't believe for me abortion is right. When it comes to the social issues that is where I part with the republicans. Now I more worried that the republican party will turn as it looks like now as the religion party. Wheter you are a democratic or a republican we should be scared. I wish Dagan that you would send your e-mail to Keith Olberman at MSNBC. I know he would be moved by your e-mail. Thank you for putting our country first. You are a true patriot.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Bush speechwriter/Washington Post columnist Gerson slams McCain speech
Joe Sudbay (DC) · 9/05/2008 12:16:00 AM ET · Link
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