Grassroots Voices Survey - PLEASE READ

[Cellar Dweller]

I got this in the inbox from the RNC, and it is posted http://www.gop.com/survey but you must register to see the whole thing. Basically four questions that count, which are:

1.) Which issues will be most important in determining your vote this November? (select up to three)
2.) What is the most important reason for maintaining and expanding our Republican majorities in 2006? (select one)
3.) If the Democrats win control of the Congress in 2006, what is the one thing you would be most worried would happen?
4.) As you know, President Bush has announced a bold reform agenda for 2006. Which of his initiatives is most important to you? (select one)

Answers are along the lines of: WoT, taxes, Scary Democrats by Name, SS, immigration/border "reform," values, etc. Nothing on preservation or restoration of civil rights, 2nd Amendment KABA, privacy, shrinking the government, private property - apparently these are non-issues to the Republican Party this cycle. Question 10 is for comments, BTW.

 

[RealGun]

If you based it upon the last platform committee meeting, it would be God and gays, no guns. You would also notice that it was pretty much a white, Anglo-Saxon, apparently Protestant group, struggling to maintain their status quo or to give religious people more say in government. That was just the religious vote baiting, priority one in the last election. In actual legislative practice, the party will continue to promote economic prosperity and opportunity with as little government interference and wealth redistribution as possible.

 

[Henry Bowman]

Regretably, the pro-gun vote is a given. If you really care about this issue, you will not vote D. At worst you will vote L or other 3rd party. If you fear that the Dems could will, you will vote R.

Simple. They do not need to pander for this vote. They will oppose anti-gum bill and support those that have a large consensus (firearm manufacturers' liability). but will not repeal any bad laws that were previously passed over their opposition.

Remember, if you took away the RINOs, the Rs would be a minority.

 

[boofus]

I put immigration and border security as priority #1 in all the questions that asked.

The war on terror is a damn joke and all those lives are wasted because Osama Bin Ladin himself could waltz across the mexican border any time he wishes.

 

[Erebus]

I tried to submit and it errored on me. TRied in both FIrefox and IE. No idea why it's erroring.

 

[RealGun]

Regretably, the pro-gun vote is a given. If you really care about this issue, you will not vote D. At worst you will vote L or other 3rd party. If you fear that the Dems could will, you will vote R.

We should all be voting simply for what we want in a Supreme Court. I think a lot of people are doing exactly that. The two major parties are remarkably different (polarized) in that regard, hard to distinguish in many other ways, both of them tending to be moderate to enable getting elected, to regain a majority, or to maintain one. It's not enough to simply oppose everything the majority party is doing and then do some of the same stuff when in the majority...back and forth, back and forth.

Those who don't vote for one of these two parties are either only pretending to be involved or are counterproductive to their own goals. Less than 1% doesn't have any influence upon who sits on imperial high courts. A truly conservative and constitutionally responsible Supreme Court would shake up this country considerably. That could only mean good things for the RKBA, whether Federal or State.

Generally speaking, Congress is not your friend but shouldn't be ignored as a mischievous enemy. Who has any pride or faith in what they do with rare exception?

 

[Henry Bowman]

A truly conservative and constitutionally responsible Supreme Court would shake up this country considerably.

Indeed it could. If the SCOTUS was as "right wing" as the left claims, this would be a far different country.

 

[Erebus]

I agree with RealGun. The best way to get some of these ridiclous gun laws tossed is to get a conservative majority on the courts and start challenging them. If they are true constitutionalists they should toss just about every gun law there is. Presidents and Congressmen are far too concerned with not rocking the boat to take the stand needed to get where we want to go back to.

"Shall not be infringed" is pretty clear. A true constitutional conservative judge can only inturpret that one way. And republican presidents and congressional majorities is the only way to get them.

 

[Henry Bowman]

OK. Tell W to appoint El Tejon and me to the bench and we'll start cleaning up. (The confirmation hearings would be a spectacle! )

 

[Cellar Dweller]

We should all be voting simply for what we want in a Supreme Court.

I understand that, however one must put up with years of wrongdoing before seats open up...then the "voice of moderation" won't want to overturn years of case law.

Stevens is 86, Ginsberg is 73; both will serve until the Democrats take Congress or major health issues prevent them from serving.
So the "choice" is voting for RINOs in case one or more seats opens up in the next two years - with the "bonus" of additional crazy legislation (PATRIOT Act III, McCain-Feingold II, more national debt for Wars on Terror/Drugs; pick your poison) which in theory the Supreme Court could overturn - rejecting the people/factions that put them there in the first place?

Or voting "D" or third-party (which to many means the same thing) resulting in a Democrat majority; Stevens/Ginsberg retire for liberal replacements. Screwy legislation on different issues; more national debt for Wars on Poverty/National Healthcare, etc. which, in theory, the Supreme Court could overturn - rejecting years of established case law?

In the first "choice," RINOs are validated as a necessary evil. In the second, Republicans get the idea that they must move further to the left. Either way, conservatives get the boot - the only good result is the rejection of the Religious Right (since I'm agnostic, I'm not Part Of The Program anyway). Either way, the outcome stinks.:banghead: