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You should try not to be such a single-minded zealot, Poppa. Your lack
of open-mindedness reminds me of some of the robotic left-wing thinking
I see in this group. Zealotry is unattractive, even if it's along the
right track.

Remember, all politicians will disappoint you. Republicans just
disappoint you less often.

two wheels


On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 03:38:56 GMT, "Poppa Pimple"
wrote:

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what
they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their
own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the
very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power
does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be
opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality,
ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding
fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of
creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically
in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to
despotism.

Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist
concentrations of power, private or public, which enforce such
conformity and inflict such despotism. It is the cause of
Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people.
And, so help us God, that is exactly what a Republican president will
do with the help of a Republican Congress.

It is further the cause of Republicanism to restore a clear
understanding of the tyranny of man over man in the world at large. It
is our cause to dispel the foggy thinking which avoids hard decisions
in the illusion that a world of conflict will somehow mysteriously
resolve itself into a world of
harmony, if we just don't rock the boat or irritate the forces of
aggression - and this is hogwash.

It is further the cause of Republicanism to remind ourselves, and the
world, that only the strong can remain free, that only the strong can
keep the peace.

Now, I needn't remind you, or my fellow Americans regardless of party,
that Republicans have shouldered this hard responsibility and marched
in this cause before. It was Republican leadership under Dwight
Eisenhower that kept the peace, and passed along to this
administration the mightiest arsenal for defense the world has ever
known. And I needn't remind you that it was the strength and the
unbelievable will of the Eisenhower years that kept the peace by using
our strength, by using it in the Formosa Straits and in Lebanon and by
showing it courageously at all times.

It was during those Republican years that the thrust of Communist
imperialism was blunted. It was during those years of Republican
leadership that this world moved closer, not to war, but closer to
peace, than at any other time in the three decades just passed.

And I needn't remind you - but I will - that it's been during
Democratic years that our strength to deter war has stood still, and
even gone into a planned decline. It has been during Democratic years
that we have weakly stumbled into conflict, timidly refusing to draw
our own lines against aggression, deceitfully refusing to tell even
our people of our full
participation, and tragically, letting our finest men die on
battlefields (unmarked by purpose, unmarked by pride or the prospect
of victory).

Yesterday it was Korea. Tonight it is Vietnam. Make no bones of this.
Don't try to sweep this under the rug. We are at war in Vietnam. And
yet the President, who is Commander-in-Chief of our forces, refuses to
say - refuses to say, mind you, whether or not the objective over
there is victory. And his Secretary of Defense continues to mislead
and misinform the American people, and enough of it has gone by.

And I needn't remind you, but I will; it has been during Democratic
years that a billion persons were cast into Communist captivity and
their fate cynically sealed.

Today in our beloved country we have an administration which seems
eager to deal with communism in every coin known - from gold to wheat,
from
consulates to confidence, and even human freedom itself.



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