Texas Republican Has Had Enough
I have never posted on a liberal blog before - if this is too long or
inappropriate - please tell me - I am not sure what is customary. - I hope I do
not insult anyone - I just have to get this off my chest.
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 independent 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 Ms. 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 revelations that are 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 pregnant. 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
Editor's Note: Found this on America Blog. Nice to see a Republican coming around.
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 independent 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 Ms. 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 revelations that are 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 pregnant. 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
Editor's Note: Found this on America Blog. Nice to see a Republican coming around.
