On Wednesday Gary posted the list “Five Truths that Liberals Hate,” and it proved one of the most popular posts we’ve had in a while. While in total agreement with those ideals, and actually probably the most conservative guy at American Vision, I thought a little Tabasco for the Right was in order as well. So let’s hear it: five truths Republicans hate.
1. Most Republicans are as socialist as the Left. While not as socially liberal as the left—not advocating equality, gay rights, feminism, etc., etc.—Republicans have proven every bit as fiscally liberal with the exception of the last year or so when political convenience has changed their rhetoric. But try to get one to admit that social security and medicare are socialist programs along the lines of Obamacare, and they’ll dance and dodge all day! It was Bush II who created medicare prescription drug coverage at the cost of $550 billion, and only nine Senate republicans opposed.
2. Public schooling is a socialist institution, paid for like a social welfare scheme, where socialist teachers teach socialism to conservatives’ kids. It was designed as an anti-conservative institution and operates openly as an anti-conservative institution. Yet most conservative parents still mock homeschooling and refuse to put their kids in even a private school. Some Christians argue they’re salt and light—”we just need prayer back in schools!” The only prayer any kid should be praying in school is “Mom! Dad! Please! Get me out!”
3. There is no such thing as private property as long as property taxes and the threat of liens exist. Bad-mouthing Obama’s socialism rings hollow until you pressure your state, county, and municipal officials to abolish property taxes. Of course, you’d also have to argue against public schooling as well, for about 75% of property taxes go to pay for public schools.
4. There is nothing inherently or historically conservative about our national standing military. It was a Republican-led effort that ignored everything the American founders wrote about the dangers of standing armies and centralized the state militias into a national army, the outlawed state militias. Shortly after the Militia Act of 1903, in one ten year span before WWI, the military budget rose from $2 million to $53 million—a 2,650% budget increase. The whole program was carried out by Progressives which at that time dominated the Republican Party. These were men whom Republicans generally revere as well, Republicans: William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Elihu Root. Historically, big war has been carried out under progressive Democrats: Wilson got us into WW1, FDR WWII, Truman Korea, and Kennedy/Johnson Vietnam. Progressives love war inherently: it was one aspect that grew directly out of social Darwinism. Conservatives fight when necessary to protect their own land and freedom, except against property taxes, apparently.
5. Republicans were the original spend-and-tax, big-government Progressives, and remain so today. The same Republican men who nationalized the military, in order to fund their progressive ideals, created, promoted, and signed into law the Sixteenth amendment (national income tax) which had the side-effect of rendering the IRS a permanent institution. Taft got the act through Congress in 1909, the last state ratified it in 1913. The intervening presidential election was a contest of three men with the same ideals—Wilson, T. Roosevelt, and Taft—all of whom supported the national income tax. The same Republicans instituted the National Monetary Commission which developed the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which Wilson also signed into law. In modern times, were it not for Obama, Bush II would reign as the spending and deficit king by quite a margin. The biggest spenders in recent decades were all the Republican presidents, including Reagan. Only Clinton in his first term rivaled them before Obama.
So there you have it. These are five truths that Republicans just have to hate! But thankfully, we have a God-given right to change our minds and become truly conservative. See my God versus Socialism for a look at where the Bible stands on such issues, and how the U.S. already has adopted seven of the ten planks of communism straight from Marx’s Manifesto.
Joel McDurmon, M.Div., Reformed Episcopal Theological Seminary, is the Director of Research for American Vision. He has authored four books and also serves as a lecturer and regular contributor to the American Vision website. He joined American Vision's staff in the June of 2008. Joel and his wife and three sons live in Dallas, Georgia. 
Joel:
I take exception to your post and think that your comments such as they are are twited to make your case, but kust because you list them and say them, does not make them real or true.
Can we all go have gay sex know?
You need to refute the post, period.
THis is why I left the Republican Party under Bush 41 — I couldn't find a conservative. It's still harder than it ought to be.
According to the Bible all men(women) are liars. So it really does not matter whitch Party you belong to. Basically all people do not like being caught in a mess of any kind.
What about all the religions though the centuries? Who cares about the bible?
"In modern education, the state is the educator, and… is held to be the responsible agency rather than man… [this] works to destroy the pupil, whose basic lesson becomes a dependence on the state…The greatest school is the family…The moral training of the child, the discipline of good habits, is an inheritance from the parents to the child which surpasses all others." – RJ Rushdoony (The Institutes of Biblical Law)
For some reason, the Five Truths that Liberals hate was unavailable every time I tried to view it. I’ll look again in a few minutes.
As for the Five Truths that Republicans Hate, I have to agree.
Wonderful article, Mr. McDurmon. I enjoy most of the articles I read here, but this is the best I've read in a long time! Thank you so much, especially for addressing our standing military.
I'm confused. "Five Truths that Liberals Hate" vs "Five Truths that Republicans Hate" and comments on these using the labels 'Democrat' & 'Conservative'. I can't speak for Democrats/Liberals but I'm sure not all Conservatives are Republicans and not all Republicans are Conservatives (see RINO). It would certainly make arguments clearer if labels weren't used without some thought. just sayin'
The worst Republican was one who never gets any mention save for being an (alleged) hero and savior of the nation, and that is A. Lincoln. Read "The Real Lincoln" by Thomas DiLorenzo to find out where so much of this "Big-government Progressivism" got its start.
Vote the Constitution, not the Party. The chief reason that the Republican party planks are a pale shade of pink is that too many so-called "Conservatives" have made excuses for not getting involved. Politics abhors a vacuum, and if these so-called "Conservatives" also claim Christianity as their system of spiritual belief, I would ask: "Where in hell have you been for the last 50 years?" If politics abhors a vacuum, then believe that a spiritual vacuum so much the more will be, and has been, immediately filled by God's enemies…it is a spiritual revival we need first, not a political revival. Remember that the pinnacle of the "Reformation" is what brought the American nation into existence, not a desire for political and economic freedom. Those were the result, not the reason.
",,,it is a spiritual revival we need first, not a political revival. Remember that the pinnacle of the "Reformation" is what brought the American nation into existence, not a desire for political and economic freedom. Those were the result, not the reason." Timothy, I truly believe this is the only key that will unlock the door to the reformation that is needed today. Thank you for your honesty and insight.
I'm not going to comment on Lincoln, but you hit the nail on the head about the Republicans and their brain's being in a vacuum. The only time they are "sincerely" conservative seems to be at election time, and after that,
it's "business as usual". This next November, we have the opportunity to CLEAN HOUSE! LET'S DO IT!!
400 NEW ROOKIES COULDN'T DO A WORSE JOB!
Gary Harding
Here is an article about Republicans and how they hate the truth: http://thethingsrepublicanshate.com/?p=398
I kinda sorta agree. Here is the thing. We only have one party rule these days. One arm is professional Republican politicians. The second is professional Democrat politicians. The objective of these professional politicians is to keep the ruling class ruling (themselves) regardless of which branch. Until the civilians knock the ruling class out of Washington then the Progressive Statists will continue to destroy the country. Parasites always destroy the host before dying off themselves.
BUT the GOOD NEWS is that maybe a lot of Americans are waking up. The fantastic growth of the Tea Party Movement has brought back our FOUNDING PRINCIPLES to the forefront. If more Americans joined their local Tea Party, learned about the creation of America, God's hand in this creation, and developed some BACKBONE to their convictions; our Country will slowly return to it's leadership position among all nations. The founding of America had room for all people, as stated in the Declaration. It's taken many years to remove all the "evils" like slavery and to equalize the rights of women. BUT our founding principles remain the same. Let's all PRAY that God guides our nation back to it's original principles of equal justice, individual freedom, and limited government.
I'd like to think it can still be done that way but I think we are closer to our saviors return and the perfect government man can never achieve. Haven't we proven that already? If so we are in for great turmoil ahead before the promised paradise when things will be all good and fair and just. I can't pinpoint the timing with any precion but things I see happening today all around the world tend to make me believe the time is quite close.
You're right on with this article but we could have the Military, school systems, social security IF we would not permit those in all our public offices (local, state & federal) to stay in office for life & when they do something wrong bring back the hangings, & public square punishment. Do not fund any university with public money, shut down all schools that turn out lawyers until we get back to a sensible number & don,t let more than 10% in public office at any one time. Get the Sheriff from Phoenix to take over all jail/prison system in the US & don't give any prisoner more than 3 appeals over maximum of a one year period. Get rid of the enviro nuts & permit prayer where ever the majority want it. I'm 82 years old & still think a whipping by a parent never hurt anyone. The 5% of do gooders in this country should not tell us how, or what to do with our private land.
Right on, right on, right on!
82 years well spent, apparently. I would disagree with "permit" prayer wherever the majority wants it. That's democracy, not a democratic republic. The Constitution "guarantees" free speech as an individual right, and I'd say that it derives directly from the "self-evident truths" that "all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." These are unalienable rights not because they can't be taken away by bad governments (look at all those that have thus far been taken away in this great country, yet still the free-est country in history, save Israel when she had no king but God), but because they are innate desires within us, God-given (endowed) desires. He created us, and He created us to be free. Satan and his minions (e.g., leftists, statists) desire to rule and control, to have power over men. God designed us with a free will, for it was His desire that we love Him with a pure heart, even if it meant that many would turn away from Him.
(to be continued …)
WRT "permitting" prayer, my guess is that you were thinking of cases like in schools or in local and national governments, if the majority of people who are "customers" of that "organization" (e.g., the parents of the schoolchildren, or the electorate in a given area), if the majority want to have prayer at some public event (or even a specific type of prayer, such as Christian prayer in a predominantly Christian area, Jewish prayer in a predominantly Jewish area, etc.), then such choices should be made on a majority basis. That's not perfect, but it's certainly better than having Madeline Murray O'Hare's desires thrust upon the rest of the nation's population. And better than having Supreme Court Justices ignoring both the Constitution's "guarantee" that Congess (and, of course, since they're not supposed to "legislate from the bench," the Judiciary) shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion, and their oath of office to uphold the Constitution.
(To be continued …)
As was said in the book, "Animal Farm," "All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others." If we don't fight to get our Constitution back and, I might add, our Christian heritage, America will cease to be America. We have a government RIGHT NOW, that strives to squelch freedom of religion, greatly limit (if not eliminate) freedom of speech, pack the media (though indoctrination via the universities and public schools) with liberals, greatly limit (if not eliminate) the right to keep and bear arms (including requiring registration of arms, so that an oppressive government (such as Obama/Holder and friends) can seize them easily), dictate who has the "inalienable" right to life, … I could probably think of others if it wasn't so far past my bedtime. Gotta go to bed.
I'm 61, so I'll be catching up to you soon, Lord willing.
Regarding #2: You write: "It [the public school system] was designed as an anti-conservative institution and operates openly as an anti-conservative institution."
You might try reading some of your bosses articles Joel; for instance this one:
"A study of the historical record reveals that religion played a major role in the development of the public school curriculum. “Textbooks referred to God without embarrassment, and public schools considered one of their major tasks to be the development of character through the teaching of religion. For example, the New England Primer opened with religious admonitions followed by the Lord’s Prayer, the Apostles’ Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the names of the books of the Bible.”[7] http://americanvision.org/2872/chipping-away-at-t…
It' was when we turned our back on evil that evil took over the public education system. What institution is next Joel?
Firstly, please note, it’s “boss’s,” not “bosses.” And Gary is an employer, but not much of a “boss”–more like a teddy bear with muscles.
To your point, the “public” schools Gary describes are not the same institutions that Unitarians and Socialists designed in the nineteenth century. The New England primer was created in the seventeenth century—hardly a creation of Mann, Dewey, et al. The early schools may have been open to the public, but the latter institutions were designed by socialists as “public” as in “public funded” and goverment-run. These are what we normally refer to as “public schools” when we use the term today. I don’t know why Gary used that term above. These latter schools, too, featured quite a bit of religion early on, but they had to in order to get their nose in the tent. It was a trojan horse effort from day one. For some reason Christians today not only accept it, but defend it fiercely
Read Rushdoony’s Messianic Character of American Education and see just how concerted an effort it really was.
Thank you for the lesson in spelling Joel; I should remember to use spellcheck when writing amongst Christian libertarian elitists.
Regarding Gary not being your "boss": for some odd reason I always thought that a President kinda sorta outranked the Director of Research.
"The textbook series most widely used in public schools from 1836 to 1920 was William Holmes McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers. More than 120 million Readers were sold during this period. The Readers stressed religion and its relationship to morality and the proper use of knowledge. In an introduction for a reissue of the Fifth Reader, historian Henry Steele Commager writes:
What was the nature of the morality that permeated the Readers? It was deeply religious, and . . . religion then meant a Protestant Christianity. . . . The world of the McGuffeys was a world where no one questioned the truths of the Bible or their relevance to everyday contact. . . . The Readers, therefore, are filled with stories from the Bible, and tributes to its truth and beauty.[8]
Hardly the design of socialists Joel.
The drug dealer says, "First one's free kid." Trojan horse. The Christians lined up, single file, 120 million long.
McGuffey was a good man. He got played. So did 120 million Christians who read him in public schools.
Read Rushdoony.
I've read numerous quotes by R.J. and use this quote frequently: "All law is based upon morality, and morality is itself based upon religion. Therefore, when the religion of a people is weakened, so also is its morality undermined. The result is a progressive collapse of law and order, and the breakdown of society.
Men, though, see law as a limitation on their liberty, and Christianity is held to be the most restrictive with its emphasis upon Biblical law as the foundation for morality and liberty. Humanistic man wants total liberty, but he does not realize that total liberty leads only to total anarchy, and that leads to the death of law and liberty. Unless every man’s liberty is limited by law, no liberty is possible for any one.
(Anyone that parts ways with Gary North is ok in my book).
Your thoughts on the guys that gave us a document that was "made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other", and their beliefs about the public school system? http://volokh.com/posts/1149615849.shtml
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/je…
The continental congress published the first bible for use in the public schools. it has only been the past 50 years that it has been removed. and look at the damage that has been done because of it. David Barton on his Wallbuilders.org site has all the information in that regard. great site for our true history by the founding fathers. not the lies being taught to the children today.
Good article, just 5 quick points, hits the republicans exactly where they need to be hit. Standing armies, including the police force should be eliminated in order to secure our liberties and all form of taxation should be eliminated. He who taxes a thing, owns a thing. Only imports should be taxed and that on the senders side. Schools as we know them were invisioned by Plato as part of platonic communism and have only served to dumb down hundreds of millions of people who then vote for Obama. Doubt it? Look it up, school kids chanting for Obama. Chairman Mao couldn't be prouder.
@SShuptar: I cannot speak for AV, but I have been a consumer of the books they promote for over twenty years.
"For example, would AV abolish property taxes?" YES
"If not a large military, what would our national defense look like?" short answer, every able man makes up a militia. Military is used strictly for defense, and the federal government cannot summon it to its own purposes.
Get a copy of this book, if you can: http://www.amazon.com/Militia-20th-Century-Americ…
and learn the real reason why the Nazis never invaded Switzerland (hint: it was not because of the mountains). Pay close attention to James Jordan's essay on the Old Testament militia.
"Maybe I've missed them; if so, please re-direct me to your solutions." Have to keep in mind that these things are NOT solutions. The problem with politics is not political. It is theological, it is moral. There is only one solution to these manifold problems, and that is the life-changing work of the Holy Spirit. These "solutions" you mention are not "solutions" but what it looks like after the only solution is applied. "We do not get the kingdom because we obey the law, we obey the law because we have been given the kingdom" — James Jordan in his Studies in Exodus.
Sounds great in theory, but no national militia in these times would be suicide. Russia, China, or even tine N.Korea or Iran would destroy the U.S. without the huge military budget, standing army, and sophisticated war machines, centralized command and coordination, and technology.
Our enemies target city's with a population of 50,000 and larger. Yet we heard Clinton say we would absorb the first strike. Not much of our country would be left. Other politicians have made the same comment. I find that troubling.
How about a list of five things Christians hate to hear. Such as Matthew 6:19 or Mark 6:27-32 or Romans 12:19 or Titus 3:2 or 1 John 2:15-17. If Christians really applied what they believed, we could elminate our welfare system, public school system and many other issues. However, we don't apply what the Scripture teach because Heavenly treasure is not an earthly reality. If it were, our Churches would not sit around collecting debt five to six days out of the week as they sit empty. Seems to me, these buildings with Sunday school rooms would serve as great schools. As a matter of fact, wasn't scholastic education the original purpose of Sunday school? I guess it's just easier to point the finger at the government.
See school choice comment I made a few minutes ago. Use of Sunday school rooms as classrooms would be a great idea. If 20% of the children attended that school(s) in a given area, it would receive 20% of the tax money taken in for schools. In the free-market system, success breeds success, the losers (e.g., the current system, if it can even be called an "educational" system) go out of business. It isn't great for poor performers, but it is great for society as a whole (the good of the people). Church-run schools would make use of the building at least six days per [normal] week. That's pretty good. Homeschools would make use of the building at seven days per [normal] week.
Heavenly treasure is an earthly reality. What a treasure it is to be a friend of God.
How about a list of five things Libertarians hate to hear, like Ralph Nader, Harry Browne, et al?
And their sitting around waiting for a presidential win to come to them, instead of getting out and working for it, as the other 2 parties do?
Don’t get me wrong, I HATE Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer and the other lying progressive liberals, but let’s face it… they DO work for their positions and the right to steal the taxpayers’ hard-earned money.
Well now Nick, then why don't you just go find you a church somewhere and start doing just what you accuse christians of not doing. Who is the accuser of the Bretheren? Look it up and you will find out.
RIGHT ON BROTHER JOEL!!!!
It is simply sheer Insanity that the Conservatives DON'T get this in spite of all of the facts.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag…
Let's look at the scorecard folks.
http://aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?ti…
Jerry Falwell (leader in the Moral Majority) in 1989 in regards to the religious right: " "… our mission is accomplished… I feel that I have performed the task to which I was called in 1979. The religious right is solidly in place…"
Paul Weyrich (founder of Moral Majority) in 1999: ""Cultural Marxism is succeeding in its war against our culture…I believe that we probably have lost the culture war…even when we win in politics, our victories fail to translate into the kind of policies we believe are important… I know that what we have been doing for thirty years hasn't worked, that while we have been fighting and winning in politics, our culture has decayed into something approaching barbarism."
Did Paul and Jerry compare notes?
Dr. James Dobson in 2009: "Humanly speaking, we can say that we have lost…[our nation is] absolutely awash in evil…what you can do is pray, pray for this great nation… As I see it, there’s no other answer, short term."
I wonder if Dr. Dobson has connected the dots from the research from the 20 yrs of research from the Nehemiah Institute with over 60,000 children who come from Christian families but go to public schools.
http://www.dexios.info/culture_trends_2008.pdf
Hey folks we need to all sign a new Declaration of Independence…from public schools: "The single most important step we can take – the single most dramatic action – is also the most important to your family, to your children. Get them out of the government indoctrination centers. Take responsibility for educating your kids; don't leave it to the state. … This is our Lexington and Concord. This is our Declaration of Independence. Get your kids out of the clutches of these monsters. Do it now. Do it for them. Do it for your country." – Joseph Farah (WND)
Peace out.
-D
PS- One last thing for all you wrong thinking "salt and light rationalizers" and "good-willed reformers"- It is not going to happen. Listen to the words of two different people that have been in the trenches for along time.
"… the lion's share of converting and witnessing is accomplished through the public education curriculum, peer pressure from other children – most of whom are non-Christian – and educators who implant (either subtly or obviously and conscientiously or unconscientiously) their humanistic, neo-pagan or New Age doctrines within the minds and hearts of Christian children." – E. Ray Moore (Frontline Ministries)
"Public schooling is non-sectarian by law, that is non-Christian, non-Muslim, non-Jewish, and so on. Complaining that the public schools are not Christian is like saying that Christian schools are not Muslim. Of course public schools are not Christian; they are not intended to be. Christians are wasting their time, money and children trying to reform public schools." – Bradley Heath (Author of Millstones and Stumbling Blocks)
Regarding your WorldNetDaily article (a great website by the way): Just think of the things we could do if we TOOK BACK the once adamantly pro-Christian public education system. He who controls (education, the media, the church) controls the world.
Thanks for the compliments.
I would say that from a Biblical perspective that the Christian should spend their time, talent and treasure NOT taking back the godless gov't schools but spending that energy training up the next generation for God's glory (via preferably homeschooling or private schools teaching a Christian worldview). The loacl church needs to get directly involved in this process IF it wants to take its evangelism seriously. Jesus, of course, knew what He was talking about when it came to evangelizing the world. He said in Matthew 28 to "Go make disciples…teaching them all that I have commanded you." That will never ever happen in today's public schools.
Again: "Public schooling is non-sectarian by law, that is non-Christian, non-Muslim, non-Jewish, and so on. Complaining that the public schools are not Christian is like saying that Christian schools are not Muslim. Of course public schools are not Christian; they are not intended to be. Christians are wasting their time, money and children trying to reform public schools." – Bradley Heath (Author of Millstones and Stumbling Blocks)
Honestly, what the Church needs to do is starve the public schools by not sending them our children along with their allocated tax dollars.
Peace.
What is needed is school choice (which includes homeschooling as one of the choices) … nothing has been found to work better than the free market. When we take the direction of schooling out of the hands of parents and put it into the hands of … anyone else, but especially liberal elites, as we have done, what other outcome is possible? The vast majority of people don't even recognize the problem, for obvious reasons … they've been "through the system," their world view has been molded by the system. At the same time, it’s obvious that the system has failed to educate our children in the skills that they need to succeed, and with regards to educational attainment our country is at or near the bottom of the list of the industrialized nations. Yet we spend more on public education than anyone else. School choice would “quickly” put an end to the existing system, because most parents will send their children to the best schools available to them (public, private, or home).
Charlie, appreciate the feedback but have a quick question. In regards to the Christian family what leftist indoctrinating public school with its godless curriculum is better for them? The one they have to go to or the one they choose to go to? Sorry Charlie, but from a Biblical point of view (which should be the Christians only point of view on important topics such as education) a public education today should not be on their list of choices.
Peace.
Mr. McDurmon: Thank you, Joel for these comments. Today's leftists have been so blatantly opposed to God and His Word that the default position for many Christians has been to vote Republican. Consequently, many believers mistakenly believe God must be a Republican! Yet the overriding theme of both parties is the desire to rule over men – not serve them as ministers of justice that Paul talks of in Romans 13.
However, while American Vision is quite skillful in articulating the mistakes and missteps of our politicians and the governing process, I wonder if it might be possible (and worthwhile) for American Vision to also articulate corrective measures from your Biblically-informed perspective. For example, would AV abolish property taxes? If not a large military, what would our national defense look like? I'm sure there are practical applications, but for some reason, it seems I read more critiques of unrighteousness as opposed to instructions in righteousness. Maybe I've missed them; if so, please re-direct me to your solutions. If we agree that the plans of men will fail, why not find ways to pursue the plans of God?
Thanks for these concerns. I agree. I have a project planned that will indeed provide practical solutions. Hopefully within the next year.
Excellent comment and question. I'd love to see the response.
I love this post. Absolutely love it. Yes, Republicans are socialists too.
I often stop at the Republican table at fairs and conventions asking the infamous question "What type of government do you think we have?" And only once did I hear "republic". Every other time I've heard "democracy".
Republican's are just as brainwashed as the Democrats they're trying to fight. The sad thing is they're both on the same side and don't even know it.
Jeramiah, you are spot on with that assessment, especially that last line.
While I agree with you to a point, there are some major differences
between the parties which will become increasingly evident as the
Republican party is remade by conservatives.
You must be a Redical Progresive Democrat . What is prograsive Socialist , Marxisum . What do you know about The Power to be The Mulato Negro America's worse enemy . A pur and simple Socialist . Have you ver been in a socialist Nation. My answer to you Hack no !
Only if your palms of your hand are open upward and extended, besides, not all republicans are socialists,,, just remember RINOS are. those who want everything for themselves are socialists. Many are forced to do things they don't want to do,.
There's no such thing as a RINO. "Republican" does not have a concrete definition. You can be a Christian In Name Only because Scripture provides the standard. Republican, as used here, simply means "member of, or aligned with, the Republican Party". Republican can only be explained by either taking the planks of the Republican Party Platform, or polling the masses and seeing what a majority of Republicans believe. And I trust you don't actually believe that the majority of Republicans are against public schools, Medi-Care, etc. As for the official party platform, a quick tour around GOP.com and such like make me need to vomit.
"REPUBLICAN; THE OTHER SOCIALIST PARTY"
The big difference that I see is the republicans love and respect the elderly. While Obama, Lets take away their medicare and give it to the illegals. The elderly won't vote for me. Obama stole $500billion from the seniors and gave it to his voting illegals. Lately he stated that we don't need a birth certificate. What is that telling us. Kenyan, erratical Muslim
Interesting , but somewhat sophomoric . Reagan presided over a Democrat Congress for both of his terms . He spoke out against their spending on numerous occasions , including trying to repeal Carter's insidious Dept. of " Education " .
Bravo Joel!
@History Student: Reagan was a big spender himself. How much money into the B-1, and then B-2 bomber projects? Oh , and there were the MX missle project and then the Star Wars project. Certainly no more sophomoric than the five truths that liberals hate.
Reagan was more conservative than the neo-cons we have today, but unfortunately still statist…
I agree with Joel also, the "Republicans" are not a whole lot better than the Democrats (if at all), however, I must say that spending for national defense is one of the few types of spending specifically allowed by the Constitution. Outside of national spending, probably 98% of spending is unconstitutional and you are right both parties spend. Former President Bush (W.) is to blame for much of the spending done during his administration, and we should in know way justify that, however, the current administration's spending tramples Bush's spending. Parties are not the answer- the answer is true conservatism (Constitutionalism). Take care.
Yes he did, but necessary and a penny paltry compared with this administration
I don't see how you can blame Reagan for being a statist. Politicians have to operate within the limits they are given. There is entirely too much finger pointing without enough information behind it. We have our outstanding public educational system to thank for the amazing ignorance of the American populace.
I cringe every time I hear Clinton being praised for the so-called good economy of the 90s. During the 90s jobs were draining away from the US and going overseas, and the only reason we were not in trouble is that Clinton was prevented from doing any more serious damage by a Republican-controlled Congress. Likewise, anyone blaming Reagan for spending too much simply isn't looking at what he had to work with–a country and Congress in love with Keynesian economics. And now, to have listened for the past 3 years to people blaming the GOP for housing situation while completely disregarding the consistent and damaging meddling of Democrats for 30 years in the banking industry, I am sick of Republicans taking the heat for what Democrats have largely done. Take a look at the US cities whose economic condition is in the worst shape, ie the most bankrupt, and you will see that Democrats have been in control there solidly for the past 50-100+ years. Doesn't sound like accountability to me.
Now, believe me, I have my own anger with the Republican party, but my political philosophy is not the same as the party for which I vote, but the reason the GOP is a disaster is that conservatives largely don't want to be involved in political action. Either political party is only as strong or effective as the people who comprise it. Americans, especially the non-dependent Americans have largely opted out of direct party structure, leaving the fields to career politicians.
Sophomoric? Ever heard of the veto? How often did Reagan use it to squash that democractic congress? So who's to blame?
what i have read, is the craziest way of thinking. as for some of these so called republicans, the term is rino, Republican In Name Only. they have always been spineless. as for the 16th amendment it was and still is unconstitutional when put against the articles of the constitution. me i am independent, i will not follow either party. the democrates are the communist, nazi, muslim party of the united states. they are the biggest crime syndicate this country has ever known. the people in power, obama reed and pelosis are the biggest crooks at this time. the back ground of reed obama and pelosis should be checked. obama and reed started out poor and now are rich, i believe this should be looked into especially since they started poor. politics should have not made them rich. there is a foul smell about all three of them.
WOW!!!! The sixteenth Amendment is Unconstitutional even though it is part of the the constitution! Such twisted logic should make you head spin off you neck.
Using your logic, Lincoln was a RINO.
The Democrat Party was originally called 'Democratic Republicans' and the "Republican" party was born in 1854 out of the Abolitionist Movement, a very liberal concept in its day. In the beginning the planks and platforms of the two parties were very similar, differing primarily in their stance on abolition. Since the end of the Civil War the differences between Republicans and Democrats has been window dressing and illusion.
In today's world, the Republicans have moved far to the left, occupying the spot traditionally held by the Democrats and the Democrat Party has been hijacked by the Communists, moving it nearly to the end of the scale on totalitarianism. It's time to get rid of both of them.
While Reagan definitely had his moments in the sun, he also granted amnesty to illegal aliens.
Medicare is NOT obama-care! Let's see now……Medicare allows medical help for the elderly & those with disabilities, and obama-care wants to send them & the elderly to "death prep-school"….."You're too old to be of any good to this country….Kill Them"!, is what obama-care says! Property taxes, I agree with you, public school's, I also agree with you. We still NEED to reinstate PRAYER IN SCHOOLS!…..Even Statistically, obama is the worst president that this nation has had to suffer under!
Democratic Congress but for 6 years he had a Republican Senate. The man cut taxes 4x in his 8 years yet had 13 tax hikes in that same time-frame because he had zero clue about an economy or how to keep deficits tame. Show me any vetoes on spending Reagan had and I will show you where Clinton vetoed more.