Quote:

---

Originally posted by sorcha425:
Also,soldiers aren't coerced into joining.

---

Quote:

---

The Draft isn't in effect.

---

Quote:

---

If you join the military, be prepared for action. I feel for the grieving families, but Liberals do nothing to help the pain by yelling and promising to bring troops home, when it's obvious the troops can't all be brought home until Iraq is stable enough,

---

Quote:

---

AND there will still be casualties in other countries, for other reasons. And I quite a few soldiers who went to/are in Iraq, and all have great reports from their experiences with the people. Things are hard, but they're hopeful-- would like to see their country start backing them up.

... universal healthcare, .... Ask Canada what they think of their healthcare system.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Hero:
...
I think the Democratic Party is ready to explode. They can't sustain the competing special intersts pulling them in seperate directions. The leadership is becoming more and more caught between the vocal radicals and the normal everyday people who make up their real voting base. Those people, many of whom have moderate and in some cases conservative values.

Being a student of political history I think the Democrats are ripe for something new. Perhaps a new party, as happened a couple other times in history (the Democratic-Republicans...the Whigs, the Republicans) or a severing of ties with the radicals (which also has precedent on both sides). I think a moderate Democratic Party divorced of its radicals could easily emerge as a majority. I'd like to see it. I could even be one given half a chance (if it wasn't for the radicals and Ronald Reagan, I'd be a Democrat right now).

I remember a time when you could be a Pro Life Democrat...I loved Bob Casey, great governor, but not allowed to speak in 1992 when the Democrats opted for their smaller tent. What has happened to the Democrat Party of my...Dad's youth?

H

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by rue:

Uh, dude, the surge started in February.
That was almost 3/4 of a year ago. ""The security operation was launched Feb. 14".

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by leadb:
I also suspect the Republican party has similar problems.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by sorcha425:
My thought is: Rumsfeld is gone because the plans in the war were a little screwy,

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by sorcha425:

Also,soldiers aren't coerced into joining. The Draft isn't in effect. If you join the military, be prepared for action.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by sorcha425:

I'm a conservative and I find that the Big Government began years and years ago, it's not a new thing, and it began after WWII.

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by sorcha425:

Democrats used to fight for the working man. My great-grandmother voted democrat her whole life b/c she saw what happened with her father and family due to unfair representation and Republicans used to favor the rich, I agree. Things have progressed now, and Republicans don't cater to the wealthy;

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by sorcha425:

the Dem. doctrine states that the government is responsible for every single US citizen (and now illegals, God help us)-- universal healthcare, Welfare up the whazzu,

---

Quote:

---

Originally posted by rue:
Put the cork back in the champagne 'Hero', the trend is going the wrong way - again.

---