Reply #18: Rather than respond to each of you, I wanted to just further [View All]

[HuskerDU]

clarify my point.

I hear in my head the paranoid anti-gov't rants from '94 about dems, but they are now about repubs, and they are real. Ann Coulter is a gov't mouthpiece and she advocates Guantanamo for liberals. Not particularly comforting.

I feel that the neocons are more anti-traditional conservative than they are anti-liberal. ie They are more anti-Goldwater than anti-McGovern.

I have used this on another site to peel people away from the Republican party who strongly believe in a smaller fed, the second ammendment, states rights, no outsourcing, and no nationbuilding. These folks are looking at our party because theirs clearly left them.

I contend that a lot of us feel the same way and we need to get this partyless, yet principaled group in the fold now to defeat the neocons. Forget about our differences, we have much in common right now and much to gain by working together. NEOCONS MUST GO After the neocons are gone, we can hash out where this country is on the political spectrum. There is nothing more important than getting rid of the neocons and we should welcome those on the right who feel the same way.

Hint- I am not one of 'em. I believe in all the liberal benchmarks- choice, separation of C & S, very progressive tax code etc etc. I just want them to join us to defeat neoconservatism. I think stressing distrust of federal gov't, support for 2nd ammendment and at least some aspects of states rights helps. We have plenty of examples of where this regime has shit on those beliefs.