SpyridonOCA
28th January 2008, 02:30 AM
After much thought, I've decided that I cannot support Ron Paul as a presidential candidate. While I appreciate his service for our country, I don't believe he is the right person to serve as Commander-in-Chief. Ron Paul's voting record, in which he votes against the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act, would be a major liability against any Democratic opponent. Out of the Republican candidates, my preference is John McCain, a leader whom I've respected since he first ran in 2000.
With the death of President Kennedy and rise of the New Left, the Republican Party slowly emerged as the middle class' new party, culminating in the Reagan Revolution of 1980. Ronald Reagan, a New Deal Democrat, proclaimed that he had not left the Democratic Party behind, but that the Democrats left him behind. The party of FDR and Harry Truman, of national defense and job growth, had become the hallmark of entitlement and appeasement.
Roe vs. Wade didn't help either, a Supreme Court decision which John Kennedy would have decried as the grossest act of judicial activism. The Democratic Party, rather than championing the values of Middle America, traded its base for Seattleites and Trotskyites. After decades of taking the union vote for granted, the Democrats watched in shock as their traditional rank and file turned out for the enemy. And thank God they did.
Ronald Reagan cut taxes, reinvigorated our economy, created jobs, rolled back the "Great" Society, defeated communism, and lifted our nation out of the malaise and stagflation of the 1970s, all without cutting Social Security and Medicare. FDR would have been proud.
Today, with a shaky economy and the threat of Islamic terrorism looming over us, we are as much at a crossroads as we were in 1980. Looking at the presidential front runners, we need to ask ourselves this question: Who would FDR vote for, Hillary Clinton or John McCain; defeatism and surrender or victory and rejuvenation? Democrats, be honest with your answer. Mr. Roosevelt is listening...
With the death of President Kennedy and rise of the New Left, the Republican Party slowly emerged as the middle class' new party, culminating in the Reagan Revolution of 1980. Ronald Reagan, a New Deal Democrat, proclaimed that he had not left the Democratic Party behind, but that the Democrats left him behind. The party of FDR and Harry Truman, of national defense and job growth, had become the hallmark of entitlement and appeasement.
Roe vs. Wade didn't help either, a Supreme Court decision which John Kennedy would have decried as the grossest act of judicial activism. The Democratic Party, rather than championing the values of Middle America, traded its base for Seattleites and Trotskyites. After decades of taking the union vote for granted, the Democrats watched in shock as their traditional rank and file turned out for the enemy. And thank God they did.
Ronald Reagan cut taxes, reinvigorated our economy, created jobs, rolled back the "Great" Society, defeated communism, and lifted our nation out of the malaise and stagflation of the 1970s, all without cutting Social Security and Medicare. FDR would have been proud.
Today, with a shaky economy and the threat of Islamic terrorism looming over us, we are as much at a crossroads as we were in 1980. Looking at the presidential front runners, we need to ask ourselves this question: Who would FDR vote for, Hillary Clinton or John McCain; defeatism and surrender or victory and rejuvenation? Democrats, be honest with your answer. Mr. Roosevelt is listening...