Editor's Note: You know, I wish we could see the passion in this e-mail used to build a moderate movement in the GOP.
I also wished I had kept my big mouth shut on the name change idea. :)
We are not in exile.
Moderate Republicans have been shunned. Moderate Republicans have
been insulted and derided. Moderate Republicans have been overlooked
and devalued.
But Moderate Republicans do not hide. Moderate Republicans do not go
into a corner and disappear.
We have, yes, been complacent. We have been quiet. That is our way,
our nature. We do not scream. We do not toss about insults and
putdowns. We do not accuse. We do not alienate others and force
them to our will.
We are in a time when our party...OUR party...has been commandeered
by those who think they can give us marching orders and have us bow
to their will. When those in power cater to the select few who have
bought or bullied their way into the limelight. We are in a time
when fear is the watchword and greed is the way of things. As all
our hopes and our justice and our understanding of right and true are
left starving in the streets.
We Moderates are not what's wrong with the Republicans. And so we
are not the ones in exile. We do not seek exile. We do not deserve
exile.
We will not change our names to Republicans In Exile. We are not
Republicans In Name Only. We are not Liberals or Communists or
Traitors or Fools or whatever else the greedheads and fearmongers
will call us.
We are REPUBLICANS!
I agree that we are Republicans. But I wish that we were mad enough to take this party back from the extremists. I wish we were organized and patient to make the slow and steady gains we need. I wish we would devote this energy into supporting moderate candidates and finding moderates who will step up to the plate.
If we want this party to change for the better, then we need to put our anger into action and get busy changing this party. If we can't do that, then the words mean nothing.
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Posted by: acrobat at October 19, 2005 11:00 AM
This is really great!
I liked it much - more of this please!!!
Speaking as a British citizen, I would like to express my relief at finding this website and those of other disgruntled Republicans. I feared that the scary people in the White House had broad support; now I can see that thinking Republicans are not taken in by the spin and misinformation of Rove and Cheney et al. and I'm relieved - boy am I relieved!
I have a message for you which might not be ccoming through very clearly at this time. Here it is:
George Bush keeps citing Tony Blair's support of his Middle Eastern policies but the fact is that BRITISH CITIZENS DON'T SUPPORT TONY BLAIR'S POLICIES IN IRAQ. TONY BLAIR'S OWN PARTY DO NOT SUPPORT HIS POLICIES IN IRAQ.
We can see Iraq is a mess (thanks to the President's puppeteers) and to put it simplistically, that needs fixing. But it needs fixing big time, big scale - it can't be won by bombing residential areas and killing children "by accident". And there is no point wasting good soldiers in fighting which has been caused largely by their presence in Iraq. Every soldier who is killed results in an angry family who become campaigners against "the war" - that shows that something is morally wrong, somewhere.
I urge you to rise above politics and work to prevent George W. Bush being returned to power for the sake of every reasonable person. George Bush is bad for the U.S.A. and bad for the World.
The Republican extremists are much more loud and obnoxious than you moderates. You moderates need to take on them more aggressively.
Posted by: Brian at August 3, 2004 11:11 AMSorry. Didn't mean to bite your head off there. See, I'm apologizing, perfectly moderate behavior...;-) I just feel, I still do, that we moderates shouldn't make ourselves think or act like we should be hiding off in a corner somewhere. I know the rhetoric was harsh, but sometimes it has to be said like that.
We are Republicans. We are the Party! Its' just that we experience the fruits of our labor and do not put an enormous amount of energy into politics until something comes along that really rails us. What we have to do is start voting against the extremist and/or run for office ourselves.
Posted by: Bob Faust at July 30, 2004 08:52 AMTony,
I think you are right. Maybe I should ask more questions like that more often!
Posted by: Dennis at July 30, 2004 01:26 AM"We have, yes, been complacent. We have been quiet. That is our way, our nature. We do not scream. We do not toss about insults and
putdowns. We do not accuse. We do not alienate others and force them to our will."
What a wonderful letter!
Seems the question was worth asking Dennis if that's the payment you received.
Posted by: dorsano at July 30, 2004 12:48 AM