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Most of us have never seen such a drastic and stark contrast between the two major political parties in America like we have today. Though the Republican Party has a long way to go to return to its conservative roots, the Democratic Party has been infiltrated by the far Left. My grandparents were Democrats back when that party was a bit more moderate. Today, they have fully embraced abortion and support its federal funding; they have repealed the national Defense of Marriage Act, and support same-sex marriage.
Due to the liberal policies of the Obama administration, they have also racked up record entitlement and green technology spending. Approximately 47 million Americans are now on food stamps and many green energy companies the Obama Democrats bet our money on have now gone bankrupt and the media barely utters a word.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards is volunteering for the Obama campaign ‘for our daughters and granddaughters.’ Who can forget when Obama said if one of his daughters got pregnant, “I don’t want them punished with a baby.”[i] This is an extreme, under-reported stance on abortion. It’s disappointing that our tax dollars not only help fund abortion which most Christians oppose, but we also give aid to Planned Parenthood which proudly supports the Democratic Party. Richards makes $400,000 a year salary and Planned Parenthood raked in over $1 billion in total revenue last year.
In the weeks leading up to the 2012 Presidential Election, Franklin Graham has said he cannot and will not vote for any candidate who opposes pro-life legislation or who opposes traditional marriage. In a recent sermon by author and pastor John MacArthur entitled “Homosexuality and the Campaign for Immorality,” MacArthur stated God has abandoned America over the sin of homosexuality and we are living in times of rebellion and sexual revolution. He went on to declare, “The Democratic Party has become the anti-God party and the sin-promoting party.”[ii]
If Bible-believing Christians understand the moral principles upon which America was founded, we must also take notice of the glaring chasm between the Republican and Democratic Parties today. It’s confusing to me that many Christians continue voting along party lines instead of Biblical lines. I’ve said this before; Christians cannot leave Jesus Christ outside the voting booth when we cast our ballot on Election Day.
Next, a president’s most important responsibility is to keep America safe. There also seems to be two very different national defense philosophies as every day, more details emerge about last month’s terror attacks in Benghazi that left four Americans dead. Many are suggesting the weak foreign policy of the Obama administration may have led to the assassination of our U.S. Ambassador, the first time this has happened since the Carter administration. Tragically, Ambassador Stevens had asked for more security which could have prevented the deadly attacks on the embassy, and even warned of an Islamist group who took credit for a prior attack.
From an economic perspective, things don’t look good for President Obama either. However, the mainstream media continually covers up bad news. Gas prices are way up. The unemployment rate has been over 8 percent and as high as 10 percent for 43 months of his term. If we do the math and consider the people who dropped out of the workforce, it would still be over 10 percent today. 23 million Americans are out of work or underemployed. Four years ago, Obama promised to fix the problem by spending trillions of dollars on a so-called “economic stimulus.
He has clearly failed. Obama also promised to cut the deficit in half, but instead his administration has almost tripled the deficit. He spent the first year of his term pushing his controversial health care law which we now know could bankrupt the country. Rates are going up and people are dropping or losing their insurance.
We have a critical election coming up and it’s more important than ever to encourage friends to get out and vote their values. People of faith and supporters of religious freedom should put country before party loyalty. We’re faced with two paths leading in opposite directions and voters will decide America’s future in a few short weeks.
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The only real clear choice for Christians to vote for regarding the POTUS is Tom Hoefling of Iowa. He is the only person running for president who stands 100 percent on biblically-based issues. He is personhood prolife and endorsed by American Right to Life. He is in favor of eliminating the income tax for an alternative taxing system. He is the only candidate that is solidly in favor of restoring the constitutional priniciples of liberty enshrined in our Declaration of Independence and and supported by our founding fathers. Mitt Romney through executive fiat instituted gay marriage as governor of Massachusetts and taxpayer funded abortion through Romneycare. I don’t believe for one minute that he will fight for the righteousness that is so dear to us and so necessary for the survival and prosperity of our nation. I would urge all Christians and conservatives to check out his campaign website: http://www.tomhoefling.com
“Most of us have never seen such a drastic and stark contrast between the two major political parties in America like we have today.”
WRONG! 1860 Presidential election.
Even the political layout of the states are almost identical then as today.
(Only counting the states that comprised the nation in 1860. The contrast between the two regions are still as apparent today as in 1860.)
“Though the Republican Party has a long way to go to return to its conservative roots…,”
WRONG again!
Originally and historically the Republican Party was the PROGRESSIVE Party. (Since it split from the Democrat Republican Party of Jefferson.) The word progressive was used because the word liberal meant opposite in the US from what it meant in Europe. (In European countries Liberal means conservative.) At the time the word Socialist was not widely accepted or understood in the political landscape by the average voter, so it avoided in order to not confuse people nor alienate people from radical changes. As for the word Progressive itself, it never came into wide usage until app the time of Teddy Roosevelt, although it was used in reference to Republican ideology.
“…the Democratic Party has been infiltrated by the far Left. My grandparents were Democrats back when that party was a bit more moderate.”
Originally the Democrat Party was EXTREMELY conservative, but NOT conservative as the average American understands conservatism today. Jeffersonian Democrats or even Jacksonian Democrats are known today to be associated as “PALEOCONSERVATIVES”. This is a much different typr and form of conservatism than what you have today. Today’s conservatism is actually “NEO-CONSERVATISM”. Look up the words neo-conservatives and paleoconservatives. There are many similarities but also just as many differences, yet BOTH are forms of conservatism.
“Today, they have fully embraced abortion and support its federal funding; they have repealed the national Defense of Marriage Act, and support same-sex marriage.”
Maybe the readers should go back in time and look at all the social issues the Republicans championed when the Democrats were still conservatives! The Republican Party has a record of just as many liberal social issues as does the Democrats of today. The difference is the two sides have switched in the degree of socialization, or shall we say Marxism that they embrace as social progress. Yet BOTH parties are still liberal, it’s only the degree and *some* issues that differentiates them.
The Democrat Party started its’ slide into Marxism when the Southern Democrat Party was destroyed at the end of Lincoln’s War. This left ONLY the Northern Democrats as a political party of any prominence to oppose the progressive Republican Party. The Republican Party enjoyed much success in championing new social programs and causes while the Democrats simply played catch up while trying to hold to *some* conservative ideals at the same time. But the Northern ideology which was carried into the Democrat Party also believed that progressive social change was beneficial in some very limited ways, but mainly it was used as a tool in trying to oppose the radical (at that time) ideology of socialist/progressive Republicans. This change over of ideology became more blatant as time progressed and younger Democrats replaced older ones. It was the same thing as Northern progressiveness moving into the Democrat Party in order to challenge the social radicalization of the Republican Party. Woodrow Wilson was the 1st Democrat President that had any real success with this acceptance of progressive/liberal ideology and it took off when FD Roosevelt bought the Southern vote by promising the Southern States much needed Federal monies since the past war and Federal policies against the South had bankrupted them. This was done as social programs, though they were available throughout the country it was the South that benefited the most from them and gave FDR and the Democratic Party the final inspiration to move even more left/Marxist than the Republican Party. This is where the biggest switches in party alignment and ideology took place.
One piece of reading that will cover this in great detail is a book by Al Benson and Kennedy, titled, “Lincoln’s Marxists”. Lincoln had many Marxists fill government positions in ALL areas. They came form Europe after the failed 1848 Rebellion in which Karl Marx helped instigate/design. Many names are recorded in the book with details of their connections. In all there 10s of thousands of Marxists that immigrated to the US from the failed revolution and practically all became Republicans, many with powerful government positions, including one State Governor. It’s a jaw dropping book!
Now which party is actually the radical socialist party? Socialist Party A or is it Socialist Party B?
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
PS: Ya’ll have drunk too much government Kool-Aid by reading and accepting too much government propaganda.
surprised he got michelle pregnant. he had led homo-sex life, married michelle for cover up to become senstor/president. pl,orl,fla
Obama’s children are adopted. One for absolutely sure. The other most likely from everything I’ve read. Obama’s denied either of them being adopted for the longest of times, but paperwork caught up with the older one.
Not that I believe it, nor that it is fully validated, but it is possible, there are claims with some paperwork that shows Michelle was in fact a man and had a sex change. You can Google all the above and find plenty of hits on them..
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
I believe it. Just look closely at his…er, I mean ‘her’ adam’s apple. The bulge don’t lie. Moochelle is a transvestite and the rugrats are not their real children. They are stand-ins, who have been brainwashed to accept the fact that their arrogant, unqualified, POS “father” is the PresiDEBT of the US of A….He// to the Chief.
One and DONE…for (what is left of) America.
CBS News affiliate calls 2012 presidential race for Barack Obama weeks ahead of election
http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2012/10/cbs-news-affiliate-calls-2012.html?showComment=1350961966210#c170495367897909001
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
I’m going post a short treatise I wrote about why the Republicans are just as guilty as the Democrats. Maybe you can better understand why after reading it. It doesn’t matter who you vote for, they’re both going in the same direction, neither helping the common man.. You have to know the past history of this parties, how they came about, to understand why they represent what they do today. The problem is extremely few people realize how the two parties evolved.
This includes updates to concerning RINOs; who are the real RINOs?….
(Response to a poster, JEANNIEMAC at the bottom. I open with him posing a question that many have heard and some proclaim.) I guarantee, you will learn something from reading this treatise.
“We have to concentrate on removing from office those Democrats who voted for Obamacare, along with RINOs. With a Conservative majority in the Congress, Romney can be vetoed if he gets out of line.”
Let me ask; Who are the real RINOs?
Here is a little history of the modern Republican Party. Well the Democrat Party also and others.
Study this closely… It is true, but some of the finer details are excluded for the sake of time and simplicity… I wrote this as a standard canned response for college level general reference. Cites and references are generally easy to find but time consuming. That was for the students.
Republican or Democrat; Is there a Dime’s Worth of Difference?
Do remember to read the words CLOSE and think exactly what these words mean, as you will not get the full understanding of the article if you read it fast.
Folks know the two parties overlap in ideology and state it, and then ask; why? Why nothing ever changes?
Who said, “There is not a dime’s worth of difference between them.”, referring to the Democrat and Republican Parties?
You see the similarities, yet you try and support the Republican side as being the true conservatives; again why? You fellas must need to understand from where both parties developed and exactly under what conditions they evolved into the monster we see today, but you fail to properly address.
To know why things are the way they are, and to understand them today, we must first understand the preceding history. There is ABSOLUTELY no other way to understand this!
Consider Jefferson and his ideology of the “Democrat-Republican” party. Understand the Federalist/Whig party and how Alexander Hamilton related to it.
The Jefferson Party eventually became known as the Democrat Party. Here you have to look back and understand what the OLD Democrat Party stood for, especially in the South. The Whig party held on for a few years until people became disenfranchised with it due to aristocratic ideology. However the Whig Party members never died out, they just assumed their positions in different parties. The main party this affected was the left-over, over-looked Republican Party from Jefferson.
The Republican Party until 1824 was under Jefferson as the Democrat-Republican Party. However here, one must be careful to STUDY the differences of the original Democratic-Republican Party and the FIRST and early splinter or remnants of the Republican Party, after 1824, when it’s name was left out by the singular named Democrat Party. (Note: The Whig Party was the party of “Big Business” and was true “Elitism”, or real “Aristocracy”. .
Alex Hamilton believed the common man did not possess the ability to govern himself, nor did Federalists/Whigs in general. You can see this ideology in place today in both the Republican and Democrat Parties. Note also, the Whig Party is also called the “Federalist Party”. Actually being known as the Federalist Party under Hamilton and then, eventually, as the Whig Party as the Republican Party began to splinter apart in 1824. For the most part I use Whig Party interchangeably with the Federalist Party.)
During the late 1840?s and 1850?s the Republican Party had accumulated the remnants of the Whig Party and was also now adding many tens of thousands of immigrants from Europe who had lost their Marxist Revolution in efforts to gain the great countries of Western Europe. They were either banished to the US or fled here to avoid prosecution. This actually built a huge base for the Republican party to grow with.
Society did not care for an elitist party that thought the common man could not make rational decisions, so the Whig Party fell out of favor just as the Federalist Party did years earlier, and for the same reasons. This had the effect of changing the Republican Party to an “Elitist” Party that favored Big Business as well as “State Capitalism”, which progressed more as the Whigs joined the Republican Party. (Do read and learn about “State Capitalism.”) This was the young and NEWLY evolving Republican Party that sponsored Abraham Lincoln. And this is where YOUR problems began! (Note the Marxists of that time were more interested in workers rights and a democracy than in business itself, although they saw workers rights as a means to limit big business.)
In short, Lincoln conducted a war that set MANY precedents which also broke MANY US Constitutional Laws! (In the past both the Federalist and Whig Parties were well known for ignoring the US Constitution.) It was in the name of Big Business, greed, wealth and power that was based upon State Capitalism. The Republican Party of that era was the Progressive and Liberal Party, increasing its’ membership with the remnants of the Whig Party. Their main support, by far, coming from the New England States, the very same states that had so consistently supported the Federalist and Whig Parties.
Also note AGAIN: the fact that many Marxists from Europe were immigrating to the Northern US during the 1850?s and 60?s. They left because of their failed 1848 Revolution in several European Countries. The thing of interest here is that these Marxists ALL joined the Republican Party. Many were members in Lincoln’s Army as Generals, public officials, 1 governor, and many others in Republican positions appointed by other Republicans. We are talking in the 100?s of thousands that immigrated here while there were thousands working for the government in different capacities. Also note that Lincoln was friends with Karl Marx who helped some of these people immigrate here as well as helping Lincoln with his speeches.
Slavery made the perfect pretext, especially since many people opposed it, inparticular Northerners. Note; That during the 1860 Presidential Campaign the Democrat Party split into two factions, Northern and Southern Democrats. This is fairly self explanatory, but one can read the differences to see why the two parties would never be the same.
After the war the OLD Democrat Party of Jefferson was destroyed. Its’ principles and political proponents of the South were shut out of politics, leaving them with only the Northern Democrat Party to represent them. The philosophy and ideology evolved over time from that base of Northern Democrats, which also embraced the part of platform of Lincoln which disregarded and nullified parts of the US Constitution, while at the same time holding the ideology of being the “Peoples” or “Workers” Party. Both parties have refined and generalized this over time to include more of the public sentiments, to the advantage of each party. Both parties now interpret the US Constitution as a Living Document. (Please learn what a Living Document is.)
The end result today is, the Republican Party is still an elitist party with support for Big Business. This is shown as State Capitalism. While the Democrat Party is still known as the Worker’s Party and is shown by the liberal ideology of supporting workers. The connection of the two parties are these facts, including the last couple of opinions which can be addressed as relevant facts;
1–Both parties now support Big Business in varying ways under the pretext of rights, concerning both people and Business.
2–Both parties have co-opted the US Constitution in doing so. Both see the US Constitution, not to be interpreted strictly but as a Living Document.
3–Both parties profit off this at the expense of the public, both monetarily and in Governmental Power.
4–Both parties now have their own elitist member that are exceedingly rich and powerful.
5–Both parties are in essence playing both their ideological ends against each other for the vote of the people to continue their version of State Capitalism and their continued destruction of the US. Yet both ideologies runs contrary to the US Constitution and the Rule of Law because of it being interpreted as a Living Document.
6–Both parties have COMPLETELY left the guidance and frameworks lain forth by our Founding Fathers, with only their interpretation of what the US Constitution really means.
7–Both parties use public money and debt to continue the charade by forms of bribery to the voter.
8–Both parties revise, oppress and deny HISTORY in the attempts to keep this out of the public eye.
9–Both parties have common interests that their elite members collaborate on as one party. Such people have no problems switching political parties or seemingly opposing their own party.
10–Both parties in collusion have created, NOT a Republic, but destroyed it and created a Federal Democratic Union and an EMPIRE!
11–Both parties NEVER accomplish anything because they are the same side of the same coin. Our problems will only become worse because the basis of wrongs is accepted by both parties.
12–Both parties are entirely willing to destroy this country if they cannot continue their charade. They did this once, so there is no reason they wouldn’t do it again.
Consider this: There was a war in this country about 150 years ago. One side was defeated by another side that committed unconstitutional acts in achieving this victory. The end result is that by defeating one side and corrupting the Constitution in doing so, the victors sowed the seeds of their own future defeat…. Can you the reader figure out the rest of the story?
Back to JEANNIEMAC
In reading the above treatise it should become obvious that the original modern day Republicans and the Republican Party came into its’ own under Abraham Lincoln. Accordingly this makes the Republican, first and foremost LIBERAL party. However the term liberal was not used by the Republican Party. The term PROGRESSIVE was used because the meaning of liberal at that time was NOT an acceptable word in politics. So, the Republican Party was known as the Progressive Party, which also means LIBERAL, but in a more subtle way.
Here are two definitions from a dictionary defining “progressive”.
1. favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
2. making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.: a progressive community.
My point is this: What people considers RINOs are actually the mainstream and original Republicans from Lincoln’s day. They are the one’s who have always carried the Republican Party since Lincoln. And for one to claim any association with the Republican Party as being a “Rule of Law” Party according to T Jefferson, that being the the real conservative party, one would have to disavow Lincoln and everything he done and the entire Republican from Lincoln onward!
My friend, the RINOs in the Republican Party are actually the TEA Partiers and the Constitutional traditionalist based groups within the Republican Party! That makes you a real RINO in the Republican Party! Odd isn’t it?
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
The Republican Party NEVER HAD ITS ROOTS in conservatism ! If you knew our TRUE history you’d know that Marxist Communists began and formed the Republican Party in 1854 and even at the beginning proudly called themselves the Red Republicans. They have always been a Chameleon party that APPEARED to be whatever they needed to appear as to get the votes and their goal was the OWG – and still is.. They soon basically took over the Democratic Party and the two party system began in the control of the country = the very thing George Washington warned about when he warned about allowing Political Parties – that are UN-Constitutional by the way. The Two parties are really ONE party – just two wings of the same bird of prey. Both have the same OWG goal. They make sure third parties are boycotted, since they do not control those. CONTROL being the key word. The public has had the TRUE history hidden from them but if they knew the real truth, DC would fold over-night. That is why they force the lies to keep going – they will not give up their power and control !
patti’s notes: wonder why he punished michelle with children.oh,forgot ,he led homo-sex life,married michelle to cover and become senator/president pl,orl,fla