When will moderate Republicans revolt against the neocons?

[Lawrence of Arabia]

DOWN WITH SOCIAL SECURITY DOWN WITH MOST FORMS OF THEFT UP WITH LIBERTARIANISM.

[MRT144]

moderates will never leave because all moderates are too much chicken to do anything. moderates = dont care enought about what they believe in to do anything.

[Ben Kenobi]

'moderate' republican?

Who are they?

Those who agree with the Democrats?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by The diplomat
Many so-called moderate republicans are closet democrats.

It's the Religious Right that aren't Republicans, not the moderates.

[Kuciwalker]

edit: already pointed out

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
'moderate' republican?

Who are they?

Those who agree with the Democrats?

Those who actually care about spending and don't want to impose Christianity on the rest of us.

[Promethus]

Dis

Be carefull what you wish for, you might get it. Your state pays less to the Fed Gov than it gets back.

[Dis]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
What would you cut in government spending? The biggest item in the budget is the military. I'm all for cutting that.

the military could be cut a little. No doubt. It is still too large.

Education spending could also be cut.

*gasp*. Diss mentions cutting the uncuttable! Education!!

Face it, we aren't getting **** in return of the billions we are pouring into education. America's youth are a lost cause.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Promethus
Dis

Be carefull what you wish for, you might get it. Your state pays less to the Fed Gov than it gets back.

source?

we don't get **** back, except nuclear waste

Las Vegas isn't considered a terrorist threat for some reason, so we get very little money for homeland defense.

Our schools are the worst in the nation, so we get very little education money, because of the no child left behind act.

[Q Classic]

'moderate' republican?

Who are they?

Those who agree with the Democrats?

something about republican party discipline. i love the fact that if you disagree with something the party does, you must be a 'moderate' or 'liberal' and therefore not a true member of the republican party.

all the more reason to **** the parties in general and hope that they get completely, utterly destroyed. destroy them, and then ban political parties--all of them, for they are nothing more than political evil.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Dissident


the military could be cut a little. No doubt. It is still too large.

Too large? The US can't even manage an occupation of a third world country. Too expensive maybe, but not too large if you seriously intend to go around changing regimes.

[Dis]

maybe we shouldn't be changing regimes.

I remember Bush saying back in 2001 he wasn't into nation building.

[MRT144]

nye, to be fair we are spread out over vast distances and are managing two thrid world occupations. the problem is we have people in germany and japan and other benign countries doing nothing.

[bipolarbear]

Never, all republicna are morons.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by MRT144
nye, to be fair we are spread out over vast distances and are managing two thrid world occupations. the problem is we have people in germany and japan and other benign countries doing nothing.

Of course. However the fact remains that the US has too few boots to put on any ground to be able to maintain commitments and take on what must qualify as a 4th world country at the same time as a moderately sized 3rd.

If you don't have the manpower to do it right, maybe regime changes should be passed over. I was and am in favour of getting rid of Saddam, but I don't fancy him being replaced by something worse 5 years from now on account of the US administration radiacally underestimating manpower requirements for subduing a hostile nation.