Why I'm joining the GOP... Leaving the left for fun and profit

After a lifetime voting for and working for Democratic candidates and independents, I'm finally going to make the switch and become a Republican.

The reasons are many, not the least of which is age. I turned 55 recently and, having lived more than half my life, I can't afford to worry anymore about the other guy. It's time for me.

As a Republican, I can now proudly -- indeed, defiantly -- pledge to never again vote for anyone who raises taxes for any reason. To hell with roads, bridges, schools, police and fire protection, Medicare, Social Security and regulation of the airwaves.

President Bush has promised to give me more tax cuts even though our federal government owes trillions of dollars to its creditors. But that's someone else's problem, not mine. Republicans are about the here and now, and I'm here now.

As a Republican, I can favor exploiting the environment for everything she's got. No need to worry about quaint notions like posterity and natural legacy. There are plenty of resources left for everyone, and if we don't use them, someone else will.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/29/GILLENKIRK.TMP

I saw the original "Leaving the Left" article on another forum, and that was my take on it too. Either the author was bought off or he was never a liberal in the first place...or both.

Sounds like many Republicans in my town.

I was responding to the post above, because it sounded as if the poster thought it was real.

...which appeared in the SF Chronicle on May 22nd.

<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/22/INGUNCQHKJ1.DTL>

Leaving the left

I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity

Keith Thompson
Sunday, May 22, 2005

Nightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I'm separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and community, even my sense of cosmos.

I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.

I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode.

My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

Like many others who came of age politically in the 1960s, I became adept at not taking the measure of the left's mounting incoherence. To face it directly posed the danger that I would have to describe it accurately, first to myself and then to others. That could only give aid and comfort to Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and all the other Usual Suspects the left so regularly employs to keep from seeing its own reflection in the mirror.

Now, I find myself in a swirling metamorphosis. Think Kafka, without the bug. Think Kuhnian paradigm shift, without the buzz. Every anomaly that didn't fit my perceptual set is suddenly back, all the more glaring for so long ignored. The insistent inner voice I learned to suppress now has my rapt attention. "Something strange -- something approaching pathological -- something entirely of its own making -- has the left in its grip," the voice whispers. "How did this happen?" The Iraqi election is my tipping point. The time has come to walk in a different direction -- just as I did many years before.

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Just for the record, I think this is all total crap and I'm posting it strictly for reference. A freeper posted it on a mixed News forum I frequent to annoy the liberals or possibly even convert them, although he should know it would take a LOT more than cliche-ridden crap like this! Anyway, this is the article the author of the OP is lampooning. My comments were directed towards this article and its author, not the OP. Sorry about the confusion.

should have included the link to that article in the OP. Thanks :)

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To Hell with the next generation.

Lets just go nutz and run up our credit cards . Max them and just throw the bills in the trash. Our children wont mind us leaving our debt to them. As long as Im getting mine, nothing else matters.

Its about me . I agree with you. Its about me and only me.

who claims to be a Christian.

and God forgives me for being self absorbed, narrow minded and selfish.

And then I go back to whats really important, me.

I only wish there were two of me. I could marry myself.

So you'd better get out there and engage in natural selection and survival of the fittest or the folks at schools might teach yer kids that's animal behavior.

And God doesn't want us 'ta be like apes.

but nevertheless an accurate reflection of many GOP senior citizens.

like that. Maybe you should edit it. :evilgrin:
If you can't think of any good lies on your own, just go to www.whitehouse.gov. You'll find plenty to choose from.