Tuesday, November 28, 2006,5:54 AM
You Want More Of The Same?
Nobody personifies the Republican party that went down to humiliating defeat in the recent election debacle better than does our Senator John Warner. He is a holdover from an era when countryclub types held sway and proved through their actions to be, when it comes right down to it, hard to distinguish from Democrats. The man has a record:

John Warner over the years has been accepting of certain tax increases (though not the sweeping increases that the Democrats have proposed). And not just on the federal level. He is on record as supporting a transportation tax increase here in Virginia.

Warner is willing to dilute the 2nd amendment (but perhaps not gut our right to keep and bear arms completely as the Democrats are hell-bent to do). He voted for the Brady Bill and to close John McCain's mythical "gunshow loophole."

He supports affirmative action.

He supports the Democrats' pet project - the lavishly government-funded National Endowment for the Arts.

He is pro-abortion (though he's not as fervent and zealous about the killing of America's little children as are the Democrats).

Warner has a shameful history of intruding on the side of Democrats in certain election contests here in the state of Virginia, including those involving Mike Farris, a highly qualified candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1993 who, it was rumored at the time, was too close to the religious right for Warner, and that of Oliver North, who apparently was too close to the American people, the overwhelming majority of which adored him at the time, in 1994. In both races, with Warner's help, Democrats won.

He supports an increase in the minimum wage (just not as high an increase as the Democrats have demanded).

He sides with the Democrats with regard to legislation to expand hate crime laws (an affront to libertarian ideals in themselves) to include sexual orientation.

He sides with the Democrats on embryonic stem cell research.

For this we should vote for a Democrat. Send up the right candidate, and I'm prepared to do just that.

I bring all this up for a reason:
Sen. John W. Warner hints at sixth term
By Carlos Santos, Richmond Times-Dispatch Staff Writer

CHARLOTTESVILLE - Sen. John W. Warner is edging closer to seeking election to a sixth term in 2008, reiterating that experience in the Senate is needed with the nation at war. (link)
We should appreciate his experience. What we've experienced from this guy over the years has been betrayal, opposition, a willingness to throw us over the side to get along with his buds up in DC, and that dangerous patrician mindset that allows for Democrats to make outrageous demands and Republicans like Warner to be willing to always, always meet them halfway. And halfway. And halfway ...

You all want Democrat-lite? Vote for Warner again. And watch your national party, a once-proud conservative party, the party of Reagan, sink further into obscurity.

Not me. Not in this lifetime. I know we can do better than John Warner.
 
posted by Jerry Fuhrman
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