Reply #39: Well, Dr., I found your post called "a real Republican"...excellent.

[madfloridian]

Very thoughtful. Our party needs to do this as well.

http://www.ibtp.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=15

SNIP.."Learn about your issues before you claim to be in my party.
Talk to people on the ‘other side’ and understand their perspective before you claim to be Republican. You may SAY you understand – but if you have demonized anyone at all, you do not.
If you say ‘Those Liberals’ are like this and ‘The Conservatives’ are like that; if you claim that ‘they’ want to do ‘this’ or ‘that’ to the country, then you do not understand what ‘they’ really want.

The fact is – you have become ‘them’ too.

When questioning an incompetent leadership is ‘unpatriotic’, we are doomed to support despots. That is also un-Republican.

I believe my party should be the forward-thinking party it was meant to be.
The Republican Party is the party that looks for ways to secure the future for all, and while we may disagree on how that is done- it is wrong to think that anyone should be disenfranchised to achieve such an end.
Yes a price must be paid for freedom, but it should be known what that price is and what it is really for BEFORE it is paid by anyone.
When we must be misled in order to accomplish a greater good- no real good will come of it.....".