Originally Posted by BillScann
Thanks for taking the bait. My point, which you were kind enough to assist in making, is that it was the fear that something might turn up combined with the completely justified belief that it was no ones GD business what someone someone watched in the privacy of their own home that gave video rentals the most stringent privacy protections we have on anything in this country. I would argue that there are many, many other things that are no ones business.
As an aside, I am not on any 'side of the aisle' buy standing firmly in the aisle. I'd be fine with a Republican in the White House. Unfortunately, the last one left office in January of 1993.
OK. I'm neither a Republican nor am I a Democrat....I'm a conservative.
I agree with Bruce's post down below....about the last Republican
leaving office in 1989. George H. Bush ran as a Reagan conservative,
and as soon as he was elected, he tossed out all the Reaganites who
helped get him, George H., elected. He was, on many issues, a
RINO....Republican in Name Only. I'm not surprised he wasn't
re-elected, not that Bill Clinton was any great improvement.
As for George W., some times I swear by him, some times I swear
at him. I still prefer him over Gore or Kerry.
I'd like to see more than two candidates in the Presidental debates
in 2008 (fat chance!). Two choices is one choice more than no
choice at all.
Believe it or not, there's alot of conservatives who were, and are,
opposed to the creation of the TSA, the Patriot Act, the Department
of Homeland Security, and the like. Unfortunately, few, if any of
them, are members of Congress. I'm all for going after the terrorists
and the countries that support them, but I'm NOT in favor of
tossing out our freedoms and civil liberties here at home, nor am I
in favor of treating people like criminal suspects at the airport.
I half agree with Spiff....Ron Paul is one of my favorites,
Russ Feingold is not.
Cheers
