Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
Napolean Hill
This is another quote I find comfort in. Nothing anybody on this board says about my postings can knock me off the focus of peace of mind. And it is coming Election Day.
I have a question? Why would Cicero take the time to post a youtube of Glen Beck and then work in the NNTP plight here in the Town of Rotterdam elections?
Perhaps Cissy is either McGarry, (which i doubt) O'Connor (nah), Brad (or someone close to him), or MERTZ himself. Looking more and more like the latter two left after the dance off......
Would explain alot of the hyperbole on the Board from Cicero. JMHO
Perhaps I agree with all 4 politically, and support their ideas. Has that ever crossed your mind? Now, while you've spent all your energy BASHING the current Republican Administration, you have yet to promote one single idea that FDG and the Democrats will bring if they are elected into office. The 4 candidates running on the NNTP line are actually engaging the residents and having an open dialog, offering their ideas and solution to the residents concerns.
You can take the Nancy Pelosi approach and call me "Astroturf" and some sort of party lemming stirring the pot. The fact is, there is a large segment of the population that is disgusted with the two major parties, and it's growing. Just ask Bill Owens of New York’s 23rd district.
The status quo incumbents can't handle the new reality. The NNTP is here to stay. They will fill the vacuum created by the suicide of the REPS and the DEM takeover of the other lines.
The beauty of the Doug Hoffman for Congress is that it proves that a fiscal CONS, pro-lifer can win in NYS. The voters are hungry for this even here. A strong CONS running against 2 liberals-what local race does that seem like?
There will be a conservative revolution in this nation. And it is beginning to start now..... at all levels of government. There will be new faces, new ideas, new visions....new hope in our political process.
It's starting here with the NNTP. The surrounding counties, and not just Schenectady county, are watching very closely. There are people waiting in the wings to step up to the plate and take the plunge in future elections, by running without a major party endorsement.
There's a lot more going on behind the scenes. The 2 party system will be put to the test in the future.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
It's time for we the people to start taking our country back and elect people who will do what the people want and not what their party wants. The elected officials work for us not the other way around.
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: [up] man's old -- old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
In this vote-harvesting time, they use terms like the "Great Society," or as we were told a few days ago by the President, we must accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people. But they've been a little more explicit in the past and among themselves; and all of the things I now will quote have appeared in print. These are not Republican accusations. For example, they have voices that say, "The cold war will end through our acceptance of a not undemocratic socialism." Another voice says, "The profit motive has become outmoded. It must be replaced by the incentives of the welfare state." Or, "Our traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of the 20th century." Senator Fulbright has said at Stanford University that the Constitution is outmoded. He referred to the President as "our moral teacher and our leader," and he says he is "hobbled in his task by the restrictions of power imposed on him by this antiquated document." He must "be freed," so that he "can do for us" what he knows "is best." And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as "meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government."
Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as "the masses." This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, "the full power of centralized government" -- this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
So Reagan wanted a third party to hand elections to Democrats?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
So Reagan wanted a third party to hand elections to Democrats?
You see, GB, principle will prevail over party. You seem to be drinking the kool aid of the party bosses. Or, perhaps, you're the one who is serving?
Ask the people in the 23rd Congressional District. It appears that in some races, the Republican party candidate(s) may be the spoilers.
Your droning rhetoric about independent candidates doing something undemocratic by providing an alternative to voters is disconcerting and clearly politically motivated. I requested that you cease and desist with the fear tactics but you just can't help yourself. Can't believe that you continue this campaign to dissuade those who have principled conviction from voting their conscience. Last I checked, we still live in a democracy.
By your words, you seemingly want control and absolute power. And, your involvement in politics has clearly changed you in an unbecoming manner.
Sad, really sad. I have always expected more of you. And, I've had all that I can take of your fear mongering. Some of us have courage to do that which is right. Until the Republican party returns to its conservative roots, there will be challenges. I can assure you of that.
You can be the stimulus for change or a lemming who follows the continuous march to the left. It's your choice.
I feel we should vote for the candidate who most exhibits our beliefs even if they're not backed by a major party. If the Reps lose this election because a lot of people voted for a 3rd party candidate maybe next election they won't support a RINO who is no different than the opposing parties candidate.
Since he wasn't supported by the party. If you could, who would you vote for in the 23rd district?
Hoffman. But in Rotterdam the Republicans are not Scozzafavas. But you think so, because you are misinformed and believe the hype that the media and demoncat spinmeisters pitch. I always thought conservatives like myself looked deeper at the issues. I guess there are a handful here who have built a cult of personality up around a guy who can't get over it.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Logged
The status quo incumbents can't handle the new reality. The NNTP is here to stay. They will fill the vacuum created by the suicide of the REPS and the DEM takeover of the other lines. 
