Dick Armey: "The Republicans lost this (NY-23) race when..."

Dick Armey, the former House Republican majority leader from 1995 to 2003, speaks in support of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party's candidate for New York's 23rd Congressional District seat in Watertown. Oct. 22, 2009

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[cobrompton]

You mean kind of like a huge public works project?

[My1Box]

The Draft. Suddenly having a massive number of people called up out of jobs and the unemployment lines did wonders for curing the nation's unemployment.

[cobrompton]

What about WW2 got us out of the depression?

[detoth67]

Obviously the district didn't want another politician like Dick Armey and Sarah Palin.

This is obviously a mandate in favor of the far left Obama agenda. Obama swept elections yesterday and picked up TWO congressional seats!

This bodes poorly for the GOP in 2010 and 2012!

[detoth67]

WW2 didn't get us out of the depression. We were in positive GDP growth prior to WW2.

[cobrompton]

And what about WW2 got us out of the depression?

[Edgehead10075]

Fiscal conservatism is about less government involvement. Social conservatism often involves more government involvement to protect tradition and have societal standards. Therefore, most conservatives are against gay marriage. However, I would say that being for gay marriage doesn't disqualify one from being a conservative.

[Demetious]

Traditional conservatives do not believe in gay marriage period. You are correct that Neo-Con's are willing to allow gay marriage but it has nothing to do with growing government. Neo-Cons believe in bigger governemnt and smaller state rights. Neo-Con is not the same as a Conservative at all. They are social liberals who spend like crazy with a few characteristics of conservatives. If you ask me, there are Conservatives, Liberals, and everything in between.

[My1Box]

What rights? Marriage is not a "right", it isn't in the constitution so who gave this "right" and "whom" did they give it to? Freedom of Religion is a right and it is enshrined in the constitution. That includes the rights of Catholics to practice their religion and exclude people based on their belief system.

By the way I'm not Catholic and have no problem with being excluded by their agency if they deemed so. Because I'm not on some anti-Catholic agenda like you fake "Progressives" are.

[ProgressiveAction10]

Restricting people's civil rights is religious freedom? What planet do you live on?

If the Catholic adoption agencies were practicing unlawful discrimination, then they should be shut down.

Since we have a secular government, marriage is only validated through the state.

Why do the religious have the privilege of limiting others' rights solely to enforce the reality-denying bubble they live in?