the Republican Party has become the Democrat Party..doesn't much matter which party you vote for.. There's a big difference these days. With the exception of Lieberman and maybe Gephardt, the Democratic Presidential candidates are willing to let the nation's throat be cut by terrorism, whether out of political opportunism or hatred of American greatness. One must conclude that that is the majority attitude of the Democratic Party.
Say what you want about the GOP these days -- and I have my disagreements with them, as well -- but, led by George Bush, it believes in American greatness and in defending this nation.
It's a damned shame that only one of the major American political parties actually believes in America any more, but until the Dems return to the tradition of FDR, Truman, JFK, and LBJ (as much as I likely would have disagreed with them, were I alive back then) or are replaced as a major party, that's the way it is.
I hope you are not arguing that President Bush should be given a pass on his encroachments of our personal and finacial liberty just because he is directing a war against some of the world's evil people. Here is a quote I want to share with you.....
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
— Julius Caesar