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To: Texas_Dawg
I don't know... maybe you're just not very intelligent. Who knows? Must be something like that though.

Very persuasive ad hominem you just hurled, there. :|

Let me try this again: Yes I'm voting for Bush. But no, he's not a conservative in any fiscal sense. The enormous explosion in size of government under him can only fractionally be attributed to war and homeland defense spending. Pure entitlement spending - the stuff we ought to be cutting - is exploding too: No excuse for that.

I'm smart enough to see that for what it is: pure pandering. If it keeps Dean out of office, is it worth it? Maybe. But we need fiscal conservatism now more than ever, and I have no confidence - or any reason to be confident - that Bush will supply leadership there, as he has in the war on terror.

103 posted on 12/30/2003 12:30:03 PM PST by Publius Maximus (Compassionate Conservatism: Profligate Liberal Spending With A Conservative Rhetorical Twist)
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To: Publius Maximus
Yes I'm voting for Bush. But no, he's not a conservative in any fiscal sense.

Absolutely false: Taxes. He cut them.

Maybe you think taxes will just go up in the future (yeah 'cause THAT's real popular and easy politically), but low taxes are a restraint on government spending and frame the debate as: higher taxes or lower spending?, a PR choice which we win; lowering the tax rate has already won future budget battles for conservatives to an extent you obviously do not comprehend.

So you should like Bush even more than you do.

129 posted on 12/30/2003 12:45:25 PM PST by JohnnyZ (Abolish the food tax)
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