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To: Tamsey
Errr, no... that's not revisionist.

Sure it is. Here's your first post on the thread:


To: FairOpinion
Guess Which Candidate Our Enemies Want to Lose in 2004?

Newhouse News Service ^ | Feb. 11, 2004 | JAMES LILEKS


Let's just be blunt: The North Koreans would love to see John Kerry win the election. The mullahs of Iran would love it. The Syrian Ba'athists would sigh with relief. Every enemy of America would take great satisfaction if the electorate rejects the Bush doctrine and scuttles back to hide under the U.N. Security Council's table. It's a hard question, but the right one: Which candidate does our enemy want to lose? George W. Bush.

And some conservatives will be happy to help, it seems.

Woe and gloom have befallen some on the right. Bush has failed to act according to The Reagan Ideal.

The actual Reagan may have issued an amnesty for illegals, but the Ideal Reagan would have done no such thing. So unless Bush packs freight cars full of gardeners and dishwashers and dumps them off at the Mexican border, some voters will just sit this one out.

The Ideal Reagan would have eliminated the National Endowment for the Arts; the actual Reagan proposed a $1 million increase in his final budget. But Bush increased NEA funding -- perhaps an attempt to placate people who wouldn't vote for him if he showed up in performance with Karen Finley and a can of Hershey's syrup. So angry conservatives might just sit this one out.

And if a Democrat takes office, and the Michael Moores and Rob Reiners and Martin Sheens crowd the airwaves on Nov. 3 to shout their howls of vindication? If the inevitable renaissance of Iraq happens on Kerry's watch, and the economy truly picks up steam in the first few years before the business cycle and Kerry's tax hikes kick in? If emboldened Islamist terrorists smell blood and strike again? Fine. Maybe the next Republican president will do everything they want.

Oh, sure, Bush is fine on the foreign affairs stuff, and yes, there's a partial-birth abortion law, and the tax cuts were nice, and come to think of it, Sept. 11 wasn't followed by blow after blow after blow, for some reason. The nation endures, at least at press time. But that's hardly enough. Where's that bill requiring 60-foot Ten Commandments monuments in every capitol rotunda? Let Kerry win. Teach the GOP a lesson, it will.

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68 posted on 02/22/2004 9:05:54 PM PST by Tamsey (Hey, Bush supporting lurkers! Create an account and speak up! This is a critical year for the USA!)

You and your side came to this thread ready to flame. Now you're complianing you got singed.


345 posted on 02/23/2004 11:11:33 AM PST by Sabertooth (Malcontent for Bush - 2004!)
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To: Sabertooth
You are having too much fun "tooth".

It is really not all that productive.

350 posted on 02/23/2004 11:16:49 AM PST by Cold Heat (In politics stupidity is not a handicap. --Napoleon Bonapart)
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To: Sabertooth
No dear, I wasn't "complaining" at all... someone else (none of your business, was it?) confronted me as being divisive and I stated that I didn't enter this thread until I saw others getting attacked. My first post was actually fairly mild... it didn't confront anyone specifically and was just a supportive column about why conservatives should focus less on individual areas of discontent.

BTW, if YOU notice... it was you and others that waltzed around the thread confronting others directly looking to pick fights. Aren't there enough Bush-bashing threads for your and your fellow travelers to play in?
353 posted on 02/23/2004 11:20:38 AM PST by Tamzee (Hey, Bush supporting lurkers! Create an account and speak up! This is a critical year for the USA!)
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