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To those who would stay home as a protest vote for vote Third Party (which has no chance of winning), don't come back here and complain if we have a Democrat president.

A democrat who believes we should give immediate citizenship to illegal aliens.

A democrat who believes we should have socialized health care.

A democrat who believes the war on terror should be waged as a law enforcement matter.

A democrat who will get us back into Kyoto.

A democrat who will have our soldiers submit to the rules of the ICC.

A democrat who will not do anything on the international front UNLESS we have permission from the UN.

A democrat who will make judicial appointments that are so liberal we can expect to see more judges who support the more perverse elements of our society.

A democrat who will permit women to abort their children as the make their way down the birth canal.

Need I go on? So don't stay home. Do you duty. It's a simple duty. If our soldiers can give what they are sacrificing every minute of every day, the least you can do is hold your nose and vote for a man who isn't quite as conservative as you would like him to be.

Comparison of Bush Budget (FY’04) with Past Budget Averages

	FY’04 Proposal	Post-WWII Average (FY’46 - FY’02)	Clinton Budgets (FY’94 – FY’01)	G.H.W. Bush Budgets (FY’90 - FY’93)	Reagan Budgets (FY’82 - FY’89)
Total Receipts as percent of GDP	17.0%	17.9%	19.4%	17.7%	18.0%
Total outlays as percent of GDP	19.7%	19.5%	19.6%	22.0%	22.3%
Deficit (-)/Surplus as percent of GDP	-2.7%	-1.6%	-0.1%	-4.3%	-4.3%
Annual growth in total receipts (average % change from previous fiscal year, FY96 $)	2.7%	2.9%	4.9%	0.5%	2.5%
Annual growth in total outlays (average % change from previous fiscal year, FY96 $)	2.2%	2.3%	1.5%	1.9%	2.7%
Defense spending as a percent of total outlays	17.5%	35.5%	17.1%	21.7%	26.7%
Non-defense discretionary spending as a percent of total outlays	19.2%	19.4%*	17.6%	16.6%	17.1%
Net interest costs as percent of total outlays	7.9%	10.5%*	13.9%	14.5%	13.2%
Other mandatory spending as a percent of total outlays	55.4%	41.6%*	51.4%	46.2%	42.9%
Debt held by public at end of fiscal year as percent of GDP	36.9%	44.0%	43.0%	46.3%	36.7%
Gross Debt at end of fiscal year as percentof GDP	64.8%	56.2%	63.4%	61.8%	45.4%
* includes only data back to 1962 since the distinction between discretionary and mandatory began only in that year.

Gosh...

Pretend Bush is really swell or the democrats will win.

There's a new and refreshing argument.

Political pundits have a term for the self-centered, self-gratifying, and unproductive vote which is cast in order to make the voter feeeel gooood about himself.

"don't come back here and complain if we have a Democrat president."

"A democrat who believes we should give immediate citizenship to illegal aliens."

Or a Republican who believes in amnesty for illegals as well, just a bit slower to citizenship (more palatable, I assume).

"A democrat who believes we should have socialized health care."

Or a Republican who takes incremental steps to get us there.

"A democrat who will make judicial appointments that are so liberal we can expect to see more judges who support the more perverse elements of our society."

Or a Republican who allows Democrats to filibuster and set the benchmarkfor judicial appointments, who lets good men like Estrada hang out to dry for two years, who throws Pickering's appointment as a bone to conservatives, and who, if was serious, would use the nuclear option to break the judicial impasse."A democrat who will permit women to abort their children as the make their way down the birth canal."Or a Republican who "goes out on a limb" (ha ha) ny signing Partial Birth Abortin bill, when a large majority of Americans and the Congress agree, while hoping and praying that he will not have to appoint a SCJustice till after the next elections to avoid controversy and another Souter."

and you forgot- A Democrat who supports CFR...ditto Republican; and a Democrat who elarges government programs, spending, the NEA, Department of Education...and ditto Republican.

So, the bottom line. do we want a Demo to take us to hell in a handbasket quickly, or do we want a Republican to draw our suufering out over a longer period? Or the third option, get the message to GWB to act like a conservative.