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Will A Democrat Be Our Next President?
February 2, 2004
by Tom Barrett

It’s starting to look like there will be a Democrat in the White House next year. Unfortunately, his name is George W. Bush. Let me explain…

Traditionally presidential candidates move toward the center prior to elections. Just look at the two Democrats who seem to be leading the pack of dwarves seeking that party’s nomination. John Kerry is so liberal that his voting record had him mirroring Teddy Kennedy’s votes 96% of the time. Howard Dean would make homosexual marriage national law if he got the chance. But they are both trying to appear “moderate” right now because they know that if America knew their true agenda they wouldn’t stand a chance of being elected.

BillyBob Clinton used this strategy to good advantage during his first run for the White House. To hear him talk, he was just like all the “folks” back home in Arkansas. He realized that the majority of Americans are conservative, and that he had to trick them to gain the White House. And trick them he did. Once he was in power his first official act was to institute his infamous “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding homosexuals. This policy has caused thousands of our best military people to leave military service.

During his first three years he showed his liberal colors proudly. Then during the year prior to his reelection, Slick Willie suddenly became a conservative! I watched it happen and I thought, “Surely Americans are too smart to fall for this!” I was wrong. As soon as he was reelected, he took off his pseudo-conservative hat, put on his socialist hat, and went back to business as usual.

As much as I admire President Bush, I must report that I see him moving more and more to the left as this election approaches. For someone like Clinton, moving toward the center means moving toward traditional values that are held by the majority of Americans. For Bush, moving toward the center means moving away from those values.

Bush is acting and sounding more like a Democrat every day. We elected him because we did not want a big spender in the White House. We supported him because we believed he shared our values. We put him in office because we believed he would use his power to protect our nation.

He is signing bills that he should not sign. Many contain “pork” that serves the interests of the politicians who wrote the bills, but does not serve the interests of the American people. Others spend money in ways that the Constitution does not allow. Most are just business as usual for Washington – constant budget increases for things that America does not need or want.

Bush betrayed the family values of his supporters when he allowed millions of federal dollars to be wasted on the National Endowment for the Arts recently. This was one of the largest grants ever from the federal government to this obscenity-promoting organization. According to the Family Research Council (www.FRC.org), “The NEA has consistently funded, produced, and distributed morally objectionable art that frequently included attacks on religion, traditional art forms, and families. The NEA has also been a forum for the promotion of homosexuality, pornography and other sexually explicit material.” Thank you, Mr. President.

The President’s most serious mistake of late has been to side with the Democrats on immigration. The first job of any elected official is to preserve the security of our nation. I believe the most serious threat to our nation, both economically and with regard to terrorism, emanates from uncontrolled immigration, both legal and illegal. Millions of illegal immigrants are flooding our country and siphoning off billions of dollars in welfare. The President proposes to deal with this problem by making them legal! He says he opposes amnesty, but his plan sounds an awful lot like amnesty. His father tried amnesty, saying that once we made the illegals legal, we could control immigration. His actions only encouraged more illegal immigration. Learn from you father’s mistakes, G.W.

He has also failed to address the problem of legal immigration policies that do not put America’s interests first. We know that there are hundreds of Muslim terrorist cells operating in the United States. We know that every 9/11 terrorist was an Arab. We know that radical Islam has declared that the United States is “The Great Satan” and must be destroyed. And yet we hold the door wide open and invite millions of Arabs and Muslims to “Come on in.” “But what about immigrants’ rights?” some may cry. Under our Constitution, people from other nations (particularly known terrorist nations) do not have any “right” to live in the U.S. Immigration is a privilege. We do, however, have a right and an OBLIGATION to protect our children from those whose stated mission is to destroy us. I don’t suggest that we cut off all immigration, but I do demand that we be a lot more careful of whom we allow to immigrate. Remember that all the 9/11 terrorists were in the U.S. legally.

I believe George W. Bush will be elected to a second term. It is obvious to me that some of his advisors are telling him that he needs to sound more like his challengers for that to happen. That is BAD advice, Mr. President. America wants a clear choice. We don’t want to choose between a liberal trying to sound like a conservative and a conservative acting like a liberal. We elected you because you espoused the conservative values of the majority of Americans, and because you promised to put your words into actions. To a large degree you have done so, until recently. I believe the only way you can lose this election is to continue to act like a Democrat.

· Conservative: George Will
· Commentary: "It is surreal for a Republican president to submit a budget to a Republican-controlled Congress and have Republican legislators vow to remove the 'waste' that he has included..."

Conservative: Bob Novak
· Commentary: On the impact of his criticism of Bush: "The problem is not whether [conservatives] vote for Kerry. The problem is whether they stay at home."

If you think that GOP voters stayign at home will not affect congressional elections, then you are the one who is deluded.

Opinions are like a certain body part, everyone has one. I am not a big fan of Will and I can find articles to support my view, I prefer to give my opinions not others.