Republicans Against George Bush

Personal Creation | 1/21/04 | Manny Paulet

[easytree]

I feel some frustration with some of Bush policies also. I believe that no vote is a vote for a Democrat and that is much worse than our President.

[jstolarczyk]

You are still ignoring certain things. 2001 redistricting made incumbents safe regardless of how they vote. The Senate is 50/50 unless you see a change to 60/40 you will see a weak vacillating Senate which has hurt George Bush. Frankly, congressional elections are local, most Congressional members are safe. Presidents set agendas, appoint judges and effect our culture. If you think you will remake this party in YOUR imagine you are deluded. if you think the Presidential race will cost my local Republican Congressman, you are flat out wrong. You should be ecstatic today Morris says Hillary will run and Bush will lose. You and your other like minded...(cannot think of polite name)...will have 16 years to fade into irrelevance.

[MannyP]

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.

[MannyP]

· 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.

[MannyP]

The rest of the quote by George F. Will

"Republicans are swiftly forfeiting the perception that they are especially responsible stewards of government finances. 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 and that they have hitherto funded."
George F. Will - Feb. 9, 2004

[jstolarczyk]

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.

[MannyP]

Feel free to try and find just one article from a fiscal conservative, who is not in the administration, that has anything better to say about him as far as SPENDING. There are some on the social conservative side that are satisfied with some of the things that Bush has done.

[jstolarczyk]

OK, your point is....? Again refer to my comment on opinions, every commentator has theirs. As I pointed out I am not a SIC Republican, therefore, on the BALANCE I am OK with the job the President has done.

[wow]

Sorry about not tending to my posting for a goodly period of time. I have been busy.

1. I don't generally pay any attention to something Chuck Schumer attaches his name to or people who are third assistant anything.

2. Alan Greenspan's most recent testimony seems to agree with my position. This is a much more credible source.

That the new and somewhat brutal rules of the information age affect highly overpaid American software engineers is hardly news. That they are in a better employment position than the less bright and less well educated is indisputable and the thought that they might need or warrant protection is foolish. The information age means a vibrant economy depends upon our our goods and services competing overseas. We can not compete if we erect barriers of any kind because the ultimate cost of barriers is higher cost.

We can remove hobbles, however, that serve only to hamper our competitiveness. For example, why should a US corporation producing product or basing service within the US have to pay Corporate Income Tax on its export earnings when they are subjected to similar tax within market country (usually at a lower rate)? Sure, there are offsetting deductions but not enough to compensate for being taxed twice. And, the foreign company, not facing this situation of double taxation at the higher American rates, has a cost advantage. Why do you think wholly owned American subsidiaries of Japanese companies make essentially no profit in the US (Because they shift all the costs that they can to the American side of the books, keeping the profits at home where there are dramatically lower taxes)?

Similarly, we can strongly incentivize and strongly defend intellectual property. Why? Because at the moment we remain the world's leader in creativity and it is essential to keep the IP value side of margin on-shore. The laws are already there and are agreed to on an international basis. They are, however, inadequately enforced at our borders.

[MannyP]

In a market like the U.S. with low population density where the labot force is not in competition with the world pop., the wages are precisely what they should be because each labor unit is scarce. No one is overpaid unless you are looking for a world equilibrium wage. If this is the case, your view is that most people should or must be poor and that the few who own the global corporations in significant chuncks are the only ones who should have "real" money.

I am always amazed at people's willingness to write off the vast majority of "we the people," because of the holy theory of comparative advantage. I am sure that similar arguments were made for keeping monopolies intact. Our goods and services (whichever of those we have left that have not and will not be outsourced due to the necessity of geographical proximity) don't meaningfully employ the majority of the American population. Sadly, most of the people work for the government. I think that it is clear that the only reason that is so is so that social peace can be maintained and business can go on as usual.
Please use the mind that God gave you.

[onyx]

Dear Mike,

For a fellow old enough to have a grandson,
you are most ignorant and short sighted.

Kerry is a danger to this country.
Do you not understand he wants to destroy our country?

The Mexican invasion is not Bush's doing and he cannot fix it.
If you truly think there's little difference
between Bush and Kerry or Bush
and any other democrat for that matter,
then you'd better start thinking about the federal judiciary
at all levels, including the SCOTUS.
Those appointments will do more harm to us
than anything else, because their Left-wing impact
will last for two decades minimum.

[TonyM]

Speaking of Republicans against Bush. Will someone please tell me why John McCain is a Republican? He may have been a hero in Vietnam but he is a traitor to the Republican Party. Thanks to him we now have campaign finance reform that allows George Sorros to buy the election, way to go John boy. Is it any wonder they want him as the VP for the Democratic ticket? He has done more to help the democrats in the last year than he ever did for the Republican Party.