Posted on 09/21/2005 6:08:15 PM PDT by JohnRoss
The track George W. Bush has taken the Republican Party down is the exact opposite of the one I embraced when I became a Republican 15 years ago in high school.
Just to say a bit about myself, I have worked for Republican legislators, worked on several Republican campaigns, attended the 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego as part of the Young Voters Program. I have not voted for the president once, but twice.
First of all, I became a Republican because I thought the party stood for fiscal responsibility and it opposed the concept of nation building. Yet, I have watched the same party grow non-defense spending astronomically, creating prescription drug entitlements for seniors, expand the Education Department that Reagan wished to abolish, neglect illegal immigration to give his friends cheap labor, etc.
In the 1990s, Republicans such as myself condemned the Clinton administration for its nation-building activities in Bosnia and Kosovo. Yet, the president started an adventerous war in Iraq on the idealistic notion of recreating Iraq in our image: nation building, in other words. Sure Saddam was a butcher, a tyrant and all of the above, but in the war on terror he was a second-rate player. The war in Iraq is also unconstitutional as were the wars in Korea and Vietnam because Congress has the constitutional power to declare war.
We had far more cause to declare war on Iran, which has served as the terrorist kingdom since 1979: especially because Iran has given safe harbor to Al-Qaeda's top brass.
We little people need to force George W. Bush and the Republican congressional leadership to return to the principles of the 1994 Contract With America or face certain defeat in the mid-terms.
Let's start putting country ahead of party and get our party to stop acting like 1950s Democrats.
Listen, I am Melkite Catholic and most of my friends are Arab Christians, so I think I have developed a good grasp of their culture.
Also, neocons aren't real conservatives because they are the intellectual descendants of Trotskyism.
Whoooooooooooooo?????!!!!!!
neocon code word for Jew. We know where you stand.
You lost in 1945. Get over it.
Don't know where you get that from. Jew or Gentile, I don't really care.
I know that what we are doing in Iraq is exactly the right way to annihilate islamic terrorism. We are making Iraq the major front of the war on terror. The terrorists are coming from all over the muslim world to fight there and it is in Iraq where we are annihilating them. Iraq is strategically located in the heart of the Middle East and it is has the greatest influence on Arabs than any other Arab nation. Establishing some type of democratic government and basic freedom in Iraq will have a great influence on the greater Middle East. Last January 8.5 million Iraqis challenged death by terrorists to vote for freedom.
It is because of our presence in Iraq that the Lebanese people finally raised up against the 30 years brutal occupation of the Baath terrorist regime of Lebanon, and they succeeded with the greatest help of President Bush and the United States to kick Syria out of Lebanon.
I'm sure John could have gotten the Russians to loan us the Caspian Sea for our Navy.
The Contract with America was a joke. Newt Gingrich himself walked away from it three years after winning on its premises. He folded like a cheap suitcase in the face of Democrat demagoguing over it.
The Republicans have increased their margins in the House and the Senate in both 2002 and 2004. The upcoming midterms may be problematic, but can you tell me one thing the Democrats stand for?
-They don' stay "enemies" for ever John, -have a little faith in what we can do, it ain't like we haven't done it before. Time for you to tell us exactly how and what you would do better than Dubya, -and make it good John. REAL Good.
BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone here seems to have one major logical fallacy: emotionalism.
I voted for the president's re-election because I thought Bush was bad but Kerry would be worse. Strategically, Iraq was less of a threat in the war on terror than say, Syria. I stand by my belief that Iran is the head of the hydra.
The president's father, has in my opinion, been proven wise to have left Desert Storm where he did.
All I am saying here is that Bush has to get non-defense spending back under control and trim the fat, and find a resolution to the war in Iraq.
Iran is the head of the hydra.
It is a lot easier to turn them around by way of Iraq.
Think Chess not checkers.
It's easy to forget that for years, the Rockefeller and Country Club Republicans despised Ronald Reagan even more than the Democrats. I'm afraid the "old Republicans" are taking over again.
Country Club Republicans despised Ronald Reagan even more than the Democrats. I'm afraid the "old Republicans" are taking over again.
As someone who worked for Reagan when he first ran for
gov. Saw him many times in person and also spoke with him.
He was a great leader and that is what I also see in
President Bush
Well said.
President Bush a good leader? I guess if stealing an election, having the worst terrorist attacks on American soil after ignoring intelligence on his hands, allowing people in his administration to leak Top Secret information to the press with no disciplinary action, never denying a spending bill and taking the largest federal surplus and turning it into the largest federal deficit, gas prices more than doubling while he's been in office, a 40% approval rate, using faulty information to misguide the public to an unnecessary war which has cost almost 2,000 soldiers lives. If all of this makes him a good leader then heck ya, he is the best dang leader this country could have done without.
By the way ~there is NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in this post.
Nuked you anyway, just because.
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