ZOT! Can there be a serious challenge to Bush in the GOP primaries?

John Buchanan is a journalist and magazine writer based in Miami Beach ^ | november 29, 2003 | john buchanan

[Republican Challenger]

I am a nationally published journalist who has been drafted to challenge George W. Bush in the Republican Presidential primaries, beginning in New Hampshire on January 27. My aim is to prompt legitimate debate and genuine new ideas, but I start with a question:

HAS GEORGE W. BUSH BETRAYED TRADITIONAL GOP VALUES?

He has failed in his promise to control spending. Nondefense spending has skyrocketed under Bush. The Congressional Budget Office reported that for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003, nondefense spending rose 7% – nearly double the 4% discretionary spending caps Bush promised to enforce (Source: Washington Times). Since Bush took office, nondefense spending has leapt 13% -- 21% if spending on the war on terrorism is included. “My impression of Bush,” says Chris Edwards, director of fiscal policy at the libertarian Cato Institute, “is that I’ve never seen him give a speech in which he says government is too big and we need to cut costs.”

He has failed in his promise to keep America strong. Under Bush, U.S. foreign policy and international esteem have reached historic lows. After spending hundreds of billions of dollars since 9/11, the Bush administration has failed to catch Osama bin Laden, failed to find Saddam Hussein, failed to defeat Al Qaeda, and failed to stabilize Iraq after an invasion that his own Pentagon policy adviser, Richard Perle, now admits was “illegal.” As a result, the geopolitical balance of power has been jolted, traditional allies have been severely alienated, and as a result, the European Union – led by Great Britain – is now conducting secret talks about the formation of an EU military force outside NATO.

He has failed in his promise to be a “compassionate conservative.” Perhaps never before has a U.S. President so divided the country, according to a recent Time cover story. Despite Bush’s promise to be “a uniter, not a divider,” he has turned Republican against Democrat, rich against poor, Christian against Muslim. He has eroded our civil liberties and Constitutional rights in the name of “national security” and aided and abetted a corporate elite class in the theft of the Republican Party and the two-century-old values that made it the Party of Lincoln. “Corporations have been enthroned,” Lincoln said presciently before he died. “…An era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people…until wealth is aggregated in a few hands…and the Republic is destroyed.” Under Bush, Lincoln’s ominous – and accurate – prediction might find its final manifestation unless he and the “neo-con” corporate juggernaut are stopped.

DO YOU AGREE? Please let me know your thoughts. There will be more to come from me, including a detailed platform and agenda for ending the corporate reign in this country, shrinking the federal bureaucracy, and restoring Constitutional freedoms to pre-9/11 levels. Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to your comments and questions.

[CounterCounterCulture]

And I got on a ZOT thread before it became a ZOT thread! About d*mn time. ;-)

[Jim Robinson]

"Excuse me, but fairness and accuracy in reporting are not censorship issues. They are at the core of a free and responsible press that carries its public responsibility with honor. Otherwise, there would obviously be no justification for ANY kind of a press at this point -- and that's from a journeyman journalist and editor."

By the way, please do not consider your "Zotting" as censorship. It was just me as a journeyman webmaster and editor honorably discharging my public responsibility to fairness and accuracy in reporting.

[Chad Fairbanks]

ROTFL...

[chris1]

You seem really off your rocker.

[Cultural Jihad]

Hey, write to the Earth Day founder and ask for him to sponsor your candidacy in the Democratic primaries!

[nicmarlo]

Been waiting for that, JR! : ) May I????

ZOT!

[Chad Fairbanks]

With a tagline like mine, do you honestly think any Green Group would endorse me? ;0)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

LOL

[dcwusmc]

So did I!!!

[Cultural Jihad]

They would if they could earn a buck off of your story, too!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Cool. We can run on a cheeseburger on every table! (No that's been done)

Make love not war! (Uh no I have seen some of those films from the sixties. nasty!)

It's for the children! (We'd get sued for copy rite violation)

I got it!

Give us your money and we might not to hurt you! It is honest and shows clear commitment to the core values of the Democrat Party

[Peace will be here soon]

"The fact is, that Bush ......is bought and paid for, as are BOTH parties in Congress."

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It sounds much better this way.

[Chad Fairbanks]

All of them are attacking him from the left.

WHile at the same time claiming he is to the left. Fun to watch, in a car wreck kinda way...

[ladyinred]

I see Republican Challenger (aka DU Dupe) has:

LOGGED OFF!!!

[nicmarlo]

lol!

[Chad Fairbanks]

"Fairbanks/Harmless Teddy Bear 2004 - Give us your money and we might not to hurt you!"

It works on some level... ;0)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If I say "bravo!" would that be considered sucking up?

[A Citizen Reporter]

I was wondering how he got a "born on" date of tomorrow.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Time Zones...