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.

[nicmarlo]

You know who he reminds me of, too, is Dashole...all the "he's a failure" crap....

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Usual suspects...

Oh, hello. We would have pinged you, but we figured you'd be off somewhere, provoking some woman to post suggestive photographs of herself in an attempt to convert you.

[dcwusmc]

"Send us money and maybe we won't hurt you." It is honest. It also sounds like both branches of the ruling party now...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I agree. Laws do not apply to us. And campaigning is too much like work. As one of the ruling class why should we have to work? It would just keep some poor little peon who needs a job from having one.

See we'll be compassionate democrats.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Not me. He said he wanted to be like Gene McCarthy... and to do what McCarthy did to Johnson...

[Chad Fairbanks]

See we'll be compassionate democrats.

Ooh... those are the worst kind... I love it... ;0)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Are you two even American citizens?

[DUCKING. ; ) ]

[Chad Fairbanks]

Are you two even American citizens?

Some Federal Judge ruled that you can't ask that question - immigration status is a private thing. ;0)

[nicmarlo]

But in what he initially posted, it sounded like Dashole soundbites...."He has failed in his promise..."

[Chad Fairbanks]

Pretty much, yeah...

[Bonaparte]

Worked for me. Try here.

[dcwusmc]

I really don't think Junior had anything to do with the Nazi stuff, but maybe Daddy has some things to 'fess up to...

And his positions are kinda out of there... except that Dubya has already latched onto the Medicare thing... and the Education thing... and the Campaign Finance Reform thing... But Buchanan did have the game to try... He'll make a good politician someday. He's got smarmy down now.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Thanks. Now I have been inspired with a tagline from one of my favorite campy movies...

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I really don't think Junior had anything to do with the Nazi stuff, but maybe Daddy has some things to 'fess up to...

Who is "Junior"?

[Chad Fairbanks]

Or maybe this one.. Hmmm... decisions decisions...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So we can count on your vote?

Vinne and Guido says that they will be happy to help should you have trouble with your ballot

[Syncro]

LOL

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That is a good question young lady. Sadly on advice from my attorney I can not answer that question at this moment. But let’s return to the issue at hand, for a small monthly fee you too can be safe from well… things.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

If you can guarantee that I'll be safe from Fairbanks (I assume that's what you mean by "things"), we can talk.

[Jim Robinson]

B/S.