Posted on 12/10/2003 8:15:35 AM PST by rightcoast
Absoultely True IMO.
If you give the vote to the Democrat by going awol on Bush for 2004, A Dem becomes their CIC and they are all pretty much antiwar. Would you trust any one of them to direct the WOT or the War in Iraq? Or anything for that matter?
I hope not.
The reality is No 3rd party has a chance this late. Even if they did they would Not give me every victory in politics i desire. No one can. Of course, Not voting at all is shirking responsibility.
Having you say that certainly makes the time I spent on the reply seem worthwhile. Thanks.
There are no perfect answers, of course. But we've got to keep searching and thinking....
The Republican Party base probably has more liberals and moderates combined than conservatives....so they would get the most attention if that is the case. Conservatives are the ones who tend to differentiate between conservatives and republicans. They are more Ideologically Correct, just like their counterparts on the Left are Politically Correct. Not too good, IMO.
Neo, paleo, compassionate....is he or isn't he a compassionate conservative? He's doing what he wants to do; he is following his agenda, for better or worse and whether or not it agrees with your agenda. Maybe that's what you're missing.
I'm not missing a thing. See what I said here.
Well stated, but the challenge is to find that "better alternative" without incurring "the risk of inadvertantly giving control to Democrats" while we're searching and experimenting with those "alternatives". The Democrats must not be allowed to control any part of (big or small) government. If you are not happy with either party, then you are going to be unhappy for the rest of your life.
I fear this is true. It depresses me. But it also motivates me to keep looking for constructive alternatives that I work for.
It's a good thing the polls are only open 12 hours, or so.
Perhaps down the road you may reconsider?
Frankly, I am amazed GWB & Co. have been able to do anything at all with the "human waste" that makes up Congress and the courts.
I can give a Hillary type answer.....I am currently not reconsidering. ;^)
Seriously, maybe, but I doubt it at this point, but things change. A couple of years ago I did not think I'd be planning to sit our my first presidential election since I started voting in the 60s.
I have "held my nose", but I have voted in every election I have been elegible to vote in.
When Barry Goldwater went down in flames to LBJ, I was disheartened, but it made me a political realist. [ I still see that little girl picking flowers, and then the nuke going off ]
We've seen a lot of hypocrisy in "our" voting life. We'll see a lot more.
Regards
I think that part of the anger/confusion is due to the media (with a little help from Bush) labeling Bush as a conservative. In the media's mind Repub = conservative.
Bush actually is an old-time moderate. He takes the conservative side on some issues, the liberal side on others.
Bush is still better than the alternatives, and if he can Reform social security, then he would have accomplished some great things. But Bush had a chance to be a great President, to be loved the way Reagan is loved by the American people. But he's lost that opportunity, not because he made compromises, but because he compromised when he did not have to. I am thinking of campaign finance reform, medicare drug coverage (he could have kept his campaign promise by presenting a conservative plan, e.g. making drug coverage part of medical savings accouts for example).
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