[ServesURight]

Throw your vote away on Dean or Hillary then and spare us your drivel.

Bush's domestic policies are questionable but he's DAMN sure better than the alternatives.

[Russ]

I'll second that!

[vto]

Bush has grown the federal government way more than I like.

Gore or Bush, I got a bigger government, a more intrusive government, a more expensive government...

I voted for Bush because I wanted a smaller federal government...he let me down. So did his dad. Enough.

[alloysteel]

Perhaps people are missing the strategy here. The only reason that many Democrats are in favor of signing onto increasing government largesse is that the program through it is dispensed is designated as a Democrat program, brought to you by the good and benevolent folk that represent your gerrymandered minority-and-Democrat majority district. These programs, however, turn out in the end to be largely "feel-good" and do more to feed the bureaucracy than to serve the need for which it was created.

Now there is a subtle difference in the "big-government" spending plans that are put forth by the Republican majority and those that are put forth in years past by Democrat majorities. The Republican program is designed to actually engage and mitigate the problem it is supposed to address, while the Democrat programs only built constituencies amd propagated the problem into eternity.

If you can't stop the locomotive, at least switch it onto the tracks you want it to follow.

[beaversmom]

Throw your vote away on Dean or Hillary then and spare us your drivel.

Bush's domestic policies are questionable but he's DAMN sure better than the alternatives.

Hmmm, vote for a third party candidate who doesn't have a snoball's chance and be essentially voting for the Democrat or vote for the person whom I agree with 80% of the time? Guess I'll be making an X next to President Bush's name again. In politics like marriage, life, etc. you don't get perfect fits. You vote for the person who comes the closest to your beliefs who is in the ball game.

Anyway, I agree with your sentiments.

[TheCrusader]

"Bush's domestic policies are questionable but he's DAMN sure better than the alternatives."

That's part of the problem today, they don't give us any real alternatives, they just boil it down to two men who claim to be different but then one gets elected and does the opposite of his campaign promises. The desire to hold onto power makes them all want to please the other side.

All I need for proof of my viewpoint is the fact that "conservatives" control both Houses, the White House and the U.S. Supreme Court, yet conservative policies continue to get squashed, the government gets bigger and bigger and the homos get marital benefits. I'm voting for Bush again too, but mostly because I agree that the alternative is far worse. Frankly, I wish that Alan Keyes could get the Republican nomination.

[tahiti]

"...but he's DAMN sure better than the alternatives."

I think you must have missed what Mr. Snow had said in his essay:

"When Democratic presidents have to horse trade with a Republican Congress, spending falls. The opposite happens when a Republican president has to haggle with Democrats."

I did not vote for George Bush for President because I was convinced he was just like his dad.

But I am half tempted to vote for a democrat for President, so that we have gridlock again, similar to the Clinton years.

[petercooper]

But he can do it w/o spending so much money.

[jimkress]

The Constitution Party is the best alternative to the tryanny of the Republicans and Democrats. If you refuse to act, even in the face of the suppression of your liberties (e.g. CFR), then all I can do is share the wisdom of Sam Adams:

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, - go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!

Samuel Adams, "American Independence," 1 August 1776 Occasion: Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia.

[pctech]

Throw your vote away on Dean or Hillary then and spare us your drivel. Bush's domestic policies are questionable but he's DAMN sure better than the alternatives

I will not thrown away my vote on the likes of anyone from the Democratic party, but if there was a third candidate that was more along the lines of a Ronald Reagan than GWB that could beat either him or Dean/Clinton, I would vote for him. As much as I've supported and stood up for this president, some of his policies are so "democratic like" in nature it really scares me. Of course, he's just following his father's lead and helping to bring on the "one world government" that GHB started.

[optik_b]

"Bush's domestic policies are questionable but he's DAMN sure better than the alternatives."

Bush increased spending 8.2% in his 3 years in office. Clinton and a Democratic congress only increased it 2.5%. What has happened to the Republican party!??!! Why is this irresponsible government spending getting so out of control.