[steve50]

He made "conservative" noises when he was campaigning last time around as well. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice....

[RiflemanSharpe]

Actions speak far louder then words.

[Blzbba]

"He made "conservative" noises when he was campaigning last time around as well. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...."


Yep. Something about not being a nation-builder and not increasing the size of government and being fiscally conservative. Like the 3 of you, he's lost my vote as well until he shows ANY sign of cutting back on his worse-than-Clinton domestic spending and kowtowing to illegal aliens.

[cinFLA]

Libertarian Bush-hater alert.

[My2Cents]

Let's face it: at this time in our history, the big divide, politically, is between those who GET IT, and those who DON'T, vis-a-vis the War on Terror. Let's forget left vs. right, as if we actually have the luxury of playing an ideological parlor game. The philosophical debates about the nature and limits of government, the nature of man, issues of liberty versus tyranny, are age-old, and important debates. Such debates will always be with us. But, for example, after Pearl Harbor, the principal issue wasn’t the creeping socialism of the New Deal, but whether Western Civilization could defeat German fascism and Japanese militarism. After World War II, the ideological debates were rejoined. We’re in a similar situation today.

It would be nice if George W. Bush were the second coming of Russell Kirk. He clearly isn’t. But this little fact is largely irrelevant. The War on Terror is still the biggest issue, and George W. Bush is really the only candidate in the Presidential race who GETS IT. The UN doesn't get it; the European Union doesn't get it; the media doesn't get it; clearly the Democrats (with perhaps Lieberman as the sole exception) don't get it either. That's the great divide in America right now. I have faith that the American people still get it. And what they will “get” is that when it’s time to pull the lever, touch the screen, or punch the chad in November 2004, the will conclude that the world is too dangerous a place to allow the Democrats back in power. This isn’t a “left-vs.-right” consideration. This is a consideration much lower on the Maslow hierarchy of political need. It’s civilization versus the savages. And most people “get it.” Some people, including a good many on FR, do not.