[rhombus]

If we could give the guy a mandate this time (no more Florida's) then perhaps he would be less inclined to pander to the great middle of the road, empty headed self-described "moderates". These people see abortion as a privacy issue, they don't want to see immigration goons breaking into homes to deport people, they see their young kids (20 somethings) not being able to get health insurance and their parents not being able to afford medication. Now before you folks jump on me, remember I'm on your side but we all live amongst these misguided people. We have to educate them without frightening them (or we'll be dancing alone again). It was a hell of a first term for ANY president and Brush has held up admirably and showed us world-class leadership (attack by China, attack by Al Qaeda, cleaning up the messy economy left by Clinton, Turncoat Republicans turning the Senate over to the Rats, obstructionism over judges). In my opinion he deserves another chance to dance with us.

[dawn53]

And then ... there's always the hope that in a second Bush term he could actually start dancing with who brung him

If there is a strategy to Bush's moves, I imagine, this would be it, win reelection, gain seats in the Senate. I don't know if there'd be spending cuts (that's a hard one to believe), but to me, appointments to the judiciary (including the SCOTUS) are a very important issue.

[mgist]

The man makes sense. I support Bush 110%. Even if I didn't, I couldn't begin to imagine what my logical alternative would be. Of course one could vote for someone else or not vote, that would only help put a Democrat in office. None of these candidates are capable of protecting America.

[Ophiucus]

The price for sitting on hands could be huge. It could be another terrorist attack on American soil, this time with tens of thousands dead. It could be higher spending, a bigger deficit, and a slowed economy brought on by higher taxes.

Say it early, say it often, say it LOUD!!!. The price is too great for whining about a third party or staying home.

Work to get a candidate more in line with your "true" conservatism in the 2008 primary season. The next four years are too important to screw up with a Rat.

[Blzbba]

I'm not afraid of the Islamic goons. At least with Islams, I can just avoid flying and 7-11s. There's nothing I can do to stop the domestic overspending of our President.

To the Islamic goons, and as a practicioner of the 2nd Amendment, I say (and quote):

Bring 'em on!

[Sloth]

I let my tag line speak for me.

[stevem]

In days of yore, when the term "compassionate conservative" first appeared on the scene, the bad guys told us there was nothing compassionate here, just an evil conservative dressed in sheeps clothing.

What if the shoe is on the wrong foot. What if he really isn't conservative at all, just "compassionate." Then all the spending makes sense. Being simply "compassionate" doesn't require common sense in domestic funding. Neither does it require worrying about how to pay for grandiose invasions of the treasury. Hubert Humphrey was one of the worst "most compassionate" citizens in US history, and he no longer cares in the least how his schemes are paid.

H.W. Bush was not conservative. How far from the tree is the acorn expected to fall?

[MissAmericanPie]

There is no need to get all scared that the WOT won't be run the right way, it's gonna be over by this June anyway.
US troops are going to be leaving Iraq by this summer at least that is what is being said.

So as far as voting goes, you need to take the WOT off the table, it's a non issue or soon will be.

[eyespysomething]

He's gonna get my vote this year, but local and state, and congress level seats had better watch out. I'll help get people into office that will block all this crap.


2008 they will have to work for my vote, and if its anything like it has been, they won't get it.

Because yes, the dems will spend more, and do nothing re: nat'l security.

[Winston Smith Jr.]

Vote for a Democrat and you get the same runaway government spending, but as an added bonus you get the appeasement of our enemy, instead of its destruction.

OK, I won't vote for a Democrat.

[kevao]

Keep in mind the WOT will likely continue for decades. We will have to FUND the WOT, but we are digging ourselves into a fantastic financial hole right now.

Does anyone have any idea what just our debt service alone will be when interest rates return to 7%-8% levels?

[reelfoot]

If you're more afraid of Islamic goons than Bush's spending, Boortz, then you had better insist Bush start taking immigration issues seriously. My understanding is that the 9/11 terrorists did not begin their flights from Baghdad but from within our own country. I don't fear the Islamo-fascists abroad, for I have no plans to travel to the Middle East. But what are they doing in our country? I'm against both increased spending AND turning a blind eye to our serious immigration issues. (And I'm not just referring to illegal immigration.) On both issues, GWB has been a failure.

[Hank Kerchief]

BUT I'M MORE AFRAID OF THE ISLAMIC GOONS THAN I AM OF BUSH'S SPENDING

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

--HL Mencken

I see it's working.

Hank

[logician2u]

Is this the same Neil Boortz?

He used to be a libertarian.

[linn37]

I'm angry about the spending,my conservative and republican friends are angry about the spending. I can't say what they will do but I am still pulling the Bush lever come hell or high water.

[CharliefromKS]

I've only read the title of this. I won't read any further. Mr. Boortz needs to ask himself "Wouldn't it be nice NOT to be afraid of what your President is doing?" and forget comparing him to terrorists? Ridiculous!

[JoeSchem]

You know, during eight years of Bill Clinton, the Arab terrorists managed to build up their forces to the point where they were able to kill three thousand Americans on Sept 11, 2001. That's less than four hundred deaths per year.

Out-of-control federal spending could destroy this country. It's not a bookkeeper's nightmare, it's a nightmare for all of us. There have been many countries which have fallen down the path of bankruptcy followed by universal impoverishment followed by dictatorship and war.

No, as a matter of fact, I'm far more concerned with the threat of out of control federal spending -- and illegal immigration amnesty -- than I am with what Osama Boogieman will crash an airplane into ten years from now.

[Ciexyz]

If the Demopukes get in, we'll be seeing such a drop in our security that we could even see suicide bombings on our shores.