Stick With President Bush In November (Good Reasons NOT To Stay At Home) (My Title)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 01/31/04 | Henry Lamb

[goldstategop]

The most serious threat to President Bush's second term is not a Democrat; it is the growing mass of disenchanted Republicans who are accepting the proposition that there is little or no difference between the two major parties.

"Where are they going to go?" says a well-placed Bush operative. "You know they'll never vote for Dean or Kerry. And there's no Ross Perot on the horizon."

Where will they go? Nowhere. And that's the point. Republicans, especially the more conservative variety, are likely to stay home in droves. So far, the Republican strategists appear to be oblivious to this possibility.

Perhaps conservative Republicans expected too much too soon from a Republican administration. The Democrats had eight years to fill the agencies of government with activists from their special-interest groups. It is true that President Bush quickly dumped the most egregious of these types, whose positions are political plums. The underlings hired by the political appointees, however, are protected by civil-service regulations and cannot be fired, or even reassigned, without non-political justification.

The disappointment of conservatives goes much deeper and questions the fundamental philosophy which guides the administration. After eight years of watching the Clinton-Gore team march the United States directly into the jaws of a global socialist government, Bush supporters expected a screeching halt and a major course correction.

Conservatives cheered Bush's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol – a screeching halt and a major course correction – while socialists abroad and Democrats at home condemned the president.

When Bush defied the U.N. Security Council, and created a multi-national coalition to eliminate Saddam Hussein, conservatives split, some cheering the action, some joining the Democrats at home and socialists abroad who condemned the action.

The Patriot Act, the prescription drug program, the "guest worker" program, the so-called "free trade" programs and a half-trillion dollar deficit have left conservatives reeling, wondering why a Republican administration and Congress have produced results that look so much like what they would expect from a Democrat administration and Congress.

Consequently, many, many Republicans have thrown up their hands and have decided to either join some doomed third-party movement or simply stay home.

While this reaction may be understandable, it is not only self-defeating, it violates the first law of true believers: Never, never, never, never give up!

It is true that Republican hold the White House and a razor-thin majority in Congress. It is also true that the nation is divided, almost down the middle, between people who want to continue the Clinton-Gore path toward global socialist government and those who want to abandon that path and move the United States toward more individual freedom, free markets and voluntary cooperation among sovereign nations.

Rather than give up and stay at home, a better strategy may be for conservatives to realize that the election of President Bush in 2000, and securing a slim majority in Congress in 2002, is just the first step in a long journey. Conservatives should realize that it takes 60 senators to prevail over the Democrats' filibuster.

Rather than throw in the towel, conservatives might throw their effort into the campaigns of conservative candidates for the House and Senate, and for the state legislatures and county commissions.

The global socialist agenda moved into high gear after the fall of the Berlin Wall, aided dramatically by the progressive Democrats in the United States. The Bush election in 2000 disrupted that agenda, and to them, nothing is more important than removing the Bush obstacle. Conservatives who decide to give up and stay at home will be aiding and abetting the enemies of freedom.

A return to progressive Democrat leadership in the United States is a return to the Kyoto Protocol and U.N. control over energy use in the United States. It is a return to subservience to the United Nations – as Howard Dean says, to get "permission" from the U.N. before defending our nation. It is a return to total government control over land use, education and every other facet of life.

In 2000, conservatives barely got a foothold on the bridge of the ship of state. In 2002, conservatives began to get a grip on the wheel. In 2004, conservatives have an opportunity to bring on more hands and to permanently discharge some of the progressive Democrats who continue to fight desperately for control.

Democrats alone cannot regain control. If conservatives give up, throw in the towel and fail to show up for the November battle, the Democrats will win by default. Conservatives who truly believe that freedom is better than socialism, those who want freedom for their children rather than a world socialist government, will never, never, never, never give up. They will show up in November.

[NittanyLion]

At this point in time, the most important thing to me is who will keep this country from being attacked again?

That's important to me too, but to the exclusion of all other issues? That seems terribly short-sighted to me.

[beckysueb]

I believe we are in a situation now where that has to be the most important issue. If we turn the war over to socialists it will be terrible.

[George W. Bush]

Look at his standard of living! It's always someone else's fault. Just make sure you write out the check to JJ.

Hahahahaha. JJ may hate capitalism but he does like the checks.

[hoosiermama]

OK GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT Grandfathers.....Do believe it is proper after a few greats to just say grandfather. BTW if you're near Indiana County PA you may live near the ancestor's farms.

[hoosiermama]

PS Just feel that old tonight!

[hoosiermama]

Ain't it the truth!

[ilovew]

I said that was the most important to me. Certainly, there are other important issues as well. Most of those issues I tend to agree with President Bush on. There will never be a politician with whom I can agree on everything. But on most of the issues that are important to me, I agree with President Bush. I believe Saddam, at the very least, was a threat to his own people and we are all better off without him. I believe that it is very important that children gain basic knowledge at a young age because it becomes increasingly difficult to learn as you get older. I believe that President Bush's tax cuts have worked since the economy is continuing to grow. I believe that life starts at conception and that abortions are murder. Those are the issues that are important to me.

[Howlin]

Hey, my g g g g g grandfather served at Valley Forge as General Washington's aide de camp!

[hoosiermama]

Maybe were related? CUZ!

Michael Sanior (sp) or Daniel Mathias are the names and OTTOMH can't remember which was which.....They both signed the Bradford Accords. Those young trouble makers!

[hoosiermama]

VERY well said ilovew. For a college student you have held your own well in these treacherous threads! Some of the "more mature" posters should take note of your clear concise reasons.

But alas, I think they just want to argue....not hear reason.

[Savage Beast]

We must get out the vote in November.

[Savage Beast]

Worth saying again:

The conservative backlash is being orchestrated at its core by a democrat. DO NOT FALL FOR IT, CONSERVATIVES. You've been infiltrated and are believing liberal spin. --Floriduh Voter

President Bush must be re-elected!

[kitkat]

***ditto your #4. I believe the conservative backlash is being orchestrated at its core by a democrat. DO NOT FALL FOR IT, CONSERVATIVES. You've been infiltrated and are believing liberal spin.

Bush may be using strategery again to root out the aforementioned infiltrators. YES, STICK WITH PRESIDENT BUSH or buy a gas mask that may not be sufficient if we're blown to smithereens instead.***

This deserves to be said over and over and over again.

[floriduh voter]

***ditto your #4. I believe the conservative backlash is being orchestrated at its core by a democrat. DO NOT FALL FOR IT, CONSERVATIVES. You've been infiltrated and are believing liberal spin.

Bush may be using strategery again to root out the aforementioned infiltrators. YES, STICK WITH PRESIDENT BUSH or buy a gas mask that may not be sufficient if we're blown to smithereens instead.***

This deserves to be said over and over and over again.

There! I've said it again.

By the way, it's Ronald Reagan Week at my web site starting tomorrow. RR links will be featured on my home page. floriduh voter

[floriduh voter]

Yep. Say a lie long enough but it's still a lie.

[SoCalPol]

You are sitting in Cincinnati, I am sitting 15 miles north from the busiest border crossing in the world between San Diego and Mexico. I don't like the illegal alien situation but the child like third party attitude will place the liberal democrats back in the white house. If you don't see things in the big picture such as a democrat president placing his type on the supreme court, and worse. Life is not an all or nothing situation. I am to much of a conservative to want to see a democrat back in the whitehouse.

[Savage Beast]

The world "glabalism" seeks an end to the identity of the US.

Yes. These people are as misguided as the Muslim suicide bombers.

[ARCADIA]

Lamb says the country is almost evenly divided. We do not know that. It is all based on polls that are presented as if they were reliable.

If it is evenly divided then it is probably 90% frustrated pro-American Republicans, and 90% frustrated pro-American Democrats. I have more faith in the values and culture of Americans, then I do in the corrupt political machinery that purports to represent them. Much of the polling simply captures the propaganda spewed on the latest news stories; beyond that there is a lot of room for common ground. We hate them because they supported Clinton, and they hate us because we supported GW; yet both sides only supported these people because it was the only practical choice presented to them.

Whether we call ourselves liberals, or conservatives, we all live under the same rules; we work together, play together, and share in a popular culture. We all care about our future and the prospects for our children and grandchildren. Perhaps it is time we start calling ourselves simply Americans again and tell all of our dysfunctional, divisive, self-serving parties to take a hike.

[TruthNtegrity]

How do you know?

Show me the math. Given that someone pays Social Security their entire life, then collects for 10 years, what does it come out to?

Do you really know the numbers or are you just jerking our chains?

[Final Authority]

All I can say is that there are risks in having and exercising principles. Without principled voters we can't ever be certain that the elected will be principled. It is like the corrupt. When the citizens go along with corruption in government the society only becomes more corrupt.

I suspect you are whistling past the graveyard and do not understand the dimensions of the disregard many true patriotic conservatives believe GWB has exhibited for the rule of law, fiscal responsibility, constitutionality with respect to the first and second amendments, and the fact that he indeed takes conservatives for granted as his voting block.

I would like the situation to be different, but it is not. I would like to proclaim my intention to vote for GWB, but I can't now. I would like to believe he is best for the future of this great nation, but here are too many conflicting questions to that effect now. The real question is, if I am saying this I can't be the only one to think it, can I?