Gee, one good article about Bush and you rush right in to trash him. What a game - see who can rant about Bush the most! I am getting a little tired of all the Bush bashing - in fact - turned off Hannity/Colmes, Scarborough, Greta and watched a movie. If the man had done great harm to American citizens I could understand but what did he do? Defended America when under attack, took the war to the terrorists, put all nations on notice that if they harbor terrorists, they too will be considered a terrorist nation, put Bin Laden in a cave, captured Saddam, freed a nation from a murdering, torturing leader, and is in the process of bringing a chance for freedom to Afghanistan and Iraq, reorganized American government to provide methods of insuring the safety of the homeland. Gee - I can really see why Americans hate him - that includes the Bush-bashing "conservatives?". They much, much prefer men like Clinton, Kerry. Men that will do all in their power to turn this nation over to the U.N. to lead, will welcome terrorists into our country and only put them in jail if caught killing American citizens.
35 posted on 02/10/2004 10:39:49 PM PST by ClancyJ (It's just not safe to vote Democratic.)
I will vote for Bush this fall because there will be no one else who can win other than a U.N. loving, military hating leftist passing for a loyal citizen. That does not mean I will like it.
As for the man George Bush, I like him. I believe he is a moral man who simply doesn't know what conservatism is. Let me explain.
I have a son. I want him to understand what a conservative is. I tell him that fiscal conservatism is important because this policy allows him to keep more of his own hard earned money to support his family. I tell him that military conservatism holds no quarter with terrorists and defends it's own borders second to none.
I could go on, but let's look at these two topics.
My son can turn right around and say to me, "But dad, Bush is the top-dog conservative and he's running a $500 billion dollar deficit this year, has proposed a multiple hundred billion dollar medication healthcare bill, has raised the spending roof on the department of education and on and on..." What can I tell the kid? I can tell him that there's a war on terror, but that $500 billion isn't just the war on terrorism and the kid knows it.
When it comes to that war on terrorism and our borders, once again, what do I tell the kid? We talk a grand scheme about terrorists, then allow the world's longest running terrorist to operate at will on the West Bank. We said we would leave no rock unturned in the effort to rid the world of terrorists, then give Arafat a pass and condemn Israel when it defends itself.
As if this weren't bad enough, we allow millions to flood across our borders at will. We offer up nothing more than token intervention even issuing orders for our border officers not to persue illegals in some instances.
We have arrested known terrorists who have entered our nation across the Mexican border, but continue to leave it wide open. We allow over 95% of all shipped goods to enter the nation uninspected, but demand our families strip down at airports upon request. We still allow people to immigrate from terrorist states.
I support Bush's efforts on the war in Iraq. I support his efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sadly, the guy won't pull the trigger when it comes to other things that need to be done.
When I tell people what conservatism truly is, they ask how I can say what I do when Bush doesn't seem to agree. Frankly, that's an excellent question.