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Posted on 02/27/2004 1:01:58 AM PST by kattracks
President Bush fired back at his Democratic critics Monday night. After being a sitting duck for the slings and arrows fired at him by the “Hate Bush Brigade”, the White House says the President plans to go on the offensive.
It’s about time. We need to see a tough, straight-talking, Texas-style George Bush hammering away at his detractors. He also needs to reach out to his conservative base and remind them of what’s at stake in this election, because he has a problem with a lot of them.
In recent weeks my conservative listeners have been talking about the same things Kerry and Edwards have been talking about. They’re talking about jobs even though the unemployment rate is only 5.6 percent. They’re talking about outsourcing, they’re talking about amnesty for illegal aliens – these are the things that people who listen to talk radio are concerned about.
Their reaction to the President’s handling of these issues should be a warning sign for the President. Conservatives are calling my show and telling me that they are not going to vote for George Bush because of his stand on amnesty or outsourcing, for example. And this simply amazes me. I ask them if they aren’t going to vote to re-elect George Bush are they going to vote for the Democrat? And the answer is inevitably, "NO! I’m not going to vote for anybody. I’m going to stay home on Election Day."
My reply is if you stay home and George Bush doesn’t win re-election and instead Kerry or whoever the Democrat candidate is gets elected, do you think things are going to get really better? And their answer is, "Well, no, but I want to take a stand."
They should remember Custer. He too took a stand. It was his last.
That just stuns me because it’s utterly irrational. They don’t understand they are taking a stand against themselves. By not voting they only help elect a liberal Democrat who wants to raise their taxes, enact all kinds of new spending programs. They would also endanger the nation by their already demonstrated ineptness and weakness in the war on terror, and hand over Iraq to the United Nations so it can create the same kind of mess we are now seeing in Haiti – another UN and Clinton "success."
They are wearing blinders that only allow them to focus on one issue. They say they won’t vote for a candidate who disagrees with them on one single issue even though he agrees with them on every other issue. It’s utterly self-defeating.
Even though they staunchly support George Bush on his stands on tax cuts, how he is fighting the war, and applaud his pro-life policies, they disagree with him on the amnesty issue, for example, and therefore can’t bring themselves to vote for him.
They’ll just stay home and help elect a Democrat who disagrees with them on just about everything. They’d enact socialist programs that would cripple U.S. industry, yet some of my listeners applaud them not realizing that if you drive a company’s profits down, you drive the value of their stock down and the millions of Americans whose 401Ks are invested in that firm suffer losses as a result.
When President Bush goes on the offensive, he’s going to have to remind Americans that if they want to pay low prices for the goods they need, the reason they are going to have to look overseas is because Democrats in Congress have so regulated American companies that the cost of doing business has risen. That’s due to the unions and government regulations that have become so prohibitive.
What’s the Democrat answer? Well, they say they’d make foreign nations enact the same kind of onerous regulatory and environmental burdens we have here that would force the prices of their goods up to the same level as ours. In other words, wreck their own economies to make John Kerry or some other demagogue look good.
Fat chance.
Mike Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Premiere Radio Network.
And here I thought fearmongering was the Dems tactic. Kerry is not the liar that Clinton was. Kerry would not walk in with both Houses with Dem majorities as Clinton did. Kerry is the second-in-command in his own home, whereas both Clintons knew they couldn't give a whit what the other thought or felt. Kerry is not the consummate charismatic politician that Clinton was. He won't be able to move any significant numbers of representatives or Americans to back him on anything. If anything, a Kerry Presidency would re-invigorate Congress as the law-making body it is supposed to be.
Now, if SHE is nominated as VP, THAT would be another thing entirely. But a Kerry presidency is not a harbinger of doom (we're all doomed, DOOMED!), and it keeps HER out of the White House, probably forever, and it is likely to extend the GOP majorities in both Houses. The Conservatives in the Court just need to retire the day after the election is over if that happens.
Just so you're better informed next time. The EPA was created by (R) Richard Nixon. The ADA was daddy Bush's baby. If you think those aren't costly or are insignificant try starting a small business without complying.
Republicans love big government too, just ask any Bush.
http://www.pabaah.com/Kerry.html
Let's pull a Sabertooth, and claim: "Grammar Troll Alert!" ;-)
We can call it the "Coalition of the Insulting."
Excellent!!! May I quote you? So many of us were barraged with insults during the CA Recall and it still continues during the run-up to next week's CA Primary!!!
It's like "You're really stoopid to think for yourself!" (and then vote based on that) Or, "Your so ignorant and niave that you should be eternally shunned from the FR family!"
I love the way people pretend Hillary won't be Kerry's Chief Justice!
Sure, Kerry can win without promising Hillary something VERY BIG, after all he doesn't need her support LOL!
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Then it isn't HIS base.
Trying to persuade voters to your side is one thing, lowering yourself to their level for their vote is another...But then maybe those are his "base".
A second Bush term will happen once the President and Karl Rove work to rally the grass-roots to his side
Then what, turn around and give them the finger again?
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I know you won't vote for him, but I'd like hear your opinion.
I promise, when I speak, I don't skip words like that.
My gripe is with those that say (as this article suggests) that they will sit out the election because they don't like a few things that Bush has or hasn't done. Or worse yet, those that would vote Democrat or Third Party to 'send a message'.How would Kerry getting elected advance the cause of Conservatives ??
A rhetorical question - it WOULDN'T.
I am voting STRAIGHT TICKET GOP November 2nd ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - America's economy, bolstered by brisk business spending, grew at a healthy 4.1 percent annual rate in the final quarter of 2003. That was even faster than first thought and offered new evidence that the nation's economic recovery was firmly rooted going into the new year.
The latest reading on the gross domestic product - the broadest measure of the economy's health - was slightly better than the 4 percent pace estimated a month ago for the October-to-December quarter, the Commerce Department reported Friday. GDP measures the value of all goods and services produced within the United States.
Even though the fourth quarter's growth rate marked a slowdown from the red-hot 8.2 percent pace of the third quarter - the best in nearly two decades - it nonetheless represented a solid performance.
The 4.1 percent pace was better than economists were predicting. They were forecasting growth rate of around 3.8 percent.
Now is all the talk about the poor economy just BLATHER? I'm thinking maybe...
I don't know about you but it sounds like we elected a Democrat President.
I guess since you seem to approve of those spending programs it wouldn't matter to you which party does it.
So the reason for not staying home is?
He needs a bicycle. ;^)
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