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I believe that George Bush is much more personable that Pat. I believe that he could have been a much better force for good than he has been.

I support his efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. In that region he understands that you don't give terrorists any quarter, and he's right on target there. I am proud of his efforts there. Drop on down to the West Bank and all of a sudden he seems to believe that terrorists have reasons for their actions, Israel is a major cause of it's own problems, and Yasser Arafat will die sometime in 2042 of natural causes, after masterminding nearly a century of terrorism without a single US President taking his sorry ass out.

We know that Iraqis are coming across our southern border. Since Bush announced his 'not really an amnesty' amensty, illegal immigration flow into the US has grown exponentially.

While I did support Buchanan, and still do some of his policy, I'd not pull out the stops to back him again. It's a defeatist game to splinter the (can't believe I'm going to say this) 'conservative' vote.

There is no concervative running this year. That's it in a nutshell.

One way or another from 2005 to 2009, this nation will continue it's degenerative decendency into the ceaspool that is socialist european life. God help us.

You are a fine chap, sir, but where I suspect we differ the most, is that I'm bullish on America, and you are in an angst mode.

Granted, there is a 40 trillion dollar actuarial deficit in the social security and medicare programs, hot off the press from the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank. Most of that is from medicare. To close it, payroll tax rates would have to double from 16% or so, to 32% or so, and that won't happen. Nor can it be financed by a soak the rich income tax regime. We are going to a single payer socialized medical system within the next generation (20 years). The box is simply getting too tight to squeeze out of.